Thomas Joseph Smith is an artist who specializes in painting, sculpting, and video. His works have been shown in cities such as New York City, Taipei, Sydney, and Rio de Janeiro. Early in his career, he created illustrations for the New York Times.

In 2009, Tom Smith experimented with collages of found superhero/comic images by taking the pictures and slicing them into tiny strips to combine characters. Due to the limitations of this technique, he instead began painting his own pictures on paper and combining them together. Currently, Smith’s work is a culmination of this technique of visual effects through the combination of imagery, described as “viewing a scene through a filter."

Smith’s first notable exhibition was Double Vision in Brooklyn in 2009, followed by Making Strange featured in Spring Break Art Show in 2016 in Brooklyn and Heavenly Bodies in New York City in 2014. Heavenly Bodies was an exhibit in which Tom Smith showcased his collages and multimedia artworks. These collages were inspired by his time in Brazil and Iceland. Smith’s latest and most significant exhibit was Swimming in My Head in New York City, at Olsen Gruin Gallery, which he describes as the “most involved” exhibition.

While exhibiting his work, Tom Smith worked at Two Palms Studios, in which he created his work.