Education
1996 M.F.A., Hunter College, NY, NY
1979 B.F.A., Ramapo College, NJ
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Station/Decal/Survey, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City
2016 Tom McGlynn, Quotidien, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City
2014 Tom McGlynn: Geochromatic Index, dadabasenyc.com
2012 Very Much Like (Pictures of Nothing), paintings and sculptures, Hamilton Square, Jersey City
Tom McGlynn, Paintings and Sculpture, Hoffstetter Gallery, Pingry School, NJ
2009 Path Paintings and Drawings, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont
2008 Color Fields and Paths, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont
2007 Wonder (video installation), Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2004 Test Patterns: Paintings and Drawings, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
2001 Mural Installation, Art Resources Transfer, NY, NY
1999 New Paintings, Art Resources Transfer, NY, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Seltsame Kinder, curated by Hoger Stark, Maniere Noire, Berlin, Germany
Minimax, Bullet Space, NYC
P angrammar, curated by Prem Krishnamurthy, P! Gallery, NYC
For Machine Use Only, curated by Mohammad Salemy, Schneiderei, Vienna
2013 Paper Goods, curated by Kara Rooney, Susan Eley Fine Art, NYC
Out of Step, curated by Brendan Carroll, NJCU, NJ
2012 Extrapolations: The Influence of Tony Smith, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2011 Mob, Bullet Space, NYC
East of Fresno, The Hatchery Art Spaces, Badger, California
2009 Paterson: The City as Metaphor, William Paterson University, NJ
Kuf - Mold, Rotterdam, Holland
2008 Kuf - Mold, Jan Colle Galerie, Ghent, Belgium
Drawing Exhibit, Pingry School Gallery, Martinsville, NJ
2007 This is That, Pace University, NY, NY
Kuf - Mold, Istanbul, Turkey
Lateral Attitudes, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
2006 New Video JC, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2004 Drift, a Site Specific Installation, Red Hook, NY
The A/V Club, Art and Technology, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ
2003 Color Complexities, JP Morgan Chase and Newport Art, Jersey City, NJ
The Object: Color and Carrier, Kresge Gallery at Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
2002 Conversation, Tom McGlynn and Madeleine Hatz, Art Resources Transfer, NYC
2000 Alumni Redux One, Kresge Gallery at Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
1999 Skin Tight, The Work Space at Dolgenos Newman and Cronin, NY, NY
Fashioned, White Box Gallery, NY, NY
1998 Urban Encounters, The New Museum, NY, NY
1996 Counterculture: Alternative Information from The Underground Press to the Internet, Exit Art, NY, NY
Publications
2016 Plain Sight, catalogue essay for group show at Western Michigan University, for the NYPOP program of UMass Amherst
2015 Toward a Generic Aesthetics: A Non – Philosophy of Art, &&& Journal, The New Centre for Research and Practice, May 29
Driving to Amherst, catalogue essay for Nathaniel Leib, artist in residence at Amherst College 2014 - 15
2013 Following the Social, apexart catalogue with essay for “Memphis Social”, Memphis, TN
2010 Arcadia Now, catalogue for curated group show, Castleton State College, VT
2003 Lateral Thinking, Catalogue and Essay, Eileen Torpey exhibit, NY, NY
2002 Deluxe, Catalogue with Essay, “Surface Considerations”, Jersey City, NJ
1998 Unnatural Selection, Catalogue with contributing essay, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
Urban Encounters, Catalogue Essay, “The Memory of a Meeting Place”, The New Museum, NY, NY
1996 Mac Wells, Light into Being, Retrospective at Hunter College, Contributing essay, NY, NY
1997 After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Vol. II, Contributing essay, curated by Lilly Wei at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NY
Selected Published Critical Writings
2015 Frank Stella, The Clamor of Being, review of Whitney Retrospective, Brooklyn Rail, Dec - Jan
Olivier Mosset, Paintings, review of show at Koenig Clinton, NYC, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2015
2013 - 14 Neo Rauch, “At The Well”, Dec 2014, review of show at David Zwirner, NYC, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec - Jan
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, NY, NY, Big, Red and Shiny, April 2013
“Rituals of Rented Island” at The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec - Jan
“Sense and Unsensibility”, The Brooklyn Rail, March 20, 2013
“A Moveable Bachelor Party", review of “Dancing Around the Bride” exhibit at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2013
2012 “Mike Kelley: Laughing at Deadlines”, Artwrit, Winter Issue
“Wade Guyton OS at the Whitney Museum”, Artwrit, November
“Regarding Warhol”, Huffington Post Arts and Culture, Nov 12
2010 “Return of the Repossessed: ‘Haunted’ at the Whitney Museum”, Left Bank Art Blog
“When Attitude Becomes Immaterial, Urs Fischer at the New Museum”, Left Bank Art Blog
Curatorial Projects
2016 “Plain Sight”, Generic and minimally determined art, Western Michigan University presentation of UMass Amherst NYPOP curatorial invitational
2013 “Memphis Social”, a socially engaged project organized by Tom McGlynn for the Beautiful Fields curatorial collective. Winner of a 2013 apexart franchise grant
2012 “Arcadia Now” (Redux), curator of traveling show, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2011 “East of Fresno”, co-curator of on-site invitational exhibit, Badger, California
“Arcadia Now”, curated group show, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont
2007 “Lateral Attitudes”, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
1998 “Unnatural Selection”, Curator, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
Selected Biography
2014 “Tom McGlynn and the Asymptotes of Opticality”, catalogue essay, Mohammad Salemy. For Geochromatic Index on Dadabase.Com NYC
2013 “Silent Speech and Pulp Avowel”, catalogue essay, Kara Rooney, Paper Goods, catalogue, Susan Eley Fine Arts, NY, NY
2012 “Very Much Like (Pictures of Nothing)”, New Work by Tom McGlynn, Brendan Carroll, brendancarroll.wordpress.com
2007 Kuf - Mold, Catalogue, Istanbul, Turkey
Lateral Attitudes, Catalogue, (Editor with contributing essay), Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
2003 "The Program Has Been Interrupted", review, Color Complexities, Falkenstein, Michelle, The New York Times, February 9, 2003
2002 “Local History”, Alan Moore, Jim Cornwell, p 351, in Alternative Art New York, 1965 - 1985, edited by Julie Ault, University of Minnesota Press
1999 Fashioned, Catalogue, White Box Gallery, NY, NY
1998 "Abstract Painting, Though Not Entirely", review, Unnatural Selection, Schwabsky, Barry, The New York Times, October 25, 1998.
1996 Mixing Messages, Lupton, Ellen, National Design Museum and Princeton Architectural Press, pp. 18, 98 - 99.
Collections
The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
The Museum of Modern Art
