Tom Burckhardt was born in New York City in 1964 and has spent his entire life living there. He graduated with a BFA in painting from SUNY Purchase in 1986 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture that same year. He has been exhibiting since 1992 at various NYC galleries such as Tibor De Nagy Gallery, Pierogi and Caren Golden Fine Art, High Noon Gallery, George Adams Gallery and the Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco CA.

His most recent solo show of paintings was at George Adams Gallery in Spring 2024. He participated in the 2016 Kochi Muziris Bienalle in Kerala, India and that installation piece,“Studio Flood” was shown at the Pierogi Gallery, NYC  in September 2017 and CMCA in Maine during Summer 2018.

He was an artist in residence at Yaddo Foundation in New York State in January 2019, 2024 and at Pepper House, Kochi, India, in January 2020.

He was a resident faculty at Skowhegan in 2007 and currently teaches part time at SUNY Purchase.