BIOGRAFIA
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| MICKALENE THOMAS | |
| 1971 | Born Camden, NJ |
| Lives and works Brooklyn, NY | |
| Training | |
| 2002 | MFA Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT |
| 2002 | BFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1998 | Southern Cross University, Lismore, AU |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2014 | Nathalie Obadia, Paris, F |
| Better Days Berlin, Springmann Gallery, Berlin, DE | |
| George Eastman House, Rochester, NY | |
| 2013 | Better Days, Absolut Vodka project, Art Basel, Basel, CH |
| 2012 | How to Organize a Room Around a Striking Piece of Art, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY |
| Origin of the Universe, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA | |
| The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | |
| 2011 | More Than Everything, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY |
| Mama Bush: One of a Kind Two, The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, J | |
| 2010 | Put A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2009 | Something You Can Feel, La Conservera Contemporary Art Space, Ceuti, ES |
| She’s Come UnDone!, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY | |
| Mickalene Thomas, Alumni Achievement Award Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2008 | Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| What’s Love Got To Do With It?, Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| 2007 | An Imitation of Love, Brawlin’ Spitfire Two, (Project Room) Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | Something About You…, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| Brawlin’ Spitfire, Special Project, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2014 | Pop Departures, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
| L’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Monaco, Monaco, MC | |
| Reflect, Cut, Construct, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia Univeristy, New York, NY | |
| Aspects of the Self: Portraits of Our Times, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA | |
| Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, I | |
| Domestic Bliss?, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2013 | Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobile, Salon 94, New York, NY |
| Seven Sisters, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Lunch with Olympia, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT | |
| Amor Fati, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Desire, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Paintings from the gallery collection, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, J | |
| 30 Americans, First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI | |
| Personal, Political, Mysterious, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY | |
| Black Eye, Conceptnv, New York, NY | |
| The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon CT | |
| Du Bois in our time, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS, Amherst, MA | |
| Expanding the Field of Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA | |
| Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Dali Museum, St. Petersburgh, FL; Virginia | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA | |
| Performa, New York, NY | |
| Exposing the Gaze: Gender and Sexuality in Art, The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC | |
| 2012 | Twisted Sisters, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY |
| Tête-à-tête, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY | |
| Contemporary African Printmakers, Nazareth College Arts Center, Rochester, NY | |
| Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Work from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ | |
| Bending the Mirror, Canani Center Gallery at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH | |
| Room in My Head: Staging Psychological Spaces, Gutstein Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA | |
| Histories: The Sheldon Permanent Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE | |
| 28 Days, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, CDN | |
| Global Africa Project, Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA | |
| Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA | |
| Bling, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| Blacks in Black and White, Brand New Gallery, Milan, I | |
| 2011 | Reframing the Feminine, Girl’s Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
| Body Gesture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR | |
| Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL | |
| MelodyMania, RH Gallery, New York, NY | |
| EAT ME!, Goodman Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town, ZA | |
| A Room of Her Own, Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC | |
| The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21st c. Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH | |
| Safety in Numbers? Images of African American Identity and Community, Portland Art Museum, Portland, ME | |
| Be Alive: Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum, Tokyo, J | |
| 30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC | |
| Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD | |
| The Truth is Not in the Mirror, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, IL | |
| Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA | |
| Elizabeth Catlett: Call and Response, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY | |
| Pattern ID, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO | |
| 2010 | XX-XY/Gender Representation in Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL |
| Now WHAT?, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL | |
| Sharon Stone in Abuja, Location One, New York, NY | |
| 4 Eccentrics, The Proposition, New York, NY | |
| Summer Surprises, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania, PA | |
| Inspired, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY | |
| The Global Africa Project, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY | |
| Americans Now, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO | |
| Versus, Hous Projects, New York, NY | |
| Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| Shrew’d: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE | |
| Posing Beauty, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA | |
| Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY | |
| 40, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX | |
| 2009 | Landscape Revisited, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY |
| Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Posing Beauty, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY | |
| The Female Gaze: Women Looking at Women, Cheim and Read, New York, NY | |
| Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY | |
| Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY | |
| Big Apple, Galerie Nordine Zidoun, Paris, F | |
| Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA | |
| The Glamour Project, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY | |
| 2008 | 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
| Group Show, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, S | |
| 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT | |
| The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe AZ | |
| Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI | |
| Black Is, Black Ain’t, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL | |
| City Stage New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA | |
| Perverted by Theater, apexart, New York, NY | |
| 2007 | Sweet SweetBack’s Baadasssss Song, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY |
| Commemorating 30 Years 1976—2007 Part Three 1991—2007, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL | |
| Distinctive Messenger, House of Campari, New York, NY | |
| Sex in the City, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Taking Aim, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN | |
| Some Kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Flava, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, CDN | |
| Prime Time, Caren Golden Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY | |
| My Love Is a 187, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Inspired in New York, Echo Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2006 | Not An Ocean Between Us: Voices of Women From African and the African Diaspora, Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC |
| Lag Time Line Up, Mumbo Jumbo Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Materiality, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Wild Girls, Exit Art, New York, NY | |
| The Pulse of New Brooklyn, MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Do You Think I’m Disco, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY | |
| 2005 | NeoVernacular, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Five Artists, Five Projects, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, GA | |
| Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| Tête-à-Tête, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Maximum Flavor, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA | |
| Greater New York 2005, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY | |
| African Queen, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| 2004 | Me, Myself and I, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL |
| Glamour, Glory and Gold, The Proposition Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Seeds and Roots, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| It’s About Memory, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 2003 | Beauty, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY |
| Pantone, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Because I’m Worth It, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY | |
| Hands on Hands Down, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | |
| Residencies and Grants | |
| 2013 | Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT |
| Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME | |
| Anonymous Was A Woman Award | |
| 2012 | Asher B. Duran Award, Brooklyn Museum of Art |
| 2011 | The Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program, Giverny, France |
| 2010 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO | |
| Durham Press, Durham, PA | |
| 2010 | Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts |
| 2009 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant |
| Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award | |
| 2007 | Rema Hort Mann Grant |
| 2003 | Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Barry Cohen Scholarship, Yale University |
| 2001 | Vermont Studios Center, Johnson, VT |
| Paul Harper Fellowship, Yale University | |
| 2000 | Presidential Merit Scholarship, Yale University |
| 1999 | Yale Norfolk Summer of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT |
| Elizabeth Stokel Battell Fellowship, Yale University | |
| Public collections | |
| 21c Museum, Louisville, KY | |
| The Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH | |
| The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | |
| Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD | |
| Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA | |
| Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, J | |
| The International Center of Photography, Boston, MA | |
| Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, CDN | |
| The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY | |
| Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC | |
| National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC | |
| Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS | |
| The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ | |
| The New York Public Library, New York, NY | |
| North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC | |
| The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL | |
| The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| Sender Collection, New York, NY | |
| The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC | |
| The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY | |
| The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY | |
| Taschen Collection, New York, NY | |
| The Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, Tempe, AZ | |
| The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| West Collection, Oaks, PA | |
| Yale University, New Haven, CT | |
