Mickalene Thomas, Jet Blue #55, 2023

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Color photograph, mixed media
paper, and rhinestones on museum paper mounted on dibond with gold leaf

227.2 x 177.8 x 5.1 cm
89 1/2 x 70 x 2 in

Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, New Jersey) lives and works in New York. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognisable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while dissecting the intersecting complexities of black and female identity within the Western canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Awards nominated co-producer, curator, educator and mentor to many emerging artists. While embarking on her own monumental solo shows, she simultaneously curates exhibitions at galleries and museums. Thomas’s work has become an undeniable force within the contemporary art world and an indispensable inspiration to younger generations of artists. Thomas received a B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 2000 and an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2002. She has been awarded multiple prizes and grants, including the Pratt Institute Legends Award (2022), Rema Hort Mann Foundation 25th Anniversary Honoree (2022), Artistic Impact Award, Newark Museum (2022), Glass House 15th Anniversary Artist of the Year (2022), Yale School of Art Presidential Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts (2020), Legend in Residence Award, Bronx Museum (2020), Pauli Murray College Associate Fellow at Yale University (2020), Meyerhoff-Becker Biennial Commission at Baltimore Museum of Art (2019), Visionary Award, Pioneer Works (2019), USA Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow (2015), Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2013), Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award (2012), and the Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts (2010). She is the cofounder of the Pratt>FORWARD ‘Artist in the Market’ incubator for post-graduate students, and serves on the Board of the Trustees for the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA PS1.

Exhibitions

Filling in the Pieces in Black, Curated by June Sarpong, MARUANI MERCIER Gallery, October 2023 - January 2024, Brussels, Belgium

Curated by June Sarpong | Brussels: Filling in the Pieces in Black

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