Tm Gratkowski

Tm’s education and early works are rooted in painting, drawing, and architecture his professional practice as an artist is based on using paper as his primary material to create collages, installations, and sculpture. Tm Gratkowski's artwork is a form of visual data gathering. He aligns the act of looking with that of reading by using paper, images, and text to create a critical visual narrative about the culture of information we live in today. His artwork is densely layered to construct a surface rich in patterns, images, text. Going beyond historical definitions, concepts, and contemporary art practices Tm pushes the boundaries beyond traditional collage as he beguiles everyday information by playing with image-as-text and text-as-image.

Tm Gratkowski’s work has been featured in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions Nationally and Internationally and his work can be found exhibited in most major art fairs throughout the US and Europe. Since moving his studio practice to LA. full-time in 2008 Tm has been exhibiting continuously and has produced several major gallery shows and museum exhibitions since. He is currently working on two upcoming solo museum exhibitions which will premier over the next couple years (2019-2021) ...

1996 SCI_Arc MA
1994 Hoschule fur Angewandte Kunst; Vienna Austria
1993 Sud Instituto de-Arquitectura/ SCI-Arc; Vico Morcote, Switzerland
1992 University of Wisconsin, BS
1991 University of Wisconsin, BA
1985 The School of the Art Institute Chicago

Solo Exhibitions
2016
Epithalia, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Nothing Shocking, Walter Maciel Gallery, A, CA
2013
Paper Now, White Space Gallery, Ogden, UT
2012
Accumulation, G.L. Gallery Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2011
Palimpsest, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2011
White Out, Blythe Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Paradigm Shift, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Scraps, LouWe Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007
Pattern Language and Paper Cuts, Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Museum Exhibitions
2018
Diversity & Inclusion, Ontario Museum of History & Art. Ontario CA
2016-17
Chapters, curated by Holly Jerger, Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), LA, CA
2015
Paperworks, curated by Howard Fox, Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), LA, CA
CA Sculpture Slam, SLOMA, San Louis Obispo, CA
2013
Documenta, juried by Jerry Saltz, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
El Paso Biennial, El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX
III Bienal Cuidad Juarez, Museo de Arte de Cuidad Jaurez
2012
Decorative Arts at the Worlds Fair, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KC, MO

Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
Diverted Destruc...