Lance Shields

Lance Shields is an artist based in San Francisco. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied new genres art. He was raised in the mountains of San Diego, CA and while growing up in the small town of Julian, CA he was introduced to film photography by his science teacher. Throughout the 1990s he was an installation artist and eventually transitioned to digital and virtual art in the early 2000s. Thirty-five years after his first experiments with a film camera, in 2020 he made the decision to return to photography and is an emerging photographic artist. Lance lives in the Bay Area with his wife and dog. He works as a design director at Adobe. He is also passionate about surfing and exploring the west coast by van.