Tom Condon is an artist who has received formal education in painting and photography. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Virginia Tech and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts. Condon's work is represented by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, and has been showcased in various international art fairs and competitions, including UNTITLED Miami, SCOPE (Miami and New York), the Affordable Art Fair, and artDC.
Condon has also been the recipient of several artist grants and fellowships, including grants from the Chautauqua School of the Arts and Vermont Studio Center, a professional fellowship in printmaking from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a Publication Fellowship with Peripheral Vision, and the WorkingArtist.org Photography Prize.
Condon's art is a combination of painting and photography, and he is best known for his unique silver gelatin chemigrams. He employs an experimental process that involves the application of photochemistry to light-sensitive paper in a painterly manner, creating new imagery that he describes as an "imagining of the simultaneous impossibility of the abstract and the familiarity of the real."