Atticus Bergman’s Crayola crayon drawings have been featured on the covers of books and scholarly periodicals, as well as in magazines such as Artforum, Cultured, and n+1.

In New York, his drawings have been shown at Kai Matsumiya and James Fuentes, where he had his first solo exhibition in 2017. In 2022, Gilles Heno-Coe curated a special exhibition of his work that explored the tension between the abstract notion of personal charisma and the concrete structure of physical anatomy. At the end of 2024, eighteen of his crayon drawings were exhibited in an exhibition that also featured two live horses, a team of plein air painters, and a large bronze leaf that was modeled after the one which protected the modesty of Michelangelo’s David when it was brought to England in 1857.

Writing for Artforum in 2019, Ottessa Moshfegh listed Atticus Bergman’s Crayola crayon drawings as one of her favorite objects from cultural history, alongside the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the films of Ingmar Bergman, and the recorded songs of Billie Holiday. 

Before he began making visual art, Atticus studied the intersection between psychoanalytic, philosophical, and aesthetic forms of knowledge at Stanford University.