Austin Thomas
Austin Thomas is an artist, curator and community builder. Her work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, Murray Guy, The Sculpture Center, Art in General and at White Columns (all in NYC), and internationally in Singapore, Australia, and Hungary, and at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. From 2007 to 2014, she directed the influential Pocket Utopia gallery. Thomas is a graduate of NYU and in the summer of 2016 her permanent public sculpture for a new park in Brooklyn was unveiled. She has also done public commissions for the Public Art Fund and Grinnell College. Thomas's work is featured in the book titled Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists and is also featured in that book’s sequel, The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, which were both edited by Sharon Louden. In 2016 Thomas’s permanent public sculpture commissioned by NYC’s Percent for Art Program for a new park in Brooklyn was unveiled.
