"Opening December 17, 2025, All About Love is a landmark retrospective tracing more than two decades of Thomas's work. The exhibition centers the visibility, agency, and radical joy of Black women, celebrating love as a generative force-of liberation, self-definition, and community. Through richly textured compositions and her iconic rhinestone-studded surfaces, Thomas depicts her subjects-friends, family, lovers, and cultural figures-with a confidence and sensuality that reclaims spaces where Black women have been historically overlooked or misrepresented."
"A multidisciplinary force, Thomas draws from art history, the vernacular archive, and the riotous language of popular culture. Her world-making-across painting, photography, collage, video, and installation-reimagines the canon through a lens that centers Black women as authors, subjects, and protagonists of their own narratives. Her portraits do more than depict; they invite. They usher viewers into spaces where intimacy is a framework and joy is resistance."
"This past week, Document Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson joined Mickalene Thomas and an intimate circle of friends and collaborators-including Derrick Adams, Marilyn Minter, George Wells, Latham Thomas, Yancey Richardson, Michael Chuapoco, Joshua Woods, Sharon Horowitz, Stephanie Horton, Nona Hendryx, Dynasty Ogun, Soull Ogun, Glori Cohen, McKenzie Liautaud, Bevy Smith, and more-for a dinner in honor of Thomas's upcoming exhibition All About Love at the Grand Palais in Paris."
Mickalene Thomas will open a landmark retrospective titled All About Love at the Grand Palais on December 17, 2025, tracing over two decades of her work. The exhibition centers visibility, agency, and radical joy of Black women, portraying love as liberation, self-definition, and community. Thomas uses richly textured compositions and rhinestone-studded surfaces to depict friends, family, lovers, and cultural figures with confidence and sensuality that reclaims overlooked spaces. Her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, photography, collage, video, and installation, reimagining the canon and inviting viewers into intimate spaces where joy functions as resistance. A dinner at Papa San in New York gathered friends and collaborators in celebration.
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