Born 1948, St. Louis, MO

1971 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1969 B.A., Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
1994 Arts Foundation of Michigan Grant
1989 & 1983 Michigan Council for the Arts Grant
1986 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Grant

Selected Exhibitions: 2000 & 2002 SOFA/NY, Loveed Fine Arts, NY, NY / 2002 Michigan Drawing Biennial, Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, MI / 2001 Peace on Earth, Buckam Gallery, Flint, MI / Contemporary Ceramics from the Permanent Collection, Flint Institute, MI / 2000 Allan Chasanoff Collection, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC / To Have and to Hold: Ancient & Modern Vessels from Around the World, Flint Institute, Flint, MI / Who Knows Where or When, Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI / Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI / 1996 Thom Bohnert: Ceramics-Drawings, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY, NY

Selected Collections: Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL / Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI / Flint Institute, MI / Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL / University of Iowa Museum of Art, IA / Rockford College, Rockford, IL / Minneapolis Institute, MN / Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ / Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC / Ball Sate University Art Museum, Muncie, IN / Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI / Detroit Institute, MI / Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI / Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University, UT / Museum Boymans-von Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands / Jinro Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea / S.C. Johnson Co., Racine, WI /Robert Pfannebecker, Lancaster, PA

Selected Publications: American Ceramics, Hongkik University Press, 1997 / Die Neue Keramik in Den Galerien Der Welt, Germany, 1997 / American Ceramics, "Review," David D.J. Rau, Vol.11, no. 4, 1995 / From our Vault to the Studio, Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, WI, Bruce W. Pepich & Caron Heft, 1993 / American Artists, An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries, American References Publishing Corp., Chicago, IL, 1990 / American Ceramics, Garth Clark, E.P. Dutton, NY, 1989