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. Judd 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.
Tom 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.
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