Thomas Zummer

Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:

• Tyler School of Art, Artist

Bio:

• ISEA2011

  Thomas Zum­mer, is an artist and lec­turer at the Tyler School of Art (US) and a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor in crit­i­cal stud­ies in the Trans­me­dia Pro­gramme at the Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brus­sels (B), as well as vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at the Eu­ro­pean Grad­u­ate School in Saas-Fee (CH). Thomas Zum­mer is an in­ter­na­tion­ally aclaimed in­de­pen­dent scholar and writer, as well as being an artist and cu­ra­tor. As an artist he has ex­hib­ited in­ter­na­tion­ally since 1976, in­clud­ing at Exit Art, Thread Wax­ing Space, and The Dia Foun­da­tion in New York City as well as at the CAPC in Bor­deaux and Wig­more Hall in Lon­don. With his wife, they have had a long col­lab­o­ra­tion as well with The Wooster Group, act­ing in many of their per­for­mances. Most re­cently, Zum­mer was artist in res­i­dence at the hau­den­schildGarage in La Jolla, Cal­i­for­nia. In 1995 Thomas Zum­mer won 5th Prize in the ACA/CODA Ar­chi­tec­tural De­sign Com­pe­ti­tion for the City of At­lanta for the 1996 Olympics.