One and Two Person Exhibitions
2021 Delicate Relationships, The Gallery at La Tomate, Washington, DC
2018 A Little Goes a Long Way, Newman Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 Contemporary Archaeology, Strathmore Music Center, North Bethesda, Maryland
Classical Assemblage, Dumbarton Concert Gallery, Washington, DC
2014 Annual Open Studio. Jackson Art Center. Washington, DC 2011 Music to the Eye, Images for the Ear, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, Maryland
Music to the Eye, Images for the Ear, Gary Taylor Gallery, Washington, DC 2003 New Works, Old Classics, Maryland Federation of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2002 Powerless Weapons, Useless Tools, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Primitive Post Modern Artifacts, Liquid Earth, Baltimore, Maryland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Abstract Photographs on Metal, Chevy Chase Design Center, Washington, DC
2014 Washington Craft Show, Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
2013 American Craft Council Show, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland 2010 Eye of the Beholder: The Fine Art of the Found Object,
Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, Maryland 2006 Three Baltimore Artists, Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, Maryland
2004 Juried Acceptance, Associate Member, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia
2003 17th Annual Critics Residency Program, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Maryland
Trio Exhibit, Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2001 Artists’ Housing Group Show, Craig Flinner Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Artists’ Housing Membership Exhibition, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, Maryland ,
Membership Show, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
2000 Elzeard Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Phenomenon Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
1998 City Hall Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
1995 Halcyon Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Collections
Strathmore Music Center, Bethesda, Maryland Nancy and Peter Mickelsen, Baltimore, Maryland
Terry Romanoli, Baltimore, MD Rose Collection in Galleries of the Wintercourt, Baltimore, Maryland Blair Hollyday, Safety Harbor, Florida Whitaker Hauprich, Baltimore, Maryland Denise D’Aoust Collection, New Brunswick, Canada Lyman Stack, Washington, DC Kate and Robert Chartener, Concord, MA KC Donohue, Annapolis, MD Nathaniel Camp, Washington, DC
Awards
Juror’s Choice Award, “Eye of the Beholder: The Fine Art of the Found Object”, 2010
Second Place Award, Creative Alliance Membership Show 2001
Bibliography
Dumbarton Concerts 2014 – 2015 Season Program, “J. Thomas Wells – Classical Assemblage”
Giuliano, Mike, “Critics Choice,” Baltimore City Paper, August 6, 2003
Goodman, Jonathan, J. Thomas Wells-The Music of Assemblage, essay, Jan., 2015
Mayer, Janet, Primitive Post Modern Artifacts, www.PEEKreview.net, May 15, 2000
McNatt, Glenn, Bold Works, The Baltimore Sun, August 26, 2003, page 2E
Monroe, Michael, critique, The Guild, guild.com, 2000
Radcliff, Carter, Studio Visits: A Critics Notes, 17th Anl. Critics Residency Prgm, Maryland State Arts Council, 2003, p.9
Schwing, Fletcher, Artfinds, The Baltimore Press. April 2000, illustration
Seitchek, Cara, The Bodily Symbol of Identity,17th Anl. Critics Residency Prgm, Maryland State Arts Counci, 2003, p.42
www.strathmore.org/visual-arts/exhibitions/tom-wells, Contemporary Archaeology, 2015
Education
non-degree academic inquiries
Baltimore Museum of Art, children’s program, 1953 East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1964 University of Maryland, Far East Campus, 1965 Towson State University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1967 Baltimore Community College, Baltimore, Maryland, 1967 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 1968
Academy of Scientology, New York City. 1989
Sakai Sensei, calligraphy & sumi-e, Iwakuni, Japan 1966
Current Venues
Newman Gallery, Washington, DC MIKO ART, La Pas Bolivia SAATCHI ART https://www.saatchiart.com/