Mickalene Thomas New Jersey, USA, b. 1971
Lives and works in New York, United States.
Mickalene Thomas studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and later completed a Master’s Degree at Yale University School of Arts.
Thomas works with many different technics such as painting, collage, sculpture, installations and videos. Inspired by popular culture and art history, she proposes a contemporary vision of female sexuality, beauty and power. In her work, Thomas builds complex portraits, landscapes and domestic environments, from where she explores identity, gender and their relationship with the way women are depicted. The work of Mickalene Thomas is distinguished by its multiple fragments and overlapping of planes in intense colors and diverse textures, to configure an image.
Thomas’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions in spaces such as the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Aperture Foundation, New York; George Eastman, Rochester; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; La Conservera, Ceutí, among others. Collectively, the exhibitions at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, and the Long Museum, Shanghai are remarkable. In addition, her work is part of international collections such as those of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.
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