BIOGRAPHY

Bruce Thorn was born in 1952 on the South Side of Chicago in the Hyde Park neighborhood, the third of three children and a first generation American. He received a scholarship to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he began studies in September of 1971 and received a BFA degree in painting and drawing in 1975. Bruce later attended the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, earning his MFA degree in 1987.