Paint flies. The room ignites. Art takes the stage at Public Works!
Watch talented artists turn blank canvases into bold, original artwork—in just 20 minutes—right in front of you. The energy is high, the paint is flying, and it all happens in three fast-paced rounds. Vote for your favorites and help crown the next Art Battle champion!
This special event also celebrates Women’s History Month, shining a spotlight on the amazing women who continue to shape the art world with their creativity, strength, and unique perspectives. It’s a chance to recognize their impact, support women artists, and come together as a community through art.
Every piece goes to auction by the end of the night, giving you the chance to take home a one-of-a-kind original, painted in the moment!
Be a part of the fun as a spectator, or participate as one of the featured artists by applying online at artbattle.com/artists!
Art Battle San Francisco is a 21+ event.
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ARTISTS
Artists can apply to compete. Also, most events have a ‘Wildcard’ easel, where artists leave their names at the door and we draw at random to pick the Wildcard Artist. To be a potential wildcard artist, just buy a ticket and show up!
Confirmed Competitors
Art Battle San Francisco
11 confirmed artists
Anna Ovchinnikova
Anna returns to Art Battle! Anna is a member of the Creative Union of Russian Artists. She is also an artist in resident at Kennedy Gallery in Midtown Sacramento. She paints with different techniques and with any materials you can imagine./sf
Deniz is a figurative oil painter born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, who moved to the United States at eighteen. His work focuses on conveying distinct lighting conditions and emotional atmospheres through paint. Over the years, he has created many self-portraits as a way of grounding himself far from home. Recently, his practice has shifted toward polyptychs with repetitive figures and limited palettes, exploring a sense of visual music. Alongside his studio practice, Deniz works as an Event Specialist at SFMOMA and as an event photographer.
Emilie Boras is a mechanical engineer who has been painting and exhibiting for the last two decades. She has most recently exhibited at Superfine and at "The Art of San Francisco". She hopes to foster a love and appreciation for the beauty in the mundane in the viewer and her work focuses largely on the automotive and in colorful plays of light.
Babe Ross is a multi-subject, classically trained artist, specializing in colorful portraits and whimsical themes. She teaches beginner and intermediate painting classes called “happy lil accidents” and can often be found in the San Francisco Bay Area drawing cartoons in parks, painting at the beach, or creating murals in the heart of the city.
Macy Hembd is a 29-year-old multidisciplinary artist, organizer, and activist based in San Francisco. Originally from the Midwest, her cross-country journey shapes a wide lens on art and community. Her work spans painting, collage, photography, printmaking, prose, and modeling, often blending creativity with activism. Macy holds a BA in Psychology and Art Therapy and an MA in Social Justice and Human Rights, grounding her practice in care and structural change.
Riya is a visual artist delving into the emotional and psychological layers of the human experience. Through surreal, symbolic compositions that blur realism and abstraction, Riya uses fragmented features—eyes, ears, faces—to explore perception, vulnerability, and identity with expressive depth.
Rosie is a Bay Area–based artist creating oil and acrylic paintings inspired by the nostalgia of past technology, fashion, films, and music. Her work often depicts characters living in vast deserts or existing within their own emotional state of reality. Through bright colors, pop art realism, and realistic symbolism, she explores timeless memories and genuine human connection. Drawing inspiration from retro televisions and classic Westerns, Rosie’s paintings reflect the moments, experiences, and curiosity that shape both her youth and her vision for the future.
Roxana’s artwork is a classic rendering of things imagined similar to retro cartoons, to whimsical depictions of animals in a variety of interesting scenarios. There is always a twist into the dark side of life.
Sara is a retired dreamer turned art student, now exploring watercolor, acrylic, oil, and printmaking. Her work draws inspiration from nature, ecology, animals, and LGBTQ+ themes—blending curiosity, care, and vibrant creativity across every medium she touches.
Sydney is a full-time artist based in San Francisco working as both a painter and body artist. Her creative journey began with a childhood love of drawing and grew into exploring sewing, jewelry making, henna and jagua tattoos, and acrylic painting. Now focused on painting and body art, her work features bright colors, loops, swirls, and geometric shapes in a trippy psychedelic flow inspired by neo-pop, surrealist, and abstract styles. She’s also turning her paintings into fabric for one-of-a-kind garments as she develops her upcycled fashion line, Trippy Tidal Waves.
VeraPaints is a self-taught artist who started painting in 2018 after being inspired by large immersive art at Burning Man. Since then, she’s completed 3 well received gallery shows, murals, installations, designed an art AirBnb, and led group immersives and art shows. She is known for recycled art, creative use of color and figurative work to remind the viewers of their own potential. She won round one art battle in Reno.
