Tm Gratkowski received a BS and a BFA from UW. After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna Austria, Tm moved to Los Angeles CA and received an MA from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc).
Although Tm’s education and early works are rooted in painting, drawing, his professional practice as an artist is based on using paper as his primary material to create collages, installations, and sculpture. Tm Gratkowski’s artwork is a form of visual data gathering. He aligns the act of looking with that of reading by using paper, images, and text to create a critical visual narrative about the culture
of information we live in today. Going beyond historical definitions, concepts, and contemporary art practices Tm pushes the boundaries beyond traditional collage as he beguiles everyday information by playing with image-as-text and text-as-image. His artwork is densely layered to construct a surface rich in patterns, images, text.
Tm Gratkowski’s work has been in over 100 magazine publications and has been the featured cover story. Tm has been in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions Nationally and Internationally and his work can be found exhibited in most major art fairs throughout the US and Europe. His work is also prominently featured in numerous public, private and institutional collections. Tm currently lives and works in Los Angeles California and is preparing new work for a forthcoming solo museum exhibition. Follow TM’s work on Instagram: @tmgratkowskiart , @tmgratkowskidraws
