TOM PATTON
Lives in Tucson, Arizona
artmeat10@yahoo.com
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
EDUCATION
MFA/MA, Photography, University of New Mexico 1982/1977
BFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, 1976
TEACHING
California State University, Chico (Professor Emeritus) 2002-2024
University of Missouri-St. Louis 1983 - 2002
MAJOR GRANTS AND AWARDS
James D. Phelan Foundation Award, [administered through S F Camerawork], 2001-2002
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, 1990-1991
13 University Research Awards totaling more than $55,000
12 Exhibition Awards
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery, Canberra Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Penn Museum, Philadelphia St. Louis Art Museum
Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Seattle Art Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum, Suwa Art Museum, Suwa, Japan, University of New Mexico Art Museum
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Nicole Kidman, estate of Robert Rauschenberg
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (more than 300 exhibitions including…)
Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Philadelphia, “Moundbuilders: Ancient Architects of North America,” 2017-2020
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California, “Spectators,” [collaboration with writer Rob Davidson], 2016-2017
Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico, “Wide Open Spaces,” 2016
Fukushima Contemporary Art Biennale, Fukushima, Japan, ”SORA: sky, space, universe, heavens, & origin of the cosmos,” 2012
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, “Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos,” 2011
Brogan Museum of Art & Science, Tallahassee, Florida,“APPETITE: Expressions of the Politics Encircling Food,” 2010
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, ”Snapshot,” 2000
San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, “Feed,“ 1998
Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, ”Technology Culture,” 1997
University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, ”100 Years of Street Photography,” 1994
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California, ”Photograph as Urban Scape/Rural Scape,” 1992
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ”Tourist Photography,” 1992
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, ”Night Light: A Survey of Twentieth Century Night Photography,” 1991
Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, ” U.S. Biennial IV,” 1991
St. Louis Art Museum, ”The Developing Eye: 150 Years of Photography from St. Louis Collections,” 1989
Suwa Art Museum, Suwa, Japan, ”St. Louis Photography,” 1989
Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, Ohio, ”American Color,” 1988
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ”Light: From Illumination to Pure Radiance,” 1985
Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Australia, ”New Landscapes: Photographs From Two Continents,” 1984
International Center of Photography, New York, New York, "Photography at the University of New Mexico," 1982
Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, "U.S. Eye: A Visual Studies Workshop Traveling Exhibition," 1980 (Show opened at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
IDEA / MATERIAL / PROCESS, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, 2020, pp. 34-35, 48
SPECTATORS: FLASH FICTIONS by ROB DAVIDSON, (Five Oaks Press, Newburgh, N.Y.), Rob Davidson, 2017, Cover Image
SWEET DREAMS: CONTEMPORARY ART AND COMPLICITY (Univ. of Chicago Press), Johanna Drucker, 2005, pp. 185-186
B & W MAGAZINE(Arroyo Grande, CA), "Spotlight: Tom Patton," by Ira Latour, August 2004, pp. 110-113
SNAPSHOT (Contemporary Museum, Baltimore), CD exhibition catalog, 2002
ART IN AMERICA (New York),” St.Louis Talks Back,” by W.Jackson Rushing III, September 2001, p.29
NEW ART EXAMINER (Chicago), "On View: St. Louis," by Jan Estep, April 1998, p.35
ARTWEEK (Oakland, California), “Reviews: Northern California," by Mark Van Proyen, July/August 1998, p.24
NEW ART EXAMINER (Chicago),"Reviews: Tom Patton," by W.Jackson Rushing, Summer 1996, p.51
EXPLORING COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY, SECOND EDITION (W. C. Brown Publishers), by Robert Hirsch, 1992
NIGHT LIGHT: A SURVEY OF 20TH CENTURY NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY (Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, Missouri), "Night Photography: A Short History," by Keith F. Davis, 1989, pp. 12, 18, 22
NEW LANDSCAPES: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM TWO CONTINENTS (University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia), by David Stephenson, 1985
AFTERIMAGE (Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester),"Space Invaders,"by Michael Costello, April, 1980
THE ISOLATION AND INTRUSION SERIES (Lunar Press, San Mateo, California), by Tom Patton, 1979
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN NEW MEXICO (UNM Press), by Van Deren Coke, 1979
ARTWEEK (Oakland, CA.), "Books: The Individual and History Receive Recognition," by Joan Murray, Vol. 10, #29, Sept., 15, 1979
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
University of Tasmania, Visiting Artist, Summer 1984
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