1987 - 89

Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Munich

1989 - 92

Kunstakademie Dusseldorf

1993 - 94

Goldsmiths' College, London (MA Fine Arts)

Known for his immaculate photographs of environments elaborately constructed out of cardboard and paper, Thomas Demand draws on source material from historical, political and media images. The resultant work divests the photographic images of obvoius referents, reducing the real to a generic form and leaving a certain tension between the uneasy blankness of each photograph and the loaded background that often informs it.