Tom Judd was born in Lawrenceville, New Jersey in 1952, but grew up from the age of two with two sisters and a brother in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah from 1970 to 1972 when he departed on a six-month leave of absence to travel in Europe. He returned in 1973 to attend the Philadelphia College of Art where he studied with Rafael Ferrer, Bob Kulicke, and Larry Day, graduating with a BFA in painting in 1975.

  Judd first exhibited his art work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1979, where at 25 he was included in a survey show entitled "Contemporary Drawing: Philadelphia" curated by Ann Percy and Frank Goodyear. The museum purchased a work from that exhibit for their permanent collection.   Judd went on to exhibit his work in distinguished commercial galleries beginning with his first solo exhibit at Eric Makler Gallery in Philadelphia in 1980. Judd was soon recognized in New York City, including Monique Knowlton and Coe Kerr Gallery. In 1984 he was given a solo exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and had work purchased for their permanent collection. In 1990, Judd had a ten-year retrospect at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. The show also traveled to the Salt Lake Art Center the following year.  

Judd has also participated in many public art projects including a billboard next to an interstate highway in Philadelphia, a seventy foot chalk drawing in Salt Lake City, and his self-curated exhibition in New York City with twelve invited artists entitled "The Chalk board Chronicles." He completed an exterior mural for the city of Philadelphia and four large paintings for Marriott Hotel's new Seattle location. Most recently, Judd installed a hermit's cabin in the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, Nevada, entitled "Hermit Project." The project included a 9'x12' room constructed in the gallery, filled with the life of an anonymous, fictitious loner.  

Tom Judd lives in Philadelphia with his wife Kiki and sixteen year old son William. He has shown extensively for the last 30 years in prominent galleries and museums and is included in major private and public collections. He is represented in Museums and commercial galleries across the United States and Canada

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 - Fiction, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, Utah
- New Continent, Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
- Degrees of Perception, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2005 - The Hermit Project + New Work Installation, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV (catalog)
- Tijuana Weekend Installation, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, CA
- Field Guide, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2004 - Paintings, Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL
2003 - Essential Ornaments, Franklin Bowles Gallery, New York, NY
- Tom Judd, Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale NY
- Tom Judd, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville TN
2002 - Tom Judd, Sandler/Hudson Gallery, Atlanta GA
- Tom Judd, Stremmel Gallery, Reno NV
2001 - Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York NY
- Edward Day, Toronto, ON
- Weber Fine Art, Scarsdale NY
- Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe NM
- Butters Gallery, Portland OR
2000 - When Reason Dreams: Drawings inspired by Visionary, the Fantastic and the Unreal, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
- Doors, Associated American Artists, New York NY
- Small Paintings, Sandler / Hudson, Atlanta GA
1999 - Associated American Artists, New York NY
1998 - Sandler/ Hudson, Atlanta GA
1997 - Blackboard Chronicals, Drive Through Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
1995 - Tom Judd, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994 - The Billboard Project, Coordinated by Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Tom Judd, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia PA
1993 - Tom Judd, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1990 - Tom Judd, Philadelphia Art Alliance (catalogue), Philadelphia, PA
1989 - Tom Judd, Gayke Weyher Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
1987 - All In A Day's Riding, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 - Recent Work, Merion Art Gallery, Lancaster, PA
1985 - Modern Day People, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Tom Judd, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, NY
1984 - Hymn for a Landscape, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1982 - New Work, Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Tom Judd, Paintings and Drawings, The Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
1980 The Story of Egypt and Utah, Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2006 - Rivising Arcadia, The Landscape in Contemporary Art, Cornell Museum of Fine Art, Winter Park, FL
2003 - Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
- Dichotomy Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
- A&C Fine Art, Inc., East Greenwich, RI
- David Floria, Aspen, CO
- Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
- ADM Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2000 - Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
- Animals in Painting, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
1999 - Soma Gallery, LaJolla, CA
1998 - Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1997 - The Contemporary Landscape, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
1994 - Festival of Masks, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 - Landscape As Stage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Curated by Raphael Rubenstein)
1987 - Tom Judd and Maureen Ure, Gayle Weyher Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
1986 - Contemporary Artist's Screens, Traveling Exhibition (Curated by Virginia Butera)
- Contemporary Philadelphia Painting, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1985 - An Inside Place, The Noyes Gallery, Oceanville, NJ (Catalog with essay by Sid Sachs)
- Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Bathers, Coe Kerr, New York, NY
- Contemporary and Modern Painting, Coe Kerr, New York, NY
- Tom Judd and Don Colley Prints, Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 - Three Philadelphia Artists, Millersville State University, Millersville, PA
1981 - Invitational, Monique Knowlton, New York, NY
1979 - Contemporary Drawing: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Frank Goodyear and Ann Percy (catalog)

PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2001 - MacDowell Colony, fellowship for July
2000 - Pollock/Krasner Grant

CULTURAL PROJECTS:
2003 - Waterfront Marriott Hotel Commission, Seattle WA
1999 - History of the World Mural, City of Philadelphia PA
1997 - The Chalkboard Chronicles, TZ Art, New York NY
1996 - Lost Vacation Billboard, Philadelphia PA

PUBLIC APPEARANCES & LECTURES:
2003 - Lecturer, ADM Gallery, Philadelphia PA
- Guest Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia PA
2002 - Guest Lecturer, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia PA
- Guest Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
2001 - Keynote Speaker, "Beyond Survival" Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Lecture, Mainline Arts Center, Philadelphia PA

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2002 - West, Judy, Inquirer Magazine, "The Artist at Home"
1999 - Gallery reviews, The New Yorker Magazine
- Forsberg, Helen, The Salt Lake Tribune, "Humor, Yearning in Ex-Utah Judd's "Remnants"
1997 - Bell, J.B., Review Magazine, "The Contemporary Landscape"
- Hainer, Cathy, USA Today (LIFE Section), "Blackboard Chronicles"
1995 - Neff, Eileen, Artforum, "Tom Judd", December
1993 - Sozanski, Edward J., The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Fragmented Landscapes seen through the lens of memory"
1984 - Sozanski, Edward J., The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Tom Judd¹s Art: Odd World of Boats and Cacti"
1981 - Jarmusch, Ann, Art News, "If Vermeer were alive today would he be painting in Philadelphia?"
1980 - Stein, Judith, Portfolio Magazine, "Portrait of Philadelphia"
1979 - McFadden, Sarah, Art in America, "Report from Philadelphia"

COLLECTIONS:
David Douglas Duncan, Cannes, France
ARA Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Brookman, Rosenberg, Brown, and Sandler, Philadelphia, PA
Kraft Food Company
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Redding Pretzel Machine Corporation, PA
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
The Klein Group
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art