Tom Nussbaum

Tom Nussbaum (born August 12, 1953, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist whose work includes drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, site-specific commissions, children's books, animations, and functional design objects.

Early Life and Career
Tom Nussbaum was born in Philadelphia in 1953 and was raised in Minneapolis, where he studied at the University of Minnesota. In 1980 he moved to New York where he began exhibiting his sculpture.

Nussbaum's work has exhibited at numerous galleries including the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago, IL, the Robischon Gallery in Denver, CO, Laforet Museum in Tokyo, Japan Nicolayson Art Museum in Casper, WY, and the Hirshorn Museum in Washington, DC. In June 2003, the Montclair Art Museum commissioned Nussbaum to create a special installation, titled "Home Sweet Home", which was a site-specific painting of abstracted geometric and folkloric motifs. Home Sweet Home was accompanied by a display of twenty of the artist's enigmatic, allegorical figures.

Public Art Installations
In 1992, Nussbaum began creating public arts projects with a commission from the Metropolitan Transit Authority, Metro North Railroad, at the Scarsdale and Hartsdale stations in Westchester County, NY. Since then, he has completed numerous public art works, including a stainless steel sculpture at the Bay Street (NJT station) and another project for the Wildwoods NJ Convention Center. Nussbaum's work is also permanently on display at the Johns Hopkins Hospital New Clinical Builiding. Most recently, Nussbaum completed the Albert E. Hinds Memorial Gates in the center of Princeton, NJ.

Nussbaum was awarded a NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 2001 and in 2009 and has been a three time MacDowell Colony Fellow.