Hank Willis Thomas

Dates
Born 1976, Plainfield, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York

Education

2017, Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts, Portland, Maine

1997, M.F.A. in Photography, and M.A. in Visual Criticism, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California

1998, B.F.A. in Photography and Africana Studies, New York University, New York

2024

Hank Willis Thomas: LOVERULES - From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, February 24–August 4, 2024.

2023

Hank Willis Thomas: I’ve Known Rivers, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, July 15–August 26, 2023.

2022

Hank Willis Thomas: Everybody Used To Say, Oh, I Got It All From Matisse, And I Said, ‘Not Really.’, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Palm Beach, November 22, 2022–January 21, 2023.

Hank Willis Thomas: Everything We See Hides Another Thing, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, September 8–October 29, 2022.

2021

Hank Willis Thomas: 2021 All Power to All People, Englewood Village Plaza, Kindred Arts, Chicago, August 19–August 30, 2021.

Hank Willis Thomas: The Gun Violence Memorial Project, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. April 9, 2021–September 25, 2022.

2020

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 8–April 20, 2020. Traveled to: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 10–November 8, 2020.

Hank Willis Thomas: Fourth Bluff, Fourth Bluff Park, Tri-Star Arts, Memphis, Tennessee, April 16–November 1, 2020.

Hank Willis Thomas: 2020: Action, Freedom, Patriotism, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, January 18–April 5, 2020.

An All Colored Cast, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, California, January 18–March 7, 2020.

2019

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, October 12, 2019–January 12, 2020. Concurrent with: Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…, Film Series, NW Film Center, Portland, Oregon, 2020.

Hank Willis Thomas: Exodusters, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York, October 25, 2019–January 31, 2020.

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, May 31–August 10, 2019. Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, June 27–November 24, 2019.

2018

Hank Willis Thomas: Overtime, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns City, Australia, October 12–November 25, 2018.

Hank Willis Thomas: My Life is Ours, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, September 20–October 27, 2018.

Hank Willis Thomas: What We Ask Is Simple, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 11, 2018–March 2, 2019.

Hank Willis Thomas: Black Survival Guide: or How to Live Through a Police Riot, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, July 14–September 30, 2018.

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 14–August 5, 2018.

Hank Willis Thomas: What We Ask Is Simple, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, March 29–May 12, 2018.

Hank Willis Thomas: Branded/Unbranded, The Ringling, Sarasota, Florida, February 11–June 10, 2018.

Hank Willis Thomas: Black Righteous Space, University Art Museum, State University of New York Albany, New York, February 1–April 7, 2018.

2017

Hank Willis Thomas: Flying Geese, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, December 9, 2017–July 8, 2018.

Hank Willis Thomas: The Beautiful Game, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, October 5–November 24, 2017.

Hank Willis Thomas: Blind Memory and Freedom Isn’t Always Beautiful, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, February 21–August 20, 2017.

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded: A Century of White Women, York College Galleries, York, Pennsylvania, January–February 2017.

2016

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded: A Century of White Women, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, North Carolina, September 3–December 11, 2016.

Hank Willis Thomas: Black Righteous Space, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, August 5, 2016–February 19, 2017.

Hank Willis Thomas: To Whom It May Concern, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, April 14–May 22, 2016.

Hank Willis Thomas: Evidence of Things Not Seen, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, California, February 24–April 9, 2016.

2015

Hank Willis Thomas: The Truth is I See You, Metrotech, Brooklyn, New York, 2015.

Hank Willis Thomas: Primary Sources, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, August 29–October 25, 2015.

Hank Willis Thomas: In the Box, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, June 18–October 4, 2015.

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded: A Century of White Women, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, April 10–May 23, 2015. (Catalogue)

2014

Hank Willis Thomas: Off the Wall: Bench Marks, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, September 1–November 30, 2014.

Hank Willis Thomas: History Doesn’t Laugh, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, February 22–March 29, 2014. Traveled to: Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, June 7–28, 2014.

Hank Willis Thomas:…and only the people, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin, April 26–June 30, 2014.

2013

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded: Reflections in Black Corporate America, 1968-2008, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, October 20, 2013–March 9, 2014. Concurrent with: Question Bridge: Black Males, Branded, and Strange Fruit, The Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio, December 14, 2013–March 8, 2014; In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth), pop-up public art installations around Cleveland, Ohio, October 20, 2013–March 9, 2014.

2013

Hank Willis Thomas, The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, February 8–March 10, 2013.

Hank Willis Thomas: OPP: Other People’s Property, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, January 25–March 8, 2013.

2012

Hank Willis Thomas: Believe It, La Galerie Pfriem, Lacoste, France, January 19–March 30, 2012. Traveled to: Pinnacle Gallery, SCAD Galleries, Savannah, Georgia, June 8–August 24, 2012; Trois Gallery, SCAD Atlanta, Georgia, October 1–December 31, 2012.

2011

Hank Willis Thomas: What Goes Without Saying, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, October 18–November 19, 2012.

Hank Willis Thomas: Strange Fruit, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 30, 2011–January 15, 2012. Traveled to: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, July 15–September 30, 2012.

2011

Hank Willis Thomas: Scouring the Earth for My Affinity, Samsøn Projects, Boston, March 24–May 7, 2011.

Hank Willis Thomas: Hope, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, January 20–March 4, 2011. Concurrent with: Hank Willis Thomas: Question Bridge, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, January 20–March 4, 2011.

2010

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2–October 4, 2010.

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America, Brooklyn Museum, New York, July 14, 2010–March 13, 2011.

Hank Willis Thomas, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, April 17–May 29, 2010.

2009

Hank Willis Thomas, Annarumma 404, Milan, Italy, 2009.

Hank Willis Thomas: Contact: Still Revolution, Georgia Scherman Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2009.

Hank Willis Thomas: Light Text, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, September 11–November 29, 2009.

Hank Willis Thomas, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, July 29–November 29, 2009.

Hank Willis Thomas: About Time, 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland, July 15–August 15, 2009.

Hank Willis Thomas: Black is Beautiful, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, June 13–August 1, 2009.

Hank Willis Thomas: Visionary Delusions, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada, May 8–June 20, 2009.

Hank Willis Thomas: Pitch Blackness, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, March 16–April 15, 2009. (Catalogue).

2008

Hank Willis Thomas, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008.

2006

Hank Willis Thomas: Signifying Blackness, Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, California, October 2–November 18, 2006.

Hank Willis Thomas: B®ANDED, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, March 16–April 15, 2006.

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, March 3–April 8, 2006.

2005

Hank Willis Thomas: Bearing Witness, African American Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 18, 2005–January 29, 2006.

2005

Hank Willis Thomas, Oaklandish Gallery, Oakland, California, 2005.

Hank Willis Thomas: Family Matters, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina, May–June 2005.

2004

Hank Willis Thomas: The Trade Dress: Value Judgments, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, Florida, 2004.

Hank Willis Thomas, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, September 24–October 27, 2004.

2003

Hank Willis Thomas: After Happily Ever, Long & Pollack Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2003.

Hank Willis Thomas: Mother to Son, Texas Women’s University, Danville, Texas, 2003.

2024

Get in the Game: Sports and Contemporary Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 19, 2024–February 16, 2025.

Gun Violence Memorial Project, various locations, August 22, 2024–January 2025.

Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 18, 2024–January 5, 2025.

In Praise of Black Erranty, Venice Biennale, April 17–June 24, 2024.

Standing in the Gap, Goodman Gallery, London, March 27–May 8, 2024.

Push and Pull, Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, Florida, February 17–March 16, 2024.

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York, February 10–July 7, 2024.

Fully Dimensional, Artists of the Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, January 25–June 15, 2024.

2023

Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 18, 2023–September 15, 2024.

In Common: New Approaches with Romare Bearden, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, New York, November 9, 2023–January 15, 2024. (catalogue)

Singular Views: 25 Artists, Rubell Museum DC, Washington, D.C., November 2, 2023–October 6, 2024.

A Two-Way Mirror: Double Consciousness in Contemporary Glass by Black Artists, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, October 21, 2023–October 27, 2024.

Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 20, 2023–April 7, 2024.

Future. Forward. Freedoms., Ed. Varie Gallery, New York, October 3–November 5, 2023.

Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth., International African American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, June 27–August 6, 2023. Traveled to: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, September 16–December 2, 2023.

The Voice of the People: Freedom of Speech, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, September 9, 2023–January 7, 2024.

The Speed of Grace, Simões de Assis Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2–October 21, 2023.

Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship – Fall 2023 edition of Converge 45 biennial, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, Oregon, August 26–December 1, 2023.

Resistance Training: Arts, Sports, and Civil Rights, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan, August 19, 2023–February 18, 2024.

Diaspora, Ezra Gallery of the Hamptons, Sag Harbor, New York, August 3–31, 2023.

Inheritance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 28, 2023–February 2024.

Listen Until You Hear: For Freedoms x Fotografiska, Fotografiska, New York, May 5–October 22, 2023.

Artists Choose Parrish, PART I, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, April 16–August 6 and April 30–July 23; PART II, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, August 20, 2023–February 4, 2024; PART III, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, October 29, 2023–February 18, 2024.

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st (opens in a new window) Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, April 5–July 16, 2023. (Catalogue)

Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, April 1, 2023–January 28, 2024.

JUSTICE, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 30–September 30, 2023.

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, March 23–October 8, 2023.

Sounds of Blackness, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines, March 14–June 27, 2023.

Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, February 11–May 21, 2023.

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah Art Foundation c/o Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 7–June 11, 2023.

When We All Stand, Emily Lowe Gallery, The Hofstra University Museum of Art, Hempstead, New York, January 31–July 28, 2023.

X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012-2022, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, January 27–May 26, 2023.

2022

Paint the Protest, Off Paradise, New York, October 27, 2022–January 27, 2023.

Start Talking: Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 2022–February 5, 2023.

The Writing on the Wall, UC Santa Cruz, Davenport, California, September 16, 2022–June 10, 2023.

Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, September 4–December 18, 2022.

Another Justice: US is Them–Hank Willis Thomas & For Freedoms, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, July 23–November 6, 2022.

Stressed World, The School │Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, June 5–December 3,

2022.

This Is Not America’s Flag, The Broad, Los Angeles, May 21–September 25, 2022.

2021

Break the Mold: New Takes on Traditional Art Making, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 25, 2021–February 6, 2022.

7th Athens Biennale 2021 ECLIPSE, Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece, September 24–November 28, 2021.

American Epidemic: Guns in the United States, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, September 10, 2021–February 20, 2022.

BALLS, OOF Gallery, Warmington House, Tottenham Hotspur's Stadium, London, United Kingdom, July 23– November 21, 2021.

Today and Tomorrow, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, July 2–August 1, 2021.

2020

Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Changes, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, November 21, 2020–February 14, 2021.

The Archive to Come, Telematic, San Francisco, California, October 22, 2020–December 17, 2020.

Barring Freedom, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, California, October 14, 2020–January 30, 2021. Traveled to: San José Museum of Art, California, October 24, 2020–March 21, 2021; Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, April 28–July 29, 2021.

What Does Democracy Look Like?, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, October 1, 2020–December 23, 2020.

Examining the American Dream, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington, September 24, 2020–December 10, 2020.

Ubuntu, Five Rooms from the Harry David Collection, National Museum of Modern Art, Athens, Greece, September 19, 2020–August 22, 2021.

Men of Change, Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 17, 2020–January 17, 2021.

Shifting the Narrative Alternative Histories, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns City, Australia, June 27, 2020–October 10, 2020.

The Protest and The Recuperation, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, June 12–August 14, 2021.

The Myth Industry, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, California, May 13–June 25, 2021.

Promise, Witness, Remembrance, Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, April 7–June 6, 2021.

Off The Record, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 2–September 27, 2021.

Object Lessons, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, New York, March 20–June 14, 2020.

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, March 5–May 23, 2021.

Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 29, 2020–January 3, 2021. (Catalogue)

Catalyst: Art and Social Justice, Gracie Mansion, New York, February 24, 2020–September 8, 2021.

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican, London, United Kingdom, February 20–May 17, 2020. Traveled to: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, October 16, 2020–January 10, 2021.

Examining Identity Construction: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection, MW Gallery, Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Michigan, February 14–July 25, 2020.

Tell Me Your Story, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands, February 8–August 30, 2020.

Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA, and Paulson Fontaine Press, Fisher Brooks Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1–August 9, 2020.

To the Hoop | Basketball and Contemporary Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, February 1–Fall 2020.

Person of Interest, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, January 31–July 3, 2020.

Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, Maryland, January 30–March 15, 2020.

Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, January 27, 2020–13 June 13, 2021.

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, January 18–June 1, 2020. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 29–November 1, 2020; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, November 20, 2020–February 7, 2021; Seattle Art Museum, Washington, February 25–May 23, 2021; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., June 26–September 19, 2021.

Abortion Is Normal, Eva Presenhuber & Arsenal Contemporary, New York, January 9–February 1, 2020.

Art Finds a Way, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, January 2–May 30, 2020.

2019

The Hoodie, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands, December 1, 2019–April 12, 2020.

Men of Change: Power. Triumph. Truth, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 19–December 1, 2019. Traveled to: Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, Washington, December 21, 2019–March 15, 2020; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, April 8–August 23, 2020; The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, September 17, 2020–January 17, 2021.

Citizen, The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, November 20, 2019–January 1, 2020.

Hank Willis Thomas and Dr. Baz Dreisinger: The Writing on the Wall, The High Line at 14th Street, New York, October 31–November 10, 2019.

Question Bridge: Black Males, Portland Art Museum, October 3, 2019–January 12, 2020.

20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, August 30–September 30, 2019.

Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, August 16, 2019–January 6, 2020.

ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, University Art Museum, State University of New York Albany, New York, June 28–December 7, 2019.

The Wretched of the Screen, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, June 25–August 24, 2019.

Street Dreams: How Hip Hop Took Over Fashion, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 15–September 15, 2019.

Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom, June 12–September 15, 2019.

Eldorado, Lille 3000, Lille, France, April 27–December 1, 2019.

Smart to the Core: Embodying the Self, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, January 29 –May 19, 2019.

2018

Parking on Pavement, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, November 17, 2018–March 2, 2019.

The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, October 26–December 16, 2018.

Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art, The Menello Museum of American Art, Orlando, Florida, October 19, 2018–January 13, 2019. Traveled to: Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virgina Beach, Virginia, March 21, 2020–January 3, 2021; Galleries at Peeler, Depauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, March 1–June 20, 2021; Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, New York, October 22, 2021–February 3, 2022. (Catalogue)

Overtime, Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia, October 12–November 25, 2018.

Above the Rim, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, North Carolina, October 5, 2018–February 3, 2019.

Cit.i.zen.ship: Reflections on Rights, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, October 4, 2018–January 10, 2019.

On the Inside Out, Monroe-Brown Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, September 20–October 28, 2018.

Something to Say: Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 14, 2018–July 14, 2019.

In Memoriam: Commemorative Works by Contemporary Artists, Art Gallery, University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut, September 14–December 16, 2018.

Moving Visuals: Sanford Biggers Stephanie Dinkins Lyle Ashton Harris Clifford Owens Jefferson Pinder Karina Aguilera Skvirsky Hank Willis Thomas, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, September 13–November 16, 2018.

People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 1, 2018–January 6, 2019.

Writing on the Wall, The Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, August 29–December 9, 2018.

What We Make, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, August 22–October 7, 2018.

Histórias Afro-Atlânticas, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil, June 29 –October 21, 2018. (Catalogue)

Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom, June 28–October 21, 2018. Traveled to: Grand Palais, Paris, France, November 23, 2018–February 14, 2019; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany, March 22–July 14, 2019; Espoo Museum of Art, Finland, August 21, 2019–January 26, 2020.

Resist! The 1960s Protests, Photography, and Visual Legacy, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, June 27–August 26, 2018.

Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, June 13–September 16, 2018. Traveled to: FOAM, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 21, 2018–March 3, 2019; C/O Berlin, Germany, June–September 2019; The Photographer’s

Gallery, London, United Kingdom, October 18, 2019–February 9, 2020; Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg, Sweden, February 21–May 3, 2020; The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada, March 4–May 30, 2021. (Catalogue)

ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, June 6–November 4, 2018.

Sculpture Milwaukee 2018, Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 31–October 21, 2018.

Hyper-real, The Arts Club, London, United Kingdom, May 21–September 9, 2018. (Catalogue)

The Phantom of Liberty: Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, May 4–December 20, 2018.

Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries and Carpets, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, April 24–October 21, 2018.

All Power: Visual Legacies of the Black Panther Party, AIPAD, New York, April 4–8, 2018. Traveled

to: Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA, April 20–June 10, 2018.

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, April 13–September 2, 2018.

We the People: An International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art Contributing Toward Ending the

Korean War, OZANEAUX Art Space, New York, March 16–May 31, 2018.

Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, March 8–November 2, 2018.

Portraits of Who We Are, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, February 1–May 18, 2018.

Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, MassArt, Boston, Massachusetts, January 17–March 3, 2018.

2017

Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 18, 2017–February 25, 2018.

Art in the Open, Museum of the City of New York, New York, November 10, 2017–September 23, 2018.

Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, September 6, 2017–January 14, 2018.

A New Region of the World, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków, Poland, September 9–November 12, 2017.

Hand-Painted Pop! Art and Appropriation, 1961 to Now, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, April 29–August 13, 2017.

Black Box: Kara Walker & Hank Willis Thomas, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, June 28, 2017–March 18, 2018.

Transparency Shade: Seeing through the Shadow, projects+gallery, Barrett Barrera Projects, St. Louis, Missouri, April 7–May 27, 2017. (Catalogue)

Alchemy: Transformations in Gold, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, February 11–May 5, 2017. Traveled to: Akron Art Museum, Ohio, October 7, 2017–January 21, 2018. (Catalogue)

Third Space, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, January 28, 2017–January 6, 2019.

2016

tête-à-tête, David Castillo Gallery, Los Angeles, California, November 28, 2016–January 31, 2017.

From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, November 25, 2016–April 2, 2017. (Catalogue)

Seeing/Saying: Images and Words, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, October 20–December 9, 2016.

Black Pulp!, International Print Center, New York, October 12–December 19, 2016.

All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, October 8, 2016–February 26, 2017.

The Color Line, Gallery Garden of the Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac, Paris, France, October 4,

2016–January 15, 2017.

It Takes a Nation: Art for Social Justice, Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington D.C., September 6–October 23, 2016. (Catalogue)

Framing Beauty: Intimate Visions, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, August 26–October 6, 2016. (Catalogue)

A Dark Matter…, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, August 13–October 30, 2016.

Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 12–December 31, 2016.

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 1, 2016–January 8, 2017. Traveled to: Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, April 30–August 20, 2017. (Catalogue)

Truth to Power, TaskForce, Los Angeles, California, July 24–27, 2016.

Do You, Ms. Jones?, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 24–July 29, 2016.

For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, June 7–August 5, 2016.

Game On!, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, May 31–September 4, 2016.

Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., May 29, 2016–January 2, 2017.

Recharging the Image: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey, April 17–July 10, 2016.

Public Art Installation, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, March 30, 2016–April 30, 2017.

Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête, Aperture Gallery, New York, January 28–March 17, 2016. Traveled to: Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA / Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, January 27–March 12, 2017; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, October 4, 2017–January 7, 2018; Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California, January 25–May 13, 2018; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, July 14–September 30, 2018; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, October 17, 2018–January 13, 2019.

2015

Philly Block Project, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 2015–November 2016.

Winter in America, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, October 17, 2015–March 19, 2016.

On Being Black, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, October 16, 2015–January 15, 2016.

Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, October 1, 2015–July 10, 2016.

Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, September 18, 2015–April 3, 2016.

Black Fire: A Constant State of Revolution, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 11, 2015–January 3, 2016.

Seeing Now, 21c Museum Hotel, Durham, North Carolina, August 2015–March 2016. Traveled to: Cincinnati, Ohio, April–December 2016; Louisville, Kentucky, May 2014–April 2015; Bentonville, Arkansas, February 2018–January 2019; Oklahoma City, April 2019–May 2020.

Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, March 14–September 13, 2015. Travels to: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, October 30, 2015–February 21, 2016; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain, March 22–July 31, 2016; Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands, October 1, 2016–January 17, 2017; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 14, 2017–January 7, 2018; Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, February 3, 2018–May 6, 2018; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, October 14, 2018–January 13, 2019.

2015

Through the Eyes of Others, The ARC / Arts and Recreation Center, Opa-Locka, Florida, November 6–December 11, 2015.

Any Given Sunday, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, November 2–December 8, 2015.

Perspectives on Peace, York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania, October 1–November 14, 2015.

Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 11–December 13, 2015.

Question Bridge: Black Males, Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 8–November 21, 2015.

Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia, September 3–December 11, 2015.

A Family Affair, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, August 24–December 12, 2015.

Mom & Pops, University of Chicago, Chicago, July 17–September 11, 2015.

Black Like Who?, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, July 11–November 1, 2015.

Out of The Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture, Brooklyn Museum, New York, July 10–October 4, 2015. (Catalogue)

Aperture: Photographs, Aperture Foundation, New York, June 29–September 18, 2015.

Focus I: Identified, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, June 5–July 25, 2015.

ReSignifications, Museo Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy, May 30–August 29, 2015.

Bring in the Reality, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, May 13–September 17, 2015. (Catalogue)

Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York, March 13–August 16, 2015. (Catalogue)

Making Histories, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, February 7–April 4, 2015. (Catalogue)

Status Quo, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, January 31–April 12, 2015.

An Exhibition of African American Photographers from the Daguerreian to the Digital Eras, Marshall Fine Arts Center, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, January 30–April 25, 2015.

Under Color of Law, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, January 27–May 15, 2015.

2014

Africa Now: Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, December 16, 2014–February 15, 2015. (Catalogue)

Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 13, 2014–March 8, 2015. (Catalogue)

Secondhand, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, August 1, 2014–May 31, 2015.

The Archive, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, June 23, 2014–June 30, 2015.

Question Bridge: Black Males, DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, 2014.

Americans in New York 3, Michel Rein, Paris, October 23–November 22, 2014.

Civil Rights: We have it in our power to begin the world over again, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland, October 20–December 20, 2014.

SHAPESHIFTING: Contemporary Masculinities, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio, October 14–December 7, 2014.

Mise En Scène, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, August–December 2014.

If You Build It?, No Longer Empty, New York, June 25–August 10, 2014.

Warp & Woof, The Hole, New York, May 7–June 20, 2014.

Black Eye, Concept NV, New York, May 2–24, 2014.

Up Close and Personal, Fuchs Projects, New York, April 4–May 13, 2014.

Art in Embassies, Pretoria, South Africa, May 2014.

2013

California Landscape into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, December 15, 2013–March 2, 2014. (Catalogue)

Question Bridge: Black Males, Branded, and Strange Fruit, The Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio, December 14, 2013–March 8, 2014.

Dis-semblance: Projecting and Perceiving Identity, 21c Museum Hotels, Cincinnati, Ohio, July–October 2013. Traveled to: 21c Museum Hotels, Bentonville, Arkansas, September 2014–January 2015.

About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 9, 2013–January 19, 2014.

United States, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, July 15–February 24, 2013.

Question Bridge: Black Males, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, July 11–August 23, 2013.

Be A Man!, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London, March 14–April 19, 2013.

How Is the World? Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 8–May 26, 2013.

eMERGING: Visual Art & Music in a Post-Hip-Hop Era, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York, February 14–May 26, 2013.

Hank Willis with Sanford Biggers: Wayfarer, Picture Window Series, International Center of Photography, New York, January 18–May 5, 2013.

2012

Contemporary Memories, Amistad Center, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, October 27, 2012–September 23, 2013.

Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California, September–December 2012.

African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, September 20–December 14, 2012. Traveled to: Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 15–April 28, 2013; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for AfricanAmerican Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 16–June 15, 2015; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, September 15, 2014–January 4, 2015; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, March 21–June 29, 2015.

Get It on The Records, Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, New Jersey, September 6–October 5, 2012.

Beyond Beauty, Twig Gallery, Brussels, August 6–24, 2012.

Things Beyond Our Control, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida, July 14–August 13, 2012.

tête-à-tête, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, July 12–August 24, 2012.

Summer Group Show, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France, July 7–31, 2012.

Textual Attraction, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, June 21–July 17, 2012.

Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, June 12, 2012–January 6, 2013; Queens Museum of Art, NY, June 17, 2012–January 6, 2013; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, June 14, 2012–October 21, 2013.

New York Photo Festival 2012, 56 Water Street, Brooklyn, May 7–28, 2012.

Making History–Exhibition of Ray 2012 Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, April 20–July 8, 2012.

tête-à-tête, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illionis, March 29–May 5, 2012.

The Sports Show, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, February 19–May 13, 2012. (Catalogue)

CPT: Time, History and Memory, The Gallatin Galleries, New York University, New York, February 6–24, 2012.

Hard Targets, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, February 3–March 17, 2012.

Question Bridge: Black Males, Brooklyn Museum, January 13–July 15, 2012.

2011

Westend, Museum on The Seam, Jerusalem, Israel, 2011.

The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 10, 2011–March 11, 2012.

Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, November 10–13, 2011.

Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 10, 2011–May 27, 2012.

12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, September 17–November 13, 2011.

Human Rights Conference, Ford Foundation, New York, September 12–November 11, 2011.

Mass Distractions and Cultural Decay, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Jersey, September 10–October 28, 2011.

En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Light Work’s Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse, New York, September 1, 2011–January 31, 2012.

The Truth Is I am You, Building 110, LMCC Art Space, Governors Island, New York, August 26–September 25, 2011.

Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 11, 2011–January 8, 2012.

Jersey Bounce, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey, July 29–September 25, 2011.

Go Figure, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, June 30–September 4, 2011.

B-B-B-BAD: an exhibition with attitudes, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, June 30–August 12,

2011.

Converging Voices, Transforming Dialogue: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, May 6–August 21, 2011.

Harlem Postcards: Matthew Day Jackson, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Demetrius Oliver and Hank Willis Thomas, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, March 31–June 26, 2011.

Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 10–August 14, 2011.

Involuntary, Ford Project, New York, March 1–April 15, 2011.

The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, February 17–June 30, 2011.

Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art: An International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway. Traveled to: Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, January 22–April 13, 2011.

2010

Global Africa Arts Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, November 17, 2010–May 15, 2011. Traveled to: Surroundart, Brooklyn, NY, May 24, 2011–January 1, 2012; Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, January 1–June 1, 2012; High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1–September 1, 2012; Seattle Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and Bellevue Art Museum, Washington, November 1, 2012–February 1, 2013. (Catalogue)

More American Photographs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California, October 4–December 17, 2011. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado, January 12–April 14, 2012; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Spring 2013. (Catalogue)

After 1968, Bronx Museum, New York, 2010.

Art of Caring, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010.

Beg, Borrow, Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, 2010.

Contact Toronto Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2010.

Double Exposure, Keene State College, New Hampshire, 2010.

Hard Targets, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 2010.

Houston FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas, 2010.

Huckleberry Finn, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, California, 2010.

I Am. Amen., Austin Peay University, Clarksville, Tennessee, 2010.

In Context, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2010.

The Legacy of Inspired Reality, Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, Eatonville, Florida, 2010.

Unfixed, Center for Contemporary Art, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 2010.

Unnatural Rubber, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010.

Wildly Different Things, Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2010.

In Context, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, November 27, 2010–March

13, 2011.

Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection, Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art & Culture, Las Cruces, New Mexico, November 21, 2010–January 30, 2011. Traveled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, February 11–May 8, 2011.

Progeny Two: Deb Willis and Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson and Dayo, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 8, 2010–January 23, 2011.

Winter Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, August 7–28, 2010.

In Other Words, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, July 15–August 21, 2010.

Greater New York 2010, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, May 23–October 18, 2010. (Catalogue)

Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, New York, January 27, 2010–May 29, 2011.

Searching for the Heart of Black Identity and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky, January 9–April 10, 2010.

2009

1969, MoMA P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, October 25, 2009–April 5, 2010.

Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010. (Catalogue)

Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Willie Cole: Digging Deeper, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, September 19, 2009–April 4, 2010.

Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1980s to the Present, curated by Deborah Willis, organized by the Department of Photography & Imaging, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, September 1–October 18, 2009. Traveled to: Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, June 11–August 22, 2010; At Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton Ontario, Canada, January 16–May 9, 2010; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 11–November 21, 2010; Newark Museum, New Jersey, February 2–April 28, 2011; USC Fischer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, September 7–December 3, 2011; College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio, January 15–March 3, 2012; Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania, February 3–April 1, 2012; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, September 8–November 2012; Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 5–December 7, 2013; Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana, January 19–March 16, 2014, Northwest African American Museum, Seattle, Washington, April 30–September 4, 2016; Snap! Space Orlando, Florida; Mona Bismarck, Paris, France; and Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, September 2016–December 2020.

Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, organized by Independent Curators International, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February 1–March 29, 2009; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, October 8–December 12, 2009; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, September 9–October 23, 2011; Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2011; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, 2011; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, May 26–August 7, 2011; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, September 9–October 23, 2011. (Catalogue)

2009

African American, Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2009.

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2009.

Black Atlantic, ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy, 2009.

Collected, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2009.

Connections, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, 2009.

I Want You to Want Me, Marx & Zavaterro, San Francisco, California, 2009.

The Nation, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2009.

Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, Art Works for Change, California, 2009.

Sign/Age: Fight the Power, Armand Bartos Gallery, New York, 2009.

Unnatural Rubber, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2009.

Beyond Appearances, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, September 10–December 12, 2009.

Nation State, Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, April 2–May 2, 2009.

2008

30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, December 3, 2008–May 30, 2009. Traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 20–September 4, 2011; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2011–February 12, 2012; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, March 16–July 15, 2012; Milwaukee Museum, Wisconsin, June 14–September 8, 2013; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 11, 2013–January 12, 2014; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 8–June 15, 2014; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 9–June 21, 2015; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, October 18, 2015–January 18, 2016; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, March 19–August 28, 2016; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, September 24, 2016–January 15, 2017; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, February 8–May 6, 2018; Juliet Art Museum, Charleston, West Virginia, May 12–August 19, 2018; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, October 5, 2018–January 13, 2019; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, February 2–May 5, 2019; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June 1–August 25, 2019; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 2019–January 12, 2020; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, February 22–June 21, 2020; Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, October 3, 2020–January 3, 2021; Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, September 25, 2021–January 9, 2022. (Catalogue)

Winter in America: Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California, September 27–December 31, 2008.

Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, June 14–August 31, 2008. Traveled to: Traveled to: Harvey B. Gantt for African American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 8, 2009–January 9, 2010; Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, April 29–June 6, 2009; 40 Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, July 11–September 5, 2009; Fine Art Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, February 1–29, 2011. (Catalogue)

Critical Engagements, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2008.

Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Parsons New School for Design, New York, 2008.

I Am A Man, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), New York, September 25, 2008–January 18, 2009.

Houston Collects: African American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, August 3–October 26, 2008. (Catalogue)

After 1968: Contemporary Artists and Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, June 7–October 5, 2008. Traveled to: Skirball and CAAM, Los Angeles, California, November 19, 2009–March 10, 2010; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, March 28–August 11, 2010. (Catalogue)

Black Is, Black Ain’t, Renaissance Society, Chicago, April 20–June 8, 2008. (Catalogue)

Agency: Art and Advertising, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2008.

BECOMING: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan, 2008.

Global Africa: Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic World, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 2008.

FACING RACE: Four African Artists Speak Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2008.

The Funk Aesthetic: Chocolate Coated Freaky & Habit Forming, H&F Fine Arts Gallery, Mount Rainier, Maryland, 2008.

From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008.

tina b., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Czech Republic, 2008.

Unchained Legacy, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, 2008.

We’re All in this together, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, California, 2008.

2007

Branded and on Display, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, 2007.

Cross Sections, 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles, California, 2007.

Crossing the Line, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida, 2007.

For the Love of the Game, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 2007.

Keep the Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, 2007.

Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, 2007.

Visual Alchemy, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California, 2007.

Ad/Agency, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, November 9, 2007–January 27, 2008.

Flash: Contemporary Photography Among the Caribbean Diaspora, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, Florida, October 11–November 2007.

Off Color II, Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami, Florida, October 11–November 20, 2007.

Blacks In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California, September 12–December 30, 2007. (Catalogue)

Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, August 31–October 11, 2007. (Catalogue)

Taking Possession: In Conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Central High School Desegregation Crisis, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 15–October 10, 2007.

Group Show, Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia, July 14–August 18, 2007.

Negotiating Identities in Africa and the African Diaspora, Schumucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, March 30–April 22, 2007.

M*A*S*H New York, Cottelston Advisors (The Helena), New York, February 22–26, 2007.

Reasons to Riot, Memphis College of Art, Tennessee, February 19–April 6, 2007.

At Freedom’s Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland, Maryland Historical Society and Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, Maryland, February 3–October 28, 2007. (Catalogue)

2006

Under the Influenced = I, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, August–September 2006.

The Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2006.

Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, 2006.

The California Biennial, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, 2006.

Double Exposure, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 2006.

Emerging Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, 2006.

Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York, 2006.

Keep the Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, 2006.

Luxury Goods, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, 2006.

Metro Pictures Part Two, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, 2006.

Metro Pictures, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida, 2006.

poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, June 29–July 28, 2006.

2005

Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, 2005.

5x5, Wertz Contemporary Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.

Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2005.

The GlamMore Show Revisited, PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2005.

Recovered Views, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California, 2005.

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, African-American Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005.

Relics & Remnants: Contemporary Reinterpretation of African America Images, Jamaica Center for Art & Learning, New York, October 2005.

Day Labor, MoMA PS1, New York, October 30, 2005–January 9, 2006.

MD80: A Fine Arts Contemplation of the life and legacy of Malcom X, Brecht Forum Gallery, New York, September 8–29, 2005.

Salad Days, Artists Space, New York, July 15–31, 2005.

Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 2005–2006. Traveled to: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, June 19–September 28, 2008; DePaul University, Chicago, April 16–June 14, 2009.

Maximum Flavor, ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, May 26–August 7, 2005.

Propeller: Seven Emerging Artists of African Descent, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California, April 15–May 21, 2005. (Catalogue)

2004

Family Matters, Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina, May 20–June 30, 2004.

Coasticated, Punch Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2004.

Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Center for Art and Learning, New York, 2004.

Salad Days, Artists Space, New York, 2004.

2003

25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, October 17–November 22, 2003. Traveled to: John and June Allcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center Department of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 13–October 7, 2004. (Catalogue)

GenArt’s Emerge 2003, The Big House, San Francisco, California, 2003.

MFA Thesis Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, 2003.

Missing Person’s, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California, 2003.

Mother to Son: Photographs by Deborah Willis and Hank Thomas, Texas Women’s University, Denton, Texas, 2003.

POPULAR tm, Works Gallery, San Jose, California, 2003.

Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Leica Gallery, New York, 2003.

2002

Murphy & Cadogan Awards Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, California, 2002.

2001

Latent Discoveries, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2001.

The Legacy of Gordon Parks, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 2001.

Moments in Love, Intimacy and Kinship, Grand Central Station, New York, 2001.

Reflecting Black, The Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2001.

2000

Ambition, Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2000.

Fuzzy Logic, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2000.

Oneness, The New York Ba’hai Center, New York, 2000.

Reflections in Black, Smithsonian Institution, Arts & Industries Building, Washington, D.C., 2000.

1999

Speak to my Heart, Smithsonian Institution, The Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C., 1999.

1994

Images & Inspirations, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 1994.

The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Forth Worth, Texas

The Austin Central Library, Austin, Texas

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Illinois

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York

Center for Cultural Studies Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas

Culture Corps, New York

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

The Dean Collection, New York

Delaware Art Museum, Washington, Delaware

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Eileen and Peter Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, California

Frac Aquaitaine, Bordeaux, France

Fundação Sindika Dokolo Collection, Luanda, Angola

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia

Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee

International Center of Photography, New York

Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Martin Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey

Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Michigan

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

Newark Museum, New Jersey

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida

Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

Opa-locka Art, Opa-Locka, Florida

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Philip & Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska

Sir Elton John Collection, Atlanta, Georgia

Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois

The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Kansas

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky

2023

In Common: New Approaches with Romare Bearden (exhibition catalogue). New York: Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 2023.

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century (exhibition catalogue). Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2023.

2022

Belcove, Julie. Pop Art Style. Paris: Assouline, 2022.

Gray, Jon, Pierre Serrao, and Lester Walker. Ghetto Gastro Presents Black Power Kitchen. New York: Artisan Books, 2022.

Lutz, Glenn. There’s Light: Artworks and Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity and Mental Well-Being. Scottsdale, Arizona: Lioraffe, 2022.

Monahan, Torin. Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2022.

2021

Adusei-Poku, Nana. Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2021.

Albers, K. P. The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2021.

Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2021.

Barrett, Terry. Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images. Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2021.

Fine, Peter Claver. The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Lupton, Ellen, Tobias, Jennifer. Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers.Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Architectural Press, 2021.

Park, Jungyeon. Today and Tomorrow. Seoul, South Korea: Gana Art, 2021.

2020

Childs, Adrienne L. Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Rizzoli Electa, 2020.

Cotton, Charlotte. Photograph as Contemporary Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2020: 57. illustrated.

Enwezor, Okwui. Grief and Grievance Art and Mourning in America. London: Phaidon, 2020.

Katz, Jonathan D. Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography. Munich, Germany: Prestel Publishing, 2020.

Perree, Rob. Tell Me Your Story: 100 Years of Storytelling in African American Art. Amersfoort, Netherlands: Kusthal Kade, 2020.

Ragbir, Lise, and Cherise Smith. Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2020.

Sheppard, Samantha N. Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen. Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2020.

2019

Choi, Connie H., Golden, Thelma, Jones, Kellie. Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2019: 190–191, illustrated.

Dokolo, Sindika and Geers, Kendell. IncarNations. African Art as Philosophy. Milan, Italy: Silvana Editoriale, 2019: 11, illustrated.

English, Darby, and Charlotte Barat. Among Others. Blackness at MoMA. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2019: 424–425, illustrated.

Freedom Ride: Hank Willis Thomas. Portland, Oregon: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019.

Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers. London: Somerset House, 2019: 140–141, illustrated.

Ibel, Rebecca, Nannette V. Maciejunes, and Dara Pizzuti. Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti. Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Ar, 2019: 137, illustrated.

2018

Finley, Cheryl. Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2018: 6, 177, 188–193, illustrated.

Goodman, Abigail Ross, et al.,ed. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art. Vol. 3. Winter Park, Florida: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 2018: 14, 17–25, 176–7, illustrated.

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Julia Dolan, Sara Krajewski, Kellie Jones, and Hank Willis Thomas. New York: Aperture, 2018.

People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection. Durham, North Carolina: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2018: 20–21, illustrated.

Prado, Divina. Histórias Afro-Atlânticas: Publicação Educativa (exhibition catalogue). Sao Paulo, Brazil: Museu De Arte De São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2018: 45, 95, illustrated.

Sculpture Milwaukee (exhibition catalogue). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Sculpture Milwaukee, 2018: 14–15, illustrated.

Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Orlando, Florida: Mennello Museum of Art, 2018: 53, illustrated.

Schroth, Sarah. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University: Fall 2018. Durham, North Carolina: Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, 2018: 3–4, 34, illustrated.

2017

Bright, Susan. Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography (exhibition catalogue). New York: Aperture, 2017.

Dieng, Modou. Transparency Shade: Seeing Through the Shadow (exhibition catalogue). St. Louis, Missouri: projects+gallery, 2017: 21, 63–67, and back cover, illustrated.

Stirratt, Betsy. Framing Beauty: Intimate Visions (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Deborah Willis and Rujeko Hockley. Bloomington, Indiana: Grunwald Gallery of Art, 2016: 56–57, illustrated.

Fleming, Jeff and Laura Burkhalter. Alchemy: Transformations in Gold (exhibition catalogue). Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2017: 68–71, illustrated.

2016

Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Miranda Isabel Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker. Durham, North Carolina: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2016.

2015

Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded: A Century of White Women (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, Michelle Woo and Kalia Brooks. Texts by Shelley Rice and Deborah Willis. New York: Jack Shainman Gallery, 2015.

Out of the Box: the Rise of Sneaker Culture (exhibition catalogue). Edited by Jessica Fuller. New York: American Federation of Arts and Skira Rizzoli, 2015.

Question Bridge: Black Males in America. Edited by Deborah Willis and Natasha L. Logan. Texts by Ambassador Andrew Young, Jesse Williams, Rashid Shabazz, and Delroy Lindo, 2015.

2015

Africa Now: Political Patterns (exhibition catalogue). Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art, 2015: 142, illustrated.

2014

Giovannotti, Micaela. Editions '14. Texts by Micaela Giovannotti. New York: Lower East Side Printshop, 2014: 8–15, illustrated.

2013

California Landscape into Abstraction: Works from the Orange County Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Newport Beach, California, 2013.

2012

The Sports Show: Athletics as Image and Spectacle (exhibition catalogue). Text by David E.. Little. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

2010

Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video (exhibition catalogue). New York: International Center of Photography, 2010.

Global Africa Project (exhibition catalogue). New York and Munich: Museum of Arts and Design; ; Prestel, 2010.

Greater New York 2010 (exhibition catalogue). New York: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 2010.

2009

Collecting African American art: the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (exhibition catalogue). Texts by

John Hope Franklin and Alvia J. Wardlaw. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009.

Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans, and Michele Wallace. 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection (exhibition catalogue).New York and Miami: D.A.P./Distributed Art Pub.; Rubell Family Collection. 2008.

Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Christopher Bedford, Julia Bryan-Wilson and Judith Butler. New York: Independent Curators International, 2009.

(opens in a new window) Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas (exhibition catalogue). Text by Kalia Brooks. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 2009.

2008

Grove, Jeffrey D. After 1968: Contemporary Artists and Civil Rights Legacy (exhibition catalogue). Atlanta: High Museum of Art. 2008.

2007

At Freedom’s Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland (exhibition brochure). Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007.

Blacks in and out of the Box (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: California African American Museum, 2007.

Schoonmaker, Trevor. Propeller: Seven Emerging Artists of African Descent (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Steve Turner Gallery. 2005.

Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection (exhibition catalogue). Memphis: Rhodes

College Press, 2007.

Hank Willis Thomas: Pitch Blackness (exhibition catalogue). Texts by René De Guzman and Robin D. G. Kelley. New York: Aperture. 2008.

2003

25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers (exhibition catalogue). New York: Power House Books, 2003.

2002

Gore, Al and Tipper Gore. The Spirit of the Family. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

1996

Willis, Deborah and Michael H. Cottman. The Family of Black America. New York: Crown, 1996.

2024

Clemans, Gayle. “At Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery, a powerful exhibit by Hank Willis Thomas” (Henry Art Gallery exhibition review). The Seattle Times, 4 March 2024. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/at-seattles-henry-art-gallery-a-powerful-exhibit-by-hank-willis-thomas/.

Freeman, Nate. “The Secrets of Aicia Keys and Swizz Beat’s Museum-Ready Art Collection.” Vanity Fair, 19 March 2024. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/alicia-keys-swizz-beatz-art-collection.

Sanahori, Sheeka. “These African American history museums amplify the voices too often left unheard.” National Geographic, 5 February 2024. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/black-history-first-voice-museums.

Teicholz, Tom. “Best of Visual Art 2023.” Forbes, 6 January 2024. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2024/01/06/best-of-visual-art-2023/?sh=2167b487285d.

2023

Akers, Torey. “Artists including Sheila Hicks and Hank Willis Thomas receive US State Department's Medal of Arts.” The Art Newspaper, 18 September 2023. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/18/2023-medal-of-arts-sheila-hicks-hank-willis-thomas

“Art Industry News: A Helsinki Art Museum Cut Ties With Zionist Arms Heir Poju Zabludowicz Amid an Artists’ Boycott + Other Stories.” Artnet News, 1 May 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-a-helsinki-art-museum-cut-ties-with-zionist-arms-heir-poju-zabludowicz-amid-an-artists-boycott-other-stories-2293110

Cascone, Sarah. “Hank Willis Thomas on How His 10-Foot-Tall Super Bowl Sculpture Stands as a Monument to ‘Higher Goals’.” Artnet News, 14 February 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hank-willis-thomas-nfl-super-bowl-sculpture-2255436

Chan, Wilfred. “‘It’s a strange moment we live in’: MLK sculptor on backlash to monument.” The Guardian, 19 January 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/19/martin-luther-king-sculptor-boston-hank-willis-thomas

Childs, Adrienne J. “Opinion: The absurdity of the backlash over the MLK statue.” CNN, 25 January 2023. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/24/opinions/art-mlk-statue-black-history-thomas-boston-childs/index.html

Chow, Aaron. “Large-Scale 'REACH' Sculpture Installed at O'Hare International Airport.” Hypebeast, 2 May 2023. https://hypebeast.com/2023/5/hank-willis-thomas-coby-kennedy-chicago-airport-sculpture-look-info

Clavarino, Elena. “Hank Willis Thomas: I’ve Known Rivers” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). Air Mail, 12 July 2023. https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/hank-willis-thomas-ive-known-rivers

Clinton, George. “George Clinton’s Favorite Works from Frieze Los Angeles 2023.” Frieze Magazine, 10 February 2023. https://www.frieze.com/article/george-clintons-favorite-works-frieze-los-angeles-2023

“The Defining Art Events of 2023.” ARTnews, 15 December 2023. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/most-important-art-events-2023.

DiDonna, Bennett. “Hank Willis Thomas | I've Known Rivers - An Exploration of Retroreflection On View Now At Pace Gallery.” Flaunt, 21 July 2023.

Funchion, Dierdra. “’Duality’ sculpture to be unveiled at The Underline.” Axios, 17 May 2023. https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2023/05/17/duality-sculpture-unveiled-theunderline-park-miami

Gerlis, Melanie. “Art Basel’s Parcours section turns churches, tunnels and roundabouts into galleries.” Financial Times, 9 June 2023. https://www.ft.com/content/451fff9e-dbe1-48cc-9445-4845634ed993

Ghassemitari, Shawn. “Hank Willis Thomas Presents a Series of New Retroreflective Collages at Pace LA.” HypeArt, 9 August 2023. https://hypebeast.com/2023/8/hank-willis-thomas-ive-known-rivers-pace-los-angeles

Goldstein, Caroline. “‘I See Everything as Connected’: Watch Hank Willis Thomas Pull From Sports, Civil Rights History, and Roland Barthes in His Works” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Artnet News, 14 July 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/348-pm-sarah-hanson-i-see-everything-as-connected-watch-hank-willis-thomas-pull-from-sports-civil-rights-history-and-roland-barthes-in-his-works-2336728

Greenberger, Alex. “Hank Willis Thomas Joins Pace Gallery as Monument to MLK and Coretta Scott King Is Unveiled in Boston.” ARTnews, 13 January 2023. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hank-willis-thomas-pace-gallery-1234653756/

Halperin, Julia. “How Hank Willis Thomas became one of America’s most prolific public sculptors.” Art Basel, 30 May 2023. https://www.artbasel.com/stories/hank-willis-thomas-american-sculptors-parcours

“Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy Reach at O’Hare, and Other News.” Surface Magazine, 2 May 2023. https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/hank-willis-thomas-coby-kennedy-chicago-ohare/

“Hank Willis Thomas ‘I’ve Known Rivers’ @ Pace Gallery, Los Angeles” (exhibition review). Juxtapoz, 17 August 2023. https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/painting/hank-willis-thomas-i-ve-known-rivers-pace-gallery-los-angeles/

Hellerbach, Miki. “‘Hip-Hop Is a Canon’: How the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Major Hip-Hop Show Is Bridging the Divide Between Rap and Art” (Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition review). Artnet News, 5 April 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/baltimore-museum-of-art-the-culture-hip-hop-contemporary-art-exhibition-2279460

Johnson-Nwosu, Chinma. “Six must-see works in Art Basel’s free-to-see public art programme.” The Art Newspaper, 13 June 2023. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/13/six-must-see-works-in-art-basels-free-to-see-public-art-programme\

Kahn, Mattie. “Life After Gun Violence.” Harper’s Bazaar, 2 June 2023. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a43925956/0114-0122-life-after-gun-violence-june-2023/

Kane, Ashleigh. “Art Shows to Leave the House for in July 2023” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Dazed Magazine, 7 July 2023. https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/60281/1/art-shows-to-leave-the-house-for-in-july-2023-london-new-york-yayoi-kusama

Laster, Paul. “From New York to Los Angeles, 6 Not-to-Be-Missed Solo Gallery Shows in August” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Galerie Magazine, 7 August 2023. https://galeriemagazine.com/new-york-los-angeles-6-not-missed-solo-gallery-shows-august/

Lawson-Tancred, Jo. “Frieze Sculpture Opens, Unveiling 20 Stunning Artworks in London’s Art Oasis at the Regent’s Park.” Artnet News, 21 September 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frieze-sculpture-2023-2365467.

Mina, An Xiao. “Hank Willis Thomas Dives Into the Rivers of History” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 16 August 2023. https://hyperallergic.com/839471/hank-willis-thomas-dives-into-the-rivers-of-history/?

“The Most Fashionable Art Basel Miami Beach Parties–So Far.” Vogue, 9 December 2023. https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/art-basel-miami-beach-party-roundup-2023.

Mothes, Kate. “Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy Extend a Monumental Welcome to Travelers Transiting Through O’Hare.” Colossal, 1 May 2023. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/05/thomas-kennedy-reach/

Nanos, Janelle. “From Nubian Markets and Soleil to the National Center for Afro-American Artists, a local tour guide offers his picks for the best places to see Boston's Black culture.” BBC Travel, 17 June 2023. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230616-the-six-best-places-to-see-bostons-african-american-culture-and-history

“The New Season of Art21’s Flagship TV Series Premieres With Profiles of ‘Artist Investigators’ Hank Willis Thomas, the Guerrilla Girls, and More.” Artnet News, 22 June 2023. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art21-new-season-guerrilla-girls-hank-willis-thomas-2324705

Nys Dambrot, Shana. “Masterpiece Theater: Arts Calendar July 13-19" (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). LA Weekly, 12 July 2023. https://www.laweekly.com/masterpiece-theater-arts-calendar-july-13-19/

Richardson, Kalia. “In Boston, ‘The Embrace’ Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy.” The New York Times, 15 January 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/15/arts/design/martin-luther-king-jr-statue-boston-common.html

Rosa, Amanda. “Miami’s Underline Park unveiled a giant sculpture by this renowned artist.” Miami Herald, 24 May 2023. https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article275670751.html?taid=646dd31a84a2eb000134a161&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Shearer, Jessica. “What Do Bostonians Think of the New MLK Monument?” Hyperallergic, 25 January 2023. https://hyperallergic.com/795873/what-do-bostonians-think-of-the-new-mlk-monument/?

Sheets, Hilarie M. “What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy.” The New York Times, 23 March 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/arts/design/art-pennsylvania-museums-african-american-rising-sun-democracy.html

Slaughter, Annie Lyall. “10 Artists Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” Cultured Magazine, 16 January 2023. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/01/16/hank-willis-thomas-roy-decarava-martin-luther-king-jr

Stromberg, Matt. “The ‘LA Fingers’ Symbol Gets a Tribute in Bronze.” Hyperallergic, 27 September 2023. https://hyperallergic.com/847125/the-la-fingers-symbol-gets-a-tribute-bronze-sculpture-boyle-heights/.

Sutton, Benjamin. “Hank Willis Thomas and Coby Kennedy reach for the skies with Chicago airport sculpture.” The Art Newspaper, 1 May 2023. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/01/hank-willis-thomas-coby-kennedy-chicago-ohare-airport-sculpture

Teicholz, Tom. “Three To See: From Friends And Acquaintances” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Forbes, 29 August 2023. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2023/08/29/three-to-see-from-friends-and-acquaintances/?sh=726e642e4bd7

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas Makes a Monument for the 21st Century.” Interview with Cultured. Cultured, 17 May 2023. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/05/17/hank-willis-thomas-duality-miami

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Hank Willis Thomas, Rashid Johnson, Mary Heilmann, Sanford Biggers, and More on the Artistic Heart of the Hamptons” Interview with Joel Mesler. Cultured Magazine, 21 June 2023. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/06/21/hamptons-hank-willis-thomas-rashid-johnson-mary-heilmann

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Interrogating the Criminal Justice System Through Art.” Interview with Ariana Marsh. Harper’s Bazaar, 17 August 2023. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44832522/interrogating-the-criminal-justice-system-through-art/

Thomas, Hank Willis. “‘We’re looking at the past as a gateway to the future’: Hank Willis Thomas on his new Martin Luther King, Jr monument.” Interview with Claire Voon. The Art Newspaper, 16 January 2023. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/16/hank-willis-thomas-martin-luther-king-jr-monument-boston

“The Top 50 Exhibitions of 2023” (Pace Gallery and Morgan Library and Museum exhibition reviews). Hyperallergic, 28 December 2023. https://hyperallergic.com/864046/hyperallergic-top-50-exhibitions-of-2023/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=D122923&utm_content=D122923+CID_6b813f880fe93f1ceb9b1155c3e7392c&utm_source=hn.

Vargas, Steven. “Take a Peek at New Experimental Performances at REDCAT’s NOW Festival” (Pace Gallery exhibition review). Los Angeles Times, 16 August 2023. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2023-08-16/what-to-do-this-weekend-redcat-now-festival-experimental-performance-l-a-goes-out

Villa, Angelica. “$3 M. Works by Mark Bradford and Richard Prince Top Frieze Los Angeles Sales.” ARTnews, 17 February 2023. https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/frieze-los-angeles-2023-sales-1234658083/mark-bradford-at-hauser-wirth-2/

Willis Thomas, Hank. “Hank Willis Thomas Speaks on the Work That Remains.” Interview with Jenna Adrian-Diaz. Surface Magazine, 22 September 2023. https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/hank-willis-thomas-medal-of-arts-2023-interview/

Woodward, Daisy. “August 2023: A Guide to Arts, Culture, Food and Beyond” (Pace Gallery exhibition reviews). AnOther Magazine, 2 August 2023. https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/15031/brilliant-things-to-do-this-august-2023-london-food-exhibitions-film-theatre

Zeitoun, Lea. “designboom's guide to frieze art week 2023: the best exhibitions to see in and out of the fair.” Designboom, 10 October 2023. https://www.designboom.com/art/designboom-guide-to-frieze-fair-what-not-to-miss-around-london-10-10-2023/

Ziemba, Christine N. “Best Things to Do This Weekend in Los Angeles and SoCal: July 14 – 16” (Pace Gallery exhibition preview). LAist, 13 July 2023. https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/best-things-to-do-this-weekend-los-angeles-southern-california-july-14-16

2022

Angeleti, Gabriella. “Marvin Gaye-inspired exhibition to inaugurate Rubell Museum in Washington, DC” (Rubell Museum exhibition review). The Art Newspaper, 6 September 2022. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/06/rubell-museum-washington-dc-opening-marvin-gaye-inspired-exhibition

Beckenstein, Joyce. “Hank Willis Thomas & For Freedoms: Another Justice: US is Them” (Parrish Art Museum exhibition review). The Brooklyn Rail, October 2022. https://brooklynrail.org/2022/10/artseen/Hank-Willis-Thomas-For-Freedoms-Another-Justice-US-is-Them

Belcove, Julie. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas Co-Curates a New Show Exploring the Fraying Fabric of America.” (Parrish Art Museum exhibition review). Robb Report, 23 July 2022. https://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/hank-willis-thomas-co-curates-modern-america-exhibit-1234728025/

Cascone, Sarah. “13 Buzzy Back-to-School Gallery Shows to See During Armory Week, From a Red-Hot Group Show to Rick Lowe’s Gagosian Debut” (Jack Shainman Gallery exhibition review). Artnet, 6 September 2022. https://news.artnet.com/market/armory-week-gallery-openings-2169640

Eckardt, Stephanie. “A Visual Appreciation of Fine Artists Appropriating Commercial Photography” (Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition review). W Magazine, 5 September 2022. https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/objects-of-desire-lacma-exhibit

“Hyperallergic Fall 2022 New York Art Guide” (Parrish Art Museum exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 31 August 2022. https://hyperallergic.com/756529/fall-2022-new-york-art-guide/

Ludel, Wallace and Margaret Carrigan. “Wake up call: artist Hank Willis Thomas wants to spur voter turnout with the Wide Awakes group.” The Art Newspaper, 16 September 2020. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/09/16/wake-up-call-artist-hank-willis-thomas-wants-to-spur-voter-turnout-with-the-wide-awakes-group

McCash, Doug. “Black Power Afro pick sculpture is about as good as public art gets: Doug MacCash’s Review.” Nola, 2 June 2022. https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/black-power-afro-pick-sculpture-is-about-as-good-as-public-art-gets-doug-maccashs/article

Odufu, Emann. “Believe it.” Office Magazine, 20 April 2022. http://officemagazine.net/believe-it

Scott, Chad. “Hank Willis Thomas Asks And Answers America’s Toughest Questions About Race at Cincinnati Art Museum” (Cincinnati Art Museum exhibition review). Forbes, 23 September 2020. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2020/09/23/hank-willis-thomas-asks-and-answers-americas-toughest-questions-about-race-at-cincinnati-art-museum/?sh=6836dd336460

Seidenstein, Joanna Sheers. “Reflecting on Freedom.” Index Magazine, 30 June 2020. https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/reflecting-on-freedom

Tyner, Ashley. “The artist collective questioning the true meaning of justice” (Parrish Art Museum exhibition review). i-D Magazine, 17 August 2022. https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/v7vb8x/the-artist-collective-questioning-the-true-meaning-of-justice

Vartanian, Hrag. “Hank Willis Thomas Gives an Infamous Modern Art Diagram a Postcolonial Update.” Hyperallergic, 1 October 2020. https://hyperallergic.com/591487/alfred-h-barr-jr-modern-art-chart-postcolonial/

Wallis, Stephen. “Hank Willis Thomas Sees His Art as a Call to ‘Loving Action’” (Parrish Art Museum exhibition review). Wall Street Journal, 7 September 2022. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hank-willis-thomas-artist-new-show-confront-divisive-issues-11662495935

Wolff, Caroline. “San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum adds 7-foot bronze snail sculpture to its outdoor collection.” San Antonio Current, 12 July 2022. https://www.sacurrent.com/arts/san-antonios-mcnay-art-museum-adds-7-foot-bronze-snail-sculpture-to-its-outdoor-collection-29340232

Yerekeban, Osman Can. “Hank Willis Thomas wants America to wake up.” Soho House, 2 November 2022. https://www.sohohouse.com/en-us/house-notes/issue-006/art-and-design/hank-willis-thomas-wants-america-to-wake-up

Zellen, Jody. "Hank Willis Thomas: Kayne Griffin." Artillery, 4 January 2021.

2021

Cohn, Alison S. and Ariana Marsh. “The Culture Lover’s November Guide.” Harper’s Bazaar, 1 November 2021.

Conde, Xiemena. “’Traveling ‘Monumental Tour’ brings art to four iconic Philly spots.” WHYY Plan Philly, 21 September 2021. https://whyy.org/articles/traveling-monumental-tour-brings-art-to-four-iconic-philly-spots/

Douglas, Sarah. "Art x Fashion: How Collaborations Between Artists and Designers Spark New Styles." Artnews, 8 September 2021.

Gaskin, Sam. “Hank Willis Thomas to Exhibit NBA Quilts Ahead of All-Star Game” (Caxton Building exhibition Review). Ocula, 17 February 2022. https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/hank-willis-thomas-exhibits-nba-quilts/.

Glasgow, Abigail. “For Freedoms and Hank Willis Thomas Question America’s Systems of Incarceration.” Cultured, 15 December 2021.

Graver, David. “‘Cultureworks’ Milestone, In-Person Frieze New York Programming.” Cool Hunting, 11 May 2021. https://coolhunting.com/culture/cultureworks-milestone-in-person-frieze-new-york-programming/

Haigney, Sophie. “A Racial Equity Monument, From Hank Willis Thomas, Is Set for Boston.” The New York Times, 14 January 2021.

Heinrich, Will and Martha Schwendener. “Frieze new York, First Live Art Fair in a Year, Kicks Off at the Shed.” The New York Times, 6 May 2021.

Holmes, Helen. “An Open Letter by Hank Willis Thomas Asks the U.S to Take in Argan Artists.” The Observer, 25 August 2021. https://observer.com/2018/06/hank-willis-thomas-50-state-for-freedoms-public-art-project-could-prove-controversial/\

“Hundreds of Artists Sign Open Letter Calling for Us to Offer Asylum to Afghan Culture Workers.” Artforum, 25 August 2021. https://www.artforum.com/news/hundreds-of-artists-sign-open-letter-calling-for-us-to-offer-asylum-to-afghan-culture-workers-250509/

Kanik, Hannah. “Monumental Tour features sculptures examining themes from Black history.” The Philly Voice, 23 September 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/28/opinion/america-flag-design.html

Keh, Pei-Ru. “At home with artist Hank Willis Thomas.” Wallpaper, 14 January 2021.

Kniggendorf, Anne. “Nerman Family Members ‘Get Joy’ Sharing Work by Artists of Color in Kanas City Art Institute Exhibit” (Kanas City Art Institute exhibition review). NPR, 18 September 2021. https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2021-09-18/nerman-family-members-get-joy-sharing-work-by-artists-of-color-in-kansas-city-art-institute-exhibit

Marshall, Alex. “Getting Soccer Fans Into Art? That’s the Goal.” New York Times, 16 August 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/arts/design/tottenham-stadium-art-soccer.html

McClinton, Dream. “Hank Willis Thomas: ‘The slave era is not something that is in the past.’” The Guardian, 1 December 2021.

"Redesigning America’s Flag: Six New Takes on Old Glory." The New York Times, 28 September 2021.

Sanders, Danielle. “The Monumental Tour Art Exhibition comes to Englewood.” Chicago Defender, 24 June 2021. https://chicagodefender.com/the-monumental-tour-art-exhibition-comes-to-englewood/

Sayej, Nadia. “Grief and grievance: how artists respond to racial violence in America.” The Guardian, 4 February 2021.

Stamey, Emily. “How Artists Are Re-Imaging Basketball.” Frieze, 2 June 2021. https://www.frieze.com/article/how-artists-are-re-imagining-basketball

Waddoups, Ryan. “A Memorial to Victims of Gun Violence, Told Through Their Keepsakes” (National Building Museum exhibition review). Surface Magazine, 13 April 2021. https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/gun-violence-memorial-hank-willis-thomas/

2020

Angeleti, Gabriella. “Hank Willis Thomas covers US Justice Department with thousands of words from inmates.” The Art Newspaper, 12 June 2020.

Capps, Kriston. “Washington Postcard.” Artforum, 19 June 2020. https://www.artforum.com/columns/kriston-capps-on-art-and-protest-in-the-capital-247991/

Cascone, Sarah. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas Projected Writings by Prisoners Fearful of Catching Coronavirus Onto Manhattan’s Criminal Justice Building.” Artnet News, 14 May 2020.

Cascone, Sarah. “In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 33 Gallery Shows to See Beyond the Fairs” (Kayne Griffin Corcoran exhibition review). Artnet News, 10 February 2020. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/frieze-los-angeles-gallery-shows-2020-1752327

“Celebrating Hank Willis Thomas at Kayne Griffin Corcoran.” Cultured, 19 February 2020.

Chernick, Karen. “Hank Willis Thomas on Black Survival Guide and Creative Civic Action.” Hyperallergic, 20 August 2020.

Estiler, Keith. “Hank Willis Thomas to Project Writings of Incarcerated People Affected by COVID-19.” Hypebeast, 15 September 2020.

“For Freedoms: Community Conversation: Freedom of Speech.” University of Arkansas, 9 March 2020. https://news.uark.edu/articles/52219/for-freedoms-community-conversation-freedom-of-speech

Gannon, Devin. “Gracie Mansion’s largest art exhibition explores social justice and inclusion” (Gracie Mansion exhibition review). 6 Square Feet, 25 February 2020. https://www.6sqft.com/gracie-mansions-largest-art-exhibition-explores-social-justice-and-inclusion/

Kambhampaty, Anna Purna. “Behind the Making of TIME’S Martin Luther King Jr. Cover.” Time, 20 February 2020. https://time.com/5786713/martin-luther-king-jr-time-cover-story/

Keh, Pei-Ru. “At home with artist Hank Willis Thomas.” Wallpaper, 14 January 2021.

Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. “Gun violence memorial created by Hank Willis Thomas and Mass Design Group in Washington.” Wallpaper, 27 July 2020. https://www.wallpaper.com/art/hank-willis-thomas-mass-design-group-gun-violence-memorial-project

Miranda, Carolina A. “Here are nine exhibitions and events around Southern California to check out in the coming week.” Los Angeles Times, 5 March 2020.

Miranda, Carolina. “Why artist Hank Willis Thomas smashed up ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’s’ General Lee.” Los Angeles Times, 29 January 2020.

Mizota, Sharon. “Review: Hank Willis Thomas, Tomashi Jackson and a different kind of color theory.” Los Angeles Times, 6 February 2020.

Redmond, Shana L. “An All Colored Cast.” ASAP Journal, 30 July 2020.

Sayej, Nadja. “Hank Willis Thomas: 'The work will not be complete in our lifetime'.” The Guardian, 30 July 2020.

Scott, Chad. “Hank Willis Thomas Asks And Answers America’s Toughest Questions About Race At Cincinnati Art Museum.” Forbes, 23 September 2020.

Sheets, Hilarie M. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas and Gallerist Jack Shainman Share Their Story” (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art exhibition review). Galerie, 6 April 2020. https://galeriemagazine.com/jack-shainman-hank-willis-thomas/

Small, Zachary. “Protesting U.S Immigration Policies, Artists Aim for the Sky.” New York Times, 3 July 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/arts/design/july-4-skytyping-skywriting-immigration.html

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Interview: Artist Hank Willis Thomas.” Interview with Karen Day. Cool Hunting, 3 September 2020. https://coolhunting.com/culture/interview-artist-hank-willis-thomas/

Thomas, Hank Willis. “What should our monuments of the future look like?” CNN Style, 17 June 2020.

Valentine, Victoria L. “A Year Ahead in African American Art: What to See and Do in 2020” (Phillips Collection exhibition review). Culture Type, 26 February 2020. https://www.culturetype.com/2020/02/26/the-year-ahead-in-african-american-art-what-to-see-and-do-in-2020/.

2019

“African American Conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas’ Bold Black Beautiful Statements in Public Art.” Challenger, 18 November 2019.

Armstrong, Annie. “Swizz Beatz to Present New Award for Social Justice at Bronx Museum Gala.” Artnews, 19 March 2019.

Armstrong, Annie and Claire Selvin. “The Temperature of the Island: Frieze New York Opens With Sales, Some Veteran Exhibitors Missing.” Artnews, 1 May 2019.

Armstrong, Christopher Andrew. “Bronx Gala; Bronx Museum of the Arts.” Flaunt, 9 April 2019.

“Art Industry News: A Feminist Monument With Racial Tensions Gets Narrowly OKed for Central Park + Other Stories.” Artnet news, 23 October 2019. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-october-21-2019-1686577.

Belcover, Julie. “Growing Up in a Black-History Archive.” The New Yorker, 23 April 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/growing-up-in-a-black-history-archive.

Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week.” Artnet News, 8 April 2019.

Corbett, Rachel. “Hank Willis Thomas’s New Portland Art Museum Show Exposes the Manipulative Power of Advertising in the City Where Nike Was Born.” Artnet News, 28 October 2019.

Desmarais, Charles. “Why is African American art having a moment? The reasons are as varied as the art itself.” Datebook, 2 June 2019.

Edevane, Gillian. “For Freedoms Co-Founders Talk Remixing Rockwell – And Those Political Billboards.” All Arts, 31 October 2019. https://www.allarts.org/2019/10/for-freedoms-talks-remixing-rockwell-and-those-political-billboards/.

Goldstein, Sarah Cascone & Caroline. “Here are 23 Outstanding Museum Shows Across the US That You Won’t Want to Miss This Fall.” Artnet News, 5 September 2019.

Greenberger, Alex. “Hank Willis Thomas Selected to Design Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Boston.” Artnews, 4 March 2019.

“Guadalupe Rosales and Hank Willis Thomas Awarded Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowships.” Artforum, 13 February 2019.

“Hank Willis Thomas: All Power to All People.” C&, 11 April 2019.

“Hank Willis Thomas.” Washington Post, 2 May 2019.

“Hank Willis Thomas and Mass Design Group to Create MLK and Coretta Scott King Memorial in Boston.” Artforum, 5 March 2019.

Hawkey, Cameron. “Portland Art Museum’s Hank Willis Thomas Retrospective Invokes Black Joy: The Strongest Force In the Universe.” Portland Mercury, 24 October 2019.

“Hong Kong’s iconic harbour-front has a new sculpture park.” Hindustan Times, 24 February 2018. https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/hong-kong-s-iconic-harbour-front-has-a-new-sculpture-park/story-rJSrFNlClA1xUlHQuMlTuN.html.

Jenkins, Mark. “This free, D.C.-wide festival includes an interactive selfie installation and a traveling art barge.” The Washington Post, 13 June 2019.

Johnson, Paddy. “Arts Power 50: The Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019.” Observer, 1 April 2019.

Khan, Shoshana. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ ‘Unity’ Takes Place in Downtown Brooklyn.” NYC Department of Design and Construction, 12 November 2019. https://www.nyc.gov/site/ddc/about/press-releases/2019/pr-111219-street-construction.page

Langner, Eric. “Hank Willis Thomas Opens Up Space for Interpretation, Which is Sometimes Risky” (Portland Art Museum exhibition review). Hyperallergic, 26 November 2019. https://hyperallergic.com/530172/hank-willis-thomas-all-things-being-equal-portland-art-museum/

Marcisz, Christopher. “Looking at Sports as Powerful Modes of Expression.” Hyperallergic, 19 August 2019.

McPherson, Njeri. “Hank Willis Thomas’ art to change the world.” Amsterdam News, 24 October 2019. https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/10/24/hank-willis-thomas-art-change-world/.

Messman, Lauren. “Brooklyn Academy of Music Commissions Four New Works of Public Art.” The New York Times, 6 August 2019.

“New Mural from DPI Alum Hank Willis Thomas at Brooklyn Navy Yard.” NYU Tisch, 16 October 2019. https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/news/new-mural-from-dpi-alum-hank-willis-thomas-at-brooklyn-navy-yard.

“New Orleans Museums of Art’s Amazing Sculpture Garden Expansion Opens to the Public.” Art Fix Daily, 15 May 2019. https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/9642-new-orleans-museum-of-arts-amazing-sculpture-garden-expansion-ope.

O’Neill, Meaghan. “A Stunning New Boston Memorial Will Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.” Architectural Digest, 4 March 2019.

Pavic, Laurel Reed. “Hank Willis Thomas: How to unmake race” (Portland Art Museum exhibition review). Oregon Artswatch, 3 December 2019. https://www.orartswatch.org/hank-willis-thomas-how-to-unmake-race/

“Portland Art Museum to Present Major Survey ‘Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…” ARTFIXdaily, 11 April 2019.

“Pratt Institute’s School of Art (SoArt) and the Fine Arts Department Present Open Exchange: Belonging.” Hyperallergic, 27 March 2019.

Ray, Sharmistha. “When the Arts Resist Imperialism.” Hyperallergic, 7 September 2019.

Sargent, Antwaun. “Deeper Truths: Conversation with Hank Willis Thomas.” Sculpture Magazine, 6 December 2019. https://sculpturemagazine.art/deeper-truths-a-conversation-with-hank-willis-thomas/

Schwendener, Martha. “Affordable Alternatives to the Main Fairs.” The New York Times, 1 May 2019.

Schwendener, Martha. “A Sculpture for Brooklyn’s New Golden Age?” The New York Times, 10 November 2019.

Shakur, Fayemi. “Updating Normal Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ for a Modern, Diverse America.” The New York Times, 12 March 2019.

Sheets M., Hilarie. “In Portland, Falling Stars Shine a Light on Gun Violence.” The New York Times, 23 October 2019.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Deeper Truths: A Conversation with Hank Willis Thomas.” Interview with Antwaun Sargent. Sculpture, 6 December 2019.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “One on one: Adger Cowans and Hank Willis Thomas.” Interview with Adger Cowans. Cultured, 24 October 2019. https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2019/10/24/adger-cowans-and-hank-willis-thomas.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “‘Public art is propaganda, frankly’: Hank Willis Thomas discusses gun violence and the urgent need for alternative memorials.” Interview with Charmaine Picard. The Art Newspaper, 31 October 2019. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/11/01/public-art-is-propaganda-frankly-hank-willis-thomas-discusses-gun-violence-and-the-urgent-need-for-alternative-memorials.

Vadala, Nick. “There’s a giant sculpture of Joel Embiid’s arm... in Brooklyn?” The Inquirer, 6 December 2019. https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-joel-embiid-sculpture-brooklyn-unity-hank-willis-thomas-20191206.html

Valentine, Victoria L. “Latest News in African American Art: Hank Willis Thomas Designing King Memorial, History of Racism at MICA, Ghana and South Africa at Venice Biennale & More.” Culture Type, 5 March 2019.

Wang, Amy. “Hank Willis Thomas exhibit, whose themes include race and identity, comes at ‘really important time.'” The Oregonian, 19 October 2019.

Yoshiko, Lauren. “Hank Willis Thomas’ ‘All Things Being Equal...’ Cuts Deep Into the Psyche of our Society” (Portland Museum of Art exhibition review). Willamette Week, 6 November 2019. https://www.wweek.com/promotions/2019/11/06/hank-willis-thomas-all-things-being-equal-cuts-deep-into-the-psyche-of-our-society/.

2018

“Afro pick sculpture finds new home at PAFA.” The Philadelphia Tribune, 23 October 2018.

Bhargava, Aaina. "Public Displays of Art: Hong Kong's First Sculpture Park." The Artling, 25 February 2018.

Crimmins, Peter. “Black Power Afro pick sculpture takes root at Philadelphia museum.” Whyy, 20 December 2018.

Harshaw, Pendarvis. “Talking With Artist Hank Willis Thomas About Political Struggle.” KQED, 5 November 2018.

Neuendorf, Henri. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas’s Political Nonprofit Establishes Its Headquarters in New York Ahead of the Midterm Elections.” Artnet News, 27 June 2018.

Rickards, P.J. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas Shines Spotlight on the Power of Protest” (York College Galleries exhibition review). The Root, 27 May 2018. https://www.theroot.com/artist-hank-willis-thomas-shines-spotlight-on-the-power-1826301874.

Roethstein, Kathyrn. “Hank Willis Thomas’s Unbranded is a haunting take on American culture.” North by Northwestern, 17 May 2018.

Spivack, Emily. “G.I. Joe Taught This Artist About Storytelling.” The New York Times Style Magazine, 13 June 2018.

2017

“Hank Willis Thomas Wins Canada’s AIMIA Photography Prize.” Artforum, 18 December 2017. https://www.artforum.com/news/hank-willis-thomas-wins-canadas-aimia-photography-prize-237086/.

Mitchell, Samantha. "Philadelphia’s Monument Lab Asks, 'What’s Right for Public Space?'" Hyperallergic, 9 October 2017.

Outwater, Heather, and Morgan Barnett. “Decontextualized: A Review of Works by Hank Willis Thomas.” The Spartan, 22 February 2017.

Swanson, Carl. “Is Political Art the Only Art That Matters Now?” Vulture, 20 April 2017.

Vecsey, George. “Artist Sews Together Sports and Geopolitics.” The New York Times, 4 October 2017.

2016

Achterhuis, Hans. “Van Vooroordeel tot blinde vlek.” De Groene Amsterdammer, January 2016: 70–71, illustrated.

Bahara, Hassan. “F*ck’n Sellout.” De Groene Amsterdammer, January 2016: 64, illustrated.

Bailey, Spencer. “Artist Hank Willis Thomas Would Consider Running for Office.” Surface Magazine, 19 October 2016.

Baker, R.C. “Shorts and Skins: Hands Up and Hands on in Two Trenchant Shows.” The Village Voice, 19 April 2016.

Boucher, Brian. “Can an Artist-Formed PAC Sway the Presidential Election?” Artnet, 4 March 2016.

Bradner, Liesl. “’All Power to the People’ explores the often misunderstood history of the Black Panther Movement.” LA Times, 14 October 2016.

Brooks, Katherine. “Inflatable ‘Truth Booth’ Will Let Americans Vent About This Crazy Election: Hank Willis Thomas and Cause Collective are begging people in the U.S. to tell the truth.” Huffington Post Arts & Culture, 12 April 2016.

Chana, Jas. “Hank Willis Thomas on the “Irrational Idea” of Artistic Success.” The Observer, 11 February 2016.

Conley, Kevin. “State Craft: A Group of Iconoclastic African-American Artists Are Getting Their Work on

Walls Around the World – And Access to an International Audience of Millions. The Radical Patron

Behind It All? The U.S. State Department.” Town and Country Magazine, April 2016: 138.

Dawson, Jessica. “For Freedoms.” The Village Voice, 11 June 2016.

Desmarais, Charles. “Hank Willis Thomas at Kadist: Blunt and Ingenious.” San Francisco Gate, 26

February 2016.

Feldblum, Samuel. “Hank Willis Thomas Brings His Quest for Truth to the Grand Opening of NCMA’s New Park.” Indy, 2 Novemeber 2016.

Filipov, David. “Inflatable ‘Truth Booth’ is art that lets you speak your mind.” The Boston Globe, 8 April 2016.

Houston, Kerr. “Hank Willis Thomas A Necessary Caution.” NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, November 2016: 85, 134–141, illustrated.

Kaplan, Isaac. “Can an Artist-Run Super PAC Be More Than a Gimmick?” Artsy, 9 June 2016.

Katyal, Sonia K. “Branded: On the Semiotic Disobedience of Hank Willis Thomas.” The Brooklyn Rail,

4 March 2016.

McGee, Cellia. “A ‘Super PAC’ Where Art and Politics Converge.” The New York Times, 25 April 2016: C3, illustrated.

Mendelsohn, Meredith, and Tess Thackara. “How Advocates of African-American Art Are Advancing

Racial Equality in the Art World.” Artsy, 12 January 2016.

Oudin-Bastide, Caroline. “Le Mieux, Ennemi Du Bien.” Le Monde Diplomatique: Manuel D’Economie, September 2016: 47.

Ojutiku, Mak. “Traveling video ‘Truth Booth’ visits Jersey City.” The Jersey Journal, 18 June 2016.

Sharp, Sarah Rose. “A Show of African American Artists Resonates in a Racially Divided Detroit.” Hyperallergic, 7 January 2016.

Shawel, Dawit. “Artists Take Action.” Blouin Art+Auction, June/July 2016: 22.

“Truth Booth art installation arrives on Primary Day.” The Washington Times, 19 April 2016.

Voien, Guelda. “In the Craziest of Election Years, One Artist Formed a Super PAC to Fund Art.” New York Observer, 5 April 2016.

2015

Battaglia, Andy. “A Random Invitation to Share Truth.” The Wall Street Journal, 4 August 2015.

Baumgardner, Julie. “’Greater New York’ Is a Bellwether- And It’s Time for Critics to Eat Their Words.”

Artsy, 9 October 2015.

Bodick, Noelle. “Reading Between the Lines: Hank Willis Thomas’s ‘Unbranded: A Century of White

Women’.” BlouinArtInfo, 13 April 2014.

Bonanos, Christopher. “Would Peggy Olson Have Approved These? Without their words, vintage ads

starring women speak even more loudly.” New York Magazine, 6–19 April 2015: 92–93, illustrated.

Cascone, Sarah. “Hank Willis Thomas Speaks the Truth in 22 Languages.” Artnet, 9 August 2015.

Cofre, Ian. “Mother as Inspiration, Mother as Collaborator.” The Agora Culture, 10 May 2015.

Conley, Kevin. “101 Years of White Women in Ads.” Town&Country, 20 April 2015.

Donoghue, Katy. “Hank Willis Thomas and the Traveling Truth Booth.” Whitewall Magazine Summer

Design Issue, 2015.

“Exhibition Review: Hank Willis Thomas.” Art In America, June 2015.

Faynberg, Eric. “Truth feller: Honest artist tries to bridge cultural gaps.” The Brooklyn Paper, 4 August 2015.

Frank, Priscilla. “How 100 Years of Advertisements Created the ‘White American Woman’.” Huffington

Post Arts and Culture, 9 April 2015.

Gillis, Casey. “’Question Bridge’ project explains life in words of black males.” The News & Advance, 9 July 2015.

Halle, Howard. “Hank Willis Thomas Talks About Black Lives and The Meaning of Truth.” Time Out New York, 18 August 2015.

Halle, Howard. “You can handle the truth: Hank Willis Thomas’s public art installation explores what’s true from your point of view.” Time Out New York, 19–25 August 2015: 50, illustrated.

“Hank Willis Thomas.” Victory Journal ‘Arts & Letters’, no. 10, Winter 2015: 102, illustrated.

Howe, Brian. “Seeing Isn’t Always Believing in the New Exhibit at Durham’s 21C Museum Hotel.” Indy

Week, 12 August 2015.

Imbrogno, Douglas. “Looking at the self through self-portraiture.” Charleston Gazette-MaiI, 14 July 2015.

Indrisek, Scott. “’Image Objects’ Brings the Digital Outdoors.” Blouin Art Info, 8 July 2015.

Iooss, Bjorn. “The New New Yorkers.” Departures, May/June 2015.

Johnson, Ken. “Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical.” The New York Times, 16 July 2015.

King, Jamilah. “Why Sneaker Culture May Not Be All That It’s Cracked to Be.” Identities.Mic, 9 July 2015.

Laster, Paul. “Hank Willis Thomas at MetroTech Commons.” Whitehot Magazine, August 2015.

Lawrence, Alexis. "Hank Willis Thomas’s New Installation About Truth Pops Up in Downtown Brooklyn." Architectural Digest, 31 July 2015

Linzy, Kalup. “A Family Affair at the USF Contemporary Art Museum.” Huffington Post, 2 September 2015.

Martin, Alison. “Hank Willis Thomas looks back on 100 years of white women” (Jack Shainman Gallery exhibition review). Examiner, 16 April

2015.

Martinez, Alanna. “Outside the Fair, Public Art to Fill Miami’s Collins Park.” Observer, November 2015.

McDermott, Emily. “Unbranding Brands.” Interview Magazine, 10 April 2015.

McQuaid, Cate. “No matter the era or country, artists imprint the protest.” The Boston Globe, 9 September 2015. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/09/08/matter-era-country-artists-imprint-protest/RQ3zwgCSWhHaTiUqZ0eiFL/story.html.

Miller, Ben H. “There’s A Truth Bubble Waiting for Your Secrets in Brooklyn.” Gothamist, 6 August 2015.

Miller, M.H. “’Advertising is Fueled by Prejudice’: An Hour with Hank Willis Thomas,” ArtNews, 7 April 2015.

Morgan, Tiernan. “Art Movements.” Hyperallergic, 17 July 2015.

Rosen, Miss. “Art Basel Miami | ‘Metaforms at Collins Park’.” Crave, 5 December 2015.

Sanders, Courtney. “This Artist is Unpacking How Ads Affect the Representation of Women.” Catalogue Magazine, 20 April 2015.

Sargent, Antwaun. “Hank Willis Thomas Recalls the Past Century, A new exhibition looks at the last

hundred years of white women in print advertising.” W Magazine, 13 April 2015.

Sargent, Antwaun. “Instagram’s Mark on Public Art” The New Yorker, 13 August 2015.

Schultz, Charles. “Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art.” The Brooklyn Rail, 5 February 2015.

Shire, Emily. “Color Coded: The Black Artist Who Thinks Race Is Fake.” The Daily Beast, 3 May 2015.

Shore, Robert. “Hank Willis Thomas: Ad & Subtract (Or ‘The Semiotics of Slam-Dunk’).” Elephant

Magazine, Spring 2015: 159–163, illustrated.

Smee, Sebastian. “Hank Willis Thomas’s slick image masks closed door” (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art exhibition review). The Boston Globe, 30 June 2015. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/06/29/hank-willis-thomas-masks-sly-message-with-slick-imagery/xm3uq76Me6NDeiQRtBXBLJ/story.html.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “The Back Page.” Photograph Magazine, May/June 2015: 128, illustrated.

Thomas, Hank Willis. "Hank Willis Thomas talks about black lives and the meaning of truth." Interview with Howard Halle. Time Out New York, 18 August 2015.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “InConversation.” Interview with Allie Biswas. The Brooklyn Rail, May 2015: 37–40, illustrated.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Interview with Hank Willis Thomas for Question Bridge.” Interview with Pauline Vermare. International Center of Photography, 30 April 2015. https://www.icp.org/interviews/hank-willis-thomas-for-question-bridge.

"Truth Bubble Sign Tree." Newcomb, August 2017.

Yerebakan, O.C. “New York – Hank Willis Thomas: ‘The Truth Is I See You’ at MetroTech Promenade

Through June 3rd, 2016.” Art Observed, 21 August 2015.

Zwecker, Bill. “’Truth Booth’ Should Draw Huge Crowd at Expo Chicago.” Chicago Sun-Times,

16 September 2015.

2014

Corbett, Rachel “Police killings prompt a resurgence in political art: Artists are fighting back after the

controversial deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.” The Art Newspaper, 18 December 2014.

Cotter, Holland. “Unlikely Tenants Filling a Neighborhood Vacancy.” The New York Times, 10

July 2014: C22, illustrated.

Goltschak, Molly, “Trending Artists Under 40 at Frieze London.” Artsy, 14 October 2014.

Landi, Ann. “The Art that Made Artists Artists.” Art News, May 2014: 82–89, illustrated.

Ossei-Mensah, Larry. “Top of the Class.” Harlemwood Pub, July 24, 2014.

Stavans, Ilan. “Intercambio: Picturing Diversity 2. I am Stereotype.” Nueva Luz Photographic Journal, 18, no. 3, Summer 2014: 38, 41, illustrated.

Thomas, Hank Willis. ’Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters.” Baltimore, Maryland:

Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2014: illustrated.

Willis Thomas, Hank. “‘What Is Common to All of Us?’ Redefining Black Male Identity.” Creative Time

Reports, 23 September 2014.

2013

Biesenbach, Klaus. “Erdkunde.” Monopol, 2013.

Weaver, A.M. “Hank Willis Thomas” (Jack Shainman Gallery exhibition review). Frieze, no. 153, March

2013: 151, illustrated.

2012

"Artist Hank Willis Thomas Discusses the Brooklyn Museaum's ‘Question Bridge’." Life and Times. 4

June 2012.

Blanch, Andrea. “Hank Willis Thomas.” Mussee, 2012.

Booth, William. "Cuba to ease exit-visa policy." The Washington Post, 17 October 2012.

Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Hank Willis Thomas” (Jack Shainman Gallery exhibition review). The New York Times, 1 August 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/arts/design/hank-willis-thomas.html.

Estrin, James. “Cooperation Replaces a Lone Wolf Approcah to Photography.” The New York Times, 18 June 2012.

Hank Willis Thomas, “What Goes without saying.” Time Out New York, 10 October 2012.

Hondra, Susan. "Out of Many Themes, One Topic." The New York Times, 21 September 2012.

Klein, Richards. "Thomas." Aldrich Museum Strange Fruit Brochure, 2012.

Rothman, Lilly. "Currators Look Ahead to Look3." TIME, 5 June 2012.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Hank Willis Thomas on Photo-manipulation, Instagram, and Hybrid Identities.” Interview with Artsy Editorial. Artsy, 8 April 2013. https://www.artsy.net/article/editorial-hank-willis-thomas-on-photo-manipulation-instagram-and.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Strange Fruit: Interview with Hank Willis Thomas.” Interview with Illysha McMillan. Art Nouveau, 23 March 2012.

Wolf, Rachel. “Thomas Stages a Photo Shoot.” Art News, November 2012: 127–133, illustrated. Web version: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hank-willis-thomas-stages-a-photo-shoot-2120/

2011

Adamson, Glenn. “Issues/Commentary: Tsunami Africa” (Museum of Arts and Design exhibition review). Art in America. no. 3, March 2011: 67–72, illustrated.

Gandy, Mira. “New York Arts: Hank Willis Thomas—Strange Fruit—and redefining the Black male

identity.” New York Beacon, 8 December 2011: 33, illustrated.

“Hank Willis Thomas—Unbranded.” ElseMagazine, no. 1, 2011: 64–69, illustrated.

Haris, Hanifa. “Erasing Type: Hank Willis Thomas on What Advertisements Are Really Saying.” Time

Magazine, 19 April 2011.

Mackin, Carrie. "The New Black." CBS Watch, October 2011: 58.

Martin, Frank. “Progeny II: On art, family, race, and culture.” Daily Serving, 12 January 2011.

Martin, Pauline. “Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded.” Else (by ELysée, a production of the

Musée de l'Elysée), no. 1, 2011: 64–69, illustrated.

Saxton-Wi, Larry. "‘30 Americans" at the Concoran Gallery of Art’." The Washington Informer, 29

September 2011.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Erasing Type: Hank Willis Thomas on What Advertisements Are Really Saying” (Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibition review). Interview with Time Photo Department. Time, 19 April 2011. https://time.com/3776410/what-advertisements-dont-say/.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Hank Willis Thomas–Strange Fruit–and redefining the Black male identity.” Interview with Mira Gandy. New York Arts, 14 December 2011.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “The New Black: An Artist Explores Racial Identity and Standards in America” (The Africa Foundation exhibition review). Interview with Watch!. Muse, October 2011. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/556999.

Thomas, Hank Willis. “Untitled (Blackness): Q+A with Hank Willis Thomas.” Interview with Brian Boucher. Art in America, September 2011.

Trescott, Jacqueline. “Corcoran plans fund-raiser with artist Kehinde Wiley.” The Washington Post, 29

September 2011.

Vitiello, Chris. “Diaspora, self-definition and eye-popping color in 30 Americans at the North Carolina

Museum of Art.” Indy Week. 23 March 2011.

Wender, Jessie. “Photo Booth—Photographing the Great Recession, Looking Back to the Great

Depression.” The New Yorker, 13 October 2011.

2010

“Art Basel Miami: Artists Review.” ReadySetDC, 13 December 2010.

Smith, Roberta. “Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement.” New York Times, 6 October 2009.

2009

Carlson, Michele. “Black is Beautiful: Hank Willis Thomas.” Art in America, 30 June 2009.

Ollman, Leah. “Review: Hank Willis Thomas at Roberts & Tilton.” Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2009.

2008

Belkin, Katarina. “Clark’s ‘Black Atlantic’ Parses Race in Art.” The Williams Record, March 2008.

Bishop, Philip E. “Exhibit Explores History, Hipness.” Orlando Sentinel, 19 April 2007.

“Capacity Character, Hank Willis Thomas.” URB Magazine, May 2007: 31.

Cook, Greg. “Bought and Sold.” The Phoenix, 22 January 2008.

Dawson, Jessica. “Black Panther Rank and File’ Rallying Its Own Art Movement.” The Washington Post,

23 November 2008: C02.

Johnson, Martin. “Image Makers.” Baltimore City Paper, 21 November 2007.

Rice, Robin. “Life in Turnabout.” Citypaper Philadelphia, 23 January 2008.

Suarez de Jesus, Carlos. “Mother-Son Art Takes the Ties that Bind.” Miami New Times,

17 July 2008.

“The View From Now.” The International Review of African American Art, 22, no. 2, 2008.

“Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997–2007.” Flava, 2009.

Willick, Damon. “Criticism After Art: Comments on the ‘Crisis’ of Art Criticism (or, How Writing About Art Writing Earns Its Bad Name Again and Again).” X-TRA Magazine, 10, no. 3, 2008: 30.

2007

Anderson, Dave. “Priceless.” Frank. Fall/Winter 2007: pp. 66-71.

Davis, Beandrea. “The elusive concept of Blackness: through photography and film, artist Hank vWillisThomas explores what it means to be black today.” Colorlines Magazine, November/December 2007: 45–47.

Feeney, Mark. “Art, Commerce Intersect in Two Exhibits.” The Boston Globe, 12 December 2007.

George, Lynell. “Blacks in and out of the Box” (California African American Museum exhibition review).

Los Angeles Times, 9 December 2007.

“Watch This Space.” 7x7, May 2007: 109.

Williams, Carla. “Hank Willis Thomas: Winter in America.” Nka Journal of Contemporary of African Art,

Fall 2007: 120–121.

2006

Baker, Kenneth. “Remembering the look, the sound, the grit of a revolution.” San Francisco Chronicle, 8 April 2006: E-1.

Cash, Stephanie. “Report from San Francisco II: New and Now.” Art in America, January 2006: 57.

Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review; Hank Willis Thomas.” New York Times, April 2006: 7.

Henry, Lisa. “¡Mira!” Fotophile. no. 50. June 2006: 36.

Kastner, Jeffrey. “Frequency.” Artforum, January 2006: 217.

Mack, Joshua. “Hank Willis Thomas - Branded.” Modern Painter, June 2006: 112.

Peavy, Jessica Ann. “A Brand New School of Thought.” NY Arts, September/October 2006: 77.

Swanson, Mary Virginia. “Die Talent-Nummer.” FotoMAGAZIN, July 2006: 18.

Trelles, Emma. “Urban Sprawl.” Sun-Sentinel, 30 July 2006.

Turner, Elisa. “Metro pictures: Joint exhibit tells movie-like stories of conflict and loss in city spaces.”

Miami Herald, 14 May 2006: 3M.

Valdez, Sarah. “Report from New York: Bling and Beyond.” Art in America, April 2006: 61.

2005

Anderson, Diane. “Campaign Hijack… somber ‘Priceless’.” Brandweek, 17 October 2005: 42.

Baker, Kenneth. “Cross section of Bay Area artists’ work highlights the chasm between creators and crowd.” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2005: E-1.

Feaster, Felicia. “Buy and large.” Creative Loafing Atlanta, 2 June 2005.

Fox, Catherine. “Atlantan among 5 Showing lively vibe.” Atlanta Journal Constitution, 9 October 2005.

Goldsmith, Meredith. “Artist parodies ads to bring awareness.” Oakland Tribune Bay Area

Living, 30 July 2005.

Jameson, Tonya. “Cameras of mother, son chronicle experience of blacks, past and present.”

Charlotte Observer, 12 June 2005.

Marshall, Melvin A. “A Cutting-Edge Provocateur: The Bold, New Photography of Hank Willis

Thomas.” Valentine New York, 2, no. 1. 2005: 60.

Slight, Clarissa T. “Picturing Us: Together.” International Review of African American Art, 20, no. 3, 2006: 46.

Williams, Carla. “On View.” Photograph, September/October 2005: 76.

2004

Cotter, Holland. “For New Art, Just Take the 7 Train.” New York Times, 12 November 2005: E33.

2003

Copeland, Huey. “Being in the Picture: Hank Willis Thomas’s Frame Series.” Qui Parle, 13. no. 2,

Spring/Summer 2003.

Feeney, Mark. “Seeing black culture, moment by stark moment.” Boston Globe, 5 October 2003.

2001

Boxer, Sarah. “Black Photographers Who Are Trying to Get Blackness Right.” New York Times, 9 November 2001: 32.