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New article creation: Keioui Keijaun Thomas

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Keioui Keijaun Thomas (born when?) is an American (?) contemporary artist. She creates conceptual work across multiple disciplines including performance art, sculpture, multimedia installation, photography, music (?) and poetry. Thomas's work centers themes of race, gender, and the body. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Keioui Keijaun Thomas became interested in art at a young age. She grew up in Florida, where she began playing football at seven years old. She considered becoming a track runner in college, but instead decided to focus on art. Thomas attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and later received a master's degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014.

CAREER

SELECT WORKS

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS


 * MOTHA & Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing—The Stonewall Re-Memorialization Project, New York Museum, New York, 2018–2019

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION


 * Franklin Furnace Fund, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., 2018 (need to evaluate first source here)
 * Inaugural Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists, Queer|Art, 2021

PERSONAL LIFE

Keioui Keijaun Thomas identifies as transgender and femme.

Action items:

- Find more information about her life/biography, specifically academic and career focuses and achievements, activism, etc.

- Research the themes of her work

- Investigate how artists' pages are created in Wikipedia

Possible outline/content to include:

Reliable information to weave into article

Sourced from New York Times article:

- did an "artist residency in rural Wisconsin" in June 2021

Concepts/categories/lists to link in or add article to (build in links to this list):

- Conceptual art/artists

- Contemporary art/artists

- Transgender artists

- American artists

- African-American visual artists

- Queer artists

- Queer art

- Performance artists

- Mixed-media artists

Reliable sources to use:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/arts/design/keioui-keijaun-thomas-participant-gallery.html

https://www.artforum.com/news/keijaun-thomas-awarded-queer-art-s-first-illuminations-grant-for-black-trans-women-visual-artists-84947

https://www.queer-art.org/marketplace/keijaunthomas

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/new-museum-invites-artists-to-propose-monuments-to-stonewall-uprising

Working list of potential sources (still need to organize and evaluate):

http://franklinfurnace.org/artists/funded_projects/the_franklin_furnace_fund/fundwinners17_18/thomas_k.php

https://msnbctv.news/2021/07/13/for-keioui-keijaun-thomas-the-body-becomes-a-vessel/ - Need to see if it's solely based on the New York Times article it cites as a source

https://museemagazine.com/culture/2021/7/7/exhibition-review-keioui-keijuan-thomas-hands-up-ass-out - Small magazine publication

https://space538.org/artist/keijaun-thomas/ - Small nonprofit art organization website

https://www.artforum.com/artguide/issue-project-room-12179/queer-trash-presents-brutal-measures-keijaun-thomas-straight-panic-150151

https://antifestival.com/en/tapahtuma/keijaun-thomas-us/

https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/encuentro-2016-performances/item/3344-keijaun-thomas.html

https://takemesomewhere.co.uk/keijaun-thomas-1

https://xmap.us/artists/keijaun-thomas/

https://thechart.me/keijaun-thomas-a-black-femme-goddess-punk-nude-and-in-charge/

https://bfafinearts.sva.edu/student/keijaun-thomas/

https://issueprojectroom.org/artist/Keijaun-Thomas

https://wrightwood659.org/programs/keijaun-thomas-my-last-american-dollar-performance/

https://www.saic.edu/news/alum-keijaun-thomas-queerart%E2%80%99s-first-recipient-grant-black-trans-women-visual-artists

https://www.ayoungertheatre.com/tag/keijaun-thomas/

https://undergrad.stanford.edu/stanford-event-audience/alumnifriends?page=4

http://franklinfurnace.org/artists/funded_projects/the_franklin_furnace_fund/fundwinners17_18/thomas_k.php

http://www.darc.media/keijaun-thomas-the-poetics-of-trespassing/

https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Keijaun-Thomas/9A6950D1CB1926D1