Austin Thomas

Austin Thomas is an artist, educator, and curator whose multidisciplinary practice blends drawing, printmaking, and community engagement. She holds a BFA in Psychology and Women's Studies and an MA in Studio Arts from NYU. For over two decades, she has shaped the New York art scene through nonprofit spaces, galleries, and museums. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Hyperallergic. It is included in collections such as Grinnell College, The Corcoran Legacy Collection, the Hoggard Wagner Collection, the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

In 2016, she completed a permanent public sculpture in Brooklyn through NYC’s Percent for Art Program. She has also completed commissions for the Public Art Fund and Grinnell College. Thomas has had solo exhibitions at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Municipal Bonds, and LAB Space and has been an artist-in-residence at Wave Hill, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Bascom Lodge at Mount Greylock. In 2024, she reopened Pocket Utopia, her artist-run curatorial project dedicated to mentorship and community-building.

Thomas lives and works in New York City.