Born: 1971, Farmington, Missouri
Lives: ST. Louis, Missouri

 

EDUCATION

  • 1994
  • M.F.A. Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Printmaking
  • 1993
  • B.F.A. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Drawing

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2009
  • The Transformation of Brandy Baghead & Other Evil Delights, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
  • 2007
  • The Bloody Bucket, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  • Two Weeks in August and The Bloody Bucket, Daum Art Museum, Sedalia, MO
  • The Bloody Bucket, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  • 2005
  • The Bloody Bucket and Other Work, David Krut Art Projects, New York, NY
  • The Bloody Bucket, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Freaky Fables from the Foothills, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS
  • Prints by Tom Huck, Mcneese State University, Lake Charles, LA
  • 2004
  • Obsessive Masters, Marguerite Ostricher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
  • 2003
  • 14 Rural Absurdities, Grinnell College Art Museum, Grinnell, IA
  • Woodcuts by Tom Huck, Big Cat Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2002
  • Tom Huck Recent Work, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
  • 2001
  • Woodcuts by Tom Huck, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Gouging Tradition, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop/Gallery, Austin, TX
  • The Rural Absurdities of Tom Huck, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • Woodcuts by Tom Huck, Elias Fine Art, Boston, MA
  • Woodcuts by Tom Huck, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
  • 2 Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities, Merwin and Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University,  Bloomington, IL
  • The Woodcuts of Thomas Huck, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX
  • 2000
  • Woodcuts by Tom Huck, Landfall Press Gallery/Villani Editions, New York, NY
  • Thomas Huck: 2 Weeks in August, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  • The Woodcuts of Thomas Huck, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
  • Fourteen Really Big Woodcuts by Tom Huck, Gallery V and Associates, Kansas City, MO
  • 1999
  • Thomas Huck Woodcuts, Forest Park Community College Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  • 14 Rural Absurdities by Tom Huck, Rockhurst Center for the Arts and Letters, Massman Gallery, Kansas City, MO
  • 1997
  • 2 Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities, Stephens Museum, Central Methodist College, Fayette, MO

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2008
  • Ready, Set, Go! Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
  • 2007
  • Political and Poetical-14th Tallin Print Triennial, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
  • Devils and Beasts, The Art Center, Highland Park IL
  • Americana, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  • Ample Proof, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
  • New Prints, International Print Center, New  York, NY
  • Printmatters, 5IVE & Forty Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
  • 2006
  • New Prints 2000-2006: A Benefit Exhibition, International Print Center, New York, NY
  • Social Commentary In Black and White, Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO
  • Contemporary Masterworks, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • 2005
  • Big Rock Candy Mountain, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle WA
  • Chopmark II, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
  • Italian and American Prints, Italian Cultural Institute, Washington, DC
  • The Art Of Blab!, Luzerme, Switzerland
  • Anthropology in Print, UTA Art Gallery, University of Texas- Arlington
  • Weirdo Deluxe,(traveling exhibition to venues in Key west, FL, New Orleans LA, and Los Angeles CA)
  • 2004
  • Artists Interrogate: Politics and War, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • IV International Trienniale of Gravure, Evora, Portugal
  • The Krampus and Christmas, Copro Nason Gallery, Culver City, CA
  • Summer Show, The Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
  • Outlaws of American Prints, Big Cat Gallery, New York, NY
  • Recent Acquisitions, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN
  • Graphic Diversity: 500 Years of Printmaking, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia
  • American Woodcuts Today, University Place Art Center, Lincoln NE
  • Preview/Benefit Exhibition, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
  • 2003
  • On Being Human, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • Woodcuts, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
  • Politics as Usual, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Prints in Process, Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL
  • Holiday Show, Big Cat Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2002
  • New Prints 2002/Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY
  • Big and Beautiful/Process in Printmaking, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, MO
  • Landfall Press: Recent Prints, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  • Sum of the Parts, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  • 3rd International Print Triennial, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN
  • Landfall Press Editions, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
  • Americana, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • American Prints, Georgia State University, Macon, GA
  • Rituals, Detroit Artists’ Market, Detroit, MI
  • 2001
  • Ink, Paper, and Wood, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • Black and White, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
  • New Editions, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
  • 2000
  • Midlands Invitational, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
  • Contemporary Impressions, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
  • Unusual Story Tellers, University of Windsor Gallery of Art, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
  • Recent Gifts to the Collections, Ashby/Hodge Gallery of American Art, Central Methodist College,>Fayette, MO
  • Frogman’s Press and Paper Workshop Faculty Exhibition, University of South Dakota Art Gallery,Vermillion, SD
  • SLOP art catalogue/exhibition, Kansas City, MO
  • 1999
  • From Kandinsky to Corneille-Linoleum in 20th Century Art, Cobra Museum of Modern Art,
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Durer’s Echo: Five Centuries of Influence, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Lawrence, KS
  • Figuring the Human in 20th Century Art, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri Columbia, MO
  • Three Suites: Huck, Novone, Subtler, Mulvane Museum of Art, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
  • Another View: Seleceted Works from Contemporary American Printmakers, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
  • Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s 15th National Exhibition, Lamar Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, CA
  • Reading Blake: A Portfolio of Prints, The Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerville, NJ
  • From the Pumphouse Gallery, Pumphouse Regional Arts Center, LaCrosse, WI
  • 1998
  • 27th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
  • Contemporary American Prints, Ball State University Art Museum, Muncie, IN
  • The Murder Portfolio, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
  • Printmakers ’98, Pittsbergh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst National Juried Print Invitational, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA
  • Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
  • Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
  • In Relief, Hastings College, Hastings, NE (Exhibition travels to University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Museum of Art, Omaha, NE)
  • The Printmaking Council of New Jersey’s 24th Annual Juried Member’s Exhibition, Somerville, NJ
  • 15th National University of Dallas Print Invitational, Haggar University Gallery, Irving, TX
  • 1997
  • Pervasive Impressions: Contemporary Political Prints, The Center for Research in Contemporary
  • Art, University of Texas-Arlington, TX
  • Pressed and Pulled VI, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA
  • The Print Show, A.C.T. Gallery, Detroit, MI
  • Conversations in Black and White, Legacy Art and Bookworks, Columbia, MO
  • The 3rd Annual Contemporary American Printmaker’s Renaissance Exhibition, The Rolling Stone Press, Atlanta, GA
  • The Democratic Print (CD-ROM interactive installation version of the exhibit), Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, OH
  • 1996
  • The Really Big Kitsch Show, St. Louis Design Center, St. Louis, MO
  • 1995
  • On and Off the Bed: An Exhibition of Washington University in St. Louis Printmakers, Pierce Arrow Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  • 1994
  • 38 Hands, Pierce Arrow Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  • 1993
  • The B Movement, Vergette Gallery, Carbondale, IL

 

AWARDS/HONORS/COMMISSIONS

  • 2004
  • BLAB! Vol. 15, Fantagraphics Book, Seattle, WA, Monte Beauchamp, ed.
  • 2003
  • Blab! Vol. 14, Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, WA, Monte Beauchamp, ed.
  • 2002
  • MCA Records, album cover design/artwork, The Roots—Phrenology
  • 2001
  • Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Print Society Commission, Kansas City, MO
  • 1999
  • Linoleum cut commission, American representative in the exhibition From Kandinsky to Corneille,
  • Linoleum in 20th Century Art, Sponsored by Stichting, Onderneming and Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Jurors Award, Contemporary Impressions, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
  • 2000
  • Artist in residence, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
  • Woodcut commission, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
  • LAPS Foundation Award for the collection of the Grunewald Center for the Graphic Arts, Armandhammer Museum
  • Q-Tech Corporation Purchase Award, LAPS 15th National
  • 1998
  • Van Zante Visiting Professorship in the Visual Arts, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
  • Juror’s Award, Printmakers ’98, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Best of show, Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Clemson, SC
  • Juror’s Award, Printmaking Council of New Jersey’s 24th Annual Member’s Exhibition, Somerville, NJ
  • 1997
  • Purchase Award, 15th University of Dallas Print Invitational, Irving, TX
  • 1994
  • Best of show, 1st Annual People’s Choice Award Exhibition, Southern Illinois University Museum,
  • Carbondale, IL

 

LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST / WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES

  • 2007
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  • Missouri Western University, St. Joseph, MO
  • Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
  • Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH
  • Metropolitan State College, Denver CO
  • Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2006
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA
  • 2005
  • McNeese State University, Lafayette, LA
  • University City High School-COCA, University City, MO
  • Community School, Ladue, MO
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • 2004
  • University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  • University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
  • 2003
  • Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI
  • Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
  • Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
  • 2002
  • Artist in Residence, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  • Murray State University, Murray, KY
  • California State University, Long Beach, CA
  • Lawrence Lithography Workshop, Lawrence, KS
  • 2001
  • University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX
  • Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
  • Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
  • 1999
  • Woodcut Workshop, Frogman’s Press, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
  • Guest Lecturer, Mulvane Museum of Art, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
  • Guest Lecturer, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
  • 1998
  • Visitor in the Arts, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
  • Guest Lecturer, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
  • Fick/Huck Relief Print Marathon, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
  • Visiting Artist, The Art Institute of Chicago, Printmaking Area
  • Visiting Artist, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
  • Relief Printmaking Workshop, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
  • Guest Lecturer, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
  • Visiting Artist, Sutton-Hoo Press, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, WI
  • Visiting Artist, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  • 1997
  • Visiting Artist, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
  • Guest Lecturer, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, MO
  • Guest Lecturer, University of Missouri-Columbia Art Appreciation Sections, MO
  • 1995
  • Visiting Artist, Jefferson Community College, Hillsboro, MO

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • 2006
  • Bonetti, David, “Blood Work: Tom Huck Draws a Bloody Bucket”, Get Out, St. Louis Post Dispatch, January  5
  • Bonetti,  David,  “Making the Cut”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 19
  • Friswold, Paul, “Bloody Art!”, Riverfront Times, January 5
  • 2005
  • Johnson, Ken, “Tom Huck: The Bloody Bucket Series”, New York Times, October 7
  • North, Bill, “Freaky Fables From the Foothills, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
  • Publications, Manhattan, KS (exhibition catalogue)
  • Camper, Fred, “Tales From the Bloody Bucket”,  Chicago Reader, March 11
  • Lieber, Katherine, “Tom Huck: The Bloody Bucket”, Art Espresso, Artscope.net (Chicago, IL)
  • Finch, Liberty, “Tom Huck at Rogue Buddha Gallery”, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN Oct. 13
  • Wojahn, Mark, “Beautiful Monsters, Chris Mars “Subderma” and Tom Huck’s
  • “Bloody Bucket”, Oct. 30, MNARTISTS.org (Minneapolis, MN)
  • Kurtz, Katie, “Reaching for the Light: Bothered and Bizzare Figurative  Art,  The Stranger, Seattle, WA July
  • 2004
  • MacCash, Doug, “Dark Humor makes Huck a print world star”, The Times Picayune, February 27 (New Orleans LA)
  • Bookhardt,  D. Eeric, “American Gothic”, Gambit Weekly, January 20 (New Orleans, LA)
  • 2002
  • Kushner, Marilyn, “The Lure of Diversity: New Prints 2002 Autumn Essay”, International Print Center New York, (exhibition essay)
  • 2001
  • Hirsch, Faye, “Gouging Tradition: The Woodcuts of Tom Huck,” Art on Paper, July/August
  • Ralli, Tania, “American Gothics: A Tour of Tom Huck’s Gallery of Grotesques,” Chicago Journal, November 15
  • Stein, Lisa, “Tom Huck’s woodcuts,” Chicago Tribune, November 23
  • Duffy, Robert, “Ink, Paper, Wood,” St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • 2000
  • Temin, Christine, “Huck Mines Hometown Lore in Otherworldly Woodcuts,” The Boston Globe, Living Arts, November 8
  • Harris, Dwayne, “Art Offers Skewed Glimpse of Missouri Town,” The Wichitan, September 20, p.5
  • Sweeten-Schults, Lana, “Freaky Fables,” Times Record News, September 22, p.3
  • Mcnally, Molly, “Illustrating the Inner and Outer Experiences,” The Reader, June 7, p.37
  • Wolgamutt, L. Kent, “Paper Works,” Lincoln Sunday Journal Star, June 18, p. 16h
  • Hay, Chris, “Paper World,” Omaha Weekly, May 18, p.3
  • Hemelrijk, Liesbeth, “From Kandinsky to Corneille: Linoleum in the Art of the 20th Century,”
  • Grapheion, Number 13, issue 1, Kunst and Antiek Revue, January/February
  • Goddard, Steve, “Durer’s Echo: Five Centuries of Influence,” Explore, Vol. 1, No. 2 (E-zine),
  • Spring, University of Kansas-Lawrence Center for Research, Inc.
  • Bostick, Alan, “3 Artists Shine at 3 Galleries,” The Tennessean, Arts and Entertainment, March 5
  • Working Proof, “The Hog Scalders,” Art on Paper, March-April 2000, p. 68
  • 1999
  • Van De Velde, Paola, “Linoleum Huisvlijt Onstegen,” De Telegraph, December 24 (T15)
  • Tysh, George, “Primeval Dead,” Detroit Metro Times, June, p. 6
  • Thornson, Alice, “Woodcut artist crafts twisted images of rural life,” Kansas City Star, Arts Preview
  • 1998
  • Student Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking, CD-ROM published by the Printmaking Department at Ohio University, Athens, OH
  • “Better Late Than Never,” The Riverfront Times, p. 20
  • Barton, Drew, “Printmaking in Potosi,” The Columbia Missourian, June 28, p. 4A
  • Schroeder, Ivy, “The Year in Art,” The Riverfront Times, December-January, p. 21
  • 1997
  • “Douglas Dowd/ Thomas Huck,” Contemporary Impressions, The Journal of the American Print Alliance, Spring Issue, p. 12-15
  • Austin, John, “Right Between the Eyes,” Arlington Star Telegram, p. 1-2
  • The Democratic Print: A National and Historical Survey of Contemporary Relief Prints, CD-ROM
  • published by Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH

 

COLLECTIONS

  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • New York Public Library, New York, NY
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  • St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
  • Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
  • Mary Leigh and Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  • Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  • Armandhammer Museum, Grunewald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
  • Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas-Lawrence, KS
  • School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  • Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
  • Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  • Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO
  • Ulrich Art Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
  • Topeka Public Library, Topeka, KS
  • Western Michigan University, MI
  • Kresge Art Museum, Western Michigan University, MI
  • Belger Foundation, Kansas City KS
  • Purdue University, IN
  • Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
  • Stadtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissengen, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Mulvane Museum of Art, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
  • Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
  • University of Iowa Special Collections, Iowa City, IA
  • Kansas City Art Insitute, Kansas City, MO
  • Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL
  • Ashby/Hodge Gallery of American Art, Central Methodist College, Fayette, MO
  • St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
  • Q-Tech Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
  • Olin Library Special Collections, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
  • Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Student Center, Carbondale, IL
  • The Print Club of Albany, Albany, NY
  • The University of Dallas, Irving, TX
  • Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN
  • Forbo/Krommenie, Amstelveen, Netherlands
  • Mills College, Oakland, CA
  • Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
  • Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
  • University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, WI
  • University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse Special Collections, WI
  • Ellis Library Special Collections, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
  • University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
  • Oberlin College Special Collections, OH

 

TEACHING

  • 1994-1996
  • Instructor, Jefferson College, Hillsboro, MO
  • 1996-1999
  • Instructor, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
  • 1999-present
  • Senior Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

 

PRINT PUBLISHING, RESIDENCIES, AND AFFILIATIONS

  • Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
  • Lawrence Lithography Workshop, Kansas City, KS
  • Slugfest Printmaking Workshop, Austin, TX
  • Frogmans Press, Vermillion, SD
  • White Wings Press, Chicago, IL

 

COMMUNITY/FIELD SERVICE

  • 2006
  • University High School Printmaking/Linoleum Cut Workshop, University City, MO
  • Community School Linoleum Cut Workshop, Ladue, MO
  • Press Release-Charity Auction Curator, Organizer, Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, MO
  • St. Louis Art Museum Docent Lecture, St. Louis Art Museum
  • Woodcut and Process, Print Room Public lecture, St Louis Art Museum
  • Juror, Through the Looking Glass, Juried Group Show, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
  • 2005
  • Arts Desire Open Studio, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
  • Guest Lecturer, “Inspired by Beckmann”, gallery talk concerning the paintings of Max Beckmann, Saint Louis Art Museum
  • 2004
  • Co-Curator with Todd Hignite and D.B. Dowd, The Rubber Frame: A Timeline of Underground
  • Comics, Des Lee Gallery, Washington University School of Art
  • Guest Lecturer, “Inspired by Bingham”, gallery talk concerning the paintings of George Caleb Bingham, Saint Louis Art Museum
  • 2003
  • Curator, “The Outlaws of American Printmaking”, traveling exhibition to Minneapolis, MN, St. Louis, Mo, Austin, TX, New York, NY
  • 2001
  • Curator with Francesca Consagra (curator of Prints and Drawings), “Ink, Paper, Wood: a History of the Woodcut in St. Louis Collections”, St. Louis Art Museum
  • 1999
  • Southern Graphics Council Panel Presentation Participant, University of Miami, FL