Raise Up (2014) Courtesy of Hank Willis Thomas and Jack Shainman Gallery
Artist Hank Willis Thomas, an alum of the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, was recently interviewed by Charmaine Picard for The Art Newspaper. In the interview, he talks about some of his most recent exhibitions and public projects, including his first-ever museum survey at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon and his public art project on the High Line in New York City. Below is a list of his current projects:
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal…, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, until 12 January 2020, touring to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 8 February-20 April 2020, and the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, 10 July-11 October 2020
Exodusters, Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York, until 31 January 2020; The Gun Violence Memorial Project with MASS Design Group, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, until 5 January 2020
The Writing on the Wall, in collaboration with Dr Baz Dreisinger and MASS Design Group, High Line Art, New York, 31 October-10 November; Unity, a public art commission for Percent for Art, Brooklyn, NY, opens this autumn, date to be confirmed