Leah Rosenberg is a San Francisco-based artist whose practice spans painting, installation, sculpture, printmaking, video, and food. Rooted in her belief in the fundamental generosity of art and the creative act, Rosenberg promotes a democratic approach to the perception of color through focusing on the role of color in our lives, especially its emotional and psychological impacts. She received an Irvine Fellowship through the Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center and Kala Fellowship at Kala Art Institute. During her 2019 residency at San Francisco Recology,  she worked with paint salvaged from the Household Hazardous Waste Facility. Rosenberg has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Project 387, Facebook, Google, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, University of Saskatchewan, and Villa Lena in Italy. Everywhere A Color, a permanent installation at the San Francisco International Airport, and her book The Color Collector’s Handbook published in 2018 by Chronicle Books, invite people from everywhere to connect through color. With her passion for color, Rosenberg was appointed Creative Director for Color Factory in San Francisco (2017) and NYC (2018), orchestrating installations and collaborations with internationally-recognized artists and designers. 

Her work is part of SFMOMA’s permanent collection where she also worked as the lead pastry chef at their rooftop café. Combining her talents, she created a spectrum of desserts based on the museum’s collection (2009-2013).  In 2019, she was invited to talk about the language of color for TEDxSan Francisco.Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Art Moves in Poland, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Golden Pavilion in Hamburg, and Sarasota Museum of Art. 

Rosenberg recently completed Color In Twelve Parts, a series of twelve monochromatic films that pulled colors from domestic life and her own collected footage, one color at a time. This series of experimental works builds on Rosenberg’s decade-long observational work of color collecting. They were screened in entirety at SFCinematheque, with divergent live soundtrack performances by two local musicians. 

The way Leah Rosenberg sees it, colors have the capacity to improve moods, conjure memories, tell stories, bring calm and joy, and inspire growth. All of which come together in her ever-expanding list of public works: Ohana Montage Health in Monterey (2023), Mercy Housing (2021) and Ghirardelli Square (2020) in San Francisco, and Elco Yards in Redwood City (2025). 

Rosenberg earned a BFA from Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC and an MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.