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TOM VAN SANT, M.F.A.

1931 Born Los Angeles, California

1953 B.A., Stanford University

1954-1955 Commissioned Officer, United States Marine Corps, Korea, Japan

1957 M.F.A., Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County

1957-1965 Faculty, Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County

1958-1961 Instructor, Omega Seminars, Adult Education

1975-76 Creator of Large-Scale Kites

1978-present Instructor, Life Drawing Classes, Tom Van Sant studio

1988 Instructor, Life Drawing, Santa Monica College Community Division

1989-2000 Founder and CEO, The GeoSphere Project, for the creation of the

First Satellite Map of Earth, the GeoSphere Globe, the Global Visual Library,

and the Earth Situation Room Exhibits

1990 Creator, The First Satellite Map of Earth (The GeoSphere Image), composite

map of planet Earth from space, one year in the making.

1991-2000 Development and installation of 7 Earth Situation Room permanent exhibits

in 7 countries on 5 continents

2000-2013 Development of commissioned studio sculptures and paintings

2011-2012 Instructor and Mentor, Otis College of Art and Design

Associations

Fellow, MIT, Center for Advanced Visual Studies

Founding Director, Los Angeles Mural Conservancy

Founding Director, TIMOCA (21st Century Int'l Museum of Contemporary

Art)

Board of Advisors, Artists Equity Association

Instructor, Santa Monica College Community Division

Awards

Leonardo Di Vinci Space Art Award - from the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Carnegie Mellon University Studio for Creative Inquiry for a 'lifetime of artistic actions in and with the sky and outer space, including his brightly clear re-envisioning of Earth' (The First Satellite Map of Planet Earth.)

The Golden Brush Award - from Illustrators West for the illustrations of the Howard Fast novel and the 1961 film “Spartacus” starring Kirk Douglas and Lawrence Olivier.

City of Los Angeles Certificate of Commendation - for creation of the “Goddess of Democracy” sculpture made in collaboration with other artists in support of the Chinese Democratic Movement.

City of Los Angeles Certificate of Appreciation - for spearheading the first annual Otis College of Art and Design, “Kite Festival,” and 'dedicating his lifetime to professional artwork for display around the globe'.

Numerous Awards of Merit from the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles County and Orange County, for individual projects and a 'Lifetime Award for contributions to architecture'.

Vanguard Award of 1998 - conferred by the Silicon Graphics Corporation for the advancement of computer graphics in the making of the “Tom Van Sant Satellite Map of Earth”, the largest single image created in an interactive computer of its time.

ART IN PUBLIC PLACES

1956 Union Union, mural, oil on canvas 6’ x 15’ Retail Clerks Union 770,

Los Angeles, California,

1957 Fire, Water and Earth, mural, Italian glass mosaic, 300 square feet

Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, MFA thesis project

1958 New World Conquest, Italian glass mosaic inlayed in black marble,

two walls, 400 square feet, Mercantile National Bank, Dallas, Texas

1958 Muskie, bronze sculpture and fountain, Tyler Bank and Trust Company,

Tyler, Texas

1959 Transportation of Water, natural rock Mosaic mural, American Pipe

and Construction Company, Monterey Park, California

1959 Tree of Life, rock mosaic, 10’ x 25’, San Marino Congregational Church,

San Marino, California

1960 Eldorado Myth, glass mosaic, rock mosaic, El Dorado Country Club,

Palm Desert, California

1961 Tom Van Sant Residence, architecture, Los Angeles, California

1961 Children at Play, carved brick, two walls, California Congress of Parents

and Teachers, Los Angeles, California

1961 Great Inventions, mural, natural stone, Bell City Library, Bell, California

1962 Flying Pair, epoxy resin, 6’, Buffums Department Store, Pomona, California

1962 Colors of the Wind, enamel on copper, Harrah’s Club, Tahoe, California

1962 Sources of Knowledge, glass mosaic, Home Savings and Loan Association,

Compton, California

1962 Fullerton City Seal, glass mosaic , Fullerton City Hall, Fullerton, California

1963 Open Hand, bronze sculpture, 5’, Gibraltar Savings, Baldwin Hills, California

1963 Crucifixion and Resurrection, glass mosaic, two murals 8’x5’,

Santa Clara Church Mausoleum, Ventura, California

1963 Great Moments in History, acrylic on canvas, 1700 square feet on five walls,

Mt. San Antonio College Library, Pomona, California

1964 The Gulls of Salt Lake City, bronze, 120 feet high, Prudential Federal Savings

and Loan Association, Salt Lake City, Utah

1964 Flight Form, bronze sculpture, 7’, Robert E. Gross Memorial, Forest Lawn,

Glendale, California

1965 Gulls, bronze sculpture, Prudential Federal, Ogden, Utah

1965 Spanish Heritage, oil on wood, Howard Johnson Hotel, Anaheim, California

1967 Wind Chimes, aluminum 10’ x 80’, Robinson’s Department Store,

Newport Beach, California

1968 Indigenous, sculptured concrete, 1200 square feet on forty walls, Irvine Financial

Plaza, Newport Beach, California

1968 Tree of Life, St. Martin's Cross, The Last Supper, plaster cement relief, three walls,

Geneva Presbyterian Church, Santa Ana, California

1968 California Migrations, acrylic on canvas, 120’ by 15’, Crocker-Citizens National

Bank, Los Angeles, California

1969 Water Fall, glazed ceramic sculptured wall, 80’, Robinson’s Department Store,

San Diego, California

1969 Flight, aluminum sculpture, 10 ‘ x 12’, Los Angles Public Library,

Huntington Park, California

1969 Bird of Wisdom, sculptured concrete, 10’ x 20’, Hoffman Motors,

Marina del Rey, California

1970 Founder I, Founder II, 15’x 30’, glazed ceramic tile, Arizona First National Bank,

Globe, Arizona

1971 Celestial Way, bronze sundial, Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, California

1971 Industries of Hawaii, sculptured concrete murals, five walls, Davies Pacific

Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

1971 Hawaiian Visions, sculptured concrete murals, seven walls, Kona Surf Resort,

Kona, Hawaii

1972 The Word, sculptured concrete, 25’ x 50’, Inglewood Civic Center,

Inglewood, California

1972 Family Group, nickel and bronze sculpture, 8’x 25’, Union Bank Plaza,

Newport Beach, California

1972 Sail Forms, terrazzo sculpture, 20’x 30’, Yacht Harbor Towers, Honolulu,

Hawaii

1972 Body of Knowledge, ceramic sculpture mural , Los Angeles County

Library, Lakewood, California

1972 Forms of Flight, stainless steel, sculpture collection seven pieces,

Transamerica Pyramid Building, San Francisco, California

1972 Celebration of Life, ceramic tile on steel, 70’x6’, Orange County School of the

Arts, Santa Ana, California

1972 Shells and Gods, oil on canvas mural, Davies Pacific Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

1972 History of Flight, sculptured concrete, eighteen panels, Republic of China Civil

Aeronautics Building, Taipei, Taiwan

1973 Luau, sculptured concrete, 80’ x 13’, Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu,

Hawaii

1974 Los Angeles Civic Center Pedestrian Bridge, sculptured concrete, Los Angeles

Civic Center, Los Angeles, California

1974 Open Hand, fountain, ceramic on steel, Los Angeles Civic Center, Los Angeles,

California

1974 Vietnam Memorial, iron, bronze, and foliage, 8’x 20’, California State

University Long Beach, Long Beach, California

1974-78 Kites, design, construction, demonstrations and traveling exhibits: US, UK,

Holland, France, Ireland, Australia

1976 Pour, sculptured concrete 10’x 12’, Hawaiian Dredging and Construction

Company, Honolulu, Hawaii

1976 Flight of Fancy, fiberglass and fabric sculpture, 15’ x 20‘, Century Park

Sheraton Hotel, Manila, Philippines

1977 Tapas, sculptured concrete, 10’ x 40’. Wailea Beach Hotel, Maui, Hawaii

1979 Authors of the Sea, concrete, eight walls, Bank of Newport Beach,

Newport Beach, California

1980 Reflections from Earth, reflected sunlight from the Earth recorded by the

LANDSAT satellite, Mojave Desert, California

1981 Ryan’s Eye, scanned electrons, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1982 Desert Dreams, paper mache 10’ x 20’, Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles,

California

1984 Silent Form, fabric and fiberglass, thirty-six piece, Los Angeles International

Airport, Thomas Bradley Terminal, Los Angeles, California

1984 Birds of Prey, concrete murals, two walls, William Allen residence, Provo, Utah

1985 Portrait of King Vidor, bronze sculpture, 16”, Founding Director,

Directors Guild of America, Hollywood, California

1986 Sea Form, sculptured concrete, Paul Briles residence, Playa del Rey, California

1986 Eyes on Earth, reflected light and satellite imagery, Pacific Design Center,

Hollywood, California

1988 Dove, stained glass window, 25’ x 25’, Glenkirk Presbyterian Church,

Glendora, California

1988 Sky Cross, sculptured wall, 50’ x 15’, Glenkirk Presbyterian Church, Glendora,

California

1989 Pelican Wall, sculptured concrete, 15’ x 120’ City of Newport Beach,

Newport Beach, California

1989 Goddess of Democracy, polystyrene replica of The Goddess of Democracy

erected by Chinese Students in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, destroyed by the

Chinese Army, 23’ temporary installation, Los Angeles, California

1989 The GeoSphere Project founded by Tom Van Sant for creation of the Satellite

Map of Earth, the GeoSphere Globe and the Earth Situation Room Exhibit for

science and education centers in USA, Japan, Sweden, Spain, Brazil, and

South Africa

1990 The Earth From Space (The GeoSphere Image), the first satellite map of planet

Earth, one year in the making, completed April 15, 1990, selected as the title

page of the 1990 National Geographic World Atlas, adopted by NOAA, NASA

and the United Nations, becomes the most widely distributed single image

in the world

1991 GeoSphere Globe, 6’6” the first reality model of Earth and the Global Visual

Library, an electronic geographic program for monitoring global resources and

global change

1992 Earth Situation Room Environmental Exhibit for the United Nations Conference

on Environment and Development (The Earth Summit), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1993 Earth Situation Room Permanent Environmental Exhibit, Brazilian National

Center For Space Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Purchased by the United Nations

as a gift to Brazil for hosting the UN Conference on Environment and

Development of 1992.

1994 Earth Situation Room Permanent Environmental Exhibit, Hemiji Science Center,

Osaka, Japan

1995 Earth Situation Room Permanent Environmental Exhibit, Toho Science Center,

Nagoya, Japan

1996 The First Satellite Map of Earth, satellite map of Earth completed at higher

resolution (1km)

1996 Earth Situation Room Permanent Environmental Exhibit, Smithsonian National

Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.

1996 Completion of The Earth From Space, satellite map of Earth at 1km resolution

1996 Earth Situation Room, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.

1997 GeoSphere Globe, Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California

1998 The Digital 3-D Earth, developed in association with Silicon Graphics (SGI), the

basis for Google Earth

1998 Earth Situation Room Permanent Environmental Exhibit, Lisaberg Theme Park,

Goteburg, Sweden

2000 Earth Situation Room Permanent Environmental Exhibit, MTN Science Center,

Cape Town, South Africa

2001 Dolphin Wall, sculptured concrete, 12’ x 60', Hoag Memorial Hospital,

Newport Beach, California

2003 Marsh Birds, bronze sculpture, 7’, Muth Interpretive Center,

Newport Beach, California

2005 Sandpiper Wall, sculptured concrete 5’ x 60’, Hoag Memorial Hospital,

Newport Beach, California

2013 History Wall, sculptured concrete, 10' x 30', Orange County Peace Officer's

Memorial, Tustin, California

2013 Heroic Figures, cast bronze, 9', in association with Daub and Firmin Sculpture

Studios, Orange County Peace Officer's Memorial, Tustin, California

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1956 LOS ANGELES UNIVERSITY CLUB, Los Angeles, California

1959    OTIS ART INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (OTIS-PARSONS
          SCHOOL OF DESIGN), Los Angeles, California

1960    GALERIE DE VILLE, Los Angeles, California

1963    GALERIE DE VILLE, Los Angeles, California

1969    SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, D.C.

1970    GAIL WOODWARD GALLERIES, Westwood, California

1974    JACQUELINE ANHALT GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1976    INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, London

1976    FESTIVAL D'AUTOMNE A PARIS, Foundation Salomon de Rothschild,
            Paris

1977    CHAFFEY COLLEGE MUSEUM AND GALLERY, Ontario, California,
             retrospective exhibit

1977    MYER GALLERIES, Melbourne, Australia

1977    MYER GALLERIES, Sydney, Australia

1977    HONOLULU CITY HALL, Honolulu, Hawaii

1977    STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam, with exhibit traveling to the
             municipal galleries of Den Helder, Bergen Aan Zee and Egmond Aan Zee,
             Holland

1977    LAKEHAL MUSEUM, Leiden, Holland

1977    SCHIEDAM MUSEUM, Rotterdam, Holland

1977    BUTLER CASTLE MUSEUM, Kilkenny, Ireland

1980    LOS ANGELES PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER, Los Angeles, California

1985    LAGUNA DESIGN CENTER, Laguna Beach, California

1986    CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY, Los Angeles,

California

1999 KETTLE'S YARD GALLERY, Cambridge, U.K.

ILLUSTRATION

1956 - 59 FAITH & FREEDOM MAGAZINE, Art Director

1958 - 59 THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, documentary drawings and
commentary on Greek Cypriot terrorist war, from Cyprus and
Jordan, published January and February, 1959

1960 UNIVERSAL PICTURES CORPORATION, AWARD OF MERIT,
documentary and promotional drawings for the film "Spartacus"

1961 - 64    BANTAM PUBLISHING CO., AWARD OF MERIT, IWS,
Illustration of the novel "Spartacus" by Howard Fast

1961 - 64    McINTOSH, INC., card design, "Christmas Artists" series

1962 - 66    CHILDREN'S ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL, Los Angeles, California
Announcement and program design, Film World Premiers

1968           UNITED STATES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, war combat artist,
1st Marine Division

INVENTIONS

1958    Use of natural colored stone mosaic precast in epoxy resin for mural and
curtain wall application

1961    Electrodeposition of nickel, copper and bronze for lightweight, thin shell
sculpture forming

1965    Development of polyurethane forms for concrete casting of sculpture relief in
architectural application

1968    Development of forming procedures for exposed aggregate concrete casting

1974    Development and use of fiberglass and nylon fabric in airborne structures

1980    Development and use of solar reflectors for satellite sensor reception

1983    Use of scanning eleitrmicrosopy for creation of sub micron imagery

1989    Design and use of software for compositing satellite mosaics

1995    Design of video projection systems for globe display technologies

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

1971 CITY OF INGLEWOOD, Art Master Plan for Inglewood Civic

Center, Inglewood, Charles Luckman Associates, architects

1972 - 73 CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Art and Environmental Master Plan, The

Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles

1972 DAVIES PACIFIC CENTER, Honolulu, Hawaii. Art Environmental

Consultant, Au, Cutting & Smith, architects

1975 - 76 FARAHZAD CENTER, Teheran, Iran. Art & Environment Plan,

Archisystems, Inc., planners and architects

1986 - 88 WORLD TECHNOLOGY TRADE CENTER, Washington, D.C.

Smith/Williams Group, architects

TEACHING

1960 - 66 OTIS ART INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Instructor of drawing, painting and design

1967 - 68    OMEGA SEMINARS, Institute for Executive Research, Glendale,
California. Instructor for personal growth seminars

1967-2013 TOM VAN SANT STUDIO, Los Angeles, California. Life drawing

1988 - 89    SANTA MONICA COLLEGE, Instructor of life drawing

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

1956    RETAIL CLERKS UNION, mural, oil on canvas. Juried open competition
            among graduate students of California.

1959    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS,
            Art and Craftsmanship Award.

1963    MT. SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE, library murals. Juried international
            invitational competition.

1965    OUTSTANDING YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA, U.S. Junior Chamber of

Commerce. Awarded for artistic achievement.

1968    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH, International
          Sculpture Symposium Commission, "Vietnam Revisited", steel and
          bronze.

1984 LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Sculpture
            assemblage, fabric and fiberglass, thirty six pieces. Award of Merit.

1999 SGI "VANGUARD" Award

2006 LEONARDO DA VINCI SPACE ART AWARD , ISDC Space Art Life Dedication Award

GLOBAL DISPLAY SYSTEMS

1989 Eyes On Earth, a California non-profit corporation, was founded by Van Sant for

environmental research and education.

1989 The GeoSphere Project was created by Van Sant as the display and distribution arm of

Eyes On Earth. The following are its products.

1990 The GeoSphere Image marks a milestone in cartographic history. It is the first satellite map

of Earth, showing the real world as it appears from space. The work required one year of

effort by Van Sant and his technical director Lloyd Van Warren, using the world's most

powerful graphics computers. The image was first published as the title page of the 1990

National Geographic World Atlas. Since 1991 it has been adopted by all U.S. federal

agencies, has been published in over 300 magazines and atlases, and is the largest selling

image in the world.

1991 The Global Visual Library (aka Life on Earth), under development by Van Sant since

1987, is an interactive, multimedia universal library. It consists of animated

visualizations of Earth's processes, historic dynamics, species habitats, migration patterns,

and political and social data bases. Organized in a global geographic information system.

1991 The GeoSphere Globe, 6 feet in diameter, utilizes The GeoSphere Image as its

surface and constitutes the first three dimensional, realistic model of planet Earth.

The sphere is constructed of clear Lexan, thereby allowing video projectors within the

globe to display the animated data sets of the Global Visual Library through its surface.

1992 The Earth Situation Room is the ultimate display of The GeoSphere Project effort.

It incorporates the assets of The Global Visual Library, The GeoSphere Globe, and

offers monitoring of world weather, earthquakes, ocean conditions, ozone depletion,

deforestation, commercial air and sea traffic, and special research projects.

Earth Situation Rooms have been installed at the following locations:

        United Nations Summit Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

        Brazilian National Center for Space Research, Sao Panlo, Brazil

        Hemiji Science Center, Osaka, Japan

    Toho Gas Exhibit, Nogoya, Japan

World Exposition, Barcelona, Spain

Lisaberg Theme Park, Goteberg, Sweden

Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.

MTN Science Center, Capetown, South Africa

PARTIAL LECTURE LIST