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Thomas Lucero
b. 1988, Walnut Creek, California, United States
Education
Mmus Creative Practice, Goldsmiths University of London, 2023
BA Studio Art (Emphasis in Photography), California State University Long Beach, 2012
SELECTED MUSIC RELEASES
2024
The Thing Itself 001: Putting the Kettle On
The Thing Itself 000: Procedures for Daydreaming
2023
Live at Daylight Music, London Jazz Festival, November 2022 - Goldsmiths Improviser Collective (digital, self-released)
Live in the Great Hall, Goldsmiths, 24 March 2023 - Goldsmiths Improviser Collective (digital, self-released)
2022
Pastime I: New Beginnings (Video Game Covers & Tributes) - Various Artists (digital, OST Composing Jam)
A Rotating Cast of Demos - Magda & the Aliens (digital, self-released)
2021
The Sublime Sculpture of Being Alive - Media Jeweler (cassette/vinyl/cd/digital, Fire Talk)
2020
In the Pigeon Hole - Staffers (cassette, ever/never)
Handful of Water - Painter (cassette/cd, Jungle Gym)
Goodbye For Now - Heathers (digital, self-released)
Long toes mean a foot can act as a hand - Thom Lucero (digital, self-released)
2019
They Didn’t Know What They Were About to Play - Musical Tracing
Ensemble (cassette, five-nine)
Tokyo Days - Thom Lucero (cassette, just_umbrellas)
Human Ecstasy - Homebody (digital, self-released)
2018
Important Bodies - Slowfoam & Painter (cassette)
Derring-do! - Painter (cassette, Papermade)
The Valley of Fear - Painter (digital, self-released)
1-800-SUCCEED - Media Jeweler (cassette/vinyl/cd/digital, Fire Talk Records)
2017
The Long Walk - Painter (digital, self-released)
2016
Chestnut - Painter (cassette, Papermade)
Slow Rose - Slow Rose (cassette, Papermade)
Jardine - Painter (flexi + artbook, Papermade)
2015
Odds Are Even - Heathers (cassette, self-released)
2014
I Know (Part Time Punks Sessions) - Heathers (cassette, self-released)
Fear 7”- Heathers (7” record, Death Party)
2013
Teenage Clothes 7”- Heathers (7” record, Death Party)
2012
Ten Thousand Things - Dash Jacket (cd-r, self released)
2011
Hannah - Dash Jacket (self-released)
2010
Leisure Burn 7”- Dash Jacket (7” record, Fire Talk)
Romance - Dash Jacket (cd, Life’s Blood)
High Spirits - Dash Jacket (cassette, UVR)
2009
Atoner EP - Dash Jacket (cd-r, UVR)
Spacer EP - Dash Jacket (cd-r, UVR)
BLAH BLAH - Dash Jacket (cd-r, UVR)
Some Songs - Dash Jacket (cd-r, UVR)
TOURS
2023
Media Jeweler (Japan)
2019
Media Jeweler w/ Picky Bunches (east coast USA)
Thick Paint w/ Delicate Steve (west coast USA)
Slowfoam + Painter (west coast USA)
2018
Staffers (Midwest/East Coast USA)
Media Jeweler (USA + Canada)
Media Jeweler (Japan)
2017
Media Jeweler w/ Thick Paint (west coast USA)
Media Jeweler (USA + Canada)
Homebody (west coast USA)
2016
Homebody (east coast USA)
Homebody (USA + Canada)
2015
Heathers (USA)
2014
Heathers w/ Girlpool (west coast USA)
Heathers w/ Spook School (east coast USA)
2013
Maston w/ The Resonars (Europe)
Maston (west coast USA)
2012
Dash Jacket w/ Moon Pearl (west coast USA)
2011
Dash Jacket w/ School Knights (west coast USA)
2010
Dash Jacket w/ Tan Dollar, Weed Diamond (west coast USA)
SELECT PERFORMANCES
2018
Longrun III - Slow Rose (coaxial, Los Angeles CA)
2017
Goliath & Goliath- Painter (Battery Books, Pasadena CA)
2016
Longrun II- Slow Rose (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Bears Play With Pink Balloon- Painter (Pehrspace, Los
Angeles CA)
2015
From Another Side w/ James Aranda (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Longrun - Slow Rose (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Waterworks w/ Miles Wintner & Shade Theret (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
I Have These Same Tools - Painter (Shapan’s, Glendale CA)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Sea (Echo Chamber Creative Headquarters, Los Angeles CA)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Waterworks (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
2014
Wide Streets/Slow Rose Artist Residency (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Syzygies (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
2013
Closing Reception (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
2012
Insights 2012 (CSULB University Art Museum, Long Beach CA)
CURATION/COORDINATION
2015
short run (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Group performance for participating musicians: James Aranda, Greg
Shilton, Chris Nowak, and Michael Wegener.
Long Run (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Group performance for participating musicians:
Chris Nowak, Pauline
Lay, Thomas Lucero, Paul Carter, Sam
Farzin, James Aranda, JT
Schweitzer, Colin Knight, Miles Wintner,
Stephen Heath, and
Andrew Jeffords.
Waterworks (Pehrspace, Los Angeles, CA)
Group performance and installation by
participating artists:
Miles Wintner, Shade Theret, Thomas Lucero.
2013
Catharsis & the Undertow (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Solo show for Ghost Ghost Teeth.
little/big (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Solo show for Alex LeGlovan.
Sadolescence (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA) Curated in collaboration with Tristan Bravinder.
Participating artists: Sheldon Gantt, Joyce Lee Tsang, Tristan Bravinder,
Lily Spitz, Sean
Findley, and Stephanie Son.
Closing Reception (Pehrspace, Los Angeles CA)
Participating artists: Matthew Williams,
Jaqueline Li, Katie Tilford, and
Thomas Lucero.
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Hearing the Impossible, a collection of sound scores featuring: Paul Greenleaf, Peter Eason Daniel,
Dion Star, Rob Blazey, Thom Lucero, Sheila De Courcy, Valentin Doychinov, Alan Bob Smith, Anna
Munster and Frederik Lecok (published by Accidental Editions)
2014
23 Short Poems (self-published)