Tom Bacher was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1951.  He studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.  His working medium of  phosphorescent crystals suspended in acrylic paints creates a unique experience for the viewer, as his paintings become illuminated in the dark.   Bacher’s studies of city lights and sunsets are ideal subjects for this innovative medium.  His work is represented in many public collections around the United States, and he has exhibited his work around the world. He died in Cincinnati in 2021.

Studied

BFA, Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH; MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Yale Summer School of Music and Art, New Haven, CT

Exhibited

Cincinnati Art Galleries, OH (solo); O.K. Harris Works of Art, NY (solo), Exhibit Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo); Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery, Dallas, TX (solo);La Maison des Arts De Chatillon, Paris, France (solo);Galerie La Papeterie, Brussels, Belgium (solo); Richard Coplan Gallery, Boca Raton Florida (solo); Nemiroff-Deutsch Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo); PBCC Museum of Art Palm Beach, FL (solo);Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Bologna Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum; Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY; Pensacola Museum of Art, FL; Part West Gallery, Detroit, MI; Galerie La Papeterie, Brussels, Belgium;

Collections

Norton Center for the Arts,Danville, KY; Chemical Bank, New York, NY; Provident Bank of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Ohio State Office Tower, Columbus, OH; Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati, OH; Central Trust Bank of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; The Barrelhouse Brewery, Cincinnati, OH; Cincinnati Computer Data Center, Cincinnati, OH; Emery Realty, Cincinnati, OH; Centre Properties Ltd., Chicago, IL; Cincinnati Financial Corporation, Cincinnati, OH; Goldman Sachs and Company, New York, NY; Corday Inc., South Norwalk, CT; PHH Fleet America, Hunt Valley, MD; Sydney Besthoff III, New Orleans, LA; Daniel Filipacchi,Paris, France; Thurston and Laila Twigg-Smith, Honolulu, HI; Henry Geldzahler, New York, NY; Nancy and James Krasne, Beverly Hills, CA