PUBLICATIONS

Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Published by Rizzoli Electa, New York, NY | 2024

Foreword by Kevin Young. Essays by Aaron Bryant, Bisa Butler, Michelle D. Commander, Tuliza Fleming, Amy Sherald, and Deborah Willis.

Artists included: Devin Allen, Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Endia Beal, Camille Billops, Sheila Pree Bright, Bisa Butler, Patrick Campbell, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Lola Flash, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Jermaine Gibbs, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Alvin Carl Hollingsworth, Wadsworth A. Jarrell Sr., Barbara Jones-Hogu, Carolyn Mims Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, Deana Lawson, Zun Lee, Shaun Leonardo, Spencer Lewis, Roberto Lugo, Tommy Oliver, Fahamu Pecou, Howardena Pindell, Jefferson Pinder, Mavis Pusey, Deborah Roberts, Avis Collins Robinson, Mensie Lee Peettway, Andrea Pettway Williams, Rashaun Rucker, Alison Saar, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Merton Simpson, Nelson Stevens, Hank Willis Thomas, Lava Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Stephen Towns, Colette Veasey-Cullors, Kara Walker, Charles White, and Kehinde Wiley.

Published for the exhibition Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Curated by Tuliza Fleming.

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‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory
Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis
Published by Damiani, Bologna, Italy | 2022

Preface by Mary Ellen Goeke and Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth. Foreword by Woodrow Keown Jr. Curators statement by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis.

Artists included: Terry Adkins, Radcliffe Bailey, J.P. Ball Studio, Sadie Barnette, Dawoud Bey, Sheila Pree Bright, Bisa Butler, Omar Victor Diop, Nona Faustine, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Daesha Devón Harris, Isaac Julien, Catherine Opie, Yelaine Rodriguez, Hank Willis Thomas, Lava Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Wendel White, and William Earle Williams.

Published for the exhibition 'Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti, OH. Curated as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial.

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Lava Thomas: Homecoming
Bridget R. Cooks
Sming Sming Books, Saratoga, CA | 2022

Foreword by Jennifer Jankauskas. Essay by Bridget R. Cooks.

Published for the exhibition Lava Thomas: Homecoming, curated by Bridget R. Cooks.
Venues: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.

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The Artist’s Eye: Tammy Rae Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas, John Zurier
Published by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA | 2023

Foreword by Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Essays by Sarah Thornton, Jacqueline Francis, Bridget R. Cooks, Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, and Christina Yang.

Artists included: Tammy Rae Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas, and John Zurier.

Published for the exhibition The Artist’s Eye at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA.

Otherwise Revival
Published by Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA | 2021

Foreword by Cara Megan Lewis. Essays by Roberta Green Ahmanson, Jasmine McNeal, and Ashton T. Crawley.

Artists included: Terry Adkins, McArthur Binion, Folayemi (Fo) Wilson of blkHaUS Studios, Norman Teague of Norman Teague Design Studios (NTDS), Angela Bryant, Willie Cole, Ashon T. Crawley, Kenturah Davis, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lauren Halsey, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Letitia Huckaby, Sedrick Huckaby, Clementine Hunter, VinZula Kara, Caroline Kent, Deana Lawson, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Christina McPhee, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Dario Robleto, Lezley Saar, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Phyllis Stephens, Lava Thomas, Sara Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin, Genesis Tramaine, Kehinde Wiley, Brittney Leeanne Williams, and Nate Young.

Published for the Exhibition Otherwise Revival, at Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Jasmine McNeal and Cara Megan Lewis.

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
Published by the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA | 2021

Foreword by Lawrence Rinder and Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Essays by Apsara DiQuinzio, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Chiara Bottici and Jamieson Webster; Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson; Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Shelly Eversley, and Jennifer L. Morgan; Judith Butler and Mel Y. Chin.

Artists included: Laura Aguilar; Anohni, Kembra Pfahler, Johanna Constantine, Bianca Casady, Sierra Casady; Janine Antoni; Alisa Baremboym; Valérie Blass; Louise Bourgeois; Andrea Bowers; Sarah Cahill; Miriam Cahn; Sophie Calle; Jordan Casteel; Elaine Cameron-Weir; Tammy Rae Carland; Jean-Martin Charcot; Paul Regnard; Paul Richer; Judy Chicago; Anne Collier; Amy Cutler; Moyra Davey; Nicole Eisenman; Inka Essenhigh; Ellen Gallagher; Chitra Ganesh; Andrea Geyer; Rochelle Goldberg; Nicki Green; Guerrilla Girls; Lynn Hershman Leeson; Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle; Jenny Holzer; Luchita Hurtado; Hayv Kahraman; Caitlin Keogh; Koak; Ella Kruglyanskaya; Liz Larner; Simone Leigh; Candice Lin; Kalup Linzy; Sarah Lucas; Goshka Macuga; Ad Minoliti; Marilyn Minter; Zanele Muholi; Ruby Neri; Catherine Opie; Mai-Thu Perret; Michele Pred; Farah Al Qasimi; Pussy Riot; Christina Quarles; R.H. Quaytman; Carol Rama; Favianna Rodriguez; Leslie Scalapino; Lara Schnitger; Davina Semo; Amy Sillman; Laurie Simmons; Lorna Simpson; Rose B. Simpson; Kiki Smith; Linda Stark; Sturtevant; Lava Thomas; Mickalene Thomas; Wu Tsang; Sara VanDerBeek; Catherine Wagner; Kara Walker; Ann Walsh; and Francesca Woodman.

Published for the exhibition New Time Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Apsara DiQuinzio.

The Black Index
Hunter College Art Galleries
Published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich, Germany | 2021

Foreword by Sarah Watson and Howard Singerman. Essays by Bridget R. Cooks, CalvinJohn Smiley, Re’al Christian, and Ella Turenne.

Artists included: Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas.

Published for the traveling exhibition The Black Index. Curated by Bridget R. Cooks and Sarah Watson.
Venues: UC Irvine University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA; Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA; Art Galleries at Black Studies — University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY.

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Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Published by Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA | 2018

Essay by Leigh Raiford.

Published for the exhibition Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott at Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

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Lava Thomas: Looking Back and Seeing Now
Published by Berkeley Art Center | 2015

Introduction by Aimee LeDuc. Essay by Jacqueline Francis.

Published for the exhibition Looking Back and Seeing Now at the Berkley Art Center in Berkeley, CA.

Lava Thomas: Beyond
Published by Museum of the African Diaspora | 2014

Statement by Linda Harrison. Essay by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins. Interview with the artist by Jacqueline Francis.

Published for the exhibition Beyond at Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins.