2011
Hank Willis Thomas investigates the intersections of race, identity and consumerism in a variety of mediums including photography, sculpture, printmaking, large-scale public installation and filmmaking. His work addresses some of the most difficult and complex issues of our time, including systemic racism, marginalized communities, media bias and income inequality.
Thomas has exhibited his work across the globe, including in New York, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Brussels, São Paulo, Berlin, Hong Kong, and Paris. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Honors and awards include the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship (2019) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2018).
Thomas earned an MFA in photography from California College of the Arts, and a BFA in photography and Africana studies from New York University. In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Institute For Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts in Maine. He maintains a studio in Brooklyn, New York.
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Divine
By Greg Gorman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Greg Gorman (b. 1949) is a renowned fashion photographer who established his reputation in the late 1980's. His bold images are most frequently created in black and white, which he c...
Pigment
Djimon Sideview
By Greg Gorman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Greg Gorman (b. 1949) is a renowned fashion photographer who established his reputation in the late 1980's. His bold images are most frequently created in black and white, which he c...
Silver Gelatin
Self-Portrait
By Barbara Astman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Barbara Astman (b. 1950) is a celebrated contemporary Canadian artist, best known for her innovative work using photography and its many utilitarian offshoots such as scanners and ph...
Polaroid
The Honeymoon is Over
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant contribution to postmodern and conceptual art in Canada and beyond. The group was both prolific and multi-disciplinary long before it became de rigueur. They with photography, sculpture, painting, mail art, video, installation, multiples, and performance. With their subversive approach and interest in parody and appropriation, General Idea addressed a broad range of social (and art-world) issues such as the cult of the artist, mass media, queer identity, and consumerism. Thematic continuity was a key element in General Idea's work. Early on they introduced talismans or logos that they would revisit and re-envision, including skulls, ziggurats, and poodles. This print comes from "Fear Management": a set of 8 prints that celebrates some of General Idea's defining and most beloved motifs by situating them on a crest. This showcases their clever blend of historical fantasy and invented patrimony. Many of these self-mythologizing crests debuted in 1986 during their exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo entitled: The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion. This series is a defining example of one of General Idea's most iconic motifs, the crest, which showcases their clever blend of historical fantasy and invented patrimony. Centered on a handpainted background, "The Honeymoon...
Screen
"Chris Harris" silver gelatin print, 1980s, framed
By Greg Gorman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Greg Gorman (b. 1949) is a renowned fashion photographer who established his reputation in the late 1980's. His bold images are most frequently created in black and white, which he c...
Silver Gelatin
Silhouette
By Michael Snow
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Michael Snow (1929-2023) is one of the most remarkable multi-disciplinary Canadian artists. He is renowned for a diverse body of work that ranges from experimental films and jazz rec...
Paper
Beauty World: Style Variation 1 (Afro)
By Derrick Adams
Located in London, GB
Derrick Adams Beauty World: Style Variation 1 (Afro), 2020 Signed and dated in pencil Screenprint in colours with acrylic varnish, on paper 68.6 x 50.8 cm 27 x 20 inches One of three...
Screen
Donovan G Davis Untitled 2023 Photo Collage on paper
By Donovan Davis
Located in Toronto, ON
Donovan Davis is a Canadian based artist currently residing in Toronto. He has over two decades dedicated to deconstructing and reconstructing photo based images. His stunning photo...
Paper
Understudy
By Vanessa Woods
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Somewhere Between Here and There 2017 "Over and over, the works in 'Somewhere Between Here and There' invoke not only the borderlands of dreams but the shadow world inhabited by thos...
Photographic Paper
Collage Art, Photo Collage, Contemporary Art, "Untitled", By Donovan G Davis
By Donovan Davis
Located in Toronto, ON
Donovan Davis’s is a Canadian based artist currently residing in Toronto. He has over two decades dedicated to deconstructing and reconstructing photo based images. His photo collag...
Paper
First Person III, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Anne Collier
By Anne Collier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Collier produces sparse still lifes of found objects using a technique of re-photography that is informed as much by West Coast conceptual art practices as by product photograph...
Black and White, Photography
Contemporary Collage Art, Photo Collage, Contemporary Art, By Donovan G Davis
By Donovan Davis
Located in Toronto, ON
Donovan Davis’s is a Canadian based artist currently residing in Toronto. He has over two decades dedicated to deconstructing and reconstructing photo based images. His photo collag...
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