Christopher Thomas

Christopher Thomas is a mixed media artist based in St. Louis. His evocative charcoal portraits explore the layered intersections of spirituality, African culture, and the lived Black experience. Drawing from dreams, ancestral connections, and his own spiritual path, Thomas creates powerful visual narratives that challenge the social constructs imposed on Black identity in America.
Through his portraits, Thomas invites audiences to reflect on their complicity, their healing, and their potential for transformation. His works resonate with hidden symbolism and spiritual depth, creating a dialogue between ancestral wisdom and contemporary truth. Thomas’s practice is more than visual — it is a call to remember, to witness, and to reclaim a path toward collective liberation. 
His work is a spiritual offering — an act of witnessing, remembrance, and transformation. Through charcoal portraiture and mixed media, he explores how social systems distort Black identity, while honoring the ancestral and spiritual architectures that have sustained us. His process draws from dreams and meditations, weaving African cultural threads with contemporary realities to challenge and heal.