Tom Sachs was born in 1966 and lives and works in New York. He studied at the Architectural Association, London in 1987 and received his B.A. from Bennington College, Vermont in 1989.

Major exhibitions include: Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas (2017); Space Program: Europa, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (2016); Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999-2016, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2016); Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony, The Noguchi Museum, New York (2016); Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999-2016, The Contemporary Austin, Texas (2015); Biennale de Lyon, France (2013); Space Program: Mars, Park Avenue Armory, New York (2012); Le Corbusier Installation, Venice Biennial of Architecture (2010); Logjam, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2007); Tom Sachs, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2006); Tom Sachs - Survey, Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2006); NUTSY’S, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (2003).

Sachs’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.