Thomas Broadbent has exhibited nationally as well as internationally . Honors have included Art in Embassies purchase award ; The Pulse Prize (best solo booth installation) New York ; Pulse Projects: video installation.Miami, FL The National Museum of Wildlife Art purchase award. Thomas lives and works in Brooklyn,NY
Born: Miami, FL, USA
Education: Empire State College, New York, NY 1990-1993
School of Visual Art, New York, NY 1989-1990
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Galeria Casa Colon Merida, Mexico
2018 Frontroom Gallery “Macrocosm” New York, NY
Frontroom Gallery Pulse Miami solo booth Miami, FL
*Outdoor video installation “Rotating moon” Pulse projects
Frontroom Gallery “The roost” video installation New York, NY
2017 Frontroom Gallery ”Phylum” Manhattan, NY
2016 Frontroom Gallery Pulse NY solo booth New York, NY *Pulse Prize winner
2015 Frontroom Gallery ”Inertia” Brooklyn, NY
2014 Frontroom Gallery ”adaptation” Brooklyn, NY
2013 Voorkamer gallery “Temporal habitat” Lier, Belgium
2012 Aljira “A still life” Newark, NJ
2011 Frontroom Gallery ”Chronicle” Brooklyn, NY
Frontroom Gallery ”unwritten” Brooklyn, NY
Newark Arts Council "O Captain! my Captain!" installation 1 Washington park; Newark, NJ
2007 Visual Arts Center of New Jersey ‘Fashion foliage fatigues” Summit, NJ
2006 Frontroom Gallery "mediatation" Brooklyn, NY Bridge art fair, sculpture
Miami, FL Croxhapox Gallery, Gent, Belgium
2005 ”MELT“ Frontroom Gallery, installation, 2 person collaboration Brooklyn, NY
2004 Croxhapox Gallery, Gent, Belgium Jan Colle Gallery, Gent, Belgium 2004
2003 Beeld in park Brussels, Belgium, Voorkamer Gallery, Lier, Belgium
2000 Shores Space, Amsterdam, Holland
1999 Art Page Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1989 Voorkamer Gallery Lier, Belgium
1996 ”Executive Look“Window Project Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent,
1992 Gallery at 666, Empire State College New York,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 National Museum of Wildlife Art "Un Natural Selection Wildlife in Contemporary Art"
; catalogue. Jackson, Wyoming
2019 Frontroom Gallery “Part II, Figurative vs Abstract in Contemporary Art”
New York, NY
The Clemente- Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center
“Parameters” New York, NY
2018 Frontroom Gallery “Pattern in nature” New York, NY
Frontroom Gallery “Summer Sampler” New York, NY
2017 National Museum of Wildlife Art “Western Visions” Jackson, WY
Frontroom Gallery “Summer Sampler” New York, NY
2016 National Museum of Wildlife Art “Blacktail Gala” Purchase award (acquisition for permanent collection) Jackson, WY
Frontroom Gallery group show New York, NY
Children's Museum of Art “Mission to space” New York, NY
Voorkamer Gallery “The last show”Lier, Belgium
Salomon Arts Gallery “Art Cosmos” New York, NY
2015 Frontroom Gallery “summer sampler” New York, NY
eyewash@ Schema Projects “Paper Jam” Brooklyn, NY
2014 Frontroom Gallery “summer exhibition” New York, NY
2013 Cutlog/Frontroom New York, NY
Bravin Lee Programs “100 Little Deaths” New York, NY
2012 Frontroom Gallery “Space of mind” Brooklyn, NY
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey “Biblomania” Summit, NJ
“Summer Sampler” Frontroom Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Les Brasseurs; Liege, Belgium-catalog
Rupert Ravens contemporary, “Circus” Newark, NJ
2010 Aqua Miami: eyewash projects; Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
Inspace gallery “Pattern Recognition” Beijing, China
Frontroom Gallery “state of mind” works on paper, New York, NY
Without Walls “LOL” Newark, NJ
Mount Airey Contemporary Art Space, Philadelphia, PA
Rupert Ravens contemporary, “Circus” Newark, NJ
Voorkamer Gallery, “121/2 Anniversary” Basel, Switzerland
2009 Frontroom Gallery’s 10thAnniversary Exhibition New York, NY;
HAZ Istanbul, Turkey; Kuf Mold Rotterdam, Holland; N7 Governors Island, New York, NY
2008 INSITE Governors Island New York, NY
Supermarket 08 Stockholm, Sweden
Rupert Ravens Gallery, Newark, NJ
Side show gallery, New York, NY
KUF-MOLD Gent, Belgium
“Art Walking” Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY
2007 Rupert Ravens contemporary, “Sanctuary” Newark, NJ
Pierro Gallery, Singularity in the Communal Tide South Orange, NJ
KUF-MOLD Grand Bazzar , Istanbul, Turkey
Victory Arts Projects “Fish out of Land” Jersey City, NJ
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2006 The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Show “Inside out ” Woodstock, NY Newark Between Us exhibition ,Newark, NJ
eyewash, “BIG STUFF ” Brooklyn, NY
Side Show Gallery War no War Brooklyn, NY
Croxhapox Gallery , Basics 3 Ghent, Belgium
Voorkamer Gallery Holy Ghost 2 Lier , Belgium
2005 Facing Newark-Installation Exhibition, Newark, NJ
Frontroom Gallery, Summer show Brooklyn, NY
2004 Croxhapox Gallery, “Basics 2 ” Gent, Belgium
Skylight Gallery, Project diversity Brooklyn, NY
2003 Beeld in park, Brussels Belgium catalog
University of Maryland, “Mapping” Washington, DC catalog
Front Room Gallery, “subasement ” Brooklyn, New York
2002 eyewash Window, installation
Voorkamer Gallery, “Mapping the Vicinity ”Curator Lier, Belgium
eyewash, “Window Shopping ” Brooklyn, New York
eyewash, “Touchy Feely ” Brooklyn, New York
2001 Project Space, “Artists @ project ” Toronto, Canada
2000 Voorkamer Gallery, Lier, Belgium
Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
1999 Brooklyn Museum of Art, “Art for Park ” Brooklyn, New York
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Among Others: “simul/T ” by Peter Morrens, Jerome Noettinger,
Lionel Marchetti, Thomas Broadbent, Rik de Boe, Mike Ballou Vienna, Austria
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AWARDS/PRIZES/RESIDENCIES
2017 Acquisition; Art in Embassies Moscow, Russia
2016 Acquisition; 2016 National Museum of Wildlife Art Purchase award (acquisition for permanent collection) Jackson, WY
2016 Wassaic Project; Artist Residency /Print Edition Program and acquisition Wassaic, NY
2016 Pulse Prize New York, NY
2013 Voorkamer gallery Artist residency and solo exhibition Antwerp, Belgium
2017 Fine Art Connoisseur magazine “Three to watch” Photo
2017 Call of the wild magazine; Photo National Museum of Wildlife Art
2014 Catalogue: Frontroom Gallery
Catalogue: Bibliomania; Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Summit, NJ
Catalogue: Les Brasseurs; Liege, Belgium
2010 Catalogue: Pattern Recognition, Inspace Gallery, Bejing, China
Catalogue: Voorkamer Gallery Lier, Belgium 10 + 2 1/2 years Voorkamer
New York Times 11/17/16 “David Bowie and Other Artists Lead Children on a Galactic Adventure” Laurel Graeber ;photo
Time Out “Mission to Space” 12/25/16 ;photo
Artnet 3/5/16 “Thomas Broadbent Wins 2016 PULSE Prize for Out-of-This-World Artwork” ; photos
Hamptons Art Hub Brooklyn Artist Thomas Broadbent Wins Pulse Prize”
Bruce’s World Pulse Art Fair Bruce Alexander ;photos
WUM Art Journal 2016 Pulse Prize: Thomas Broadbent Jesus Manuel Rojas Torres ;photos
South Brooklyn Network 12/24/16 Thomas Broadbent “Inertia” ;photo
Hyperallergic 3/3/16 Galleries Allison Meier; photo
Clocktower Radio; 1/9/15 Video interview host Danial Durning New York, NY
Interview Video James Kalm 11/9/13 New York, NY
Channel 9 TV 6/10/13 interview, Antwerp, Belgium
The Star Ledger 5/17/12 “trading in sculpture for watercolors” ; Photo; Dan Bischoff
The Star Ledger 11/15/11 “Tome time” ; Photo; Dan Bischoff
New York Times 11/13/11 Calander; photo.
NY ARTS Annual Guide 2009: “Beyond the shore” Max Blagg Photo;
NY ARTS July/August 2008 ; James Kalm
2007: New York Times Sunday Calander 10/21; Photo
2003 Washington Post October 23, “Avant-Garde Mapping of Campus”
May 22, 2003 Sara Gerhardt;De morgan “Hapklare kunst in het park”
May 22, 2002 Luk Lambrecht photo; De morgan Luk Lambrecht-Review; photo
2002 NY ARTS July/August “Yankee Vs Existentialists Window Shopping, and
Paris-Williamsburg Transfer; James Kalm
Watercolor provides a spontaneous medium for which I am comfortable working. My fascination with birds and other animals provide an essential narrative in my work. I like to think that the animals or natural objects that inhabit my paintings are completely heedless to the all important creations of humankind. In some works they are able to magically reuse, adapt or manipulate the materials humans may have discarded or left behind.
We create our own meaning as to our place in the world in the form of art, literature (books), architecture, and technology… but nature and the greater universe is uncaring and wild. Seen or unseen humanity is bound by natural laws . We are part of this planet and are destined to live by the laws of the greater universe. We just need to fearlessly take it in with respect and awe.