Tom Chapin was born in Buffalo, NY in 1954 and began working at 18. He was an itinerant carpenter for a time, designing and building a number of curious buildings across New England.
Chapin became a sculptor at 33. He has exhibited in the U.S., the UK, Belgium, and Italy. He has won a Pollack-Krasner grant and the London Chelsea Art Council’s Portobello Prize, and is a MacDowell Fellow, among other awards. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Boston Globe, as well as in English and Italian newspapers. His sculpture is in the permanent collections of the DeCordova Museum, The Addison Gallery of American Art, and a number of other museums in the U.S. as well as in corporate and private collections in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia.
A fine carver of granite, stone, marble, and wood, Chapin also works in bronze. The scale of his work ranges from miniature to megalithic granite on earthworks.
