Tom Otterness
Artist in Residence
Tom Otterness is one of the most prolific sculptors living in the US today; his work is in major international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and MONA and has created over fifty private and public commissions internationally, including Germany, Holland, Qatar, South Korea, Canada and the US. Tom Otterness was born in Wichita, Kansas and moved to New York City in the early ‘70’s. He studied at the Arts Students League and Whitney Independent Study Program and was a founding member of artist movement Collaborative Projects with a leading role in organizing Colab’s ground-changing 1980 Times Square Show. He subsequently joined Brooke Alexander Gallery in 1983, during which the Museum of Modern Art acquired several sculptures, including his large bronze Head. In 1992 New York opened Battery Park with the Otterness sculpture playground “The Real World” and in 2005 the MTA opened Otterness’ Life Underground sculpture installation on the A line at 14th Street subway, near the Whitney Museum and designed the “Humpty Dumpty” balloon for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Tom has designed several sculpture parks for US Federal Plazas as well as creating new sculpture parks for private clients internationally.
