Mickalene Thomas has given us vivid and multifaceted artworks—paintings, collage, photography, video, and art installations. Her work addresses our common perceptions of beauty, sexuality, celebrity, and politics, and expands and subverts these notions in original and complex ways.

The subject of a major international tour that began in Los Angeles in May 2024, and travels to The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia on October 20, 2024.

Mickalene Thomas has assumed her rightful place in the pantheon of the most important, original, and inspiring artists of the 21st Century.