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Cynthia Tom

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Neighborhood: Mission
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 30+ years as a Cultural Surrealist, Visual Artist, Social Justice focused Curator | Founder: A PLACE of HER OWN, an arts-based healing program 2009-present| Board President: Asian American Womxn Artists Association 2008-2019. I try to maintain a studio in San Francisco to host community as well as create and showcase my own work.

A mixed-media artist, painter and curator, my focus is on healing, empowerment, social change and community. As a Cultural Curator|Community Art Activist, I showcase cultural roots and community needs to drive Social Change. A PLACE of HER OWN is a healing program for womxn of color to explore ancestral trauma, colonization and eventually aspirations.

My art and curatorial projects have been exhibited in The Smithsonian’s permanent Archives of American Art – “What is Feminist Art”; In San Francisco - the Legion of Honor, De Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOMArts Cultural Center, California Institute of Integral Studies, internationally in Portugal and Barcelona, nationally at The Smithsonian, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Rutgers’s University, Los Gatos Museum of Art, etc.
Curatorial awards: de Young Museum Residencies, SOMArts Curatorial Fellowship, Asian American Pacific Islander Cultural Center.

Academic text books: Women Artists’ of the American West_Univ of Purdue, Susan Ressler and Asian American Women Artists in Post-Colonial Times_ University of Padua, by Dr. Laura Fantone-Professor SF Art Institute. Features include New York Time’s SF Arts Monthly, Center for Asian American Media, SF Chronicle, Psychology Today, ERA 21- Feminist Czech Journal, Marin Independent Journal, Digital Journal.com, KPFA and KPOO radio.

My work is represented by California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art collections. I guest lecture at UC Berkeley, SF STATE and Ca College for the Arts.
I am certified as a SoulCollage(R) Facilitator, Spiritual Assertiveness Guide, Family Pattern Facilitator - CEOptions.