Hugh Leeman is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator, teaching art history and technique in English and Spanish. Leeman’s artwork and projects focus on community collaboration and social interaction.

While living in the Caribbean at a young age, Leeman imagined himself remaining there for the rest of his life. Yet, as a teenager, he began to meet visiting cruise ship passengers from the Americas and Europe. Their stories would change the course of his life, inspiring a multi-year journey. He worked his way around the world and ended up teaching English in China. Leeman moved to the United States from the Middle East and settled in San Francisco where he lives and works.

The artist first collaborated on a self-empowerment project with the homeless in San Francisco. He co-founded Aetatribes.org to bring clean water projects to the indigenous Aeta Tribes of the Philippines. Now he is creating impasto paintings and sculptures. They address environmental destruction, mythology, and the history of inequality.

Leeman has exhibited his artworks at the de Young Museum, the Museum of Mexico City, the Masur Museum of Art, and the Arlington Contemporary Art Center. He was awarded an Artistic Mastermind Grant. His artwork and projects are published in The Outlaw Bible of American Art.