About the Artist
Jeff Dikio is a contemporary painter born in 1975 on Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Raised within a transient military culture, he found early grounding in drawing and observation, developing a lifelong sensitivity to place, movement, and change.
He received his BA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1997, and has since worked across figurative, landscape, and mixed-media practices. Dikio approaches painting as a balance between observation and emotional response, favoring expression over direct representation. His process is rooted in continual revision, allowing forms and atmosphere to emerge through layered application and reworking of the surface.
Recent work draws inspiration from the Bay Area and the California coast, focusing on light, atmosphere, and the quiet resonance of everyday environments. Across all subjects, Dikio seeks to capture singular moments that evoke memory, familiarity, and emotional presence.
He has exhibited extensively throughout the Bay Area since 1996, including three solo exhibitions in San Francisco, and currently lives and works in the Bay Area with his family.
Jeff Dikio has exhibited extensively throughout the Bay Area since 1996, including multiple solo exhibitions in San Francisco and participation in numerous juried and curated group shows.
Solo Exibitions
2005- Waking Windows,
The Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003- Last Call,
The Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002- An Inspired Stillness,
The Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exibitions
2026- Anything Goes,
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2025- TINY,
Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025- 67th Annual Members Show,
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2025- Delicious,
Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025- 10 Year Anniversary Show,
FOG Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025- Summer in the Sunset Annual,
Sea Level Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2024- Fractured Realities,
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2023- Summer in the Sunset,
Sea Level Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023- Light and Shadow,
Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2017- 2 Person show,
Domain, Oakland,CA
2013- Art Explosion Spring Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2012- Art Explosion Spring Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2011- Rizal:150, Oakland Asian Cultural
Center, Oakland, CA
2010- Twenty-Four Seven, Two Person Show,
Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009- Group Show,
Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008- Group Show,
Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007- Horses,
SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA
2007- Work on Paper, Hang Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2006- Landscapes, Hang Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2006- Solitaire, Group Show,
Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002- 2003- Group Show,
Sway Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2001- Still Life,
Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000- Figurative Group Exhibition,
Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999- The Landscape,
Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997- Coastal Preservation Show,
Atelier Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1997- UCSC Irwin Scholar Juried Exhibition,
Eloise- Pickard Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
