Felandus Thames
Swing Low Sweet Cadillac, 2023. Hairbrushes installed directly to the wall, installation size variable.
African King of Dubious Origins #5, 2022–23. Hair beads and coated wire on aluminum hanging system, 78 ⅛ x 48 x 4 inches.
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Jackson, Mississippi, 1974
Resides: Woodbridge, Connecticut
Education: Yale University (M.F.A., 2010), Jackson State University, (B.A., 2008)
Website: felandus.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Oops Up Side Your Head,” Amherst College, Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts.
“We shed oceans of tears, our waters contains our sorrows,” Colgate University, Clifford Gallery, Hamilton, New York.
2021
“The Things That Haunt Me Still,” Real Art Ways, Main Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut.
2011
“Utropia,” Tilton Gallery, New York.
SELECTED GROUPS EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Get in the Game,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
“Entwined,” Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut.
2023
“Spectrum: On Color & Contemporary Art,” Museum of African Diaspora of San Francisco.
2022
“The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse,” Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado.
“Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century,” Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan.
“Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus,” Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
“The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined,” Palazzo Bembo, Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy.
2021
“The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse,” Houston Contemporary Art Museum, Texas.
“The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse,” Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond.
“Unapologetic Conversations of Hair and Nonconformity,” Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington.
2019
“New Symphony of Time,” Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Platt, Stacy J., “The Dirty South Comes to Denver,” hyperallergic.com (January 12).
2022
Barber, Rehema, and Larry Ossei-Mensah. Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
Boothe, Berrisford, and Klare Scarborough. Shifting Time: African American Artists, 2020–2021. Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art.
Cooksy, Sybil Newton, and Tashima Thomas. “Afro-Gothic,’” liquid blackness (October).
2021
Oliver, Valerie Cassel. The Dirty South, Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
2020
“A Dozen Black Artists Explore the Triumphs and Tribulations of Life in America in a New Online Exhibition,” artnet.com (June 17).
2016
Childs, Adrienne L. “Imagining Obama: America’s First Black President Heralded an Explosion of Art Depicting Him—and New Possibilities to Visualize the Commander in Chief,” Politico Magazine (January/February).