About

Adrienne Simms is a San Francisco-based artist and illustrator who has exhibited for over twenty-five years. Passionate about illustration, she welcomes the opportunity to work with a client to interpret their vision, while adding her own visual and symbolic language.

Her fine art is an exploration of her imagination, often centering on a feminine figure, accompanied by elements of the natural world like cats and ravens. While her images might be described as feminine, her aim is to communicate an inner strength, boldness, even defiance. Tackling subjects as disparate as spirituality and politics, her art expresses both formality and whimsy, beauty and power.

Exhibits and Publications

  • Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area, written by Rae Alexandra, published by City Lights Books. 2026

  • Belvedere Tiburon Library Art Gallery’s exhibition, Artists’ Narratives: Their History and Identity, 2025

  • Self-publication the zine of Portraits of Gaza, 2023

  • Future Tense, group show at the Drawing Room, San Francisco, 2024

  • Book launch of Coffin Whispers and Comestibles, Volume 2, Claremont, CA, 2024

  • Creature Comforts, group show at Portland Arts Collective, 2024

  • Being Human, group show at San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, 2023

  • Book launch of Coffin Whispers and Comestibles, Volume 1, Claremont, CA, 2023

  • De Young Open, group show at the De Young Museum, San Francisco, 2020