Thomas Dolan Thomas Dolan, b. 1962, is an American artist living in Los Angeles. His work exists in the spaces where art and design overlap and explores how we process visual information and arrive at meaning. His output spans multiple media: painting, objects, collage, prints, music and critical writing. While it is rooted in a modern and minimalist approach, the work embraces technical complexity and is realized with a wry, conceptual edge. Dolan has shown internationally, published widely and created commissioned works. He attended Pomona College and has degrees from ArtCenter College of Design and California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of 22 Truths on Art and Art-Making, published in 2023.

* "What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to lives. Art has become a thing which is specialized and which is done by experts, whom we call artists. But couldn't everyone's life just be a work of art? Why should a lamp or a house or a painting be regarded as an art object, but not our life?"

—Michel Foucault, from On the genealogy of ethics: An overview of work in progress, 1984.