Jeff Castleman is a native San Franciscan and graduate of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts High School (SOTA) visual arts department (2004). He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, and received his Masters of Education and teaching credential from National University in San Jose. He currently teaches drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, and digital art at SOTA.

Castleman has won juror’s awards for his drawings and photographs, which have been exhibited in New York’s Houghton Gallery, the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, and the Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco. His illustrations have been featured by local clothing brands, and on book and album covers. The human figure is a primary subject in Castleman’s work, which is a mixture of classical realism, photo realism, and surrealism.