TOM NUSSBAUM
BORN
1953 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Brassworks, Montclair, NJ.
2022 Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY.
490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2021 The Art Garage, Cooperstown, NY.
2018 Octavia Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2015 Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ.
2013 Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ.
2010 Trans.Luxe, New York, New York.
2009 Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ.
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey.
2008 Nicolayson Museum of Art, Casper, Wyoming.
2006 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey.
Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York.
2003 Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey.
2001 Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
2000 RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey.
1999 Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
1998 RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey.
1988 Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Sculpture Center, New York, New York.
1987 Fiction/Non Fiction Gallery, New York, New York.
1984 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1983 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2023 East Orange Animal Shelter, East Orange, NJ.
2022 Borgnicht residence, Montclair, NJ.
2021 NJTransit HBLRT Tonnelle Av. Station, North Bergen, NJ.
2019 East Orange Boogie Woogie, East Orange, NJ.
Walker Building,Newark, NJ.
2018 NJTransit Wesmont Station, Wesmont, NJ
2017 Blauvelt Public Library, Blauvelt, NY
2015 Walter residence, Paradise Valley, AZ
2013 Hinds Plaza, Princeton, NJ.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
2012 The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.
Johns-Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD.
2011 Wildwoods Convention Center, Wildwoods, NJ.
NJTransit Somerville Station, Somerville, NJ.
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System, Bayonne, NJ.
2010 Edgemont Playground, Montclair, NJ.
2009 Maple Grove Hospital, Maple Grove, MN.
Park Nicollett Hospital, St. Louis Park, MN.
2008 Petrus Partners, New York, NY.
2007 Montclair Bay Street Train Station, Montclair, NJ.
St. Rita’s Hospital, Lima, OH
2006 NJ Forest Service Div. A Headquarters, Andover, NJ.
2005 NJ Warren Residential Group Home, Washington, NJ.
2004 Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ.
2003 Forest Resources Education Center, Jackson, NJ.
Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey.
2002 NJ Transit Bay Street Train Station, Montclair, NJ.
2001 Pinelands Commission Headquarters, New Lisbon, NJ.
Avalon on the Sound, New Rochelle, NY.
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System, Bayonne, NJ.
2000 Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System, Jersey City, NJ.
1999 Neiman Marcus, Chicago, IL.
1997 Hardee County Public Health Ctr, Wauchula, FL.
New York City Public School ECC 4, Bronx, NY.
Greenpoint Bank, Lake Success, New York.
1996 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY.
1995 Neiman Marcus, Short Hills & Paramus, NJ.
Roosevelt Hospital, New York, New York.
1994 Neiman Marcus, White Plains, NY, Boston, MA.
1993 Neiman Marcus, Denver, CO, Scottsdale, AZ.
1992 Metropolitan Transit Authority, Metro North Railroad,Scarsdale and Hartsdale
stations, Westchester County, NY.
1991 Neiman Marcus, Minneapolis, MN.
1987 Hasbro Inc, Pawtucket, RI.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist finalist award.
2009 NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship.
2008 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship.
2007 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Heathcote Fellow.
2006 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
2005 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
2001 NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
1992 "My World is Not Flat", Rizzoli Publishing, New York, New York.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Family, Community, Belonging", Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
2023 "Forms of Connection", Jeila Gueramian & Tom Nussbaum, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT.
2021 "Revision and Respond", The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.
2016 "Precision and Pattern" The College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ.
2015 "Tom Nussbaum & Lillian Voorhes", The Art Garage, Cooperstown, NY
2013 “100 Years, A Centenial Exhibition”, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey.
2012 “NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition”, Noyes Museum of Art, Stockton, NJ.
“2+2”, The Smithy Art Center, Cooperstown, NY
“NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition” Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2009 “The Permanent Collection”, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey.
“Stayin Alive”, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY.
2007 “Punchbowl” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY.
“Sanctuary”, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
“The Patricia Bell Collection”, Domo Gallery, Summit, NJ.
“Singularity in the Communal Tide”, Pierro Gallery, South Orange NJ.
“Thirty by Thirty”, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
"Meanwhile Back at the Ranch", Gallery 13, Minneapolis, MN.
2006 “Mischief”, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY.
“Critics Select”, The Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ.
2005 “Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit“,The UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY.
“Recent Aquisitions”, Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey.
“City Art” Center for Architecture, New York, NY.
2004 “NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition” Stedman Gallery, Rutgers State University, Camden, NJ.
2003 “Representations”, RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey.
2002 “Public Artworks in Progress” New Jersey State Council on the Arts Gallery 225,
Trenton, New Jersey.
”Solace”, Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
"40 by 40", Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, New York.
2001 "Voices in Response", RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey.
2000 ”Degrees of Figuration” Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey.
"The Gun Show", RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey.
"Drawn", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1999 Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, New Jersey.
"Art Reach VII", City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ.
"Animals in Art", Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska
1998 "Objects, Figures, Places", RC Fine Arts, Maplewood, NJ.
"Aljira National 4", Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ.
"New Jersey Fine Arts Annual", The Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey.
1997 "World Views", Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, New York.
"The Montclair Art Colony; Past and Present", The Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,
New Jersey.
1994 "Art en Route", Paine Webber Gallery, New York, New York.
1993 "Spring Benefit", Sculpture Center, New York, New York.
1992 "Small Wonders", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
"Books by Artists", Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York.
Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
1992 Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1991 "House", Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas.
1990 "Inside/Outside", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
"Small Sculpture", Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
Sculpture Center, New York, New York.
1989 Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado.
"Works on Paper", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1988 "Art for Your Collection XXV", Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island.
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida.
"1900 To Now; Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections", Museum of Art, Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
"Furniture, Form and Function", Gallery 53, Cooperstown,New York.
1998 "Self Taught and Not", Real Artways Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut.
1987 "Art Against Aids", Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York.
1987 Gallerie Evan, Toronto, Canada.
"Small Wonders", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
"Art & Agriculture", Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York.
"Inaugural Exhibition", Fiction/Nonfiction Gallery, New York, New York.
"Structures of Illumination; Lamplight", Gray Gallery, Jenkins Fine Art Center, East
Carolina University,Greenville, North Carolina.
1986 "American Pop Culture Images Today", Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
"Comic Relief", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
"Line Drives", Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York.
"Sculpture", Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York.
"Architectural Elements in Art", Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York.
Gracie Mansion Gallery museum store, New York, NY.
1985 "Wood, Hue or Knot", Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1983 "Summer Exhibition", Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York,New York.
1983 "Habitats", Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, and Wright Museum of Art, Beloit
College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
"Gallery Artists", Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"A Partial Look; The Atlantic Richfield Company Collection", The Art Museum of South
Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas.
1982 "Small Works Show", 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York University, New York,
New York.
"Group Exhibition", Gallery 53, Cooperstown, New York.
1981 "Art on the Beach", New York, New York.
"Ceramic Sculpture", Art Latitude Gallery, New York,New York.
1980 "Foot in the Door Show", Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York, New York.
Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey.
Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ.
Wyeth Pharmaceutical, Princeton, NJ.
New Jersey State Forest Service.
Avalon Bay Communities, New Rochelle, New York.
New Jersey Transit
State of Florida
State of New Jersey
City of New York
Greenpoint Bank, Lake Success, New York.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York, New York.
St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital, New York, New York.
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York.
Neiman Marcus, Dallas, Texas.
Chermayeff and Geismar Associates, New York, New York.
Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Dallas, Texas.
Hasbro Inc., Pawtucket, Rhode Island.