Todd Berman

Artist Bio

Todd Berman is an artist and educator who been using his art to better understand the awesomeness of San Francisco since moving here in 1998. He paints scribbly, surrealistic landscapes of the city as an inquiry into the textures and patterns that connect us all. 

Todd also uses his art to deepen understanding in all subjects as a specialist in arts integration. He has been managing Where Art Lives, a program providing arts education for young people in San Francisco, and became a middle school art teacher for the SF Unified School District in 2023.

You may have seen his crowd-sourced City of Awesome paintings when they filled 10 public buses as part of the 2015 SF Muni Art program or the giant heart sculpture he painted for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation that was on display in Union Square in 2022. Todd was born in the hills of West Virginia, grew up on Long Island, NY, and moved to San Francisco in 1998 after receiving a BA in Public Policy from Brown University.