1965
Born in Dorset
1980
Leaves school, aged 15 and works on a farm for a year, and then for the Forestry Commission in Dorset
1986
Moves to Hackney and works as a tree surgeon. Spends a year working for the USA Forestry Service in Puerto Rico.
1990
Attends A-level Photography evening classes at Kingsway College, London.
1991-94
London College of Printing, BA 1st Class Hons.
1995
The Tredou Arts and Culture Awards
The Ghetto, museum of London.
1996
Royal College of Art First Year Award for Best Photography (Fuji Film UK Ltd).
1997
Royal College of Art, MA.
Wins Painter-Stainers Photography prize at The R.C.A.
1998 - Wins John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award with Woman Reading a Possession Order.
1999
Neurotic Realism, The Saatchi Gallery, London.
2000
Life and Death in Hackney, White Cube, London; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.
2002
Thoughts of Life and Death, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
Tom Hunter: Photographs, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
2003
Tom Hunter, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Tom Hunter, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.
Wins John Kobal Book Award.
2004
1997-2004, Domus Artium 2002 Museum, Salamanca.
2005
Tom Hunter, Galeria Visor, Valencia.
2006
Living in Hell and Other Stories, The National Gallery, London.
Living in Hell and Other Stories, The Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
Artist in Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Living in Hell and Other Stories, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York.
2007
Tom Hunter, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Art Project Commission from Rosetta Life.
Working on Film Commission with Channel 4 and the I.C.A.
Symbolismus Exhibition in Von der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal.
Tom Hunter, The Falckenberg, Collection at Phoenix Kulturstiftung in Hamburg.
Art Project Commission by The Serpentine Gallery, London.
2008
Interior Lives, Geffrye Museum, London
Halloween Horror, Culture House, Skovde, Sweden
Shopkeepers, new commissioned work for the V&A Museum of Childhood, London
Life and Death in Hackney, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
New Photography, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2009
Flashback, new commissioned work for the Museum of London
Theatres of the Real, contemporary British photography, Fotomuseum Antwerp
Tom Hunter A Journey Back, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London
2010
A Palace for Us, Serpentine Gallery, London
Unheralded Stories Purdy Hicks, London
Lust for Life & Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Austria
The Ghetto, The Galleries of Modern London, Museum of London
British Photography, Photomonth, Krakow, Poland
Tears of Eros, The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Awarded Honorary Fellowship by Royal Photography Society September
2011
Awarded Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the University of East London
Unheralded Stories, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Tom Hunter; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon
Another Story, Modern Museet, Stockholm
Unheralded Stories, Mead Gallery, Warwick
Please Write, Posted, London
Caldic Collection, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
A Palace for Us, East End Film Festival, London
2012
Seduced by Art; Photography past and present, National Gallery London
Tom Hunter; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, RSC, The Roundhouse, London
Punch and Judy, V&A Museum of Childhood, London
Honorary Fellowship from the University College Falmouth
The Way Home, Book Publication with Hatje Cantz
2013
Two, Tom Hunter works are acquired by MOMA New York
Findings, Birmingham
From madonna to Madonna. Deconstructions of the feminine in contemporary society, Da2 Salamanca, Spain
UK Photography Now, Dong Gang International Photography Festival, South Korea
Divine Bodies, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Public Spaces, Public Stages, Print House Gallery, London
Making It Up: Photographic Fictions, V&A Museum, London
Memory & Imagination, The Mall Galleries, London
How is the World, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Unheralded Stories, Mission Gallery, Swansea
Seduced by Art, Photography Past & Present, Caixa Forum, Barcelona
Axis Mudi, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Le Crowbar, Book Publication with Here Press
2014
On The Road, LCC, London
The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice, The Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, U.S.A.
Songs From The Heart, Bredaphoto festival, Netherlands
The Luxury of Simplicity, Stradtmuseum, Munich, Germany
2015
Unheralded Stories, Sundsvall Museum, Sweden
Tech 4 Change, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
Axis Mundi, Green on Red, Dublin
Holly Street Estate, Peer Gallery, London
The Luxury of Simplicity, Innsbruck, Austria
Facing History, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Work Rest and Play, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
a sideshow of a sideshow, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
2016
Life and Death in Hackney, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. USA
Shakespeare in Art, Compton Verney, U.K.
2017
Searching For Ghosts, V&A’s Museum of Childhood, London, U.K.
E.U. Flaneur, Format Festival, Derby, U.K.
From Selfie to Self Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, U.K.
Warwick University collection, Mead Gallery, Warwick, U.K
Invited Artist, Royal West of England Academy, , Bristol, U.K.
2017
Mission is 40, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2018
London Nights, Museum of London, London, U.K.
London Calling, Museum of Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
Figures in a Landscape, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, U.K.
Figures in a Landscape, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2019
Sweet Harmony, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.
Home Sweet Home, Arles photo Festival, Arles, France
Home Sweet Home, Institute of Photography, Lille, France
Der Palast, Volksbühne theatre, Berlin, Germany
A Journey Home, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, U.K.
2020
Squaring The Circles, RPS, Bristol, U.K.
Inspiration- Contemporary Art & Classics, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Inspiration- Contemporary Art & Classics, Finish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, U.K
2021
Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, Imperial War Museum, London, U.K
The Vanished East End, Documentary Photography from the 70’s and 80′, Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archieve, London, U.K.
Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Johannes Vermeer; On Reflection, Dresden, Germany