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Someone who knows more about this artist should add an artist InfoBox to the page. {{Infobox Artist}}

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Gap Analysis:[edit]

Here is a link to my sandbox: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Salenah/sandbox) to view my additions.

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Removed CV laundry list off main space[edit]

Removed CV laundry list off main space. TLDR WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:15, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

2006 – Something About You… at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 – Brawlin’ Spitfire at The Proposition Special Project, DUST Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2007 – An Imitation of Love, Brawlin’ Spitfire Two at Project Room, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008 – Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 -- A Little Taste Outside of Love at Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY^[1]
2008 – What’s Love Got To Do With It? at Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
2009 – Mickalene Thomas Alumni Achievement Award Exhibition at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2009 – Something You Can Feel at La Conservera Contemporary Art Space, Ceutí, Spain
2009 – She’s Come UnDone! at Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2010 – Put A Little Sugar In My Bowl at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011 – More Than Everything at Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2011 – Mickalene Thomas – Mama Bush: One of a Kind Two at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2012 – How to Organize a Room Around A Striking Piece of Art at Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2012 – Mickalene Thomas at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA^[2]
2012 – Origin of the Universe at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; traveled to Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY^[3]
2013 – Better Days, Art Basel, Switzerland^[4]
2014 – I Was Born To Do Great Things at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 – Tête de Femme at Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2014 – Femme au divan II at l'Ecole des Beaux Art, Monaco
2014 – Femme au divan I at Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2014 – Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
2015 – Mickalene Thomas at Giverny, Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah Georgia^[5]
2015 – Mickalene Thomas: I Am Your Sister, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels^[6]
2016 – the desire of the other at Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY and Hong Kong, China^[7]
2016 – Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities at Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2017 – "Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities" at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA^[8]
2017 – Waiting on a Prime-Time Star at Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA^[9]
2018 – Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada^[10]
2018 – Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me at Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University^[11]^[6]
2019 – Mickalene Thomas: A Moment's Pleasure, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD^[12]^[13]
2021 - Mickalene Thomas: Beyond the Pleasure Principle at Lévy Gorvy New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong^[14]^[15]

Special projects[edit]

2010 – Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires for The Modern Window at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2010 – Le Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires for On-Site, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
2012 – Untitled for Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York
2013 – Faux Real for Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
2013 – Portrait de Priscilla la Petite Chienne Deux :) for Little Collector, New York, NY
2013 – Better Days for Volkshaus, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2013 – Mickalene Thomas for Brother Vellies for Brother Vellies, New York, NY
2014 – Untitled for Art in Embassies Program, Dakar, Senegal
2020 – Leimert Park station for the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system.^[16]

Screenings[edit]

2013 – Second Annual Black Star Film Festival at International House, Philadelphia, PA
2013 – The Poetics of Unforgetting at Hackney Picturehouse, London, England
2013 – Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2013 – Reel Artists Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada
2014 – Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman HBO Premiere at HBO Theater, New York, NY
2014 – HBO: Documentaries on HBO, New York, NY
2015 – Atlanta Television Festival at Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA

Performances[edit]

2009 – Oh Mickey! for Kreemart and the American Patrons of Tate, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
2009 – Professor of Music and DJ Dean of Admissions for MoMixx at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2013 – Takeabite: The Opera at Performa 13, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

Video Art[edit]

Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman, 2012
ReVay, 2012 (featured in the MTV video art series "Art Breaks")

References

^ Thomas, Mickalene (2012). Origin of the Universe. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-9839672-0-0.
^ "Mickalene Thomas", Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Retrieved 22 December 2018.
^ "Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^ "BETTER DAYS | An art bar installation by Mickalene Thomas". Retrieved 2020-02-21.
^ "Mickalene Thomas at Giverny » Telfair Museums". Telfair Museums. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
^ ^a ^b Thomas, Mickalene, 1971- (2018). Mickalene Thomas : I can't see you without me. Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio. ISBN 978-1-881390-57-2. OCLC 1050708030.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ exhibit-e.com. "Mickalene Thomas - Exhibitions - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com.
^ "Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Launches 2017 with a Solo Exhibition by Acclaimed Artist Mickalene Thomas". www.spelman.edu.
^ "Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star – Newcomb Art Museum". newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu.
^ "Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires", Art Gallery of Ontario, Retrieved 2 December 2018.
^ "Mickalene Thomas: I Can't See You Without Me | Wexner Center for the Arts". wexarts.org. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
^ "MICKALENE THOMAS: A MOMENT'S PLEASURE at Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore Sun". events.baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
^ Loos, Ted (2019-11-20). "Mickalene Thomas Shares Everything. Even a New Show". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
^ "Lévy Gorvy Announces Mickalene Thomas: Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Lévy Gorvy". www.levygorvy.com. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
^ "Mickalene Thomas and Whoopi Goldberg on Artistic Freedom". Interview Magazine. 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
^ Broverman, Neal (January 22, 2018). "An Early Look at All the Artwork Coming to the Metro Crenshaw Line Los Angeles Magazine". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved April 21, 2019.

[1] Thomas, Mickalene (2012). Origin of the Universe. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-9839672-0-0.

[2] "Mickalene Thomas", Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Retrieved 22 December 2018.

[3] "Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

[4] "BETTER DAYS | An art bar installation by Mickalene Thomas". Retrieved 2020-02-21.

[5] "Mickalene Thomas at Giverny » Telfair Museums". Telfair Museums. Retrieved 2020-02-21.

[:9-6] Thomas, Mickalene, 1971- (2018). Mickalene Thomas : I can't see you without me. Wexner Center for the Arts. Columbus, Ohio. ISBN 978-1-881390-57-2. OCLC 1050708030.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[7] xhibit-e.com. "Mickalene Thomas - Exhibitions - Lehmann Maupin". www.lehmannmaupin.com.

[8] "Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Launches 2017 with a Solo Exhibition by Acclaimed Artist Mickalene Thomas". www.spelman.edu.

[9] "Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star – Newcomb Art Museum". newcombartmuseum.tulane.edu.

[10] "Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires", Art Gallery of Ontario, Retrieved 2 December 2018.

[11] "Mickalene Thomas: I Can't See You Without Me | Wexner Center for the Arts". wexarts.org. Retrieved 2019-03-23.

[12] "MICKALENE THOMAS: A MOMENT'S PLEASURE at Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore Sun". events.baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.

[13] Loos, Ted (2019-11-20). "Mickalene Thomas Shares Everything. Even a New Show". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-21.

[14] "Lévy Gorvy Announces Mickalene Thomas: Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Lévy Gorvy". www.levygorvy.com. Retrieved 2021-10-06.

[15] "Mickalene Thomas and Whoopi Goldberg on Artistic Freedom". Interview Magazine. 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2021-10-06.

[16] Broverman, Neal (January 22, 2018). "An Early Look at All the Artwork Coming to the Metro Crenshaw Line Los Angeles Magazine". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved April 21, 2019.

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