He's also the artist behind the 25 foot tall afro comb abomination.
The artist, Hank Willis Thomas, granted awards, one I found interesting: Soros Equality Fellowship, Open Society Foundations 2007
Thomas is married to a woman, Rujeko Hockley (born in Zimbabwe) a New York-based US curator. Hockley is currently an Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Educated at the Columbia University (BA)University of California, San Diego.
In 2012, Hockley became the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art the Brooklyn Museum, a position she held for four years. While working at the Brooklyn Museum, Hockley worked on many exhibitions and related programming, including solo shows featuring LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kehinde Wiley, and Tom Sachs. In 2017, Hockley co-curate, with Catherine Morris, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, a show dedicated to female artists of color, and their political and social efforts during second-wave feminism. The show received positive reviews.
Leftists.
all of this is on Wikipedia
Affirmative action at work.
He's also the artist behind the 25 foot tall afro comb abomination.