Background
Tom Birkner was born in 1966, in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. There were many generations of coal miners and factory workers in his family.
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
The Queens Campus of Rutgers University where Tom Birkner received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Art/Political Science in 1993.
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
Pennsylvania State University where Tom Birkner obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1997.
Tom Birkner was born in 1966, in Rahway, New Jersey, United States. There were many generations of coal miners and factory workers in his family.
Tom Birkner spent his childhood in New Jersey.
Birkner received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Art/Political Science from Rutgers University in 1993. It was followed four years later by a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania State University.
Tom Birkner emerged to the art scene in the early 1990s. Since then, he has widely exhibited his paintings around the United States, in Italy and China.
Birkner has also applied his artistic experience in academics. He began as a teaching assistant at the Pennsylvania State University where he worked from 1996 to 1997. A year after, he occupied the post of an adjunct lecturer of art at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey serving in that capacity till 2007. From 2008 to 2010, the artist was an adjunct professor of drawing and painting at Parsons School of Design’s Summer Intensive Studies Program. He served in the same capacity for the next two years but in pre-college drawing and painting program.
In 2014, Tom Birkner joined the staff of the University of Texas at El Paso where he serves nowadays as an Assistant Professor of Art and Painting.
Birkner’s art is represented by Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, and Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe.
Crash
Swappin' Spit
Passing Attraction
The Creep
Catwalks
Truth or Dare
Corner Phone
Undiscovered Crime Scene
The Torcher
Venus of the Sprinkler
Kiss in Concert
Sentinel (Tina and her Challenger)
X
Baseball Bubble
Guitar Pickin'
Hair Band
Black Rain
Purple Rain
Wildwood I
Night Rain II
Silver Saddle
Pig Dog
Smoking Waiting
Lost Somewhere In Las Vegas
Quotations: "I’ve always tried to show an epic drama through scenes of the everyday. That drama is the collapse of the Industrial Age and the resulting struggles of working-class America."
Tom Birkner married an advertising account executive Claire Tondreau in 1995.