Thomas Block Humery

Overview

Self portrait of Thomas Block Humery. Courtesy of the artist

I'm looking for a way to unify the trivial, literal, and the ordinary with elevation, verticality and transcendence.

— Thomas Block Humery

Born 1971, Thomas Block Humery is a Franco-German artist who lives and works in his native Paris. He holds a master's degree in film studies from Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

After a decade of photographic work focused on youth living in the Nordic, in 2010 Humery began to explore the United States under the pretense of 'The Great American Vernacular Encyclopedia,' a project exploring the American territory as an ordinary and transcendent experience.

In his wanderings with a 4x5 chamber camera, Humery navigates the mundane as an enigmatic source of mystery and poetic elevation - a world both literal and cryptic. Available through Marguo Books, three different volumes recount Humery's voyage across the Gulf South, Nevada, and Arizona desert — travel logs foraged from the people, scenes, and stories encountered.

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Biography

Thomas Block Humery, Trail (detail), 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Marguo

Born 1971 in Paris. Lives and works in Paris, France

Solo Exhibitions

2023	Galerie Marguo, memoranda, Paris, France
2019	Galerie f16, Hautvillers Hollywood, Paris, France
2014	NeC Galerie, Situations Paris, Paris, France
2008	National Museum of Iceland, Portraits, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005	Valo Gallery, Great Expectations, Rovaniemi, Finland
	Galerie du Bon Marché, Défilé sans trêve, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

2021	Galerie Marguo, Presentation of Marguo Artists, Paris, France
2017	AD Interieurs at La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
2009	Galerie de Pôle Images de Rouen, France-Finlande, Rouen, France
	Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Neiges, Paris, France
2005	Centre Photographique Kotka, Finland
	Peri Gallery, Tuku, Finland
	Nouvelle Image Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands
	Voix Off, Arles, France
2004	Martin Kudlek Gallery, Poc in Town, Cologne, Germany
	F/Stop, Cologne, Germany
	Photo Espana, workshop, exposition, Madrid, Spain
2003	Galerie du Bon Marché, Carnets de Voyage, Paris, France