Education
2002 Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1996 SMU Meadows School of Art, B.F.A., Dallas, Texas
Selected Exhibitions
2012 Respect: Artists Invite Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2012 Telegraph Art Collective: Conversations and Collaborations, The Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
2012 Tom Lauerman & Fabio Fernandez, (two person show) Loyola University , Chicago, Illinois
2011 Telegraph Art Collective: Opening Lines, Pavillion am Milchhof, Berlin, Germany
2011 Studio Practice: Recent Work by SoVA Faculty, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2011 Telegraph Art Collective: Continuing Lines : Telegraph in Esslingen, K&K Entenmann, Esslingen, Germany
2011 The Small Sculpture Show Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
2011 Telegraph Art Collective, Free Museum of Dallas, SMU, Dallas, Texas
2010 Sculptures in Love with Architecture, (two person Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts
2010 Sculptures in Love with Architecture, (two person) Peel Gallery, Houston, Texas
2010 Ornament/Ornamental, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010 Living Room, Dallas Museum Of Art, Center for Creative Connections, Dallas, Texas
2010 Around the Campfire, Artworks, Trenton, New Jersey
2010 Tom Lauerman: Lexicology, (solo) Mott Community College, Flint, Michigan
2010 Design Fair 2010, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2010 SculptCAD Rapid Artists Project, Society of Mechanical Engineers Rapid 2010 Conference, Anaheim, California
2009 Tom Lauerman and Fabio Fernandez, (two person) Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
2009 Sculptures in Love With Architecture: Fabio Fernandez and Tom Lauerman, (two person) Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, Massachusetts
2009 Be the Ball, benefit auction for Glasstire.com, Houston, Texas
2008 Capricious and Mercurial Systems, Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Re-inventing Architectural Ceramics, Clayarch Museum, Gimhae, South Korea
2008 Sculptures in Love With Architecture: Fabio Fernandez & Tom Lauerman, (two Person) Sasaki Associates, Watertown, Massachusetts
2008 Telegraph Art Collective: EMU as MUSE, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
2008 The Exquisite City, Viaduct Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Bridge: Shannon Goff and Tom Lauerman, (two person) Silo Project Space, Stoughton, Wisconsin
2207 Telegraph Art Collective, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan
2007 Fresh, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
2007 Jaywalking, Polish Museum of America, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Winter Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
2006 Tom Lauerman: Captured Dissipations, (solo) Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Fresh: A Benefit Auction for the Renaissance Society, University Of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Telegraph Art Collective, Art Chicago 2006, Chicago, Illinois
2006 The Literary Print in the 21st Century, Keller Gallery, San Diego, Californa
2006 Spring / Summer Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
2005 Telegraph Art Collective: In, Around, and Through; Observations and Interventions in the Built Environment, Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, Missouri
2005 Tom Lauerman: Field Guide to the Atmosphere, (solo) The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2005 Nova Young Art Fair, Telegraph Art Collective, Chicago, Illinois
2004 The Literary Print in the 21st Century, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Network Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2004 Chaos/Control, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2004 The Stray Show, Thomas Blackman Associates, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Toronto Alternative Art Fair International (TAAFI), Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Lauerman, Lindahl, Prisble, Open-End Art, Chicago, Illinois
2003 Recent Pilchuck Hauberg Fellows and Emerging Artists in Residence Exhibition, Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
2002 Ready For Circulation, Pieksamaki Cultural Center, Pieksamaki, Finland
2002 Cranbrook Academy of Art MFA Degree Show, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2001 The American Craft Museum 2001 Horizon Award Exhibition, Presented at SOFA NY, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, New York
2001 Echo – Ryan Logan and Tom Lauerman, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1998 Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Award Exhibition, Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand
Literature
“Tom Lauerman,” Regularman, April 2010.
“12 Dallas Artists Go Digital with TED,” D Magazine, August 30, 2010.
Mark Stryker, “The Artist and The Art: Tom Lauerman,” Detroit Free Press, June 21, 2009.
Chris Jagers, “Spotlight on Tom Lauerman,” Glasstire: Texas Visual Art Online, April 2009.
Taylor Polites, “Sculptors in Love with Archiecture,” Artscope Magazine, Mar/Apr 2009.
Re-Inventing Architectural Ceramics, exhibition catalogue, Clayarch Museum, Gimhae, South Korea.
“Architectural Ceramics Reborn in Gimhae,” Korea Times, August 11, 2008.
Tom Lauerman, August 19, 2008
flickr fruits 14, April 11, 2008.
“Tom Lauerman: la tête dans les nuages,” Arts et Graphiques Techniques Futuristes, April 10, 2008.
Telegraph, exhibition catalogue, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, 2007.
“Telegraphic Collective,” The Detroiter, January 26, 2007.
Ann Gordon, “Communication Arts: Telegraph,” Real Detroit Weekly, January 24, 2007.
Art Chicago, exhibition catalogue, 2006.
“Art@IIT Gallery Notes: Tom Lauerman: Captured Dissipations,” Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 2006.
"Live Wires, The seven artists in Telegraph go the distance,” Detroit MetroTimes, October 26, 2005.
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center Newsletter, pages 5 and 15, September/October, 2005.
Professional
2011-2012 Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
2004-2012 Co-founder & collaborator, Telegraph Art Collective
2009-2011 Full-Time Visiting Lecturer in Ceramics and Sculpture, Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, Texas
2006-2009 Instructor, (Ceramics, Designed Objects) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2006-2009 Studio Coordinator, Department of Ceramics, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Instructor, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan
2007 Adjunct Faculty, (Foundations, 3D, Ceramics) Columbia College of Chicago
2003-2006 Instructor, Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2003-2006 Lead Teacher of Ceramics, Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Ceramics Instructor & Department Technician, College Of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois
2004 Ceramics Workshop Instructor, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Residencies and Awards
2010 SculptCAD Rapid Artists Project, VanDuzen Inc, Dallas, Texas
2008 Residency: "Re-defining Architectural Ceramics", Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea
2008 Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Artist Residency (with Shannon Goff) University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
2007 Nominee - Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, New York
2004–2007 Artist-In-Residence, Chicago Children’s Museum, Chicago, Illinois
2005 Kohler Arts/Industry Residency, Kohler, Wisconsin
2004 Illinois Arts Council Grant, Springfield, Illinois
2002 Emerging Artist Residency, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington
2001 The 2001 American Craft Museum Horizon Award, New York, New York
2001 Cranbrook Academy of Art Eames Merit Scholarship, Bloomfield, Michigan
2001 Cranbrook Academy of Art Department Assistantship, Bloomfield, Michigan
2000 Pilchuck Glass School William Morris Scholarship, Seattle, Washington
1999 Anderson Ranch Arts Center Paul Soldner Scholarship, Snowmass Village, Colorado
Lectures
2011 Dallas Museum of Art, Center for Creative Connections, Dallas, Texas
2010 Texas Women's University, Denton, Texas
2010 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2010 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2010 University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
2009 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2009 SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, Texas
2008 California State University, Long Beach, California
2008 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2008 Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
2008 Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
2007 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2007 The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
2006 Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, Michigan
2005 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
2005 The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2005 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
2005 Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Public Collections
The Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York
Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, South Korea
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The Maxine and Stewart Frankel Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
The Chicago Children’s Museum, Chicago, Illinois
The Rosewood Corporation, Dallas, Texas
Bob Pfannebecker Collection, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
