John Seed

Biography: John Seed is a retired art professor living on California's Central Coast. His life in art began with studies at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley and was shaped by interactions with notable artists including Nathan Oliveira, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Richard Diebenkorn. For over three decades Seed taught Studio Art and Art History at Mount San Jacinto College. He also taught Modernism at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Theory and Criticism for the MFA program at Laguna College of Art and Design. Since 2013 Seed has served on the boards of the Sam Francis Foundation and the Cambria Center for the Arts. Seed’s writing has appeared in Art Ltd., The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Arts of Asia, and other publications. His book “Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World” (2019) features the works of contemporary artists who add subjectivity and disruption to their imagery. A sequel, “More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux” was released in 2023. Seed is currently working to develop a conference on Bay Area Figurative Art planned for the Fall of 2027.