Tod David

TOD is an Argentine contemporary artist based in Santa Fe, Argentina, whose work sits at the intersection of art history and urban culture.
Trained as a physician, TOD left medicine to dedicate himself entirely to painting — a decision that shaped not only his career but his vision. His work is built on a central tension: the weight of history confronting the chaos of the present. Classical iconography — figures of power, historical narratives, canonical compositions — is disrupted, intervened, and recontextualized through gestural abstraction, graffiti, dripping, and spray paint.
The result is work that doesn't choose between past and present. It collides them.
His paintings explore themes of power, identity, and political tension through a visual language that is simultaneously rigorous and raw. Each piece begins with a recognizable reference and ends somewhere entirely his own.
TOD's work has reached private collectors in the United States and is available internationally through Saatchi Art.

Self-taught painter. Formally trained as a physician at Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Rosario, Argentina. The discipline and analytical precision of medical practice became the foundation for a rigorous approach to painting — one developed entirely outside academic art institutions, through study of art history, direct observation, and years of independent practice.

EXHIBITIONS
2019 — BADA (Buenos Aires Directo de Artista), Buenos Aires, Argentina
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Argentina and the United States
FEATURED
Saatchi Art Curated Collection — “Art For Your Dream Home”
Saatchi Art Curated Collection — “New This Week” (2020)