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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014 “Femme au divan I” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France

“Femme au divan II” l'Ecole des Beaux Art, Monaco

“Tête de Femme”, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

“Face à Face”, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY

2012 “How to Organize a Room Around A Striking Piece of Art” Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

“Mickalene Thomas” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“Origin of the Universe” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Brooklyn Museum,

Brooklyn, NY

2011 “More Than Everything” Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

“Mickalene Thomas – Mama Bush: One of a Kind Two” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2010 “Put A Little Sugar In My Bowl” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2009 “Mickalene Thomas” Alumni Achievement Award Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

“Something You Can Feel” La Conservera Contemporary Art Space, Ceuti, Spain

“She’s Come UnDone!” Lehmann Maupin, New York

2008 “Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

“What’s Love Got To Do With It?” Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA

2007 “An Imitation of Love, Brawlin’ Spitfire Two” Project Room, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2006 “Something About You…” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Brawlin’ Spitfire” The Proposition Special Project, Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014 “Pop Departures” Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA

“Art Book”, Lowell Hotel, New York, NY

“Aljira at 30; Dreams and Reality”, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

“Domestic Unrest” Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England

“Aftershock: The Impact of Radical Art”, Edleman Arts, NYC

“The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartegena de Indias” Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

“Shakti” Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

“Posing Beauty” Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

2013 “Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles” Salon 94, New York, NY

“Expanding the Field of Painting” The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA

“Posing Beauty” The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH; Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

“Seven Sisters” Karen Jenkins Gallery, San Francisico, CA

“Glyphs: Acts of Inscription” Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

“Amor Fati” Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation, Brooklyn, NY

“Du Bois In Our Time” University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

“tête-à-tête” QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY

“Body Language” Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY

“Desire” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY

“30 Americans” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN

“Personal, Political, Mysterious” Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX

“Décopolis: The Talent of Others” The Proposition, Brooklyn, NY

“March On” Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

2012 “Twisted Sisters” Dodge Gallery, New York, NY

“Nailed” Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA

“Histories: The Sheldon Permanent Collection” Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

“Re-Framing the Feminine” Girls’ Club: Fort Lauderdale, FL

“30 Americans” Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

“Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Work from Private Collections” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

“Room In My Head: Staging Psychological Spaces” Gutstein Gallery, Savanah College of Art and Design, Savanah, GA

“Bling” Jim Kempner, New York, NY

“Posing Beauty” Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA; Figge Museum of Art, Davenport, IO

“28 Days” Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

2011 “Body Gesture” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

“Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

“The Bearden Project” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

“Re-Framing the Feminine” Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL

“Melodymania” RH Gallery, New York, NY

“30 Americans” North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

“Histories: The Sheldon Permanent Collection” Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

“Becoming: Photos From The Wedge Collection” Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

“AFRICOLOR” Danziger Projects, New York, NY

“EAT ME!” Goodman Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa

“Beyond Bling” Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL

“A Room of Her Own” Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, NY

“Surface Value” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

“Converging Voices/ Transforming Dialogue: Selections from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection.” University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX

“Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs.” New York Public Library, New York, NY

“Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions” Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

“Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

“The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection” Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH

“Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists” Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

“American Dream” DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany

“Images from a Floating World: 18th and 19th Century Japanese Erotic Prints and the Echo in Modern Contemporary Art.” Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, NY

“The Truth is Not in the Mirror” Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; Illinois State University: University Galleries, College of Fine Art, Normal, IL

“Safety in Numbers? Images of African American Identity and Community” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

“Posing Beauty” Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2010 “Annual Exhibition 2010-2011” Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, New Brunswick, NJ

“XX-XY/Gender Representation in Art” Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

“Now WHAT?” Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

“Sharon Stone in Abuja” Location One, New York, NY

“Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project” National Arts Club, New York, NY; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

“Summer Surprises” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

“4 Eccentrics” The Proposition, New York, NY

“ART in Embassies Exhibition” United States Mission to the United Nations, New York, NY

“40” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

“Inside the Collection: Interiors from the Studio Museum” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

“Global Africa Project” Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

“Inspired” Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY

“Americans Now” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

“Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection” The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

“Shrew’d: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists” Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

“Pattern ID” Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

“Searching for the Heart of Black Identity: Art and the Contemporary African American Experience” Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY

“Versus” Hous Projects, New York, NY

“Posing Beauty” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Taubman Museum, Ranoake, VA

2009 “Landscape Revisited” Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

“Extended Family: Contemporary Connections” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

“Posing Beauty” New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY

“Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video” The International Center of Photography, New York, NY

“Creating Identity: Portraits Today” 21C Museum, Louisville, KY

“Black Is, Black Ain’t” The Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

“Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities” The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA

“First Look: An Exhibition of Emerging Artists from Los Angeles Galleries” House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA

“Remix” Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“The Female Gaze: Women Looking At Women” Cheim and Read, New York, NY

“Crash Proof” The Scholar and Feminist Online, Barnard Center for Research on Women, online exhibition

“Elsewhere” Saltworks, Atlanta, GA

“The Glamour Project” Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

“CAN & DID - Graphics, Art, and Photography from the Obama Campaign” Danziger Projects, New York, NY

2008 “30 Americans” Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

“Group Show” Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden

“Belle du Jour” Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY

“21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

“As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait” Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

“The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn” Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

“Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

“City Stage” New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

“Black Is, Black Ain’t” Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

“Perverted by Theater” apexart, New York City, NY

“Performed Identity” Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY

2007 “Sweet SweetBack’s Baadasssss Song” Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

“Commemorating 30 Years 1976-2007” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Distinctive Messenger” House of Campari, New York, NY

“Sex in the City” Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

“Taking Aim” Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

“Some Kind of Portrait” Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Flava” Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, Canada

“Prime Time” Caren Golden Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY

“My Love is a 187” Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Inspired in New York” Echo Gallery, New York, NY

2006 “Not An Ocean Between Us: Voices of Women From African and the African Diaspora” Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC

“Lag Time Line Up” Mumbo Jumbo Gallery, New York, NY

“Materiality” Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY,

“Wild Girls” Exit Art, New York, NY

“The Pulse of New Brooklyn” MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn, NY

"Do You Think I'm Disco" Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2005 "NeoVernacular" Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Five Artists/Five Projects” Wertz Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

“Frequency” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

“Tete-a-Tete” Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

“Maximum Flavor” Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

“Greater New York 2005” P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY

“African Queen” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2004 “Me, Myself and I” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

“Glamour, Glory and Gold” The Proposition, New York, NY

“Seeds and Roots” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

“It’s About Memory” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003 “Beauty” Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

“Pantone” Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY

“Because I’m Worth It” Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

“Hands on Hands Down” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2002 “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

1999 Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Elizabeth Stockel Battel Gallery, Norfolk, CT

1997 “Brush: 4min. Video” The Yellow Door Gallery, NY

The Knitting Factory, New York, NY

Downtown Community Television Center, New York, NY

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2014 “Better Days” Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin, Germany

“TBD” Boston Greenway Mural, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA

2013 “Faux Real” Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FA

“Portrait de Priscilla la Petite Chienne Deux :)” LittleCollector, New York, NY

“Better Days” Volkshaus, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

“Mickalene Thomas for Brother Vellies.” Brother Vellies, New York, NY

2012 “Untitled” Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York

2010 “Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires” The Modern Window at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

“Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires” On-Site, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY

SCREENINGS

2014 “HBO: Documentaries” HBO, New York, NY

“Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman HBO Premiere” HBO Theater, New York, NY

“Atlanta Television Festival” Savannah College of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA

2013 “Second Annual BlackStar Film Festival” International House, Philadelphia, PA

“The Poetics of Unforgetting” Hackney Picturehouse, London, England

“Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“Reel Artists Film Festival” Tiff Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

PERFORMANCES

2013 “Takeabite: The Opera” Performa 13, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY

2009 “Oh Mickey!” Kreemart and the American Patrons of Tate, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY

“Professor of Music and DJ Dean of Admissions” MoMixx at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

CURATIORIAL

2013 “tête-à-tête” QF Gallery, East Hampton, NY

“Another New York” ArtBridge, New York, NY

“Mickalene Thomas’ Decopolis: The Talent of Others” The Proposition, New York, NY

2012 “tête-à-tête” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Yancey Richardson, New York, NY

2009 “The Brand New Heavies” Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

2013 Board of Directors, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Advisory Board, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2013-16 Board of Directors, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2012-14 Board of Directors, Museum of Modern Art PS1, Long Island City, NY

Pending Board of Directors, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY

LECTURES/SYMPOSIA

2014 In Conversation: Larry Wheeler, Linda Dougherty & Mickalene Thomas, North Carolina

Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

Artist’s Talk, American University, Washington, D.C.

Art After Dark, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FA

2013 In Conversation with Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Artist’s Talk, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME

Artist Talk: Tandem Press Visiting Artist, Mickalene Thomas, Chazem Museum of Art, Madison, WI

2012 New Paradigms: Mickalene Thomas in Conversation with MCA Curator Naomi Beckwith, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Conversations: Among Friends, Featuring Artists Derrick Adams, Clifford Owens, Xaviera Simmons, and Mickalene Thomas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Artist’s Talk, Art Institute of Chicago’s Leadership Advisory Committee’s New Paradigms Program, Chicago, IL

2011 Artist’s Talk, “Intersection of Culture and Identity.” Hara Museum, Tokyo Japan

2010 Artist’s Talk, The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art Casual Lunch Series, New York, NY

Panel Member, 2011 New York Artadia Residency selection panel, New York, NY

Artist’s Lecture, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2009 Generation Next: Mickalene Thomas and the Legacy, Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Artist’s Talk, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2008 ReIGNITE: Making Art in the World, Panel Discussion, Pratt Institute,

Brooklyn, NY

2007 Artist’s Talk, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

MICA Senior Thesis Seminar, Brown Center Falvey Hall, Baltimore, MD

2006 The Stoop Series, Bric’s Rotunda Gallery & New York Magazine, New York, NY

2005 Conversations with the Artists, MoMA, New York, NY

2004 Artist’s Voice, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2003 Fine Arts Seminar, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Artist’s Voice, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Panel Discussion, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Two Years, Pratt Panel, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2002 Artist’s Talk, Exploration Senior Summer Program, New Haven, NY

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2014 Visiting Core Critic for Graduate Painting/Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2013 Visiting Core Critic for Graduate Painting/Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

Visiting Faculty, Bard MFA, Milton Avery School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Visiting Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Department, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Visiting Faculty, MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Department, Graduate Studies, MFA Program, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2010-11 Core Critic for Graduate Painting/Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2008-10 Visiting Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Department, Undergraduate Studies, Junior and Senior, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2005 Adjunct Instructor in Contemporary Art Issues, Saturday Program, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

2004 Visiting Faculty, Seminar course on contemporary issues, examined and discussed artists, communities, contemporary curators and exhibition spaces. Graduate Studies Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2002 Project Instructor, Supervised and taught high school students painting. After School Program, Publicolor, New York, NY

Instructor, Taught pre-college students printmaking, drawing, and portfolio preparation. Exploration Senior Summer Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2001 Teacher Assistant, Assisted Suzanne Song, taught undergraduate and graduate students the foundations of lithography, organized assignments, critiques, and grades, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1999-01 Project Instructor, Supervised and taught high school students painting. After School Program, Publicolor, New York, NY

1996-97 Art Instructor, Taught painting and printmaking to New York City school students in an after school art program. Studio in a School Program, New York, NY

1995 Teacher Assistant, Taught beginner painting and drawing to High School students. Saturday Art School Program, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY,

Teacher Assistant, Instructed painting and drawing to mentally disabled adults. Hospital Audience, Inc., New York, NY

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Beta, Germano. “Decoradora Plastica.” Casa Vogue. January: p.106 -108.

2013 “The ARTINFO Staff’s Favorite Art of 2013.” Blouin ArtInfo. December 19: online.

Bratburd, Rebecca. “Brooklyn Artists Build Momentum.” The Wall Street Journal. December 17: online.

Sykrett, Asad. “Inside the Artist’s Studio.” Architectural Digest. December 16: online.

Benrimon, Alex. “In the Artist’s Studio: An Interview with Mickalene Thomas” Artnet. December 11: online.

Valentine, Victoria L. “Elle Magazine Features Mickalene Thomas, Julie Mehretu and Carrie Mae Weems.” Culture Type. December 11: online.

Fichter, Mary. “Last Stop for 30 (American) Artists.” 2 Paragraphs. December 9: online.

“Mural Marvel.” Palm Beach Illustrated. November 21: online.

Hutson, Laura. “The Frist Exhibit 30 Americans Provides an Essential Survey of Contemporary African-American Art”. Nashville Scene. November 21: online.

Yablonsky, Linda. “Elle Women in Art: Meet Eight Women Changing The Art World Today.” ELLE. November 14: online.

Wunsch, Noah. “Inside Dustin Yellin’s Creative Utopia in Red Hook, Brooklyn.” Paper: pp. 64-69.

Jovanovic, Rozalia. “20to30.com Chronicles the Hardships Faced by Successful Artists During Their Twenties.” Blouin ArtInfo. October 29: online.

“Mickelene Thomas: The Perks of Being a Late Bloomer.” Twenty/Thirty. October 28: online.

Martin, Lesley A. “1/1 Preview: Lesley A. Martin on Mickalene Thomas.” Aperture. October 17: online.

Sjostrom, Jan. “Fantasy landscape mural begins year-long stay at Norton Museum.” Palm Beach Daily News. October 3: online.

“Mickalene Thomas and Priscilla Announce New Print!” Little Collector. October 1: online.

“Série Mode: Mickalene Thomas.” L’OFFICIEL Art, Paris. October–November: pp. 180-189.

Ganzhorn, Sarah. “Du Boius in our Time – Special Events.” Amherst Bulletin. September 27: online.

Harrison, Matthew. “Visiting Artist Profiles: Mickalene Thomas.” Art Practical. September 26: online.

“30 Americans Opens at Frist Center for the Visual Arts.” Digital Journal. August 13: online.

Crembalest, Robin. “It’s Manet Mania Weekend at Yale!” Artnews. September 17: online.

Crandell, Ben. “At the Norton Museum, a natural vibe”. Broward County Daily. September 17: online.

Crandell, Ben. “At the Norton Museum, a natural vibe (hold the Jay Z).” SouthFlorida.com. September 17: online.

Gibble, Mary. “New Season, New Mural.” Palm Beach Illustrated. September 17: online.

Creahan, D. “Red Hook, New York- ‘Amor Fati’ Group Show at Pioneer Works Through September 29th, 2013.” ArtObserved. September 12: online.

Ekrich, A. Roger. “Segmented Sleep.” Harper’s Magazine. August. pp. 35-36.

Traff, Thea. “Away With The Clichè.” The New Yorker. July 29: online.

Leland, John. “Slow Dance in Brooklyn.” The New York Times. July 19: online.

Trebay, Guy. “Rhyming Picasso and Rothko.” The New York Times. July 14: p. ST1 & ST 8-9.

“Body Art: Mickalene Thomas.” Vogue, Brazil. July: pp. 201-202.

Vogel, Carol. “At Art Basel, Lessons From Curators.” International Herald Tribune. June 14: p. C

Vogel, Carol. “Still an Appetite For Buying.” The New York Times. June 14: p. C2

“Mickalene Thomas’s Art Basel 70s bar installation”. Phaidon. June 14: online

Vogel, Carol. “At Art Basel, an Unslaked Appetite for Buying.” The New York Times. June 13: online

“Getting funky with Solange”. The Art Newspaper. June 14 online

Bailey, Stephanie. “Basel: Mickalene Thomas’ ‘Better Days’ Art Bar”. Whitewall. June 12: online

“Better Days: An Art Bar Installation by Mickalene Thomas.” Absolut art Bureau. June 12: online

“Celebrity Style: Solange Knowles Wearing Mary Katrantzou” SandraRose, June 11: online.

“Solange Knowles Performs in Switzerland.” Zimbio. June 11: online.

“First Look: Mickalene Thomas’s 1970s Cocktail Den for Art Basel.” Artsy. June 10: online.

“Insert: Mickaene Thomas.” Parkett. No. 92: pp. 200-212.

Nathan, Emily. “They’ve Got Game.” ARTnews. April: online.

“Mickalene Thomas.” Fluoro Digital. March 28: online.

“In the Studio with Mickalene Thomas.” Artsy. March 27: online.

Knowles, Solange. “Solange Interviews Mickalene Thomas.” Opening Ceremony. March 20: online.

Laster, Paul. “Mickalene Thomas: Fully Exposed.” FLATT. Issue No. 4: pp. 87-93.

“Mickalene Thomas.” RVCA ANP Quarterly. Vol 2/No. 7. March 11: pp. 96-103.

“Toronto Events: Reel Artists Film Festival.” View the Vibe. February 26: online.

“Reel Artists Film Festival Opening Night.” Globe T.O. February 23: online.

Anderson, Jason. “Reel Artists Film Festival.” The Grid. February 20: online.

Zenou, Adam. “The Collaboration, Mickalene Thomas with Brother Vellies.” The Crosby Press. February 23: online.

Warren, Tamara. “Mickalene Thomas Collaborates With Brother Vellies.” Life and Times. February 20: online.

Dyer, Deidre. “Artist Mickalene Thomas Makes Furry Desert Boots.” Fader. February 20: online.

Harrington, Sherard. “Bling-Bling: Mickalene Thomas at the ICA.” Empty Lighthouse. February 8: online.

Heyman, Marshall. “Winter Antiques and Paper Cocktail Dresses.” The Wall Street Journal. January 28: p. A22.

Cole, Lori. “Critic’s Picks.” Artforum, February: Online.

Fischer, Mark A. “Artists, Lawyers and Specialness.” Landslide. January/February: p. 11.

Prinz, Jesse. “The World of Mickalene Thomas.” Artbouillon. January 19: online.

Bianco, Marcie. “Pop Theory: Mickalene Thomas and ‘Bodies That Matter.’” AFTERELLEN. January 15: online.

Steinhauer, Jillian. “Mickalene Thomas and the Seduction of Beauty.” Hyperallergic. January 14: online.

Blanch, Andrea. “Mickalene Thomas: Seurat’s Rhinestones.” Musee Magazine. Edition No. 5, Fashion Vol. 1: p. 65-80.

Cook, Greg. “Mickalene Thomas: The Seduction of Blackness.” WBUR. January 3: online.

Solway, Diane. “Musings on a Muse: Actress Jessica Chastain Plays Human Canvas to Four Leading Artists of the Day.” W Magazine. January: cover, p. 14, 16, 58, 60-61.

2012 McQuaid, Cate. “Mickalene Thomas at the ICA a dazzling display.” The Boston Globe. December 27: online.

Corcoran, Heather. “Mickalene Thomas’s Elegy.” Interview Magazine. December: online.

“A whole lotta woman.” The Economist. November 30: online.

Budick, Ariella. “Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe, Brooklyn Museum, New York. Financial Times. November 7: online.

Hudson, Suzanne. “Mickalene Thomas.” Artforum. November: p. 282-283.

Wolff, Rachel. “Character Studies: The Bold Paintings of Mickalene Thomas.” Architectural Digest. November: p. 76.

Kustanczy, Cate. “Mickalene Thomas shows her soul at the Brooklyn Museum.” Digital Journal. October 13: online.

Andries, Amanda. “Boldness Becomes Her: Mickalene Thomas’ ‘Origin of the Universe’ at Brooklyn Museum.” The Brooklyn College Kingsman. October 21: online.

“In the Gallery: Mickalene Thomas.” Paddle8. October: online.

“Lehmann Maupin Gallery Opens Mickalene Thomas Exhibition November 1.” TalkArtworld.com. October 16: online.

“Mickalene Thomas- Brooklyn Museum + Art in America.” Durham Press. October 10: online.

Cembalest, Robin. “Old Masters of Our Domain.” ARTnews. October 10: online.

Roberts, Rebecca. “Some Thoughts on Mickalene Thomas at The Brooklyn Museum.” Artinfo. October 9: online.

“Mickalene Thomas: A Star in the Art World.” arts.observer. October 6: online.

Valdez, Sarah. “Crystal Visions.” Art in America. October: p. 117-121.

Tam, Paulina. “One Part Basketball. One Part Art.” The Bare Square. October 8: online.

“Museum and Gallery Listings for Oct. 5-11.” The New York Times. October 4: online.

Creahan, D. “New York- Mickalene Thomas: ‘Origin of the Universe’ at The Brooklyn Museum Through January 20th, 2013.” AO Art Observed. October 3: online.

“New works by multimedia artist Mickalene Thomas in Brooklyn Museum exhibition.” Artdaily. October 1: online.

“Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe.” Ebony. September 28: online.

Ellis, Stacy-Ann. “Mickalene Thomas’ ‘Origin of the Universe.’” Ebony: The Root. September 28: online.

“VIDEO: A Studio Visit With Painter Mickalene Thomas.” Artinfo. September 28: online.

“MTV Style: Behind the Scenes of Solange’s ‘Losing You’ Video Teaser.” MTV. September 27: online.

McGarry, Kevin. “28th.” W Magazine. September: p. 304.

Chou, Kimberly. “One Artist’s ‘Origin’ Story.” The Wall Street Journal. September 27: online.

Wyma, Chloe. “Mickalene Thomas on Motherhood, the Mirror Stage, and Her Brooklyn Museum Show.” Artinfo. September 27: online.

Smith, Roberta. “Loud, Proud and Painted.” The New York Times. September 28: p. C25, C27.

Chou, Kimberly. “One Artist’s ‘Origin’ Story.” The Wall Street Journal. September 27: online.

Rosenberg, Karen. “Mickalene Thomas Rediscovers Her Mother—and Her Muse.” The New York Times Magazine. September 30: p. 50-51.

“Critics’ Pick: Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe.” New York Magazine. September 27: online.

Simon, Lizzie. “A Mother and a Muse.” The Wall Street Journal. September 24: p. A30.

“Portfolio: Mickalene Thomas.” Modern Painters. October: p. 23-24.

“Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Will Have Art by Mickalene Thomas, Jose Parla, And More.” Artinfo. September 21: online.

Cohen, Patricia. “New Art for Brooklyn.” The New York Times. September 20: online.

“Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe.” The New Yorker. September 21: online.

Bodin, Von Claudia. “Funky Miss Gauguin.” Rolling Stone (Germany). August: p. 50-55.

Loos, Ted. “People Are Talking About.” Vogue. September: p. 736.

Cotter, Holland. “Tete-a-Tete.” The New York Times. August 19: online.

Cutler, Jody B. “Mickalene Thomas/ Origin of the Universe.” The International Review of African American Art. Spring/ Summer: cover, p. 7.

Wender, Jessie. “ A Tête-à-Tête with Mickalene Thomas.” The New Yorker. July 16: online.

Wyma, Chloe. “ARTINFO Weekend Pic: Mickalene Thomas’s: ‘Brawlin’ Spitfire Wrestlers’ at Dodge Gallery.” Artinfo. July 20: online.

Green, Tyler. “The MAN Podcast: Mickalene Thomas.” Artinfo. May 31: online.

Landi, Ann. “Double Exposure.” ARTnews. May: p. 78-84.

Binlot, Ann. “The Tastemaker: Feminist Artists Mickalene Thomas on Her Paint-Stained Margiela Shoes and More.” Artinfo. May 15: online.

Rosenberg, Karen. “Exploring Islam, Pompeii and the Factory.” The New York Times. September 9: p. 74.

Goldstein, Andrew. “Mickalene Thomas’s Origin of the Yowza, Qatar Partners With the Google Art Project, and More.” Artspace.com. April 23: online.

Finkel, Jori. “Mickalene Thomas, up close and personal.” Los Angeles Times. April 22: p. E7.

“First major solo museum exhibition for highly acclaimed multi-media artist Mickalene Thomas opens.” Artdaily.org. April 18: online.

Jackson, Danielle. “Experiencing tête-à-tête: An Engagement with Performative Processes and Black Identity.” The Chicago Arts Archive. April 16: online.

“Artnet Auctions partners with Brooklyn Museum on Brooklyn Artists Ball Auction.” Digital Journal. April 11: online.

Lee, Denny. “The Buzz.” The New York Times. April 11: online.

“Mickalene Thomas ReVay, 2012.” MTV, Art Breaks. April: online.

Allen, Emma. “Does Serious Art Belong on MTV?” The New Yorker April 10: online.

“’Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe’ Comes To Santa Monica Museum Of Art (Photos).” The Huffington Post. April 9: online.

Fishman, Elly. “Mickalene Thomas goes head-to-head with black identity.” The Bleader. April 5: online.

Klein, Paul. “Good Art on View in Chicago.” Huffington Post. April 5: online.

Kirsch, Corinna. “Watch a Fat Man Die: MTV Premieres Art Breaks 2.0.” Art Fag City. April 3: online.

Alexandria. “têtê-à-têtê.” Chicago Gallery News Blog. April 2: online.

Hughes, Zondra. “Mickalene Thomas in Conversation With MCA Curator Naomi Beckwith.” Rollingout.com. March 31: online

“MTV, MoMA PS1 & Creative Time Bring Groundbreaking Video Art to Audiences Worldwide With Launch of Art Breaks.” CBS 5. March 30: online.

Sutton, Benjamin. “MTV Teams With MoMA PS1 and Creative Time to Put Contemporary Art Between the Commercials.” Blouin Artinfo. March 30: online.

“MTV Revives 1985 “Art Breaks”, Series Highlighting Artist Of The Moment (Video).” The Huffington Post. March 30: online.

Ryzik, Melena. “In Nod to Past, MTV Revives ‘Art Breaks.’” The New York Times, Arts Beat. March 20: online.

Barnes, Freire. “Who Do You Think You’re Looking At?: Mickalene Thomas.” BON. Spring/Summer: p. 216-217.

“First Step: Say Yes.” OUT: The Love Issue. February: p. 54.

Frankel, David. “Previews: Mickalene Thomas: The Origin of the Universe.” Artforum. January: p. 117.

Jenkins, Mark. “ ‘Jumpstart D.C.’ Features Prints That Come Close to Rivaling Paint.” The Washington Post. January 12: online.

Laster, Paul. “20 Questions for Artist Mickalene Thomas.” Artspace.com. February 14: online.

2011 “Figured Spaces: Selections from the John Morrissey Collection.” University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.

Dzine, “Nailed: The History of Nail Culture and Dzine.” Dzine Studio, Standard Press and Damiani. December.

Horn, Maja. “The Multiple Media and Mode of Visibility of Mickalene Thomas.” Art Pulse. Winter: p. 56-59.

Swartz, Anne. “Mickalene Thomas: More Than Everything.” Art Pulse. Winter: p. 73.

Goergen, Stacy. “Gaze of the Mask.” Art Basel Miami Beach. December: p. 168-170.

Elliott, Bobby. “The Bearden Project: A Family Affair.” The Huffington Post. December 7: online.

Zimmer, Lori. “Reconstructing the Glittering Female Gaze: A Conversation with Revolutionary Artist Mickalene Thomas.” PMc Magazine. December: online.

Frankel, David. “Best of: Mickalene Thomas.” Artforum. December: p. 251.

Silva, Patricia. “Mickalene Thomas: More Than Everything.” The Velvet Park. November 23: online.

“The 2011 OUT 100.” OUT. December/January: p. 91.

Hauptman, Matthew. “Tactile Art Engages With Gender, Race.” The Miscellany News. November 8: online.

Helmke, Juliet. “Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin.” BRIC Contemporary Art. November 2: online.

Prada, Di Carlo. “Occhio Alle Pantere Nere.” Velvet. No. 60, November.

Rosenberg, Karen. “Mickalene Thomas: ‘More Than Everything.’” The New York Times. October 21: p. C26.

Cudlin, Jeffry. “30 Americans.” The Washington City Paper. October 7: online.

“Goings on About Town: Art: Mickalene Thomas.” The New Yorker. October 7: online.

Dykstra, Jean. “Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin.” Photograph Magazine. October 5: online.

Viveros-Faune, Christian. “Boom, Bubble, Bust: Matthew Barney +Jenny Saville + Mickalene Thomas.” The Village Voice. October 5.

Gandy, Mira. “Mickalene Thomas’s Exhibit More Than Everything at Lehmann Maupin Gallery.” The New York Beacon. September 29-October 5: p. 33.

Halle, Howard “Critics’ Picks: Mickalene Thomas, ‘More Than Everything,’” Time Out New York. September 29-October 5: p. 36.

“Goings on About Town: Art: Galleries Downtown – Shortlist ‘Mickalene Thomas.’” The New Yorker. October 3: p. 13.

West, Kevin. “Can You Dig It?” W Magazine. October: p. 130.

Art in America Staff, “The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won’ Want to Miss: Mickalene Thomas at Lehmann Maupin.” Art in America. September 29: online.

Hoffman-Williamson, Jen. “Mickalene Thomas: ‘More Than Everything.’” Whitewall. September 29: online.

“25 Questions for Artist Mickalene Thomas.” Artinfo. September 26: online.

“The Last Look.” PAPER. Issue 28, No. 1. September: p. 132.

Wender, Jessie. “Mickalene Thomas: More Than Everything.” The New Yorker. September 16: online.

Riley, Cheryl. “Mickalene Thomas: The Grand Project.” aRude Magazine. September 13: online.

Lokke, Maria. “August is Alive with ‘AFRICOLOR.’” The New Yorker. August 26: online.

“Goings on About Town: Art: ‘Daniele Tamagni & Africolor.’” The New Yorker. August 15, 22: p. 16, 18.

Maerkle, Andrew. “Models of Agency.” Art iT. August 15: online.

Vogel, Carol. “MoMa PS 2 Plans 9/11 Exhibition.” The New York Times. July 29: p. C25, New York Edition.

Landers, Sean. “Mickalene Thomas.” BOMB Magazine. Summer: p. 30-38.

Mancenido, Tracey and Tribble, James. “Black Americans.” Code. Issue 19. Spring/Summer: p. 14-28.

FRAU. No. 427. May: p. 156-157.

McGee, Celia. “First an Outcast, Then an Inspiration.” The New York Times. April 24: p. AR 22.

Maerkle, Andrew. “ ‘Mama Bush’ Puts Black Women in a Positive Light.” The Japan Times. April 8: online.

Cudlin, Jeffry. “Baltimore Museum Surveys Modern Photography but Without Much Context.” The Washington Post. April 1: online.

Hirsch, Faye. “Sharon Stone in Abuja: Location One.” Art in America. March: p. 146.

Moore, Madison. “Q+A: Mickalene Thomas’ Photographic Funk.” Art in America. February 17: online.

Rosenberg, Karen. “Images from a Floating World’: 18th & 19th Century Erotic Prints and the Echo in Modern and Contemporary Art.’” The New York Times. February 10: online.

Pollack, Barbara. “Mickalene Thomas: Rhinestone Odalisque.” Art News. January: p. 94-99.

2010 Sesay, Isha. “Exhibition shows off the art of Nollywood.” CNN.com. December 23.

Smith, Roberta. “Print Fair 2010.” The New York Times. November 5.

Russeth, Andrew. “New York: Can’t Miss Gallery Openings This Week.” Huffington Post. November 3: online.

Bevilacqua, Rachele. “Black is Beautiful.” L’OFFICIEL. November: p. 177.

Bolofo, Koto. “Obbiettivo Donna: Fotografe di Stile.” Marie Claire: Italia. November: p. 299-323.

“The Art of Greatness: Mickalene Thomas.” Essence. October: p. 73

“Obamas Lead Americans Exhibition.” BBC News Entertainment. August 23: online.

Capps, Kriston. “1st Lady Portrait in D.C.” NBC Washington. August 22: online.

Zongker, Brett. “Michelle Obama Portrait Debuts at Smithsonian.” Associated Press. August 22.

Ayers, Robert. “BLOG WATCH>Robert Ayers, Mickalene Thomas on a Sky Filled With Shooting Stars.” The Huffington Post. August 11.

Blasberg, Derek. “Happy Birthday, Naomi!” V Magazine. Issue 65. Summer: p. 38-39.

Laster, Paul. “A Window on Art: Mickalene Thomas’ Shiny Sex-Appeal Paintings.” The New York Observer. April 26: p. 43.

Laster, Paul. “A Window on Art.” The New York Observer: Culture. April 21: online.

Gaines, Carl. “The Cleopatra Jones of the Brooklyn Art Scene.” Brooklyn Based. April 8: online.

Thompson, Haven. “Creative Chic.” W. April: p. 92.

“In The Flesh.” V Magazine. Issue 63. Spring: p. 46-47

Kutscher, Barbara. “Black Beauties Mit Power.” Weltkunst. No. 02: p. 74-76.

Jones, Ben; Kuo, Adam; McEwan, Adam; Saar, Alison; Schmidt; Aurel. “Between the Lines: Volume 2.” RxArt, Inc. February 28.

“Versus.” Faction Magazine. Issue 11. January: online.

“Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection.” Studio. Winter: p.13

Casagrande, Reggie. “Feature: Mickalene Thomas: A Complex Vision.” Lipsticktracez: online.

Ossei-Mensah, Larry. “Foxy Lady.” Arise. Issue 10: p. 20-21.

2009 Miranda, Carolina. “Features: Art Basel Miami: Sales May Be Soft, But the Party Goes On.” WNYC. December 4: radio feature.

Gensler, Andy. “The Moment: Rock on the Block, The Phillips de Pury Music Sale.” T: New York Times Style Magazine. November 19: online.

“Mickalene Thomas, Marina Abramovic, Leandro Erlich and Rob Wynne Help Bake Cakes.” 16 mi. November 6: online.

Russeth, Andrew. “Let Them Eat Cake.” Artinfo. November 5: online.

Yablonsky, Linda. “The Moment: Sugar High at Haunch of Venison.” T: New York Times Style Magazine. November 5: online.

Solway, Diane. “Let Them Eat Cake.” W Magazine. Gallery Go-Round, November 4: online.
Kazanjian, Dodie. “Dreaming the Landscape.” Vogue. November: p. 216-223.

Lunn, Natasha. “The Moment: In Focus, Dressing Up at the ICP.” T: New York Times Style Magazine. October 15: online.

Smith, Roberta. “Beyond A Simple Fashion Statement.” The New York Times. October 9: C25, 27.

“Mickalene Thomas: Odalisques.” ARTCO. October 8: online.

Muscionico, Daniele. “Ein Sommer mit Donna.” Die Weltwoche. No. 40. October: p. 60-61.

Egan, Maura. “The Moment: Boogie Down Productions at MoMA.” T: New York Times Style Magazine. September 25: online.

Edelson, Sharon. “ICP Year of Fashion Culminates with ‘Dress Codes.’” Women’s Wear Daily. September 16: p. 26.

Cregan, Lisa. “Cabin Fever!” CS Interiors. Fall: p. 78-83.

Oates, Leah. “BeDazzled.” NY ARTS. Vol. 14. Fall: inside cover, p. 6-7.

“Portfolio: Mickalene Thomas.” Fantom: Photographic Quarterly. Issue 01. Autumn: p. 3-11.

Medwick, Cathleen. “Arthouse.” O: The Oprah Magazine. Vol. 10, No. 8. August: p. 134-141.

Egan, Maura. “The Moment: The Girlie Show.” T: New York Times Style Magazine. June 30: online.

Adam, Georgina. “Buoyant Basel Contrasts With Russian Reluctance.” The Financial Time. June 13/14: p. 12.

Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Mickalene Thomas: ‘She’s Come UnDone!’” The New York Times. May 1.

Lamm, Kimberly. “Mickalene Thomas, ‘She’s Come UnDone!’” The Brooklyn Rail. May.

Kerr, Merrily. “Mickalene Thomas, ‘She’s Come UnDone!’” Time Out New York. April 23-29: p. 53.

Kino, Carol. “A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones.” The New York Times. April 7: p. AR23.

Alexander, Lily. “Mickalene Thomas: She’s Come UnDone!” Whitewall. April 2: online.

Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers. “Illusion, mystique, and plain beauty in sparkling paintings.” The Villager. Vol. 78, No. 43. April 1-7.

Crisell, Luke. “Body and Soul.” NYLON. April: p. 148.

“What Does Glamour Mean to You?” Glamour. April: p. 260-267.

“Go See: Mickalene Thomas’s ‘She’s Come UnDone!’ at Lehmann Maupin in New York though May 2, 2009.” AO Art Observed. March 31: online.

Finch, Charlie. “Another Country.” Artnet. March 30: online.

Bonin, Claudia. “Radar.” Art Das Kunstmagazin. March 23: online.

Cotter, Holland. “On the Piers, Testing the Waters in a Down Art Market.” The New York

Times. March 6: p. C23, 26.

Dailey, Meghan. “In the Studio: Mickalene Thomas.” Art + Auction. March: p. 38-44.

Shaw, Cameron. “Mickalene Thomas.” ArtForum.com. March: online.

Walker, Kara. “Artists on Artists: Mickalene Thomas.” BOMB. Spring: p. 72-73.

“What’s Up: Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection.” Studio. Spring: p. 5.

Laster, Paul. “The Armory Show, Two Piers of Peerless Entertainment.” ArtKrush. February 26: online.

“Goings On About Town: Art: ‘The Brand New Heavies.’” The New Yorker. February 23: p. 10.

Grabner, Michelle. “Reviews.” ArtForum. February: p. 197-198.

Finch, Charlie. “Having a Rave Up!” Artnet. January 29: online.

Jackson, Brian Keith. “American Vision.” GIANT. December-January: p. 103-113.

Robinett, Rae Anne. “Mickalene Thomas.” Beautiful Decay. Issue Z: p. 74-81.

Bedolla, Myrtis. “Rubell Show, A Stand Out.” The International Review of African

American Art. Vol. 22, No 3: p. 45-46.

Cutler, Jody B. “A Lineage is Not a Category.” The International Review of African American Art. Vol. 22, No. 4: p. 38-42.

2008 Peers, Alexandra. “Aftermath: The Big Sales and Breakout Stars of Art Basel Miami Beach.” New York Magazine. December 10: online.

Tonchi, Stefano. “Now Shopping: The Art Basel Miami Wish List.” T: New York Times Style

Magazine. December 5: online.

“Listings: Miami: 30 Americans.” The Art Newspaper. December: p. 18.

Weinberg, Lauren. “Jet Set.” Time Out Chicago. November 20-26: p. 72.

Jackson, Sharyn. “Calendar: Casting Call.” The Village Voice. October 22: online.

Johnson, Paddy. “The Voting Booth Project.” The Huffington Post. October 20: online.

Scott, Andrea. “Goings On: Political Machine.” The New Yorker. October 14: online.

Copeland, Huey. “The Blackness of Blackness.” Art Forum. October: p. 151-154.

Pratt, Ken. “Material Stealth.” Wound. Issue 4. Fall: p. 272-277.

Cregen, Lisa. “Hitching Post.” CS Interiors. Summer: p. 94-97.

Artner, Alan G. “’Black Is, Black Ain’t’ Goes Deep.” Chicago Tribune. May 29: Section 5, p. 3.

Grabner, Michelle. “Art & Design: Review: ‘Black Is, Black Ain’t.’” Time Out Chicago. Issue 169, May 22-28.

Evans, Ali. “A Portrait of an Artist by an Artist.” Studio. The Studio Museum of Harlem. Spring: p. 41-43.

Watson, Simon. “Mickalene Thomas: Lush Life.” Whitewall. No. 8, Winter: p. 70-71.

Breukel, Claire. “30 Americans.” Wynwood: The Art Magazine. December-January: p. 12-15.

Riley, Cheryl R. “Art: On the Verge.” Uptown Magazine. December-January: p. 36-37.

“Um Olhar Para o Arpoador.” Casa Vogue. 2008.

Psyllos, Steven. “USA Today: A Visual Mixtape.” TRACE. Issue 81: p. 82-105.

2007 Allan, Stacy. “Reviews: Mickalene Thomas.” Modern Painters. December: p. 94.

“Mixed Media: The Sweetest Taboo.” The New York Sun: Weekend Edition. November 30: p. 14.

Cotter, Holland. “Reviews: Sex In The City.” The New York Times. November 23.

Douglas, Sarah. “Intimately Scaled.” Artinfo. October 11: online.

“Listings: Mickalene Thomas.” Baltimore City Paper. Vol. 31, No. 39. September 26: p. 49, 60.

“Mickalene Thomas.” Prattfolio: The Magazine of Pratt Institute. Fall.

“Goings On About Town: Art: Mickalene Thomas.” The New Yorker. May 7.

Rosenberg, Karen. “An Afternoon in Chelsea.” New York Magazine. May 7: p. 78-79.

Cotter, Holland. “Prime Time: Mickalene Thomas and Shinique Smith.” The New York Times. May 4.

Svenle, Elna. “Reviews: Shinique Smith & Mickalene Thomas.” Artkrush. May: online.

Swartz, Anne. “Sex Privilege and Power: The Paintings of Mickalene Thomas.” NY ARTS. May: p. 44.

Hunt, Kenya. “Rhinestones and Oprah.” Metro. March 30: p. 12.

Miller, Rebecca. “My Love is a 187.” Shotgun Review. March 18: online.

“Trends: Mickalene Thomas.” Muse Magazine. January 10: online.

“Art Market Insight: You’ll Have to Stand in Line for the Work of These Hot Young Yale Artists.” American Art Collector. January: p. 60-63.

2006 Thorncroft, Anthony. “Basel Comes to the Beach.” Financial Times, December 2-3.

Camper, Fred. “Desire in the Abstract.” Chicago Reader, November 17: Section 2, p. 20.

Peterson, Kristen. “The Look is a Blast from the Past.” Las Vegas Sun, October 27: p. 7.

Ross, Susan. “More, More, More.” NY ARTS, May/June.

Valdez, Sarah. “Bling and Beyond.” Art in America, April: p. 61-3.

Gronlund, Melissa. “Frequency.” Frieze Issue 97, March: p.154-5.

Genocchio, Benjamin. “Exploring the Effects of Disco’s Beat.” The New York Times, February 19.

Cotter, Holland. “Do You Think I’m Disco?” The New York Times, February 3.

Haber, John. “Black Like Who?” Haber’s Art Reviews, February: online.

Spence, Rebecca. “How Street It Is.” Art News, February: p. 110-11.

Stillman, Nick. “Frequency.” Brooklyn Rail, February.

Oppenheim, Phil. “Five Artist/Five Perspectives.” Art Papers, January/February: p. 54.

Ribas, Joao. “Emerging Collectors: A Profile of John Morrissey.” Artinfo, January 17: online.

Kastner, Jeffrey. “Frequency.” Art Forum, January: p. 217.

2005 Frank, Peter. “NeoVernacular: Good Clean Fun.” LA Weekly, December 2 – 8: p. 56.

Smith, Roberta. “Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist.” The New York Times, November 18: p. E37.

Sirmans, Franklin. “This Woman’s Work.” Essence Magazine, November: p. 84

Feaster, Felicia. “Five Works by Five Artists.” Creative Loafing Atlanta, Vol. 34 No. 22, October 5.

Feaster, Felecia. “Buy and Large.” Creative Loafing Atlanta, June 2.

Rimanelli, David, “Greater New York 2005.” ArtForum, May: p. 239-40.

Wiley, Kehinde. “Top Ten.” Artforum, April, 2005.

Gardner, James. “They’re Unknown, Under 30 and From New York.” New York Post, March 23.

2004 Weinberg, Michelle. “It’s All About Me.” Miami New Times. November 25.

Mills, Michael. “Through A Fractured Lens.” New Times Broward-Palm Beach. November 18.

Laster, Paul. “Back to Back at SMH: Interviews with Mickalene Thomas and Dave McKenzie.” WBurg. Vol. 4, No. 2. August: online.

Nichols, Matthew Guy. “Hands on Hands Down.” Art in America. February.

Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Pantone.” The New York Times. January 9.

2003 “Goings On About Town.” The New Yorker. August 23.

“Hands On Hands Down.” Artists-In-Residence 2002-2003. The Studio Museum in Harlem: pamphlet.

CATALOGUES

2013 Hossein, Amirsadeghi Ed. Art Studio America: Contemporary Art Spaces, Thames & Hudson.

Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. Art Now4. Los Angeles: Taschen.

2012 Melandri, Lisa, Ed. Mickalene Thomas Origin of the Universe. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art.

2011 “Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Paintings.” Phaidon, 2011.

McLendon, Matthew. Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum Florida, The Florida State University in association with Scala Publishers, 2011.

RE: COLLECTION Selected Works from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Surface Value, Des Moines Art Center.

2010 Barnett, Erin, Ed. Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, New York: The Bronx Museum of Art, 2010.

The Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts and Design.

Inspired: Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York: Steven Kasher Gallery, July 14 – August 13, 2010.

Pattern ID, Akron, OH: Akron Art Museum, January 23 – May 9, 2010

United States Mission to the United Nations, New York, New York: Art in Embassies Exhibition.

2009 Brielmaier, Isolde and Iván López Munuera. Mickalene Thomas, Región de Murcia: La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo.

Ditner, Judy, Ed. Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, New York: The International Center of Photography/Steidl.

Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. 100 Contemporary Artists: L-Z, Los Angeles: Taschen.

Leive, Cindi. The Glamour Project, New York: Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin, 2009.

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art. Dallas: amfAR and The Dallas Museum of Art and Sotheby’s.

Willis, Deborah. Posing Beauty: African American Images: 1890’s to the Present, New York: Norton.

2008 Hobbs, Robert, Glenn Ligon, Franklin Sirmins, and Michele Wallace Contributing Writers. 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, New York: DAP Books and Rubell.

Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. Art Now3, Los Angeles: Taschen.

Lineberry, Heather Sealy and Dr. Derek Conrad Murray. The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection, Phoenix: Arizona State University.

Taschen, Angelika, Ed. Art Now: 2008 Taschen Calendar, Los Angeles: Taschen.

2007 Crooks, Julia et all. Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects (1997-2007), Wedge Curatorial Projects: Toronto.

2005 Biesenbach, Klaus Ed. Greater New York, New York: Distributed Art Publishers.

Golden, Thelma and Christine Y. Kim. Frequency: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Morrissey, John. Palm Beach Collects: The John Morrissey Collection, Palm Beach: Armory Art Center.

Sirmins, Franklin. NeoVernacular: Pop, Portraiture, Pulp and Porn, Los Angeles: Steve Turner Gallery.

2004 Bennett, Paula. Because I’m Worth It, New York: Assouline.

AWARDS

2013 Audience Award: Favorite Short, 2nd Annual Black Star Film Festival

Anonymous Was A Woman Grant

2012 Asher B. Duran Award, Brooklyn Museum of Art

2010 Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts

2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award

2007 Rema Hort Mann Grant

2002 Barry Cohen Scholarship, Yale University

2001 Paul Harper Fellowship, Yale University

2000 Presidential Merit Scholarship, Yale University

1999 Elizabeth Stokel Battell Fellowship, Yale University

1998 Pratt Institute Student Leadership Award

1995-97 Pratt Institute Black Alumni Scholarship

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

21c Museum

The Akron Art Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Baltimore Museum of Art

Brooklyn Museum

The Guggenheim Museum, New York

The International Center of Photography

Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Modern Art

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

New York Public