Tom Wilson is a Southern California artist. He studied drawing and painting at the Art Academy of Los Angeles and the California Art Institute, and fine art photography at UCLA. He has decades of experience in showing his paintings in solo and group exhibitions, and was selected by The Walt Disney Studios as a “Disney Featured Artist” with solo exhibitions of paintings in the Disney Gallery, as well as several commissioned works for Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure. He’s had two solo exhibitions at Nickelodeon Studios gallery, where his work was selected for the permanent collection at Nickelodeon, and his paintings appear in many prominent collections in California and around the world.

Exhibitions:   

The California Museum of Photography, “Let There Be Light” 1989
Second Cup group show, 2000
Milla Angelina Gallery 2004
Brentwood Art Show 2004
Nickelodeon Animation Studios World Headquarters Solo exhibition 2005
Affaire in The Garden Beverly Hills 2005
Modern Art Downtown, 2005 “Food For Thought”
Hive Gallery Downtown L.A. Aug- Sept 2005
Affaire in The Garden Beverly Hills 2006
Manhattan Beach Art Festival 2006
Hermosa Beach Art Show 2006
Rawstyle Gallery, Santa Monica 2006
Disney Gallery Solo Exhibition 2006
Animation Gallery Toronto 2007
A Stuart Gallery “Self propelled” 2007
Studio Remy, 2007
San Jose Museum of Art. “Road Trip” 2008
Disney Gallery group exhibition 2008-present
Nickelodeon Solo Exhibition 2015
Persona: The Art of Self-Portraits. Forest Lawn Museum 2025

Collections:

Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Disney Studios
Disneyland
Judd Apatow, Santa Monica, California
Steve and Tonie Oedekerk, San Juan Capistrano, California
Greg Carpenter and Molly Zerpflue, Dana Point, California
Arthur and Heather Egeli, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Rev. Dr. Ronald Wayne Young, OMI, Ottawa, Canada
Ben Stevens, Dallas, Texas

Study:

The Art Academy of Los Angeles
California Art Institute
Arthur Egeli Studio, studio and teaching assistant
Eric Merrell Studio
Renee Amitai Studio

Publications and media:

Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Tonight Live in Australia, BBC Good Morning, CBC News Canada, People magazine, Us magazine, Faesthetic magazine and many, many more.