Jesse Thomas
Associate Professor, Fine Arts
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Coordinator, Painting
Office: 100 HUB
(780) 492-4911
jthomas6@ualberta.ca
Areas of Teaching and Research
Studio Art with a focus on Painting and Drawing
Biography
MFA Painting, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2003
BFA Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1993
Jesse Thomas received an MFA in Painting from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2003 and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. Current projects include a collaboration with Moment Research in Edmonton exploring painting, sound, and interactive projections. Recent projects include Entourer, an immersive multimedia artwork installed at the New Orleans Jazz Museum in honor of the tricentennial anniversary of that city’s founding. His 2016 solo exhibition at the Zhengzhou University of Light Industry in China consisted of fifty works representing the past five years of his studio production. Previous solo exhibitions of his work have been held in Edmonton, St Louis, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Berlin. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta.
Recent Research
