Tom Halsall has taught painting and drawing at Westchester Community College in Valhalla since 1972. He is the Chairperson of the Visual Arts Curriculum and the Computer Arts Certificate Program. He holds an undergraduate degree from SUNY Buffalo and three graduate degrees from Columbia University in New York.
While at Columbia, he was a recipient of the prestigious Arthur Wesley Dow Scholarship. He has also spent time studying in Europe at the La Scuola Duccio di Bonesegna in Siena, Italy and Humbolt University in Berlin, Germany. Since his first professional painting exhibition at the Westbroadway Gallery in Soho in 1972, he has been an active exhibiting artist participating in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions including Ae Whitney Museum of American Art, The Neuberger Museum in Purchase, NY; 7-he Hudson River Museum in Yonkers and most recently 1he HammondMuseum in North Salem, NY.
"A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language
of the image into a stimulusfor critical reflections - not an
invitationfor self-hypnosis. " Umbefto Ecco

EDUCATION
Ed.D. - Art, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, 1973
Ed.M. - Art, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, 1971
M.A. - Art, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, 1970
B.A. - Art, State University College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 1968

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Professor of Visual Arts, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY, 1972-Present
Visiting Instructor of Art, SUNY College at Purchase, Purchase, NY, 1972-1978
Visiting Instructor of Art, Columbia University Teachers College, 1971-1972
Visiting Instructor of Art, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, 1969-1973

PAINTING EXHBITIONS
"26th Annual Professional Exhibition", Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY, 1976
Artists Space, Soho, NYC, 2002
Artists Space, Soho, NY City, 1999
ABC, No Rio Gallery, New York City, NY, 1987
Catacombs Gallery, Siena, Italy, 1967
Centre Culturel de Floreffe, Floreffe, Belgium, 1999
"Color Field Painting", Art Center, Montgomery Community College, Rockford, MD, 1976
"Retrospectives," The Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY, 1982
Somerstown Gallery, Somers, NY, 1995
Somerstown Gallery, Somers, NY, 1991
Somerstown Gallery, Somers, NY, 1990
SUNY Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY, 1997
The 5 & 10 Show, Peekskill, NY, 1997
The Hammond Museum, South Salem, NY, 2000
The Franz Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium, 1999
The Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, NY, 2000
The Polis Gallery, Peekskill, NY, 1998
The Schoolhouse Gallery, Croton Falls, NY, 1997
Thirteenth Annual "Ten Downtown," New York City, 1980
"Three New York Painters", John Hopkins Art Galleries, Baltimore, MD, 1973
"Visual Arts Faculty", Westchester Community College, Museum Gallery, White Plains Public Library, White Plains, NY, 1978
Westbroadway Gallery, New York City, NY, 1974
Westbroadway Gallery, New York City, NY, 1975
Westbroadway Gallery, New York City, NY, 1976
Westbroadway Gallery, New York City, NY, 1978
Ziegfeld Gallery, New York City, NY, 1973

VIDEO ART AND DOCUMENTARIES
An Interview with Dr. Miguel Angel Parada, Rector, The University of El Salvador, at the University Center, San Salvador, 1984
"Film and Video on Art", Artist Call Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, 1987
Installation, Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY, 1984
March for Peace, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1983, Downtown Community Television, New York City, NY, 1983
PAD/D Installation, The Franklin Furnace, New York City, NY, 1985
State of Mind/State of the Union Exhibition, The Judson Memorial Church, New York City, NY, 1985
"The Hartford Heritage", Commissioned by the Hartford Family Foundation, Valhalla, NY, 1987
Transformation, The White Columns Gallery, New York City, NY, 1985
"Wigstock'89", Premier Showing, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York City, NY, 1989
CABLE SCREENING IN WESTCHESTER (Adams/Russell, Harrison, "CH-19") American Cable, Tarrytown "CH-24" and U.A. Columbia, New Rochelle, "CH-8")
A Conversation with Johnny Vita, Port Chester Artist, 1984
An Interview with Oren Teicher, Candidate for Congress in the 20th Congressional District, 1984
Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, 1984
Avenue B Is The Place to B, 1984
Countervisions: Video Art and Social Commentary, 1984
Rudolph Baranak Lectures on the Artists Responsibility on Peace Day 1984 at the College of New Rochelle, NY, 1984
W.E. S.P.A.C., June 7, 1984: Civil Disobedience at the Federal Building in New York City, 1984