tommy

Biography

Tommy is a Vietnamese American artist born in California currently based in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. He(they) works in sculpture, performance, illustration, video, animation, and puppetry, recently receiving the Henson Workshop Grant to produce the premiere workshop production of the first Vietnamese American Water Puppet show at Turn Park this summer.

Recipient of the ReVEALED Emerging Artist award, Tommy will install and curate performances for his continuing series may the PLUSH be with you playable, wearable queer armor at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland. Alongside this show, he will be collaborating with The Cleveland Art Museum to present a workshop PLAY SMELL TOUCH FEEL HEAR and WEAR your COLORS.

He recently curated a comic arts show at The Pace University Art Gallery showing the works of Barbara Slate, June Kim, Jesse Lambert, and Ronald Wimberly. The show was funded by NYSCA and partially through National Endowment for the Humanities. Tommy publishes his comic and cartoon works through Eisner awarding winning publisher Rosarium where is he working on his queer comics BiHARD, Texas Chainsaw Manicure, and Kill Phil.