Selected exhibitions
2025
Courage of a Nation / Ukrainian National Museum / Chicago, Illinois
2024
Suburbia: Building the American Dream / Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona / Barcelona, Spain
Life in Miniature / Reeves House Visual Arts Center / Woodstock, Georgia
May You Live The Rest of Your Life / BravinLee programs / New York, New York
2023
Small is Beautiful / Fever Productions / New York, New York
2022
Small is Beautiful / Old Brompton Road / London
2021
Small is Beautiful / Galerie Joesph / Paris, France
Squee! / Towson University / Towson, Maryland
2020
Miniature Art / Beinart Gallery / Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
2019
Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art / Fleming Museum / University of Vermont / Burlington, Vermont
Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art / Coral Gables Museum / Coral Gables, Florida
2018
Thomas Doyle: Hold Your Fire / Diesel Art Gallery / Tokyo, Japan
Downsized: Small Scale Sculpture by Contemporary Artists / Bruce Museum / Greenwich, Connecticut
2017
Memory of Place / Flinn Gallery / Greenwich, Connecticut
Exquisite Abandon: Contemporary Miniature Works / Laguna College of Art + Design / Laguna Beach, California
2016
Thomas Doyle: If the creek don’t rise / The Hudson River Museum / Yonkers, New York
Enough to Swear by / Morlan Gallery / Transylvania University/Lexington, Kentucky
Feel Big Live Small / The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures / Tucson, Arizona
2015
The Miniature / Grunwald Gallery of Art / Indiana University / Bloomington, Indiana
50 for 50 / Westchester Arts Council / White Plains, New York
Feel Big Live Small / apexart / New York, New York
2014
Miniatures: It’s Not All Small After All / Prichard Art Gallery / University of Idaho / Moscow, Idaho
Prep School: Prepper & Survivalist Ideologies and Utopian/Dystopian Visions / Torrance Art Museum / Torrance, California
Unpredictable Gravity / Roq la Rue Gallery / Seattle, Washington
2013
Dream No Small Dreams / Ronchini Gallery / London, England
No Man’s Land / LeBasse Projects / Culver City, California
2012
Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities / Musée des beaux-arts Eugène Leroy / Tourcoing, France / In association with Museum of Arts and Design / New York, New York
Media Matters / Foster/White Gallery / Seattle, Washington
Minimal / Hå gamle prestegard / Håvegen, Norway
American Dreamers / Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina at Palazzo Strozzi / Florence, Italy
2011
Surface to air / LeBasse Projects / Culver City, California
2112: Imagining the Future / RMIT Gallery / Melbourne, Australia
Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities / Museum of Arts and Design / New York, New York
Mini-Size Me / Bakersfield Museum of Art / Bakersfield, California
Suggestivism / Grand Central Art Center / Santa Ana, California
2010
Collateral damage / LeBasse Projects / Culver City, California
Synesthesia 2010 / Electric Pear Productions/The Wild Project / New York, New York
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s Radius exhibition / Ridgefield Guild of Arts / Ridgefield, Connecticut
Tragic sense of life / Fine Arts Gallery / Westchester Community College / Valhalla, New York
There’s no place like here / Tower Fine Arts Gallery / The College at Brockport / Brockport, New York
2009
Eniminiminimos: Artists Who Make Things Small / Jendela Gallery, The Esplanade / Singapore
X: Mixed Greens Anniversary Show / Mixed Greens Gallery / New York, New York
Seasonal change / LeBasse Projects / Culver City, California
Ten / The West Collection / Oaks, Pennsylvania
2008
Next (I)s: Over the Rainbow / Yoo Art Space Gallery / Mushroom Arts / Seoul, South Korea
Forces of Nature / Limn Art Gallery / San Francisco, California
Synthetic Supernova / Mixed Greens Gallery / New York, New York
My little/Membrane / NURTUREart / Brooklyn, New York
31st Small Works Exhibition / 80 Washington Square East Galleries / New York, New York / Richard Witter, juror
2007
NYNYNY / Flux Factory / Long Island City, New York
Pretty little things / Gallery Ocho / Santa Barbara, California
Human remains / Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art / Beacon, New York
In summer, the song sings itself / Pentimenti Gallery / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Red Dot Art Fair / With Pentimenti Gallery / New York, New York
30th Small Works Exhibition / 80 Washington Square East Galleries / New York, New York / Jim Kempner, juror
2006
Der Hammer Performance & Auction / Chashama / New York, New York
Group Exhibition / Go North – A Space for Contemporary Art / Beacon, New York
Summer Group Show & Auction / 3rd Ward Gallery / Brooklyn, New York
Art of the Northeast / Silvermine Guild Gallery / Stamford, Connecticut / Ben Barzune, juror
Not to Scale / Target Gallery / Alexandria, Virginia / David C. Levy, juror
Urban Visionaries / Fourth Annual Award Dinner & Silent Auction / Cooper Union
New York, New York
29th Small Works Exhibition / 80 Washington Square East Galleries / New York, New York / Jack Shainman, juror
2002
(all you’re houses) / Art Quad / Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
2000
Juried Student Exhibition / Reese Bullen Gallery / Humboldt State University / Arcata, California / Faculty jury
1999
Unknown explosions / Foyer Gallery / Humboldt State University / Arcata, California
Juried Student Exhibition / Reese Bullen Gallery / Humboldt State University / Arcata, California
Faculty jury
1998
Juried Student Exhibition / Reese Bullen Gallery / Humboldt State University / Arcata, California / Faculty jury
Selected publications and press
2025
Rozenweig, Emmanuelle. L’art du minuscule. 70 artists de l’infiniment petit. Alternatives. 2025
2024
Suburbia: Building the American Dream. Catalog. Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. 2024
2023
Conversation with Giana Volpe on “Heart of the East End,” WLIW-FM, Long Island, New York.
2020
Koseluk, Chris. “Madison Hamburg on His One-Of-A-Kind HBO Doc ‘Murder on Middle Beach.’” The Credits, magazine of the Motion Picture Association. December 18, 2020.
2019
Ünver, Kate Esme. The Book of Mini. Black Dog/Levinthal Publishers. New York. 2019.
Bland, Bartholomew. C. “Castles in the Sky.” Catalog essay for exhibition. Lehman College Art Gallery. New York, New York. 2019.
2016
Bland, Bartholomew. C. “Thomas Doyle: If the creek don’t rise.” Catalog essay for exhibition. Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, New York. 2016.
Ellin, Abby. “Miniacs Live in a Small, Small World.” New York Times. New York, New York. May 6, 2016.
2015
Costa, Antonio. La mela di Cézanne e l’accendino di Hitchcock. Giulio Einaudi Editore. Torino, Italy. 2015.
2014
Manco, Tristan. Big Art x Small Art. Thames & Hudson. London, England. 2014.
2013
Calvi, Nuala. “It’s a small world.” Mayfair Times. London, England. September, 2013.
“Artist Thomas Doyle gets big with miniatures.” Ragmag Magazine. Beirut, Lebanon. September, 2013.
Brownlee, John. “Humanity’s Bleak, Phanstamagoric Future, Sealed Beneath Glass.” FastCoDesign.com. September 17, 2013.
Stinson, Liz. “13 Strange Miniature Worlds, Crafted by Hand.” Wired.com. September 11, 2013.
Lane, Mary M. “The Big Ambition of Miniature Art.” The Wall Street Journal Weekend. New York, New York. August 31/September 1, 2013.
“The Interview: Thomas Doyle.” Hunger.tv. August 27, 2013.
Bland, Bartholomew F. “Dream No Small Dreams.” Catalog essay for “Dream No Small Dreams” exhibition. Ronchini Gallery. London, England. 2013.
2012
Cornell, Alex, editor. Breakthrough! 90 Proven Strategies to Overcome Creative Block & Spark Your Imagination. Princeton Architectural Press. New York, New York. 2012.
Morris, Roderick Conway. “An Exposition in Florence Focuses on American Artists in the City.” New York Times. New York, New York. May 17, 2012.
Fayard, Judy. “Americans Invigorate Florence. At Palazzo Strozzi, Impressionists and Dreamers Stun.” Wall Street Journal. New York, New York. March 15, 2012.
Di Genova, Arianna. “Quando l’happy end è solo un sogno.” Il Manifesto. Rome, Italy. March 10, 2012.
Rau, Gaia. “Le promesse infrante dell’America 11 artisti in mostra alla Strozzina.” La Repubblica Firenze. Florence, Italy. March 8, 2012.
Zarrilli, Ludovica. “Il sogno americano. Con baratro.” Corriere Fiorentino. Florence, Italy. March 6, 2012.
Nori, Franziska. “The American Dream: Reality or Imagination?” Catalog essay for “American Dreamers” exhibition. Silvana Editoriale. Milan, Italy. 2012.
Bland, Bartholomew F. “Age of Anxiety: The Fantasy Impulse in American Art.” Catalog essay for “American Dreamers” exhibition. Silvana Editoriale. Milan, Italy. 2012.
Roth, Jesse. “Thomas Doyle.” Pork & Mead. Detroit, Michigan. February/March 2012.
Williams, Linda. “Contemporary Art as Futuristic Fiction – All That is Solid Melts Into Air.” Catalog essay for “2112: Imagining the Future” exhibition. RMIT Gallery. Melbourne, Australia. 2012.
2011
Gómez, Edward M. “Irresistible Illusions and Other Worlds.” Sculpture. Washington, DC. September, 2011.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Alternative Worlds Where Even McMansions Are Tiny.” New York Times. New York, New York. June 16, 2011.
McFadden, David Revere. “Seeing and Knowing.” Catalog essay for “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities” exhibition. Museum of Arts and Design. New York, New York. 2011.
Spoor, Nathan. Interview with artist in “Suggestivism” exhibition catalog. Santa Ana, California. 2011.
Valli, Marc. “Growing Concerns in an Ever-Shrinking World.” Microworlds. Laurence King Publishing, Ltd. London, England. 2011.
2010
Klein, Richard. Catalog essay for “Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York” exhibition. Aldrich Museum. Ridgefield, Connecticut. 2010.
2009
Olaussen, Hege. “Snøkuler som samtidskunst.” Kunst og Kultur. Universitetsforlage in cooperation with The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway. Number 4, 2009.
New York Times Book Review. Cover illustration. New York, New York. November 8, 2009.
New York Times Magazine. Cover illustration. New York, New York. June 14, 2009.
Viveros, Christian. Catalog essay for “Ten” exhibition. Artist dialogue with Peter Garfield. The West Collection. Oaks, Pennsylvania. 2009.
Spoor, Nathan. “Thomas Doyle–The Fundamentals of Being Human.” Hi-Fructose Magazine, Albany, California. Vol. XI, Spring 2009.
2008
Cohn, Melanie Franklin. Catalog essay for “New York, New York, New York” exhibition. Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York. 2008.
2007
Strauss, R.B. “Some First Friday Jewels for July.” University City Review, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. July 4, 2007.
Rubin, Brian. “‘Go North’ Young Art-Lovers.” Ellenville Journal, Ellenville, New York. July 5, 2007.
Selected awards, residencies, and lectures
Guest Lecture. Future of Storytelling Winter Session. New York, New York. 2023.
Guest Lecture. Llhuros Symposium. University of Tennessee. 2022.
Artist in Residence. The Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York. 2022.
Panelist in conjunction with “Memory of Place” exhibition. Flinn Gallery. Greenwich, Connecticut. 2018.
Guest Lecture. Laguna College of Arts and Design. 2017.
Guest Lecture. University of Maryland. 2017.
Panelist in conjunction with “Downsized” exhibition. Bruce Museum. Greenwich, Connecticut. 2017.
Panelist in conjunction with “If the Creek Don’t Rise” exhibition. Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, New York. 2016.
Guest Lecture. Indiana University. 2015.
Guest Lecture. University of Idaho. 2015.
Panelist in conjunction with “Otherworldly” exhibition. Museum of Arts and Design. New York. 2011.
MacDowell Colony Fellowship. 2009.
West Prize Acquisition. West Collection. 2008.
Collections
The Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Decatur, Illinois.
The Absolut Company / Pernod Ricard. Stockholm, Sweden.
West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania.
Private collections, United States, Europe, Asia.
Education
Fine art, Humboldt State University. Arcata, California. 1997-2000.