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2020 Presidential Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts
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Mickalene Thomas is a New York-based distinguished visual artist, filmmaker, and curator who works in various mediums. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art, and her BFA from Pratt Institute. She is a recipient of the 2019 Meyerhoff-Becker Biennial Commission at the Baltimore Museum, a 2015 United States Artists Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellow, and is an alumnus of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program in Giverny. Thomas is a recipient of the Aperture Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, the 2012 Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award, Timerhi Award for Leadership in the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Grant and the Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award in 2009, and the Rema Hort Mann Grant in 2007. She’s exhibited at Brooklyn Museum, The Smithsonian Museum, MoMA PS1, Seattle Art Museum, SFMoMA, National Portrait Gallery, Baltimore Museum, The Bass Museum, AGO Toronto, The Wexner Center, and Aspen Museum.
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Her work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, Newark Museum, Seattle Art Museum, The Hara Museum, The Rubell Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, among other public and private institutions and collections. She is on the board of the Brooklyn Museum of Trustees and MoMA PS1. Thomas has also previously served on the faculty of the Yale School of Art as a Critic in Painting/Printmaking, as well as frequented the School as a Visiting Artist. Thomas is currently exhibiting at CAC New Orleans with museum shows at the Baltimore Museum and the Bass Museum this year. She is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and Nathalie Obadia in Paris.
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Jasmine Wahi is a curator, activist, TEDx speaker, and a founder and co-director of the non-profit Project for Empty Space. Her practice focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multipositional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. She received her Masters from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she focused on issues of intersectional narratives and authorship. In addition to running Project for Empty Space, and curating international shows independently, Wahi is also a professor at the School of Visual Arts, and a former board member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Hyperallergic, ARTNews, Artforum, and more. Wahi lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her dog momo.
