Thomas J. Lane

Tom Lane is a Minneapolis based artist and an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Lane’s artistic practice embraces various forms of digital technology including digital ceramic printing. Porcelain is his primary medium, a material with history and symbolism. Lane employs appropriation and hybridization in his practice and makes conceptual, not functional, vessels. Tom Lane’s work has been exhibited at Hunter College, New York, NY; Genesee Gallery, Rochester, NY; Brown University, Providence, RI; Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts, Houston, TX; Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS; Market House Craft Center, Petersburg, PA; and numerous other venues nationally, and in the People’s Republic of China at the Central Fine Arts Academy, Beijing; and the Great China Museum, Jingdezhen. His work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the September 11 National Museum, New York, NY; the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; the Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Timberwolves, Target Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Donna and Cargill MacMillan Collection, Indian Well, CA; and the Sanbao International Ceramic Art Museum, Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China.