Tom Schmitt 5255 Collins Ave 8D Miami Beach FL 33140 305.867.5672
solo exhibitions
Container Gallery, Little Havana, Miami, 2011
Howard Scott Gallery, New York, 2008
Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL 2006
Miami Dade Community College, North Campus, Miami, FL 1997, catalog
Ransom Everglades School, Miami, FL, 1994
Southern Connecticut State Collage, New Haven, CT 1973
Calhoun College of Yale University, New Haven, CT 1972
Connecticut College, New London, CT, 1969
Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1967
Dickinson College, Carlysle, PA, 1966
University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, NE 1959
public collections
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Miami-Dade Public Library
United States Embassies Overseas Collection
Louisville Art Center, Louisville, KY
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
John Herron Art Musuem, Indianapolis, IN
American Life-WDAY Collection, Fargo, ND
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
selected private collections
Frank Williams, Boston, MA
Marty and Cristine Taplin, Miami, FL
Joseph and Sophia Washington, Bryn Mayr, PA
Karl-Otto and Judith Liebman, Branford, CT
Marilyn Schmitt, Los Angeles, CA
Frank and Allison Chapman, New Haven, CT
Melvin Woody, Lyme, CT
Susan Woody, Old Lyme, CT
Arnold and Pamela Lehman, Brooklyn, NY
Lee and Pamela Perry, Tucson, AR
David Smalley, New London, CT
Roland and Helen Kohen, Miami, FL
Norman Geske, Lincoln, NE
Sackner Archive, Miami, FL
Rafael Salazar, Miami, FL
Richard and Ruth Shack, Miami, FL
David Rockerfeller, Jr., New York, NY
selected exhibitions
Bridge Red, North Miami, 2012
Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach,2006, 2007
Taste & Tongues, Miralda Food and Cultura Museum, Miami, 2006
painting music: rhythm and movement in art, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (traveling exhibition 2006-2007)
Roots and Crown: UNL Printmakers; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 2004
Index Miami, World Art Edge Zone Gallery, Miami, FL, 2004, 2005
miamiartexchange.com (online)
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Fl, 2002, 2004
Fredrick Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, 1998, 2002
Ground Level, Miami Beach, FL, 1996
Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, FL
Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, FL, 2002
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Miami Art Center, Miami, FL, 1975
Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT, 1974
Connecticut College, New London, CT, 1969
University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, NE, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 1951
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 1959, 1960, 1962
Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1957, 1958, 1959
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 1954, 1967
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1957, 1958, 1961
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 1957
University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY, 1957
The Print Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 1957, 1958
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1951, 1956, 1957
Wichita Art Association Galleries, Wichita, KA, 1956, 1957
J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1958
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, PA, 1957
Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN, 1957, 1958
United States National Museum, Washington, DC, 1957, 1959
South Bend Art Association, South Bend, IN, 1958
Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1958
Fort Joseph Koons Gallery, Nashville, IN
John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, 1959
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1958
Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KA, 1960, 1961
Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 1961, 1962
Hastings College, Hastings, NE, 1961
City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1962
Bradley University, South Bend, IN, 1962
Purdue, University, Purdue, IN, 1964
United States Embassies Overseas Collection, 1956
Louisville Art Center, Louisville, KY, 1957, 1958
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1969
John Herron Art Musuem, Indianapolis, IN
American Life-WDAY Collection, Fargo, ND
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 1963
Tom Schmitt
Born 1929
1951B.F.A. University of Nebraska
1955Studied at Mexico City College
1957Fellowship, Yale-Norfolk Summer Art School
1958M.F.A. Indiana University
1958/64 Assistant to the Director, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Instructor, Art Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1963/64 Instructor, Art Department, Indiana University, Bloomington
1964/1967 Carlisle, Pennsylvania, committed to painting
1967 Consultant to the Director, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
1967/68 Special Assistant to the Director, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1968/69 Living and working in France, committed to painting
1969/72 Visiting lecturer, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
1972/81 Working with video as a creative medium
1975/80 Assistant Director, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, Florida
1980 to present Private conservator, Florida Conservation Studio, Miami
1975 to present Living and working in Miami and Miami Beach Florida
