Todd Gilens

I am a visual artist using writing, drawing and photography, and creating installations for unusual sites and clients. I grew up a Los Angeles suburb in a landscape re-imagined and transformed by human engineering. In responding to that influence, I work to understand how particular spaces and metaphors illuminate universal themes such as sunlight and shade, written language or water systems. I have been working as an artist for four decades and am dedicated to the evolution of my work and the advancement of the field. For more about what I do please visit my website

Master's degree in Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2002

2020
Monterey Museum of Art, “Confluence: Drawings and Photographs,” solo exhibition (April-May postponed)
Taylor Creek Visitor Center, South Lake Tahoe, “Reading Forest,” installation, National Forest Foundation, commission (postponed)

2019
US Forest Service and Vallejo Community Arts Foundation, Vallejo, CA, “Reading Forest,” group exhibition

2018
“Postcards to the Future Forest,” social artwork, National Forest Foundation commission
“No End to Water”, wire sculpture, private commission Mill Valley

2017
Marin Headlands National Park Service Visitors’ Center, “Drawings and Messages,” solo exhibition

2016
Reno, NV, public sidewalk, Sidewalks are Riverbeds, site-work
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, “Field of Inquiry”, group exhibition

2014
Levy Art and Architecture, San Francisco, “Reintroductions”, solo exhibition
Overlook, site-work, Levy Art and Architecture, San Francisco

2012
Gannett Fleming, Mill Valley, CA, “Art in Transit” group exhibition
UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, “Natural Discourse,” site-work, group exhibition

2011
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, “Blur”, group exhibition
San Francisco Zen Center, “Sweetcake Enso”, group exhibition (traveling)...