Thomas Anfield

Canadian painter and interdisciplinary artist known for psychologically charged figurative work blending gesture, improvisation, and theatrical imagery. Five decades of exhibitions, international collaborations, and performance‑based experimentation inform a distinctive visual language collected across Canada and abroad. Thomas is represented by the Petley Jones Gallery and Duct Tape Gallery

New York Academy of Art (Masters Program, 1985–86) Art Students League of New York (1983) Langara Fine Arts Department (1980–81) Over twenty years of teaching drawing, painting, and anatomy in community and professional settings

Solo exhibitions at Ian Tan Gallery, Petley Jones Gallery, Kimoto Gallery, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Group exhibitions across Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Africa, including Trapp Projects, James Black gallery, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Polychrome Fine Arts, and national touring exhibitions including the Gabriel Flores Museum, University of Guadalajara and the  Gallerie Nationale, Dakar, Senegal

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SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024  "In Waiting" Ian Tan Gallery  Vancouver
2023  "New Figures" Petley Jones Gallery Vancouver
2023  "Patterns" Staying Creative Gallery Brentwood Bay BC
2022  "Sock Monkey scenarios" Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
2021  "Informed Monkeys" Petley Jones Gallery Vancouver
2020  "New Monkeys" Petley Jones  Gallery Vancouver
2020  "Abstracts" Full circle studio Vancouver
2018  "Invisible University" Vancouver East Cultural centre Vancouver
2017  "New Work" West 7th Studios Vancouver 
2016  "The New Neighbours" Kimoto Gallery Vancouver 
2014  "New Painting"  Initial Gallery Vancouver 
2012  "Prickles and Goo" Smash Gallery Vancouver 
2011 "Monkey Island" Polychrome fine arts Victoria 
2011  "Style Wars" Anfield Versus Petly Jones, Petley Jones Gallery   
2010 "Monkey Business",...