John Seed is an artist, writer, curator and 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. John was an intern to the collection of Hunk and Moo Anderson, one of the first employees of art dealer Larry Gagosian and a founding staff member of MOCA, Los Angeles. 

For over three decades, John taught Studio Art and Art History at Mount San Jacinto College. He has 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, he has served on the board of the Sam Francis Foundation.

John's writing has appeared in Art Ltd., The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Arts of Asia, and other fine
publications. His book Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World features the works of 38
contemporary artists who add subjectivity and disruption to their imagery. A sequel, More Disruption:
Representation in Flux was released in October of 2023.