JosephBrandon Thomas
b. 1978 New Orleans, LA
Lives and w Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2015-2018 Bachelors of Fine Arts, (Toy Design), Otis College of Art and Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 As Above So Below, Gallery 90220, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Where There's Smoke, r_d_f_a Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 No Strings Attached, Hawthorne Arts Complex, Hawthorne, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 I Can See the Sunrise, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Even When It Sets, Context Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Embers & Shadows, Artier Fine Art, Palm Spring, CA
2024 AKAA( Also Known As Africa) Paris, France
2024 Dallas Art Week, Daisha Board Gallery, Dallas, TX
2024 Frieze, Gallery 90220, Los Angeles, CA
2023 MIXTAPE, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
2023 The Portfolio (BAIA’s Holdings and Recent Acquisitions), East Point, GA
2023 Harlem Fine Arts Show, Band of Vices (The Glasshouse), New York, NY
2023 Cohesive Connection, Dominique gallery and Sola Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Brieze, Proximity Visuals (Pop Up show), Los Angeles, CA
2022 Kindred Gallery Experience, FX / Octavia E. Butler, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
2022 They Might Be Giants, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Wearable Art Gala, WACO Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2022 The Street and The Shop, NeueHouse Bradbury Los Angeles, CA
2022 On Black, SoLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Own Your Crown, Ewkuks Flagship, Los Angeles, CA
2021 C11H17NO3 - MESCALINE, A Visual Elixir, Band of Vices, Los Angeles, CA
2021 NOMAD (of Torrance Art Museum), Hawthorne, CA
2021 Fummer Sun, r_d_f_a Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Triannual show, Hawthorne Arts Complex, Hawthorne, CA
2019 Triannual show, Hawthorne Arts Complex, Hawthorne, CA
2018 Triannual show, Hawthorne Arts Complex, Hawthorne, CA
2014 Reparation: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans, NOMA, (New Orleans Museum of Art), New Orleans, LA
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Dear Artists (Figurative - The Physical Story) 80 Artists 200 works, Band of Vices, LosAngeles, CA
2025 Before Califia, Beyond Cali, Proximity Visuals, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Yonder, John and Connie Martin Trevino, Band of Vices, LosAngeles, CA
2024 Unveiled 10’ bronze sculpture, Otis college of Art and Design, LosAngeles, CA
2024 Safeguards, Connie Martin Trevino, Proximity Visuals, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Paradox, Reihaneh, Proximity Visuals, Los Angeles, CA
2023 LIfe is Studios (Brewery Artist Loft), Los Angeles, CA
2023 HIp Hop 50th Anniversary Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Brieze, Proximity Visuals (Pop Up show), Los angeles, CA
2023 Breakin the Mold, Art Share, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRESS
2024 "Bronze Sculpture Unveiled at Otis College." Otis College of Art and Design, https://www.otis.edu/about/otis-now/news/bronze-sculpture-unveiled-at-otis-college.html. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
2022 Meet JosephBrandon, VoyageLA, September 6
Middlekauff, Robert. The Majesty of the French Quarter (Majesty Architecture). Pelican Publishing, 1999
ACCOMPLISHMENTS / AWARDS
2024- Present Proximity Visuals Gallery, Owner and Operator
2015-2018 Adeline Edwards Foundation Grant for Continuing Education
2015-2018 Awarded, Otis College of Art and Design, Toy Design Scholarship
2005-2006 Otis College of Art and Design, Foundation Scholarship
Artist Talk
2025 In the Studio (Penda Diakite, Los Angeles, CA
2025 What's the Point (Shantell Martin), Los Angeles, CA
2024 Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
2022 On Black, SoLA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Dope Artist Matter, IG LIve
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022-2025 Professor, CAIL (Creative Action Integrated Learning), Otis College of Art and Design
2021-2022 Artist Mentor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Otis College of Art and Design
1997-2014 YAYA Artist/Mentor, YA/YA Inc. Contracted on a project basis as an artist mentor, instructing high school youth in a studio setting in graphic design, carpentry, furniture design, and painting, as well as exhibit design and installation. Also, contracted to document events and programs using digital photography and video, including finished graphics, print publications and edited video.
PRIVATE COLLECTION
NOMA (New Orleans Museum of Art)
Lyndon and Janine Barrios
Beth Rubin DeWoody
Micheal Johnson (Olympian)
Desmond Howard (College Football Hall of Fame)