Teacher of Visual Arts Thomas Holton will give an artist talk at the National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, 17 September, from 3:30-4:30pm. Thomas's portraits of the Lams, a Chinese family living in New York City, are featured in the exhibition Kinship. He will discuss the origins of this photography series and how it connects to his half-Chinese and half-American heritage.

This event is free and registration is recommended. For more information, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kinship-an-artist-talk-with-thomas-holton-tickets-700521026247?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Teacher of Visual Arts Thomas Holton has photographs in the exhibition "Kinship" at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian. "Kinship" presents portraits by eight contemporary artists whose work explores the notion of "kinship" and the closeness that bonds us. The exhibition is on view from Friday, 28 October 2022 through Sunday, 7 January 2024.

For more information, visit: https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/portraiture-now-kinship

Teacher of Visual Arts Thomas Holton presents images from "The Lams of Ludlow Street," his long term photography project which has documented the life of a single Chinese American family living in Manhattan's Chinatown for over twenty years. The artist talk will take place on Tuesday, 1 November, from 6:00-8:00pm, at Yu and Me Books, a bookshop located at 44 Mulberry Street in the heart of Chinatown, focusing on Asian American issues as well as the immigrant story.

For more information, visit: https://www.yuandmebooks.com/events/the-lams-of-ludlow-street

Teacher of Visual Arts Thomas Holton's series, "The Lams of Ludlow Street," was featured in the Guardian this summer. Thomas has photographed the Lam family in New York's Chinatown for over eighteen years, and the work has been presented in numerous exhibitions.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/15/five-in-the-bed-chinese-family-new-york-lams-ludlow-street-thomas-holton-in-pictures

Teacher of Visual Arts Thomas Holton had a public exhibition, "The Lams of Ludlow Street," at Home Gallery in New York City's Chinatown from 8 April through 1 June. Thomas's ongoing project, "The Lams of Ludlow Street," chronicles the Lam family's lives in Chinatown over the course of almost twenty years and is an important work about the Chinese American experience. For this exhibition, a single image was on display in the gallery window, changing every two weeks.

https://brooklynrail.org/2021/05/artseen/Thomas-Holton-The-Lams-of-Ludlow-Street

https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/thomas-holton-the-lams-of-ludlow-street

Thomas was featured in an article on the New York Times Lens blog about his current photography project, "The Lams of Ludlow Street: 5 Years Later." From 2002-2005, Thomas extensively photographed a family in Chinatown and started to photograph them again in 2010. Read the article and see photographs at http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/five-years-later-a-new-reality/.

Thomas was selected in August 2009 by the Aperture Foundation and the City of New York to document a year in the life of a healthy eating initiative called Green Cart. More information about the project can be found at https://www.aperture.org/greencart.

The exhibition, Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program at the Museum of the City of New York, features the photographs of Thomas and other artists. It will run from 22 March to 11 July 2011. For details, visit https://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/future/Moveable-Feast.html.

Thomas was selected in August 2009 by the Aperture Foundation and the City of New York to document a year in the life of a healthy eating initiative called Green Cart. Green Carts are mobile food carts that offer fresh fruits and vegetables in certain New York City neighborhoods. Their goal is to foster better eating habits and reduce obesity and obesity related diseases. More information can be found at
https://www.aperture.org/greencart
The exhibition will run at the Museum of the City of New York featuring the photographs of Thomas and other artists. Details about the exhibition are forthcoming.

Thomas became the proud father of Hunter Johnstone Holton on 28 December 2009. Hunter weighed in at eight pounds and five ounces.