# Tom Friedman artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-friedman/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:43:05.293Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Conceptual art
- Common media: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Video, Installation, Everyday objects and unconventional materials

## Portrait

![Tom Friedman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Tom_Friedman.JPG/1280px-Tom_Friedman.JPG)
Masoncheek · CC BY-SA 4.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Friedman.JPG

## About Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman (born 1965) is an American conceptual artist and sculptor born in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed a BFA in graphic illustration at Washington University in St. Louis in 1988 and an MFA in sculpture at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990. Friedman's practice spans sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and installation rather than a single signature medium. His work is also associated with the use of ordinary objects and familiar materials, sometimes organized into geometric arrangements. That range makes medium, construction, and object type important when identifying a work attributed to him. Collectors may encounter freestanding or constructed sculpture, works on paper, paintings, and documentation or components connected with installations. Stable Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, Library of Congress, and MoMA entity pages help distinguish the artist from other people with the same name.

## Common works and media

Friedman's documented media include sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and installation. Auction and appraisal inquiries may therefore involve constructed three-dimensional objects, paintings, drawings or other works on paper, and materials related to time-based or installed works. Ordinary objects and unconventional materials can be integral to the work rather than incidental components. The available source pack does not establish a complete catalogue of series, editions, or recurring titles, so identification should be based on the particular object's materials, construction, inscriptions, documentation, and ownership history.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily currently associates this artist page with 181 auction records, but the supplied research pack does not include a category breakdown or individual results. For appraisal, the first questions are therefore what type of work is present, which materials it uses, and how it was constructed. Comparisons should be restricted to publicly reported lots that resemble the object in medium and category. Attribution, dimensions, condition, provenance, date, and any edition information also require object-specific documentation before a valuation conclusion can be reached. The artist's broad practice means that a drawing, constructed sculpture, painting, video-related object, and installation component should not be treated as interchangeable market evidence.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2439673
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500126101
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96611417/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Friedman_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Friedman_(K%C3%BCnstler)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tom-friedman/