Sebastian Thomas
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Sebastian Thomas is an English-American artist born in Fayetteville Arkansas in 1994. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts double majoring in Painting and Creative Writing from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2017 and holds a Masters degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago having graduated in 2023.
He has attended the Studio Arts College International in Florence Italy, the AICAD Studio Residency in Brooklyn NY, and Ox-Bow Art and Artist Residency in Saugatuck Michigan.
Sebastian is a Teaching Fellow in the Painting and Drawing Department for the 2023/2024 academic year at The School of the Art institute of Chicago. He is a recipient of the 2023 Municipal Art League Fellowship Award, the Joseph & Emily Gidwitz Scholarship, and the Presidential Scholar Award from KCAI.
His works have been featured nationally and internationally in galleries and exhibition spaces such as Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Studio Arts College International in Florence, the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design in New York City, and Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago Illinois.
He has been featured in Kawsmouth Publications, Sprung Formal Literary Magazine, and interviewed on KKFI and KXUA radio stations. Sebastian lives and works in Chicago, IL.