Introducing the 2027 Hearts in SF Artists

The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation (SFGHF) is pleased to announce the 20 artists selected to participate in the Hearts in SF 2027 public art project supporting excellence in patient care and innovation at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG). The 2027 Hearts in SF series will include 3 Large Heart sculptures, 9 Table Top Heart sculptures, and 8 Mini Heart sculptures.

Hearts in SF is one of the most widely recognized public art projects around the world. Since the project’s inception in 2004, San Francisco Bay Area artists have created more than 500 hearts that have gone on display all across the city of San Francisco and beyond, from Union Square to the lobbies and conference rooms of corporate supporters, including Bank of America, Genentech, Intel, Kaiser, Twitter, and Wells Fargo. Each Heart is a unique, one-of-a-kind work of art and celebrates the diversity of San Francisco through designs made of acrylic paints, mosaic art, mixed media sculptures, and more.

Hearts artists will be sharing their progress on their sculptures on social media. Follow SFGHF on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn for updates.

Taiko Fujimura, Oakland, Instagram

Taiko Fujimura is a San Francisco–based mixed media artist working with watercolor, ink, acrylic, and oil on diverse surfaces. She carefully selects materials to create layered works that draw on personal experiences, relationships, and cultural influences. Her work incorporates both vivid and muted palettes and explores harmony through the unification of contrasts such as chaos and order, industrial and organic, and mind and body. Influenced by Japanese aesthetics—particularly wabi-sabi and traditional calligraphy she began studying at the age of six—Fujimura’s art reflects a balance between tradition and contemporary expression.

Atelier for Healing (Stephen Seymour, Mario “Smurks” Guitron, Pam Totah, Rob Boldt, Mike Poland, Mutsuko Ching, Nobu Kaji, Colin “Big C” Hoffman, Martha Diaz, Kerry Doss, Tina Evans), San Bruno, Website, Instagram

Atelier for Healing is a nonprofit with a mission to make art a pathway to healing and well-being. By making creative expression more accessible to the public, they aim to nurture mental wellness and inspire personal growth. Their studio provides a welcoming and supportive environment where individuals of all backgrounds can explore their artistic voice, connect with others, and experience the restorative benefits of self-expression.

Ava Alejandrino, San Francisco

Ava Alejandrino is a Filipino-American high school senior who was born and raised in San Francisco. Ava has experience in various types of art mediums including painting, crochet, ceramics, and music. She has worked on designing floats for the San Francisco Carnaval Parade and has also created a painting that was displayed in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

Ashley Ravidas, San Francisco, Instagram

Ashley Ravidas is an abstract painter whose work explores geometry, color, and optical perception. After a decade working in software consulting, she transitioned to a full time studio practice in 2024, bringing a systems-oriented approach to composition and process. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas and paper, Ashley uses matte medium, paint, and tape to build subtle surface ridges that give her paintings a precise hard-edge quality. Carefully calibrated gradients and repeated forms create optical shifts that suggest movement, depth, and quite vibration across the surface.

Charles Gadeken, San Francisco Bay Area, Instagram

Charles Gadeken is an industrial artist working in the Bay Area for over 25 years. Skilled in the manipulation of metals, Charles makes copper, bronze, and steel pieces of varying dimensions and functionalities—from a tabletop fire flower that illuminates an intimate space to a 30ft tall LED weeping willow tree that graces a public plaza. Inspired by the objects, structures and processes in the world around us, Charles’ art depicts natural objects in fantastic ways and realizes the potential for serendipity in everyday life. Often incorporating and developing technology for various effects—LEDs, flame, hydraulics, and electricity—to increase the visual and physical impact of his work, he seeks to instill a sense of play into the environment.

Ana Bianchi, Walnut Creek, Instagram

Ana Bianchi’s lifelong love of color is what connects it all and helps her comfortably move from one discipline to another and from one technique to another. Her new book Color Curious (Chronicle Books) illustrates her ideas and inspiration around a variety of color themes combining essays with her photography, illustrations and more, and as you read her texts, you will discover her deep interest in art history, world cultures and the pursue of creative ideas through the common thread of color.

Nicole Album, San Francisco, Instagram

Nicole Album is an illustrator working for clients in surface design, editorial, and live events. She is from New Orleans, Louisiana and has been living in San Francisco for 16 years. Nicole enjoys attending live performances, flea markets, ballet, film, yoga, and gardening. She is inspired by the dichotomies of life: comedy and tragedy, old and new, light and dark. Nicole is a climate activist, an advocate for fair wages in the arts, and operates a certified green business.

Moonji L. Pickering, Albany, Instagram

Moonji L. Pickering is a Korean-born artist who has made the San Francisco Bay Area her home since 2016. Trained in architecture design, she came to fine art after arriving in the United States, and her background in spatial thinking continues to shape how she approaches form, structure, and surface. Her drawings and paintings have been shown in juried exhibitions across California, with early exhibitions in Albany, San Francisco, San Rafael, Sausalito and Los Angeles.

Bhavna Misra, Fremont, Website

Bhavna Misra’s work captures the beauty of light and transforms local
landscapes into vibrant mosaics of color and texture. Applying oil paints
in thick, expressive, unblended brushstrokes, her goal for each surface is
to capture a moment so radiant that it inspires an immediate sense of
calm, cheer, and joy.

Skye Schuchman, Sausalito, Instagram

Skye Schuchman’s artistic education spans ceramics, sculpture, and studio based art. This broad experience in mediums is woven with a degree in fashion design, extensive professional graphic design and branding work, creative direction and art direction for agencies, and extensive work in hotels, interior design and the hospitality industry. Skye’s work is exploratory, musical, and rooted in a disciplined practice of research, materials, and mathematics.

Jasmine Croco, Petaluma, Instagram

Jasmine Croco has been featured in several exhibitions including an international students showcase in Florence, Italy (2024), a solo show titled “Gold in the Underbrush” (2026), and the 2026 Marin County Fair where she received a first place ribbon and was the recipient of the 2026 Barbara McQuaid Award. Her work revolves around vibrant colors in unexpected combinations, often drawing inspiration from the natural world. As an emerging artist, Jasmine strives to bring her quirky and fun outlook on life to broader audiences.

Jonie Lau, San Bruno, Instagram

Jonie Lau is a Bay Area native, artist, educator, and mother of two young boys. While her days are filled with teaching at a public school, her nights and quiet moments are dedicated to her lifelong passion for visual art. She primarily works with colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylics. Her artwork is best known for its use of high-contrast colors, specializing in florals. Hoping to inspire her students and kids to pursue the arts, her design for the Hearts in SF marks her first public exhibition.

Caroline Lee, Berkeley, Instagram

Caroline Lee is an Emergency Medicine physician who is proud to be born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She finds her inspiration in nature, community, and her Asian-American heritage; while finding creative self-expression through the mediums of painting and sculpture. Serving the San Francisco community as a clinician at San Francisco General Hospital has also profoundly informed her work through the stories and endurance of her patients.

Sofia Louie, San Francisco

Sofia Louie is an artist entering her sophomore year of high school. Her
passion for painting began since she was a toddler, later moving on to digital art, photography, and animation. She has always loved how art leads viewers to gain different perspectives, grasp several layers of nuance, and see their stories. She often finds inspiration in the small details in life that go often go unnoticed despite their beauty. Art is a means of self-expression that allows her to understand and appreciate the world as well as her own identity as a third generation San Franciscan.

Joy Marie Hallare, Milpitas, Website

Joy Marie Hallare was born in Qatar and later moved to the United States in 2003. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Fresno State and an Associate of Arts at College of Sequoias in Graphic Design. Joy teaches art to all ages during her spare time and travels around California to paint murals and participate in live sketches and painting.

Dr. Orin Carpenter, Petaluma, Website

As an artivist, Dr. Orin Carpener’s work is both his voice and his vision—a way to educate, elevate, and challenge perceptions. Through his creations, he invites others to see the world through his lens, inspiring new perspectives and fostering shared understanding. Art became his refuge and strength during childhood, helping him navigate the complexities of his identity. Comic books sparked his imagination, teaching him that creativity could be a superpower. Over time, he realized he couldn’t stay hidden in fantasy—he needed to bring his imagination to life. This discovery became the foundation of his practice: creating worlds that reflect his journey and forge connections with others.

Sophia Rose Cheng, San Francisco, Instagram

Sophia Rose Cheng is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist specializing in acrylics. She utilizes a vibrant and intentional color palette to breathe life and energy into every composition. Her work serves as a visual bridge between her personal history and her surroundings, often exploring the deep-seated connections she holds to the places that have shaped her identity. She frequently pays homage to her family’s roots with pieces inspired by their hometowns in China, as well as capturing the unique character of the Bay Area where she was raised. Her philosophy emphasizes finding beauty in the process not only in painting, but also in life.

Osvaldo Pena de la Torre, San Francisco, Instagram

Osvaldo de la Torre is a Chilean visual artist based in San Francisco. He works with acrylic and colored pencil, exploring the intersection of figuration and abstraction. His work shifts between vibrant chromatic compositions and darker tonal environments, creating a sense of emotional duality where intensity and restraint coexist. Figures emerge within layered surfaces, suggesting memory, presence, and transformation rather than fixed narrative.

Stefie Gan, San Jose, Instagram

Stefie Gan is an Asian American artist, who combines her cultural roots with a passionate concern for the planet’s future. Her work amplifies unheard voices, challenges norms, and advocates for equality. Each piece embodies resilience and diversity, aiming to provoke reflection on intersecting identities and the need for societal change. Her films have screened and won awards at Oscar qualifying festivals. She attended Barnard College, Columbia University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a Master of Fine Arts in Animation and Digital Arts at the University of Southern California.

Elyse Bucheli, San Francisco, Instagram

Elyse Bucheli is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and creator based in San Francisco. Her work spans fine art, illustration, graphic design, photography, and content creation, with curiosity and experimentation at the center of her creative process. She believes creativity is something that grows through trying new things, embracing the learning process, and being willing to create before knowing exactly where it will lead. Through both her artwork and social media, Elyse shares her own creative journey in hopes of inspiring others to explore their creativity, learn new skills, and make more space for art in their lives.