Closing reception of Small Acts of Self Indulgence featuring Tom Besson.

Biography

Tom Besson, born in 1951, is a product of Nineteen-Fifties America, and a Czech immigrant subculture.

He studied at The University of Houston Art College for 3 years before “dropping-out” and moving to the counter-culture Austin of 1974. Working with Austin area artists led to his involvement with various diverse art organizations including F’Arts Sake, Vanishing Point Art School where he taught life drawing, Alternate Current Gallery and Austin Visual Arts Association.

Besson’s work has been displayed in Valašské muzeum v prírode in Rožnov pod Radhoštem and in contemporary art galleries in Texas, Chicago, Denmark, Slovakia, Italy and the Czech Republic.

His work is represented in the permanent collection of the University of Houston, The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and in private collections in Ireland, Wales, Czech Republic, Canada, Iceland and the United States.