About

Tom Schurr was born in a small town in the Black Forest, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio at fifteen months old, and then to New York at eleven, in the summer of 1967. He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and spent his first working years driving a cab around Manhattan, observing the city.

For more than five decades, his practice has moved between painting, photography, video, print processes and constructed objects.

He often works in series, returning to a single subject for years at a time: television images, urban landscapes, shifting light, material surfaces. Images are copied, rephotographed, layered, erased and reworked until something unforeseen appears.