Tom Van Sant

Tom Van Sant ('57) has executed over sixty major sculpture and mural commissions for public spaces around the world, including international airports in Honolulu, Taipei and Los Angeles; civic centers of Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Inglewood; and corporate centers in Taiwan, Manila, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Honolulu and San Francisco. Van Sant has had fifteen one-person exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Australia.

Van Sants' professional work includes architectural design, city planning, art education, advanced technical invention, and large-scale kite design. His conceptual art projects of the 1980s led to the creation of The GeoSphere Project, an environmental display system that illustrates the issues of Earth resource management.