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Exhibitions:
2025
Butter Art Fair, Mahogany Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Where Art Is Made, Tully-Levine Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Amuse-Bouche, LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA
2024
Art Lives Here Collecting, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
Passionate Courage, Solo Exhibition, Morean Arts Center Galleries, St. Petersburg, FL
2023
Color Theory, IDSA for WantedDesign | ICFF, Manhattan, NY
Black Futures, Wisconsin Black Art & Culture Expo, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
Black Futures, Mahogany Gallery, Racine, WI
Visions in Black, Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
2022
Many Americas, Wilson Museum at Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
Faces Of Art, Boston Children's Hospital — Hale Building, Boston, MA
Spring Fever, Burka Gallery, ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL
Elements of Nature, Tully Levine Gallery, ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL
2021
Blackoflauge — The Collectors Lounge, Design Miami, AIG x Black Artists and Designers Guild, Miami, FL
Satellite Art Show, Miami Art Week, Miami, FL
Absolute Abstraction, Burka Gallery, ArtsXchange. St. Petersburg, FL
Exceptional Abstraction, Burka Gallery, ArtsXchange. St. Petersburg, FL
Hoopla, Tully Levine Gallery, ArtsXchange, St. Petersburg, FL
Juicy, Work from the Artists of Fresh Squeezed 1-4, Morean Galleries, St. Petersburg, FL
2020
The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, Saatchi Art, Black Artists and Designers Guild
Show Me The Signs, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
1st Thursdays Summer Hyatt Exhibition, Hyatt Regency Orlando, curated by Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Beyond the Mask: Storytelling in Black + Design, Plant 7, High Point, North Carolina
Florida Grown, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2018
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Online Finalist, Art Basel Miami
Featured Artist shown concurrently to Magnetic Fields, The Museum Store, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg
Fresh Squeezed 2 — Emerging Artists in Florida, Morean Galleries, St. Petersburg, FL
2017
PaperWest, National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition, Gittens Gallery, Juror, Willie Cole, Salt Lake City, UT
Off The Wall, ArtCenter Manatee, Juror, Kathy Gibson, Bradenton, FL
99th Annual Members Show, Morean Galleries, St. Petersburg, FL
ArtFields — Finalist, Lake City, SC
Foundation Coffee Art Exhibition, Curator, Teri Navajo, Tampa, FL
Opus Tampa — An Art Exhibition, Tampa, FL
Energized Abstracts, Artsy Shark
2016
Five By Five, Tampa Museum of Art
Fellowships | Awards:
MicroGrant Recipient, Gobioff Foundation, 2024
Fellowship Recipient, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts x Black Artists + Designer Guild, 2023
Fellowship Recipient, Creative Capital Foundation for Individual Artists Professional Development Program — Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs with Citizens for Florida Arts, Inc. 2017
Panels | Workshops:
Invited Speaker, “The World’s On Fire. Whatcha Gonna Do?: Politics in Collage” Kolaj Fest 2025, New Orleans, LA
Educator and Workshop Facilitator, “Art of Resistance: Freedom Summer Collages” Kolaj Fest 2025, New Orleans, LA
Educator and Workshop Facilitator, “Art of Resistance: Freedom Summer Collages” Glenyse Thompson Contemporary Art, April 2025, St. Petersburg, FL
Collaborations | Selected Projects:
Project Collaborator — Indiewalls x AC Marriott Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, 2025
Project Collaborator — Indiewalls x Sky Ala Moana Residences, Renaissance Honolulu Hotel & Spa, Honolulu, HI 2024
Commissioned Works — Laura Hodges Studio for Southern Living Idea Home and Southern Living Magazine, 2023
Project Collaborator — Color Theory, IDSA for WantedDesign | ICFF, 2023
Custom Converse Shoe — Famous Footwear, Art Meant For Walking, 2023
Custom Coffee Canister — Kahwa Coffee x St. Pete Arts Alliance, 2023
Acquisition, TurningArt for Boston Children’s Hospital, 2022
Project Collaborator — AIG Private Group Client Presents the Collectors Lounge x Black Artists and Designers Guild for Design Miami, 2021
Wallpaper Mural Collection, Glenyse Thompson x AStreet Prints, 2021
Commissioned Artwork Product, SKII Essence for Great Guns, 2020
Commissioned Artwork, Show Me The Signs Auction x Artfizz, 2020
The Obsidian Experience, Black Artists and Designers Guild, 2020
USPS Art Project, Elan Cadiz and Glenyse Thompson, 2020
Cover Artwork:
Designers Today Magazine, Cover and Interview, January/February Issue, 2021
ellipsis....literature & art literary journal, Cover, 53rd Annual Edition, Westminster College, 2017
Press | Books:
2024
Art Queens Volume II
Art Lives Here Volume 1
2023
Industrial Designers Society of America, “IDSA Takes Center Stage at NYCxDESIGN 2023”
Southern Living Magazine, “Idea House 2023”
Architectural Digest, “In Focus”
2022
Designer’s Today, “Where Is She Now?”
2021
The Textile Eye
Aspire Design and Home Magazine, “Faces of Art: Glenyse Thompson Revels in Human Interaction with Bold, Colorful Works”
Obsidian Experience, Black Artists and Designers Guild seen in: Elle Decoration UK | Designers Today | California Home + Design | Aspire Metro | Design Milk | Hunker | Houzz
Town & Country Magazine, “Black Designers Imagine Obsidian, the House of the Future”
Aspire Design and Home Magazine, “A Closer Look at the Work of Glenyse Thompson”
Business of Home, “Product Preview”
2020
Martha Stewart, “See Her, Support Her: Five Modern Black Female Artists Who Are Redefining the Art World”
Warehouse Arts District, Featured Member Artist Interview
2019
House Tipster Industry, “Beyond the Mask”, High Point Market
Aspire Design and Home, “Black Artists + Designers Guild Confronts Stereotypes in New Exhibition”
2018
Creative Loafing, “Seven Questions with Glenyse Thompson”
Television | Podcasts:
DMTV Milkshake, Design Milk
Female Design Council, Show and Share
Rue Magazine Instagram Takeover
Art Brand Alliance, Glenyse Thompson Interviews Erin McCluskey Wheeler
WEDU PBS ArtsPlus, Season 10, Episode 2, 2021
Create Magazine, Following the Artist’s Path