Category Archives: Hank Willis Thomas

Charles Guice Contemporary at Photo Miami

December 3, 2008 – 2:42 PM
In his new series, Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America from 1968 to 2008, Hank Willis Thomas utilizes print advertisements from 1968 to the present, removing the entirety of the original texts and logos, and only presenting the figures... Read More »
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Thomas to lecture at Lucie Awards

October 13, 2008 – 2:30 PM
Hank Willis Thomas and Sara Terry, 2008 Lucie Honoree, will speak as part of the Lucie Lecture Series on Sunday, October 19, at Splashlight Studios in Soho.  The talk, which is being presented in conjunction with En Foco and Nueva... Read More »
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Pitch Blackness

October 3, 2008 – 9:00 AM
Hank Willis Thomas gained wide recognition with his highly provocative series B®ANDED, which addresses the commodification of African-American male identity by raising questions about visual culture and the power of logos. Pitch Blackness, published by Aperture, is Thomas' first monograph... Read More »
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Hank Willis Thomas to lecture in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco with the release of Pitch Blackness

September 26, 2008 – 10:12 PM
Aperture Foundation, the Hammer Museum, PhotoAlliance, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Seattle Art Museum present the 2008 Aperture West Collaborative Lecture Series with artist Hank Willis Thomas, winner of the inaugural Aperture West Book Prize.With his characteristic pointedness and... Read More »
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Hank Willis Thomas featured in the Fall Issue of Nueva Luz

September 17, 2008 – 10:00 AM
The Fall issue of Nueva Luz, a tri-annual photographic journal published by En Foco, includes an article on the work of Hank Willis Thomas.  En Foco is a non-profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers... Read More »
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Off Color opens in New York

September 12, 2008 – 11:00 AM
Off Color, co-curated by Kalia Brooks and Hank Willis Thomas and presented in two parts, opens on September 21 at Rush Arts Gallery in New York and the Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn.  The exhibition, which originally premiered in Miami in... Read More »
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Complete Winter in America series premieres at the de Saisset Museum

September 12, 2008 – 10:15 AM
Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi's Winter in America premieres September 27 at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University.  The collaborative project, which consists of a stop-motion animated film and still photographs, depicts the 2000 robbery and murder... Read More »
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Ford, Ingram, and Thomas featured in 1968: Then and Now

August 29, 2008 – 3:45 PM
Deborah Willis' timely new survey, 1968: Then and Now, opens September 2 in a joint exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and New York University.1968: Then and Now explores an era when a multitude of social movements climaxed in discontent... Read More »
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Hank Willis Thomas illustrates New York magazine cover

August 18, 2008 – 12:55 PM
Hank Willis Thomas illustrated the August 18 cover for New York magazine, in an issue featuring articles about Barack Obama and the "impossible conversation": race and the 2008 presidential race.  Thomas' work was featured inside the magazine for the article,... Read More »
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Hank WIllis Thomas featured in Artists as Collectors at the Oakland Airport

July 18, 2008 – 12:15 PM
The pleasure of collecting is an activity that crosses social and economic divisions. Many people like to collect things as a form of entertainment and personal expression. Artists as Collectors, organized and curated by Oakland Museum curator Carin Adams, seeks... Read More »
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