Thomas Micchelli is a painter, sculptor, and writer. He was born in Newark, NJ, and earned his BFA from Cooper Union, New York, NY, and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Soon after receiving his undergraduate degree, he became a co-founder of City Without Walls: An Urban Artists Collective, a non-profit gallery and performance space in Newark. More recently, he co-founded and edited Hyperallergic’s Weekend section, an online publication dedicated to long-form criticism of art, film, and literature.

His artwork has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at venues in New York and elsewhere, including John Davis Gallery, Hal Bromm Gallery, Centotto, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Lesley Heller Workspace, Studio 10, Life on Mars, Norte Maar, and Schema Projects, and he has been twice selected as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

He has published more than 400 reviews, essays, and interviews in journals including Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art:21. He has written catalogue essays for galleries and museums in New York City; Stavanger, Norway; Palermo, Sicily; Seoul, South Korea; Aarhus, Denmark; Plüschow, Germany; Newlyn, England; and Tehran, Iran. His book contributions have focused on subjects as diverse as Alice Trumbull Mason, Red Grooms, and Maria Bussmann. He has lectured and given critiques at Pratt Institute, Hunter College, the School of Visual Arts, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Old Dominion University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Rutgers University. He lives and works in Chatham, NJ.