CYNTHIA TOM

A San Francisco mixed-media artist, painter, of 30+ years, and community arts curator and educator for 15+ years, Cynthia Tom’s work is known as a catalyst for healing, empowerment and fostering community. 

She is Founding Director of A PLACE of HER OWN, an arts-based healing program that digs at ancestral chronic heartache. As Board President Emeritus: Asian American Women Artists Association 2007-2018, her team led the creation and establishment of key programs ensuring the visibility of their community.

Her work is represented by California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives and in the permanent collection of the “What is Feminist Art?” at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.