Tom Greaves is a graduate of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a degree Visual Communication. He has completed The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design curriculum for Advanced Figure Sculpture and Advanced Metal Sculpture. Greaves has been living and working in Washington, D.C. since 1984. He employs a range of digital, conceptual, and traditional artistic media to create 2- and 3-dimensional artwork from his studio on Capitol Hill. Greaves has exhibited his work internationally at Salzlandmuseum, Schönebeck, Germany and domestically at ArtHelix, Brooklyn, New York, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, and The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD. His controversial 2007 installation “The Compliment Machine,” created for the show SiteProjects DC, received national and international media coverage, including an appearance on the Today Show. His work has been included into private collections across the globe.