Curriculum Vita


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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