Tomás Gómez Robledo was born in 1952 in Washington D.C., U.S.A. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas de San Carlos (National School of Visual Arts of San Carlos) and the Escuela Nacional de Pintura La Esmeralda (National School of Painting La Esmeralda), where he was a student of Roger von Gunten, Gilberto Aceves Navarro and Vicente Gandía. He has been a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad de Veracruz (Visual Arts School of the University of Veracruz), at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales (National School of Visual Arts), and assistant teacher of Gilberto Aceves Navarro in his painting school.