Patrick Thomas (born 1965) is a British socio political graphic artist. He studied at Saint Martins School of Art (now Central Saint Martins) and The Royal College of Art in London. In 1991 he relocated to Barcelona where in 1997 he founded Studio laVista. Currently he lives and works in Berlin and Barcelona.[1] where he divides ‘his time between printing silkscreens, painting and occasionally making images for the International Press.’[2] In 2005, he was as elected a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).[3] He has been described by Steven Heller as an ‘iconographiste,’ combining iconic images to create a powerful message and make them his own. In 2009, Khoi Vinh (former Design Director of New York Times) described his work as ‘gorgeously screened, conceptually challenging graphic art as commentary.’[4]
In recent years he has exhibited his limited-edition silkscreens worldwide including solo and collective exhibitions at The New York Times, Nelly Duff Gallery London, Victoria & Albert Museum London, The Narrows Gallery Melbourne, New York School of Visual Arts, Salvador Dalí Museum Florida, Santralistanbul Contemporary Art Center Istanbul, Museum für Gestaltung Zurich, La Triennale di Milano, Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, Palau de la Virreina Barcelona, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, The Ginza Graphic Gallery Tokyo, and The International Center of Photography, NYC.
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Black and White , Paperback, 96 pp. Studio laVista, Barcelona, Spring 2005, Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, ISBN 84 609 5046 8 [5]
Protest Stencil Toolkit Paperback, 144 pp. Laurence King Publishing, London, May 2011, Language: English, ISBN 978 1 85669 766 8.
Thomas' work has been featured in political publications such as Head to Head: Political Portraits, edited by Museum of Design Zürich
He has regularly contributed to the New York Times Book Review [6][7][8][9][10] and Op-Ed sections[11][12][13]
