Surrealism that explores and nutures the community of women.  Articulating Asian American and Chinese American  experiences.  
  Discovering  psychological interiors and female landscapes.

Paintings, Mixed Media, Installation and Curatorial
CYNTHIA TOM
Current  Events
Chinatown Memory Shop, 2010-2012
mixed media installation by Cynthia Tom

SF Arts Commission artist for "Art in Store Fronts Program."
An imaginary retail store front that collects and showcases memories and mementos of childhood in Chinatown.

950 Grant Ave. between Jackson and Washington.
The best part of Grant Avenue. Go see the exhibit and have a cup of tea at Ten Ren Tea across the street.


cynthiatom6@gmail.com

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Daily Lives - Discards& Variances  Cynthia Tom 2011
http://www.ybca.org/daily-lives
Current Works
May 5, 2011- May 27,2011
www.aplaceofherown.org
AAWAA and APICC co-presented
A PLACE OF HER OWN
curated by Cynthia Tom

Circus Series: The Cloud Walkers, 20" x 16"
A PLACE OF HER OWN, Atelier. Mixed media, 12' wide, 8' length  x 10' high
The brick and mortar exhibition at SOMArts is gone now, but the images live on in our minds and on fllickr. It is amazing.
Cynthia Tom is the Curatorial Director of this long term project for AAWAA, Asian American Women Artists Association.
For more information www.aplaceofherown.org

See the Photos: A PLACE OF HER OWN


Coalition of  Women in the Arts presents
ASIAN AMERICAN FEMINIST ART
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chairs: Kyra Belan, president, Coalition of Women in the Arts and Linda Inson Choy, independent curator.  Featured Artists: Kay Kang, Shizue Seigel and Cynthia Tom

Asian American artists Kay Kang, Shizue Seigel and Cynthia Tom candidly share their art practice.  Their inherently feminist voices are uniquely Asian American and yet universal. They ask:  What role do personal history, community and transnationalism in Asian American narratives? What collaborations between artists, curators, arts and humanities academia and arts institutions will take Asian American art to the broader audience?
Linda Inson Choy is an independent curator and art historian specializing in Asian American Women art and Contemporary Korean Women artists.   www.lindainsonchoy.com

Cynthia Tom is a professional artist, a painter, mixed media installation artist, healer and curator. She is also a public relations and development consultant for arts organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. As president of Asian American Women Artists Association, she is most proud of A PLACE OF HER OWN, a multi-disciplinary arts and creative program that has been realized as 3 exhibitions and a pilot program with social worker participants. www.cynthiatom.com     www.aawaa.net
PAST
Read recent SF Chronicle article in the Ovation section on Cynthia's latest endeavors.
More information
REMNANTS  at Chinese Historical Society 2012


  Los Gatos Museum of Art
    Cynthia's installation entitled:
  How to Earn Your Cloud
                   or
  12 Steps to Finding Your
         Consciousness

  September, 2012 - December 2012
photo: Erik Verduzco
Human Trafficking: A Rich Cultural Tradition
a mixed media large scale installation at Somarts Cultural Center
Part of AAWAA's underCurrents & the Quest for Space exhibition for APICC's United States of Asian America.