Tom Porta was born in 1966 in Milan from a middle class family, his father is an industrial designer the mother a teacher. Since childhood, Tom has developed a strong interest in drawing and art. The drawing in fact becomes his favorite pastime and he becomes an avid comic book consumer who obsessively reproduces searching the technique and the interpretation that, shortly, he will manifest.
In 1988 after graduating Master of Art and experimental applied arts, Tom began a journey of life and work through various expressive forms, from illustration to photography.
From 1986 to 1993 he lives and works in Germany, France, Japan and the United States collecting life experiences that, later, will play a fundamental role in the realization of his works.
From 2003 he finds in painting his most complete and expressive language in that form, which from that year becomes the only one and to which he devotes himself relentlessly.
Tom gets an almost immediate success becoming a prominent figure among contemporary painters so that, in 2007, is inserted in the list of the hundred most important contemporary Italian artists.
Porta appears in important catalogues such as "500 Years of Italian painting", Sotheby's and Christie's and has exhibited in numerous personal and collective throughout Italy, Europe and the United States.

Solo exhibitions

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2018

• Milano: Grattacielo Pirelli: Inferno
• Milano Malpensa Terminal 1: Icarus

2016

• Milano/Como: Spazio Pedraglio, The Box
• Milano: Ricalcolo Percordo

2015

• Milano: Famedio del Monumentale, Inferno 1914-1918

2013

• Bologna: ODISSEY, ten years after 2003
• Torino: Ambasciata Kazakistan

2011

• Torino: Biennale di Venezia 2011, Palazzo delle Esposizioni
• Milano Marittima: Onde D’arte, 2011
• Genova: Palazzo Ducale, W.A.R. " We Are Restless, the unheard soldier scream, 2011

2010

• Milano: Extinction Agenda III

2009

• Milano: Arteutopia, Basilica di S. Ambrogio, no man’s land

2008

• Milano: Il cerchio, thunder gods

2007

• Milano: Arteutopia, la nube purpurea
• Lugano: Red sun
• Milano: suisei

2006

• Reggio Emilia: studio de bonis, kikosui
• Como: Aereoclub idrovolanti, vento divino II
• Milano: Fabbrica eos, vento divino

2005

• Milano: Musei di porta romana, late-x

2004

• Crema: Paparazzi, gomma II

Group exhibitions

2018

• Milano, Base Milano, Festival dell'Amore
• Milano, Palazzo Marino, La Polvere di Stelle, con Lorenzo Franzoni

2017

• Milano, Icons, con Artioli,Camela,De Molfetta, La Fauci
• Milano, Chokora di Valentina Tamborra
• Milano, Animal Farmy, con Luca Artioli e Gabriela Bodin

2013

• Milano: Spazio Fondamenta, La grande Magia

2012

• Milano: Mario Giusti Picks II - INCOMPLETO, Spazio Hq-Headquarter

2010

• Arona, Villa ponti: marylin l’arte della bellezza
• Bari: Alimentart
• Milano: Arteutopia, tempi moderni

2007

• Bollate: Fabbrica fondazione Borroni, la nuova figurazione italiana
• Roma-milano: treno dell’arte, nuove generazioni
• Perugia: Palazzo delle penne, anatomia dell’irrequietezza
• Genova: GAM - galleria d’arte moderna, linee all’orizzonte

2006

• Gattinara: World Wide Games, arte ed altro
• Milano: 15 volte un volto,spazioinmostra
• Como: Allarmi!, caserma De Cristoforis
• Chicago: Echo gallery
• Detroit: The dirty show

2005

• Detroit: The dirty show