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Tom Smith was born Thomas Joseph Smith on December 10th, 1984 in Pennsylvania. Smith is the middle of three children, and was primarily raised in Elkton, Maryland. Smith’s mother was a craft artist who later became a web designer, and his father worked in a chemical plant in Wilmington, DE.

Smith attended Maryland Institute College of Art, where he majored in illustration, and also became interested in colors. Furthermore, following his undergraduate at MICA, Smith spent a semester abroad in France, attending Centre pour l'art et la culture in Aix en Provence. Subsequently, Smith traveled to New York where he would go to the School of Visual Arts for his graduate school.