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Hank Willis Thomas (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1976) nyɛla Americanima nucheeni baŋda. O nyɛla ŋun be Brooklyn, New York, o nyɛla ŋun tuma ni ajanda shɛŋa din nyɛ paɣa bee doo, taarihi n-ti pahi kaya ni taada din niŋ bayana.[1]

Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim

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Hank Willis Thomas nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1976 tiŋ yuli booni Plainfield, New Jersey, o lammba nyɛ Hank Thomas ŋun nyɛ yili yinda mini Deborah Willis ŋun nyɛ nucheeni baŋda, anfoonima yaara n-ti pahi shikuru baŋda.[2] Thomas nyɛla ŋun chaŋ Duke Ellington School of the Arts ka daa nyɛ Museum Studies shikuru bila.[3]

Thomas nyɛla ŋun mali "B.F.A. in Photography and Africana studies" ka di daa yina shikuru yuli booni New York University (1998)[4] ni "M.A./M.F.A. in Photography and Visual Criticism" ka di mi yina California College of the Arts (2004).[4] Yuuni 2017, o daa deei "honorary doctorates" shikuru yuli booni Maryland Institute College of Art mini Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Yuuni 2024, CCA alum Thomas daa deei "honorary doctorate" shikuru yuli booni California College of the Arts ni Deb Willis.[5]

Installation at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama

2023

  • Medal of Arts, Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State[6]
  • Meridian Cultural Diplomacy Awards, Meridian International Center[7]

2022

  • American Academy of Arts and Science[8]

2018

2017

2007

Permanent installation

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Listed in reverse chronological order.

  • All Power to All People, Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri. Unveiled 25th May, 2024[12]
  • Strike, Equal Justice Initiative, Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, Montgomery, Alabama. Unveiled 27th March, 2024[13]
  • Duality, The Underline, Miami, Florida. Unveiled May 17, 2023.[14]
  • The Embrace, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts. Dedicated January 13, 2023.[15]
  • Unity, Tillary Street, Brooklyn, New York. 2019.[16]
  • Raise Up, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama. Unveiled April 26, 2018.[17]
  • Love Over Rules, Sites Unseen, San Francisco, California. Unveiled November 9, 2017.[18]
  • All Power to All People, Opa-locka Art, Opa-locka, Florida. Unveiled October 17, 2017.[19]


Thomas's ma Deborah Willis nyɛ nucheeni baŋda mini NYU baŋda. O ba Hank Thomas, nyɛla jazz yili yinda, sinii yaara ka nyɛ ŋun be Black Panther Party.[20] Thomas nyɛla ŋun niŋ Rujeko Hockley amiliya, ŋun nyɛ "curator" zuɣulan paa zaŋ n-ti Whitney Museum of American Art.[21][20]

  • Willis, Deborah, Hank Willis Thomas, and Kalia Brooks. Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2009. ISBN 978-1-884919-23-7
  • Thomas, Hank Willis, René De Guzman, and Robin D G Kelley. Pitch Blackness. New York: Aperture, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59711-072-3
  • Harney, Elizabeth, editor. Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007. Toronto: Wedge Curatorial Projects, 2008. Page 131. ISBN 978-0-9783370-0-1
  • Rhoden, William C. Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. Page 182. ISBN 0-609-60120-2
  • Thomas, Hank Willis, Kambui Olujimi, and Carla Williams. Winter in America. San Francisco: 81 Press, 2006. ISBN 0-9777336-0-2
  • Armstrong, Elizabeth, Rita Gonzalez, and Karen Moss. California Biennial 2006. Newport Beach, California: Orange County Museum of Art, 2006. Pages 152–5. ISBN 0-917493-42-7
  • Murray, D. C. "Hank Willis Thomas at Lisa Dent." Art in America. December 2006: p. 165.
  • Dawsey, Jill. "Hank Willis Thomas." Artforum.com, March 2006.
  • Golden, Thelma, and Christine Y. Kim. Frequency. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005. Pages 7, 88–89. ISBN 0-942949-30-7
  • Bing, Alison. "Image Consciousness." SFGate.com, 28 October 2004: p. 78.
  • Willis, Deborah. Black: a Celebration of a Culture. Irvington, New York: Hylas Publishing, 2004. Pages 221, 230, 290. ISBN 1-59258-051-3
  • Addo, Ping-Ann. Pieces of Cloth, Pieces of Culture: Tapa from Tonga & the Pacific Islands. Oakland, California: Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts, 2004.
  • Hill, Iris Tillman. 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers. Brooklyn, New York: powerHouse Books in association with the Center for Documentary Studies, 2003. ISBN 1-57687-192-4
  • Gore, Al, and Tipper Gore. The Spirit of Family. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Pages 14–5. ISBN 0-8050-6894-5
  • M.I.L.K. Project. Friendship: a Celebration of Humanity. New York, New York: Morrow, 2001. ISBN 0-06-620970-6
  • Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black: a History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. Pages 257–8, 277. ISBN 0-393-04880-2
  • Carroll, Rebecca. Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1997. Cover. ISBN 0-517-88497-6
  • Cottman, Michael H, Deborah Willis, and Linda Tarrant-Reid. The Family of Black America. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996. Pages 122–6. ISBN 0-517-88822-X
  • Cottman, Michael H, and Deborah Willis. Million Man March. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995. Pages 13, 39, 81. ISBN 0-517-88763-0
  1. Hank Willis Thomas - Jack Shainman Gallery.
  2. The HistoryMakers. Deborah Willis biography, ArtMakers, June 27, 2007. Accessed August 1, 2009.
  3. Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
  4. 1 2 Hank Willis Thomas.
  5. California College of the Arts announces 2024 Honorary Doctorate recipients Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas (en-US).
  6. Hank Willis Thomas – U.S. Department of State (en-US).
  7. Award recipients for the Meridian Cultural Diplomacy Awards (en-US).
  8. Hank Willis Thomas | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en) (2024-05-30).
  9. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Hank Willis Thomas (en-US).
  10. Artforum.com (en-US) (29 June 2018).
  11. Hank Willis Thomas (6 July 2016).
  12. Henderson, Jane (2024-05-01). 'Spectacular pieces of art' help make St. Louis Citygarden expansion complete (en).
  13. Urell, Aaryn (2024-03-27). EJI's New Freedom Monument Sculpture Park (en-US).
  14. Daly, Meg (2023-05-17). Artist Hank Willis Thomas Makes a Monument for the 21st Century (en-US).
  15. Whyte, Murray (January 12, 2023). "'The Embrace' is a tribute to love, justice, and the unsung". https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/12/arts/embrace-is-tribute-love-justice-unsung/. İstifadə tarixi: January 12, 2023.
  16. Public artwork 'Unity,' by artist Hank Willis Thomas, unveiled in Brooklyn (November 11, 2019).
  17. What's inside Montgomery's national peace and slave memorial museum opening April 26 (19 April 2018).
  18. Hank Willis Thomas to unveil public art made from loved one's last message (8 November 2017).
  19. Opa-locka residents cheer the power of art — and all people | Miami Herald.
  20. 1 2 Vecsey, George (2017-10-04). "Artist Sews Together Sports and Geopolitics (Published 2017)" (en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/arts/design/hank-willis-thomas-art.html.
  21. The Whitney Hires Marcela Guerrero and Rujeko Hockley as Assistant Curators (24 January 2017).