Tom Kiefer (b. 1959, Wichita, Kansas) is a photographic artist based in Ajo, AZ, a former copper mining town forty miles from the U.S./Mexico border and about eighty miles from California. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States; Nerman Contemporary Art Museum, Overland Park, KS, Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ. In October 2019, the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles will be featuring a major exhibition of El Sueño Americano/The American Dream, an ongoing examination of U.S. government policies that documents the handling of personal possessions of immigrants and asylum seekers while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol during the years of 2007 thru 2014. In 2015 Kiefer was included in LensCulture's Top 50 Emerging Photographers and Photolucida's Top 50 Critical Mass list for this probative and timely body of work.