Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas (born in Plainfield, New Jersey, 1976) received his BFA from New York University, and an MFA in photography and an MA in visual criticism from California College of the Arts. His first monograph, Pitch Blackness , was published by Aperture in 2008. His collaborative projects include the book and traveling exhibition Question Bridge: Black Males , the installation In Search of the Truth , and For Freedoms, the first artist-run super PAC, founded in 2016. In 2017, Thomas...See more

Hank Willis Thomas (born in Plainfield, New Jersey, 1976) received his BFA from New York University, and an MFA in photography and an MA in visual criticism from California College of the Arts. His first monograph, Pitch Blackness , was published by Aperture in 2008. His collaborative projects include the book and traveling exhibition Question Bridge: Black Males , the installation In Search of the Truth , and For Freedoms, the first artist-run super PAC, founded in 2016. In 2017, Thomas received the AIMIA AGO Photography Prize. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York and Goodman Gallery in South Africa. See less