Henry Andrew Thomas is an artist who is aesthetically self taught, but who believes storytelling to be the foundation of every form of expression. In 2012, he graduated, cum laude, from The University of South Carolina with a BA in English Literature. In 2014, he was chosen as one of 100 artists out of over 4000 international entries to participate in The annual New York International Art Competition in Chelsea, NYC. He also won third place in the 2014 Rochester Erotic Arts Festival. He frequently exhibits throughout the East Coast; and in 2013, he received the People’s Choice Award for Contemporary Artist of the Year from the Columbia Museum of Art, in Columbia, SC.

Selected Exhibitions

2017 – Nude Nite – Miami, FL

2017 – Earthly Pleasures w/ Marc Johnson – Bluetile, Columbia, SC – Adidas Shoe Release/Art Show

2017 – Figure Out – Tapp’s Art Center

2017 – Nude Nite – Tampa, FL

2017 – Nude Nite – Orlando, FL

2016 – Figure Out – Tapp’s Art Center

2016 – ArtFields – Lake City, SC

2016 – Nude Nite – Tampa, FL

2015 – Figure Out – Tapp’s Art Center

2015 – Taste The Rainbow – Bluetile, Columbia, SC

2015 – Nude Nite – Orlando, FL

2014 – 2014 International Art Festival – Highline Gallery – Finalist – Chelsea, NYC

2014 – 2014 International Art Festival – newartfestival.com – Mixed Media Winner for Week 2

2014 – Rochester Erotic Arts Festival 2014- Rochester, NY

2014 – “Passages: An Exhibition of Figurative Abstraction” – University of North Carolina at

Pembroke

2013 – “Small Works” – Frameworks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2013 – “Final Exhibition” – S&S, Columbia,SC

2013 – “Venus in Fur” – Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC – Season 28

2013 – “DAY BREAKS/NIGHT HEALS” – Bluetile, Columbia, SC

2013 – “Contemporaries: Artist of the Year” – Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

2013 – “Pretty Girls”, 827 Center for the Arts, Charleston, SC

2012 – Annual Fundraiser, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

2012 – “Sehnsucht”, Wine Down, Columbia, SC

2012 – “Pretty Girls”, Tapp’s Art Center, Columbia, SC
Works held in private collections in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland, Atlanta, Orlando, North Carolina, South Carolina and Germany
Awards

2014 – Rochester Erotic Arts Festival, Rochester, NY – 3rd Place in Visual Arts

2013 – Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC – People’s Choice Award, Contemporary Artist of the Year