Born London, UK, 1979

Lives Portland, ME & London, UK


EDUCATION
MFA, Sculpture - Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK, 2005-2007
BA Fine Art, Sculpture - Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, UK 2002-2005
BA History of Art and Design - Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, UK, 1997-2000

TEACHING

2016-current, Bowdoin College, Visiting Critic, ME, USA

2018 University Centre Farnborough, Visiting Lecturer, UK

2016 Maine College of Art, Visiting Lecturer, ME, USA

2011-2013 The Community Schools at Opportunity Farm and Camden, Art Director and Art Teacher, ME, USA

2010-2011 The Community School, Art Teacher and assistant to lead teacher, ME, USA

2010 Maine Media Workshops, teaching assistant to John Isaac and Sean Harris, ME, USA

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 Josefina Auslender & Tom Butler, SARAH BOUCHARD GALLERY, ME, USA

2022 Don't Show This to Anybody, SARAH BOUCHARD GALLERY, ME, USA

2022 Hosts, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK

2019 Pencils of Nature, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, UK

2019 Ensemble, The Eye Sees, Les Rencontre d'Arles, France

2018 Ensemble, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK

2017 Divided Self, Print Sales Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
2016 The Hidden, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME, USA

2015 Inhabitants: Parts 1 & 2, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK & VOLTA NY, USA
2014 ONE HUNDRED MISFITS, FIFTY ONE TOO, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Inner Worlds, Aucosisco Galleries, Portland, ME. USA
2013 Absentees, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK
2012 Curio, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK
2011 Aedas Presents: Tom Butler, Aedas Architects, Birmingham, UK
2011 The Grotesques, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, USA
2010 “I don’t know when I’ll be home…” Exeter Phoenix, Devon, UK
2009 Co_respondence, Madame Lillies, London, UK

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

The More the Merrier, GRANT WAHLQUIST GALLERY, ME, USA

Now, Magnum Square Print Sale, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

A Gathering of Aces, SARAH BOUCHARD GALLERY, ME, USA

2021

London Art Fair, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK

2020

Summer Exhibition, Print Sales, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

PHOTO LA, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON

PROJECT PAPYROPHILIA, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON

2019

Image, Messums Wiltshire, UK

FLUX III, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME

Thresholds VOLTA Basel, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, Switzerland

FLUX, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells, ME

Quirk, Kathryn Markell Gallery, NYC

ABOUT LOVE, 28 Vignon Street

2018

RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, UK

Photo London 2018, The Photographers’ Gallery, Somerset House, London, UK

Drawing Now Paris 2018, Galerie Heike Strelow, Paris, France

FaceValue2, Jealous East, London

Context: Gallery Artists & Collaborators, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK

2017

Black Mirror: Magic in Art, The Gallery at AUB, UK

Mirror Mirror, Foley Gallery, NYC

In Memoriam - Francesca Lowe, Truman Brewery, London

Unseen Amsterdam, The Photographers' Gallery, The Netherlands

Positions Berlin, Galerie Heike Strelow, Berlin, Germany

Art of the Postcard, Handel Street Projects, London, UK

ANALOG V. DIGITAL, Foley Gallery, NYC

Par VoiX Postale, Museé de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

The Collective, The House of St Barnabas, London, UK

"I was here", Belfast Photo Festival, 2017, Belfast, Ireland

Photo London 2017, The Photographers’ Gallery, Somerset House, London, UK

Creekside Open 2017, selected by Jordan Baseman, APT, London, UK

Seventeen, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Belgium

AIPAD, The Photographers' Gallery, Pier 94, NYC

Drawing Now Paris 2017, Galerie Heike Strelow, Paris, France

London Art Fair 2017, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK

2016

Paper Works II, Galerie Martin Mertins, Berlin, Germany

Paris Photo 2016, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Recent Acquisitions, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME, USA

Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie Heike Strelow, The Netherlands

Install 8, Corey Daniels Gallery, Wells ME, USA

The New Figurative, VOLTA12, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, Basel, Switzerland

Double to Erase, curated by Michael Valinsky and Gabrielle Jensen, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC, USA

Black Paintings, London Art Fair, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK

2015

Paris Photo 2015, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Pairings: Selections from Bruce Brown's Photography Collection, CMCA and Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME

Show #28: Impossible Geometries, curated by Lauren Haynes, Field Projects, NYC, USA

WISH YOU WERE HERE? Artists’ postcards from Jeremy Cooper's Collection, Hestercombe Gallery, UK

Das Unheimliche, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK
THE WALL, Kit and Ace, The Space Shoreditch, London
VOLTA11, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, Basel, Switzerland
Metamorphosis, Queen Street Studios, Belfast, Ireland
The Pistil's Waltz, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Belgium
Photo London, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Somerset House, London, UK
WISH YOU WERE HERE? Artists’ postcards from Jeremy Cooper's Collection, MAC Birmingham, UK
Art Brussels 2015, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Belgium
AIPAD 2015, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Park Avenue Armory NYC , USA
RCA Secret, Art Dubai & Royal College of Art, UK
Die English Kommen! – New Painting from London, Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt, Germany
London Art Fair, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK
2014
Idolatry, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK
Re-unpacking, Curated by Andrew Bracey, Nottingham Castle, UK
Paris Photo 2014, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Grand Palais, Paris, France
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT 2014, Victoria House London, UK
SCRATCH IT, STITCH IT, CUT IT, KEEP IT, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
Unseen Amsterdam, GALLERY FIFTY ONE I The Photographers' Gallery, The Netherlands
Merge, Castell Photography, Asheville, NC, USA
WISH YOU WERE HERE? Artists’ postcards from Jeremy Cooper's Collection, The Atkinson, Southport, UK
Summer Salon 2014, Aucosisco Galleries, Portland, ME. USA
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014, RA, UK
VOLTA10, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, Basel, Switzerland
Regeneration, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
Art Brussels 2014, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Belgium
AIPAD 2014, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Park Avenue Armory, NYC, USA
Oneself as Another, BoLee Gallery, London, RWA, UK
Historology, London Art Fair, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK
2013
Paris Photo 2013, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Grand Palais, Paris, France
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT 2013, Victoria House London, UK
Nervous Energy, Tom Butler and Kate Russo, Engine, Biddeford ME, USA
Zeitgeist Open 2013, ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London, UK
The Masks We Wear, Arteco Gallery, London
VOX IX Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Tom Butler, Scott Moore, Kathryn Osgood, New Era Gallery, Vinalhaven, ME, USA
Das Unheimliche, VOLTA09, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, Basel, Switzerland
Photo & Print Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK, selected by John Stezaker
Discernible, ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London, UK
2012
Zeitgeist Open 2012, ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London, UK
La Petite Muerte, Drawers Gallery, London, UK
THE FUTURE CAN WAIT 2012, Victoria House London, UK
CMCA Biennial, Centre for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, USA
ANTHOLOGY 2012, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, UK
ZAP Launch Exhibition: Collectible, ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London, UK
2011
Extra-Ordinary: Marion Michell, Tom Butler and Alyson Helyer, Core Gallery, London
artWorks Open 2011, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London, UK
Photomedia (Winner), Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK. Selected by Geoff Dyer
Postcards From Paris, Minnie Weisz Studio & Trove Gallery, curated by Charlie Levine, London, UK
2010
Small Works: Gallery Artists, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, USA
Tom Butler and Kate Russo, The Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth, Devon, UK
ArtSway Open 2010, Hampshire, UK
Deptford X Core Gallery Open, Core Gallery, London, (Prize Winner), UK
I Am Solitary I Am An Army, Beers Lambert, UK
Ludlow Summer Exhibition 2010, Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
artWorks Open 2010, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London
Citizen, tactileBOSCH Gallery and Studios, Cardiff, Wales
Worcester Open 2010 (Selected Artist), Worcester Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester, UK 
Things Have Changed, Birdwood House Gallery Totnes, Devon, UK
2009
CUBE09, Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester,UK
RWA Open 2009, Royal West Of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Salisbury Open 2009, Salisbury Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
Ludlow Summer Exhibition 2009, Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
2008
Salon 08, Vine Space, London, UK
Alpha, Lewisham Art House, London, UK
2007
MFA Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2005
BA Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK


ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2024 Spruceton Inn, Catskills, NY, USA

2021 Canterbury Shaker Village, NH, USA


COLLECTIONS
The British Museum, Soho House, Quintessentailly, The Caldic Collection, The Netherlands, SØR Rusche Collection, University of Maine, Museum of Art, United States, Bates Museum of Art, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME, United States & private collections in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, UK & USA


PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES

Portland Press Herald

Two Coats of Paint

The Guardian

Le Monde

Portland Press Herald

The Times Record

Musée Magazine

GOTH - Designing Darkness

GUP #67 - PERFORMANCE

House & Garden

Maine Arts Journal

The Jealous Curator

Aesthetica

Aesthetica Future Now

MysteryTribune

ArtMaze Magazine Issue 9

iGNANT

Don't Take Pictures

PLAIN Magazine

GUP Magazine

Black Mirror: Magic in Art by Willem de Bruin

Beg Steal & Borrow by Robert Shore

LensCulture

Black Mirror 1

Double or Nothing

Phoebe V. Bradford
Artlyst
Amelia's Magazine
Elephant #21

Financial Times, 'Regeneration' by Jackie Wullschlager​

AnOther Magazine
The Altered Cabinet Card
New American Paintings, No. 110
SuperMassiveBlackHole, Issue 13
Bangor Daily News
Maine Home and Design
Marmite Painting Prize Catalogue, 2010

WHITEHOT Magazine

Agency of Unrealised Projects


INTERVIEWS & PRESENTATIONS

2022 The Photo Detective Podcast

2018 Elephant Magazine

2017 The Photographers' Gallery

2016 'A History of the Hidden', OMAA, ME, USA
2015 F22/STATE Magazine
2015 ArtLyst
2012 Who Do You Love? CMCA, Maine, USA
2012 PechaKucha, Camden Amphitheatre, ME, USA
2011 Core Gallery


VIDEO LINKS
Inhabitants, Part 2: Volta NY, presentation by Zavier Ellis
Concealment, Barriers & Masks: The Photographers' Gallery, London
Curio: Charlie Dutton Gallery, London