Scott Seton Hancock (b. 1974, Southern California) is a conceptual artist based in San Diego, California. His work examines the gap between what a culture claims to value and what it actually treats as worth keeping — and what that gap reveals about belief, language, and the decisions we make about what deserves to last.

Before returning to full-time studio practice, Hancock spent twenty-five years working inside that gap professionally. He founded Risen, a nationally distributed magazine studying how faith and conviction move through culture. He built Glue Network, a global cause-marketing initiative examining how culture is transferred by individuals and brands collaborating to fund nonprofit projects worldwide. As partner and CEO of BLVR®, an award-winning brand consultancy recognized in Fast Company, Forbes, Ad Age, and Communication Arts, he spent two decades helping organizations identify the distance between what they said they stood for and what their actual behavior proved — and close it. He continues that work through SayDoBrand, a consultancy advising founders and executive teams on belief-led brand strategy — helping leaders name what they actually stand for and enforce it under pressure.

That body of knowledge is not incidental to the studio practice. It is structural to it. Hancock did not step away from art to build companies. He went into the world to study the subject matter his work would eventually require: how belief becomes behavior, how language either carries weight or performs it, how culture decides what is sacred and what is disposable. KEPT is the work that came out of that study.

He maintains an active consulting practice alongside a dedicated studio practice. This is what the work has been building toward.