Thom Mayne’s distinguished career is marked by significant exhibitions and inclusion in prestigious institutional collections.  Notable solo exhibitions include those at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City. Key collections holding Mayne’s works are Museum of Modern Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston, TX; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Canada; and Tchoban Foundation’s Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin.
 
Born in Waterbury, Connecticut and raised in Gary, Indiana, Mayne completed his BA in Architecture at the University of Southern California in 1968, and he received his Master of Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1978. The founding partner of Morphosis, an interdisciplinary and collective architecture and planning practice established in 1972, Mayne’s distinguished honors include the Pritzker Prize (2005) and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (2013). He served on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities from 2009–2016. In 1972, he cofounded the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he continues to lead the NOW Institute, a graduate-level thinktank for urban sustainability and resilience. Mayne has held teaching positions at Columbia, Yale, Harvard, the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and University of Pennsylvania. Recent publications include Strange Networks (2020, Rizzoli), a monograph highlighting his exploration of combinatory systems, and M3 (2023, Rizzoli), a survey of fifty years of models at Morphosis. This investigation continues at Stray Dog Café, Mayne’s personal art and research space at Morphosis, where he leads a team of young designers and students on research projects, the creation of artworks, and the development of publications that document their creative output.