{"id":3892,"date":"2020-03-05T03:18:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T03:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/?post_type=portfolio_page&p=3892"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:07:52","slug":"mickalene-thomas-curator","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_page","link":"https:\/\/art-bridge.org\/page\/mickalene-thomas-curator\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickalene Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mickalene Thomas<\/strong> was born in New Jersey in 1971. Thomas earned her MFA from Yale University, and holds a BFA from Pratt Institute. In 2002-\u00ad\u20102003 she participated in the Artist-\u00ad\u2010in-\u00ad\u2010Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem and in 2011 she was a resident at the Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program in Giverny, France. Recent awards include the 2012 Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award, Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Grant and the Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award in 2009, and the Rema Hort Mann Grant in 2007. Thomas has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally including \u201c30 Americans\u201d at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C; \u201cMama Bush: One of a Kind Two\u201d at the Hara Museum in Tokyo, Japan; \u201cAmericans Now\u201d at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.; \u201cSomething You Can Feel\u201d at La Conservera Contemporary Art Centre in Ceut\u00ed, Spain; and her solo exhibition, \u201cOrigin of the Universe,\u201d at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Thomas\u2019s work can be found in significant museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS, the Rubell Collection in Miami, FL, and the American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Thomas is represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Her work has been featured in various catalogues and reviewed in ArtForum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NY Arts, Modern Painters, and Whitewall among others. Mickalene Thomas lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>

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