Patricia Renee' Thomas

Patricia Renee' Thomas (b. 1995) is a Philadelphia-based painter, drawer, and art educator, with a BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture and an MFA from University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design with a Certificate in College and University Education. She is a 2021 recipient of the Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art in collaboration with The Colored Girls Museum, and a 2021 recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. She has recently exhibited with Kravets-Wehby Gallery in Chelsea, New York, Kapp Kapp Gallery in Philadelphia, Gaa Gallery in Cologne, Germany, The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE, the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago as well as the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Thomas was an arts educator at Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia; a Black History and social justice community staple and is currently an oil painting and drawing instructor at University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts, and Tyler School of Art and Architecture.