Timeline

Tom Matt is a contemporary American painter. Working in oil, he currently creates paintings of his childhood drawings. The work speaks of "time within time" and the "passage of time." The series was inspired by the pandemic which conjured feelings of fear and resilience from childhood events that Matt thought he left in the past. In the art, both the adult and child process mutual vulnerability and strength.

Born in 1966, Tom's education includes the Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Old Lyme, CT; a BA from the School of Visual Arts, NY; post-grad instruction at the Park Slope Atelier of Andy Reiss, Brooklyn, NY; and an MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art, NY. Tom has exhibited on the East Coast and MidWest. He is included in private and public collections that include Pfizer Inc, Brooklyn, NY. His most recent work has been exhibited at the M.F.A Painting Thesis Show at the New York Academy of Art; the Gallery Space at the Truman Medical Center, Kansas City; and the Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City. He is based in Long Island City, NY.