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
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- 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
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- 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