Artists - Painters
Tom Porta

Born in 1966 in Milan, Tom Porta lives and works in his hometown.
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Tom Porta Curriculum
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
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