Tom Bergin

Tom is from Detroit, Michigan, went to Cass Tech High School and graduated with a Commercial Art Degree and Wayne State University, were he earned a B.F.A. in Liberal Arts, Major in Art/Industrial Design.

He has worked at a point of purchase display co., an industrial design shop, and the Department of Justice before moving to Tucson, Arizona.

After working for the UofA as a graphic artist, he went on doing photography, graphic design, illustration and historic map making.

In 1996, Tom started painting in oil and doing oil monotypes on paper which continues to the present. He has been represented in the past by Jane Hamilton Fine Art in Tucson and Karin Newby Gallery in Tubac, Arizona. He has also sold through Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale. He has been a member of Tucson Artist Group since 1996 and done joint shows at the galleries above and many with the TAG group, including traveling shows and two international shows. He was a featured artist in Southwest Art Magazine and at Tohono Chul Gallery. He has participated in many their gallery shows and his works are in private collections and the Tucson Museum of Art. He maintains his website at www.tombergin.com.