Tom
Denlinger was born in Los Angeles, California, and currently resides in
Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches digital media, photography and drawing at
DePaul University. He has a Master in Fine Arts degree from the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree from California State
University, in Hayward, California. Mr. Denlinger is a photographer and
videographer who has had solo exhibitions in New York, Italy, and Chicago, as
well as exhibitions in Seoul, Turin, Madrid, and Frankfurt. The latter of these
produced a 24-page catalog in October, 2000. He has received grants from the
Illinois Arts Council, the City of Chicago, the Kunstlerhaus, e.V. in Hamburg,
Germany, and the Artadia organization for his work. His work has been reviewed
in Art in America, Artforum Online, Frankfurt Allgemeine, Szene-Hamburg, the
New Art Examiner and Art Papers, and has been collected by the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago, Art Frankfurt, the MacArthur Foundation, the
University of Iowa, the City of Chicago, the Chicago Transit Authority, LaSalle
Bank, JPMorgan Chase, the Notebaert Natural History Museum in Chicago and the
REFCO collection of photography. His work focuses on urban landscape as psycho-cultural
residue, and he is the author of the photo books Territorial by Design and The
Financial District: Mirror Stage, as well as a co-editor of The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and
Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game.