Tom Walton was born in Oxford, United Kingdom. As a child he relocated to Washington, DC. Walton received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in 2007. Walton had solo show at Gross McCleaf Gallery and has a painting in the collection of the Woodmere Museum located in Philadelphia PA. He is a recent recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields grant and was an artist in residence at the Joan Mitchell Foundation. He is a current member of the Front Gallery. He is an Assistant Professor of Painting at Southeastern Louisiana University. His paintings have been published in INPA9 and the New American Paintings 154 Southern edition. Walton lives in New Orleans.