About the artist
Tom Nussbaum is known for a variety of work including drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, site specific commissions, children’s books, and functional design objects.
His sculpture and works on paper have been shown in galleries throughout the United States and Japan, most recently at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey and the Nicolayson Museum of Art in Wyoming.
Since 1987 he has completed over twenty-five site-specific commissions located in a variety of public settings including train stations, schools, hospitals, and environmental centers.
Nussbaum is also known for his design objects that are now valued by collectors. In 1985 he began The Acme Robot Company, a cottage industry producing night-lights and light fixtures of his design. In 1988 he founded Atomic Iron Works, designing and producing iron hat and coat racks and other useful items. In 1992 Children’s Universe/ Rizzoli published his activity book, My World is not Flat.
Nussbaum has been a visiting artist at a number colleges and universities and has served on many peer review panels and juries. He has been awarded a 2009 NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, three MacDowell Colony Fellowships, and was a 2008 fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
