Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal

About Hank Willis ThomasJulia Dolan

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. Julia Dolan PhD is the Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum Oregon. She has worked with the photography collections at institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Addison Gallery of American Art Andover Massachusetts; and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Sara Krajewski is the Robert and Mercedes Eicholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Art Museum Oregon. She is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for research into emerging transdisciplinary artistic practices. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Rise: Creativity the Gift of Failure and the Search for Mastery (2015) and served as guest editor for Vision & Justice an issue of Aperture magazine for which she received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography. Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Rise: Creativity the Gift of Failure and the Search for Mastery (2015) and served as guest editor for Vision & Justice an issue of Aperture magazine for which she received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography. Kellie Jones is Professor in the department of art history and archaeology and a Fellow at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. She has received numerous awards for her work including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.