ABOUT
Tom Neill is a California based artist whose art practice focuses on capturing and exaggerating the world that surrounds him. He utilizes the absurd and exaggerates the world in hopes to connect himself more to his environment. He works in the disciplines of art and design to push his creative practice. Tom hopes that by creating absurdity he is able to create a discourse on connection, disconnection and the role that technology plays in both. Overall his art practice experiments with disturbing reality through the absurd as a tool for connection.
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EDUCATION
University of California, Davis, College of Letters and Science. Davis, CA
Double Major: Art Studio and Design, specializing in painting and drawing Candidate for Bachelor of Arts, expected June 2025
University of California, Santa Cruz, Global Learning Program
Czech Republic and Germany Art and Globalization (immersive studio art program), July-August 2024
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD Summer figure drawing program, 2020
EXPERIENCE
Creative Director for Davis Rave Co Llc.
Davis, Ca 95616. September 2022- Current
Sitar Arts Center Mural Team
Washington, DC Summer 2019 • Participated in Mural Arts Program • Painted community focused mural with team of artists from across the city
AWARDS
Crocker Art Museum, Friedman Art Award:
Won student art contest for “Burnt”, Sacramento, CA Nov. 2022
Sitar Arts Center, ‘RED”:
Won award for student art competition, theme: Red July 2019
EXHIBITIONS
UC Davis Basement Gallery,Childish Dream:
Student run gallery show at the University of California, Davis. Accepted for “Can’t”, February 7-9th 2023.
San Fernando Arts and Culture Center,In the Abstract:
Online juried art exhibit, In the Abstract: accepted for “Can’t”, February-March, 2023
GALEX56 National Juried Exhibition:
Accepted into exhibition for “Environment”, Galesburg,IL February 2023
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Meet the Artist: Tom Neill: Exaggerating The World”,
Davis Dirt, February 28,2024. https://thedirt.online/artist-tom-neill/
UC Santa Barbara Spectrum Literary Journal:
Published piece in “Spectrum, Volume 66”, 2023