Thomas Lawson, dean of the School of Art, works in many media as diverse as the projects he finds himself committed to. He has shown paintings at MetroPictures in New York, Anthony Reynolds in London and the Richard Kuhlenschmidt and Rosamund Felsen galleries in Los Angeles. These paintings have also been included in group shows at the ICA Philadelphia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, The Brooklyn Museum, The Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney and Laforet Museum in Tokyo. Surveys of his work have been mounted by the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art at La Jolla, the CCA in Glasgow and the Battersea Arts Centre in London. He has created temporary public works in New York, New Haven, Glasgow, Newcastle and Madrid, and proposed many others. His essays have appeared in such journals as Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, frieze and October, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. From 1979 until 1992 he, along with Susan Morgan, published and edited REAL LIFE Magazine, an irregular publication by and about younger artists interested in the relationship between art and life. He has organized and selected many exhibitions for such venues as Artists Space, PSI, The Clocktower and White Columns, all in New York; National Touring Exhibitions/Hayward Gallery in London; and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. His work has been collected by the Brooklyn Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Arts Council of England, Scottish Arts Council, Emory University and University of Colorado at Boulder among others. He has received three Artist Fellowships from the NEA, project support from Art Matters, Inc., and Visual Arts Projects, and a residency fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. He has taught at SVA and RISD. In 1999/2000 he worked with the architectural partnership EMBT/RMJM to identify the role of the visual arts in the design of a new parliament building for Scotland.