Hank Willis Thomas | Group Exhibitions | New Museum and Guggenheim, New York & Seattle Art Museum

Work by Hank Willis Thomas is included in Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum in New York. The exhibition brings together thirty-seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. Click here to learn more.

Thomas is also part of the group exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle at the Seattle Art Museum. This exhibition reunites Jacob Lawrence’s revolutionary 30-panel series Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56) for the first time since 1958. New work created for the exhibition by Derrick Adams, Bethany Collins, and Hank Willis Thomas reinforce the timeliness of Struggle by engaging themes such as democracy, justice, truth, and the politics of inclusion. Click here to learn more.

Alongside these exhibition, Thomas’ work featured in Off the Record group exhibition at Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition challenges this pretense, bringing together the work of contemporary artists from the Guggenheim’s collection who interrogate, revise, or otherwise query dominant narratives and the transmission of culture through official “records.” Click here to learn more.