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Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, New Jersey, United States) is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture.
Thomas has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including the International Center of Photography, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; Musée du quai Branly, Paris; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Netherlands.
Thomas’ work is included in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
His collaborative projects include, 'Question Bridge: Black Males,' 'In Search Of The Truth (The Truth Booth),' 'Writing on the Wall,' and the artist-run initiative for art and civic engagement, 'For Freedoms,' which in 2017 was awarded the ICP Infinity Award for New Media and Online Platform. Thomas is also the recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019), the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2018), Art for Justice Grant (2018), AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize (2017), Soros Equality Fellowship (2017), and is a member of the New York City Public Design Commission. Thomas holds a B.F.A. from New York University (1998) and an M.A./M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts (2004). In 2017, he received honorary doctorates from the Maryland Institute of Art and the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.
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Hank Willis Thomas: All Power to All People (bronze) at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
View Hank Willis Thomas' monumental sculpture 'All Power to All People (bronze)' at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The sculpture combines two sy

Hank Willis Thomas is Featured in Black American Portraits at LACMA in Los Angeles
Hank Willis Thomas is featured in 'Black American Portraits' at LACMA in Los Angeles. Remembering 'Two Centuries of Black American Art', gues

A Conversation with Hank Willis Thomas on the occasion of his Cincinnati Art Museum retrospective
Dr. Omotayo Banjo, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati; Damon Jones, Chief Communications Officer at Procter

Hank Willis Thomas | Group Exhibitions | New Museum and Guggenheim, New York & Seattle Art Museum
Hank Willis Thomas is featured in three major museum exhibitions across the United States this year, underscoring his continued influence on

Hank Willis Thomas & Naama Tsabar | Group Exhibition | Ballroom Marfa (Texas)
'unFlagging', an outdoor exhibition featuring Hank Willis Thomas and Naama Tsabar, at "Ballroom Marfa". The exhibition reconsiders flags an

Hank Willis Thomas's first major retrospective at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Following its critically-acclaimed debut at the Portland Art Museum, Thomas’ first major retrospective, _All Things Being Equal…_ is now on v

Hank Willis Thomas in 'Object Lessons' at the Edward Hopper House Museum
Work by Hank Willis Thomas features in Object Lessons at the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center from the 20th of March to the 14th o

Mikhael Subotzky, Hank Willis Thomas and Kiluanji Kia Henda participate in ‘Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography’ at The Barbican, London
Work by Mikhael Subotzky, Hank Willis Thomas and Kiluanji Kia Henda’s forms part of 'Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography', a group

Hank Willis Thomas: A Sportful Showcase of Art and Social Commentary at Weatherspoon Art Museum and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Work by Hank Willis Thomas forms part of the exhibition, 'To The Hoop; Basketball and Contemporary Art' at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Gr
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