Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. [1]

Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American mixed-media artist best known for portraits of Black women that are often made from nontraditional media, such as …

Inspired by art history as well as popular culture, Thomas’s works allude to sources ranging from 19th-century French painting to 1970s Blaxploitation films. Her acknowledged influences include Edouard …

Mickalene Thomas is a contemporary American artist best known for her depictions of African-American women and celebrities through collages of acrylic, enamel, and rhinestones.

Dec 3, 2024 · Thomas' work puts Black women front and center. "We've been supportive characters for far too long," she says. "I would describe my art as radically shifting notions of beauty by reclaiming...

Dec 20, 2025 · Two years after Mickalene Thomas’s first visit to Paris in 2009, she returned for a residency at Giverny, the well-known home and garden of Claude Monet, where she was deeply …

Jan 6, 2025 · Artist Mickalene Thomas has spent the past decade redefining Black portraiture and representations of the Black female body, empowering her subjects to resist objectification while …