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A place to call home (Africa - America)

2009 Polished aluminium with powdered coat

Art Imitates Ads/ Imitates Life

2013 Lenticular Available on Request Add to My Selection

Mine Mine Mine

2010 Lenticular Available on Request Add to My Selection

Black Power

2005 Lightjet print Work: 64.7 x 102.6 cm Frame: 66.7 x 104.6 x 5 cm

From Cain't See in the Mornin' til Cain't see at Night

2011 Digital c-print 38 x 127cm / 56 x 178cm / 76 x 243cm

Absolut No Return

2008 Mixed Media 203 x 102cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

All Power to the People

2015 Fiberglass and aluminum 91 diameter Available on Request Add to My Selection

An injury to one is an injury to all

2014 Fiberglass and aluminum 89cm in diameter

Peace and Freedom

2014 Fiberglass and aluminum

Amandla

2014 Silicone, fiberglass, metal finish 130 x 80 x 50cm

A Luta Continua

2014 Alimunium 80 x 320 x 50cm

Die Dompas Moet Brand ! (The Passbook must Burn!)

2014 Bronze and copper shim 7 life cast arms holding pass books

Give us back our parents (pink and gold on black)

2018 Screenprint on retroreflective vinyl Source image DRUM Magazine. © BAHA

Give us back our parents (gold and red on gold)

2018 Screenprint on retroreflective vinyl. Source image DRUM Magazine. Copyright BAHA

To life abundant (pink and gold on black) II

2018 Screenprint on retroreflective vinyl. Source image DRUM Magazine. Copyright BAHA

To life abundant (pink and gold on black)

2018 Screenprint on retroreflective vinyl. Source image DRUM Magazine. Copyright BAHA

To life abundant (blue and gold on white)

2018 Screenprint on retroreflective vinyl. Source image DRUM Magazine. Copyright BAHA

From Cain't See in the Mornin' till Cain't See at Night

2011 Digital C-print 38 x 127cm

To life abundant (white on white)

2018 Screenprint on retroreflective vinyl. Source image DRUM Magazine. Copyright BAHA

About

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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Exhibitions

Group Show || Living Just Enough

06 October - 19 November 2020

The Wretched of the Screen / 2019

25 June - 21 September 2019

Narrative Means / 2018

02 June - 14 July 2018

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News

The Un-Private Collection: Hank Willis Thomas + Robin D. G. Kelley

Posted 14 July 2022

Hank Willis Thomas | Group Exhibition | LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

Posted 11 November 2021

Hank Willis Thomas | Group Exhibition | Middleheim Musem, Antwerp, Belgium

Posted 01 June 2021

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Hank Willis Thomas in Aperture

Wallpaper*: At home with artist Hank Willis Thomas

ArtNews: Artist Hank Willis Thomas Talks About Truth, His First Retrospective, More

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