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Mickalene Thomas
Decópolis: The Talent of Others
February 6 - 24, 2013
The Proposition, New York
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Mickalene Thomas
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Wallpaper* Brooklyn queen of bling Mickalene Thomas bedazzles with her rhinestone-studded canvases
June 2013
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ARTnews
April 2013
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Opening Ceremony
March 20, 2013
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Artforum Mickalene Thomas / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
February 14, 2013
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Artforum
February 14, 2013
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ICA Boston Mickalene Thomas
December 12, 2012 - April 7, 2013
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ANP Quarterly
Vol 2 / No 7
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The Wall Street Journal
November 23, 2012
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The New Yorker
November 12, 2012
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Financial Times Review Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe
November 7 2012
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Financial Times Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, Brooklyn Museum, New York
November 7, 2012
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The New York Observer
November 5, 2012
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Artforum
November 2012
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Modern Painters
October 2012
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Brooklyn Museum, NY Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe
28 September – 20 January 2012
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New York Times Review Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe
September 28, 2012
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The New York Times
September 28, 2012
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Wall Street Journal: One Artist's 'Origin' Story Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe
27 September 2012
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The Wall Street Journal
September 27, 2012
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The Wall Street Journal
September 24, 2012
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The New York Times
September 21, 2012
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Time Out New York
September 13-19, 2012
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W Magazine
September 2012
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Vogue
September 2012
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New York Magazine
August 27, 2012
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Art Review
May 31, 2012
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Artinfo
May 15, 2012
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Huffington Post
April 25, 2012
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Los Angeles Times
April 21, 2012
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The New York Times
March 30, 2012
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Artforum
December 31, 2011
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Artforum
December 1, 2011
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Velvet Magazine
October 31, 2011
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The New York Times
October 20, 2011
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Loop 21
October 18, 2011
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The New Yorker
October 7, 2011
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The Village Voice
October 5, 2011
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Photograph Magazine
October 5, 2011
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Whitewall
September 29, 2011
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Artinfo
September 26, 2011
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Arude
September 13, 2011
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Modern Painters
August 31, 2011
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Paper
August 31, 2011
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Bomb
May 31, 2011
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Bomb Video Mickalene Thomas: Behind the Scenes
Summer 2011
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Life and Times
May 23, 2011
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Art in America
February 17, 2011
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Artnews
December 31, 2010
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NBC Washington
August 22, 2010
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A Sky Filled With Shooting Stars
July 29, 2010
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V Magazine In The Flesh
April 30, 2010
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New York Observer A Window on Art: Mickalene Thomas' Shiny Sex-Appeal Paintings
April 26, 2010
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Weltkunst
January 31, 2010
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NY Arts
August 31, 2009
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The Brooklyn Rail
April 30, 2009
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Time Out New York
April 23, 2009
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Artforum
April 20, 2009
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The New York Times
April 12, 2009
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Nylon
March 31, 2009
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Art + Auction In the Studio
February 28, 2009
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Bomb Number 107 / Spring 2009
February 28, 2009
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Wynwood
November 30, 2008
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Wound Issue 4 / Autumn 2008
September 30, 2008
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Trace
March 31, 2008
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Whitewall
December 31, 2007
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Modern Painters
November 30, 2007
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Artist Bio
Mickalene Thomas
Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, New Jersey) is known for her elaborate paintings adorned with rhinestones, enamel and colorful acrylics. Her depictions of African American women explore notions of black female celebrity and identity while romanticizing ideas of femininity and power. Reminiscent of 70s style Blaxploitation, the subjects in Thomas’s paintings radiate sexuality. Women in provocative poses sprawl across the picture plane and are surrounded by Kitschy decorative patterns inspired by her childhood. Mickalene Thomas earned her BFA in painting at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn in 2000 and a MFA at the Yale University School of Art in 2002. In 2000-2003, the artist participated in a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York and in 2011, a residency at the Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program, Giverny, France.
Thomas has been included in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including Something You Can Feel, La Conservera Contemporary Art Centre in Ceuti, Spain (2009); Americans Now, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. (2010); Mama Bush: One of a Kind Two, the Hara Museum in Tokyo, Japan (2011); 30 Americans, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. (2011); Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, Santa Monica Museum of Art (2012); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2012-2013).
Thomas’s work is part of dozens of significant public collections, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Studio Museum of Harlem as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Yale University Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, among others. She has been awarded multiple prizes and grants, including the Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award (2012), Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts (2010), Joan Mitchell Grant and Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award (both 2009), and Rema Hort Mann Grant (2007). The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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