Todd Gilens

About Todd

Todd Gilens is a visual artist working in writing, drawing and photography, and creating site-integrated projects for public and private spaces. He has created artworks for transit systems, botanical gardens, arts and conference centers, factories, wilderness areas, and urban yards among other places. His work has been acknowledged through residencies, commissions and grants, including from the Mesa Refuge, Dumbarton Oaks Library, the National Forest Foundation, Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Zellerbach, Adobe, and Warhol Foundations. His current research focuses on connecting urban pedestrians and mountain ecologies through the language of stream science. Todd holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University, leads workshops, and designs private gardens.

Learn more about Todd: www.toddgilens.com.