Bio & CV

BIO: Artist and Performer

Tom Christophersen is an award winning Sydney based, Queer performer and visual artist

Tom Christophersen is an award winning Sydney based, Queer performer and visual artist whom is as petrified of beautiful things and death as much as they are transfixed by them. It is primarily the car-crashing of these two themes which permeate the hyper-realistic, almost surrealistic, often dark portraits and films they make.

Tom aims to bring focus back to portraiture that is of a level of detail it demands an intimate level of engagement from the viewer. Working almost exclusively on watercolour paper with watercolour pencil and acrylic, Tom hopes their traditional, technical approach to drawing and painting provide a fresh, immediate offering to portraiture and indeed representation of the self. The figures and themes within Tom’s work are often autobiographical and based on real life experiences.

BIO: Artist and Performer

Tom Christophersen - CV

Contact

Website: www.tomchristophersen.com
Email: charming_telephone_voice@hotmail.com
Instagram / Twitter: @_tomopoly

Qualifications

2010: Bachelor of Performance, Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (AADA), NSW
2008: Bachelor of Visual Arts, Specialisation, South Australia School of Arts (SASA), SA

Solo Art Exhibitions

2022: Fabulous & Impossible: The Cult of Leigh Bowery, The Bowery Theatre, VIC
2019: Thanatophobia, The Stockroom Gallery, VIC
2018: INTERFACING, Stanley Street Gallery, NSW

Group Art Exhibitions

2025: P.S. 10 Postcard Show, Nucleus House, OR
2025: 2 Day Rental, Outpost512, TX
2025: Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2025: The Incognito Art Show, Paddington, NSW
2025: The Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, NSW
2025: In Dreams: A David Lynch Tribute Show, Outpost512, TX
2024: P.S. 9 Postcard Show, Nucleus House, OR
2024: Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2024: The Darling Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, ACT
2024: The Incognito Art Show, Paddington, NSW
2024: Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, VIC
2023: The Kennedy Prize, RSASA Gallery, SA
2023: Life In Colour, Sketch Co. Gallery, NSW
2023: Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, VIC
2023: The Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, VIC
2023: Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2023: The Burwood Art Prize, Burwood Library and Hub, NSW
2023: Phresh Produce, Luna Studios, NSW
2023: Life In Colour, Sketch Co. Gallery, NSW
2022: Wine and Design, Dirty Jane’s, NSW & ACT
2022: The 2021 Bluethumb Art Prize Winner’s Exhibition, 1 Denison, NSW
2022: Antipodes 2022, beinart Gallery, VIC
2021: Dark Arts, beinart Gallery, VIC
2021: 100 Bucks & Running, Erb ’n’ Flo, SA
2021: Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2021: Antipodes 2021, beinart Gallery, VIC
2021: The Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, QLD
2020: Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2020: The Collie Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Collie Art Gallery, WA
2020: The Sketchbook Project Vol. 15, The Brooklyn Art Library, NY
2019: Gaia Reborn: A Future Utopia, URBAN NATION, BE
2019: The Contemporary Art Awards, Online exhibition, QLD
2019: Imagined, The Contemporary Art Awards, Online exhibition, QLD
2019: Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2018: The Contemporary Art Awards, Online exhibition, QLD
2018: A Time For Gifts, Stanley Street Gallery, NSW
2018: Nobody Rolls Royce, Halifax Cafe, SA
2018: Annual Pride Art Exhibition, Clifford Chance, NSW
2017: Fanboy vs Artboy: Twin Peaks, ArtBoy Gallery, VIC
2017: The Queer Art Prize, Clifford Chase, NSW
2017: The Queer Art Prize, Chapel Off Chapel, VIC
2017: The Contemporary Art Awards, Online exhibition, QLD
2016: The Salon of Infectious Ideas, Stanley Street Gallery, NSW
2016: The Women, Ginger’s Cafe, SA
2016: Heart of Annandale: FUTURE, Annandale Village Church, NSW
2016: Who’s Looking At You? Cambridge Studio Gallery, VIC
2016: INTRODUCING, Stanley Street Gallery, NSW
2015: Blacktown City Art Prize, Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW
2015: Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards, Lethbridge Gallery, QLD
2014: HELL FREEZES OVER, Hell Bent, NSW
2014: Youthscape, RSASA Gallery, SA
2014: Dessin sur Papier, Juxtapose Studios, SA
2013: this is a very loud scream, Juxtapose Studios, SA
2013: Heart of Annandale: LIGHT, Annandale Village Church, NSW
2013: Intimate Spaces, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, NSW
2012: Folie a Deux, Format Gallery and Zine Shop, SA
2012: ROSEANNE/ANGRY, Format Gallery and Zine Shop, SA
2012: Love Postcode 2010, Vientiane Gallery, NSW
2011: Picture Postcode 2010, PopUP Gallery, NSW
2011: fur, Monstrosity Gallery, NSW
2011: f o u r w o r d s, Arcade Lane, SA
2010: Unley High School Centenary Art Exhibition, Wayville Show Grounds, SA
2008: freefall: The Visual Arts Graduates and Honours Exhibition, SASA Gallery, SA
2008: A4 Play, Higher Ground, SA
2007: Snack Bar Art, Palace Nova Cinemas, SA
2007: Stereo Stereo Stereo, Jive, SA
2007: Munt, Karma Sukha Gallery, SA

Publications

2025: CHRISTOPHERSEN X MANNIX, Self published artist book
2025: Beautiful Bizarre, Issue 48, March
2024: Array Vol. 2 by booooooom (Digital Zine)
2022: The Blue Rose Magazine, Vol. 2. #17, November
2019: Beautiful Bizarre, Issue 0024, March
2018: Qama.Mag, ‘Cliche’, Issue #5, June
2017: Annual Semi-Permanent Anthology
2017: Space Is Cool As F*ck by Kate Howells
2017: Stunning Flaws, Self published artist book
2016: Annual Semi-Permanent Anthology
2016: Beautiful Bizarre, On The Rise, Issue 0013, June
2015: Annual Semi-Permanent Anthology
2014: Tom Christophersen, Empire Times, Issue 5. Vol 41.
2013: Annual Semi-Permanent Anthology
2013: Luscious Creeps, Self published artist book
2012: V Magazine GaGa Memo No. 6, V Magazine, V78
2011: Emergency art: unsustainable truths, Das 500, July 2011
2010: To Die For, Sublime Rush Magazine, Issue 003, June – April 2010

Awards

2025, Finalist, The Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards
2025, Finalist, The Muswellbrook Art Prize
2024, Finalist, The Darling Art Prize
2024, Finalist, The Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards
2023, Finalist, The Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards
2023, Finalist, The Kennedy Prize
2023, Finalist, Bluethumb Art Prize
2023, Finalist, The Burwood Art Prize
2022, Finalist, Bluethumb Art Prize
2022, Finalist, The Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards
2021, Winner, People’s Choice Award, Bluethumb Art Prize
2021, Finalist, The Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards
2021, Finalist, The Stanthorpe Art Prize
2020, Finalist, The Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards
2020, Finalist, The Collie Art Prize
2019. Finalist, The Hornsby Art Prize
2019, Finalist, The Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Awards
2019, Finalist, The 2019 Contemporary Art Awards
2017, Finalist, The 2017 Contemporary Art Awards
2017, Finalist, The Queer Art Prize
2016, Finalist, Bluethumb Art Prize
2016, Semi Finalist, Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize
2015, Finalist, Blacktown City Art Prize
2015, Finalist, Lethbridge 10 000 Small Works Award
2014, Winner, Margaret Raymond Prize for Drawing
2014, Winner, Mardi Gras Awards, Best Performing Arts Event ’A Boy And A Bean’
2013, Winner, Show Stealers of 2013, Suzy Goes See Theatre Awards
2012, 1st Runner Up, Picture Postcode 2010 Photography Prize

Reviews

Review by Lisa Thatcher
Review by Mark Pigott for Sydney Arts Guide
Review by Dinner And A Show Theatre Blog
Review by Veronica Kaye for Theatre Red
Review by Suzy Wrong for Suzy Goes See
Review by Jason Blake for The Sydney Morning Herald
Review by Jodi McAlister for Theatre From The Back Seat

Get In Touch With Tom

To enquire about portraiture commissions, appearances, Artist Talks or anything else please use the form below. Tom will endeavour to reply personally as soon as possible.