The son of a physician, Therman Statom was born in Winter Haven, Florida[3] in 1953 and raised in Washington, DC.
In the early 1980s, Statom received an invitation from Richard Marquis to visit the hot glass program that he directed at the University of California at Los Angeles.
[7] His twenty-five year professional career includes exhibitions at major museums across the United States.
Internationally Statom has exhibited in Stockholm, Sweden; Paris, France; Hokkaido, Japan and Ensenada, Mexico.
[9] In November, 2015, Statom was named a United States Artists Fellow,[10] which includes an unrestricted $50,000 award.