Tom Van Sant is a sculptor, painter, and conceptual artist with major sculpture and mural commissions for public spaces around the world. His art is collected globally. His professional skills and interests include architecture, planning, education, an advanced technical invention.
Van Sant was a Fellow with the MIT Institute for Advanced Visual Studies and founder of the GeoSphere Project, the environmental display system for Earth's resource management. He has received numerous national awards for his work in art, architecture, astronomy and kite making. A polymath who earned his BA from Stanford University and MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Van Sant was born in 1931. He resides in the Pacific Palisades.
