1959
1960
Named city’s “Boy of the Year”
1961
Pasadena High School senior class student body president
1965
Graduates from Pomona College with a BA in Psychology
1965
Art Graduate Studies, University of California, Irvine
1968
National Endowment for the Arts
1969
After graduate work at UCI, experiments with Mendota Stoppages and studio solo exhibitions
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1973
MA Art, Claremont Graduate School
1974
Guggenheim Fellowship
1974
Evicted from Santa Monica studio, spends nearly 500 hours of flight time over 7 months, before finally finding Roden Crater
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early 1980s
Dia unable to continue patronage due to lack of financial resources, JT pursues projects through own Skystone Foundation until 1996
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1981-1983
Initial shaping of Roden Crater’s bowl using bulldozers
1984
Katherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
1991
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
1999
The Light Inside
Tunnel connecting old/ new buildings of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX more
2004
Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Science
2006
Certificate of Recognition, City of Los Angeles
2013
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
2013
National Medal of Arts
2014
Skyspace at Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Kayne Griffin Corcoran conference room, Los Angeles, CA more
2015
American Academy in Rome
2015
Honorary Doctorate, Pratt
2015
LACMA Film + Art Gala Honoree
2017-2019
Construction of the South Space, a framing observatory for Polaris
2021