Education:  Bachelor of Fine Art, Printmaking; University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2008

Solo Exhibitions:

Well Street Art Co., Look Home, Fairbanks, AK, Aug. 2021

Bunnell Street Arts Gallery, Restoration, Homer AK, Aug. 2019

Bear Gallery, Nurture, Fairbanks, AK Aug. 2017

Well Street Art Co., Patterns: Paintings and Prints, Fairbanks, AK, Nov. 2014

Well Street Art Co., New Works, Fairbanks, AK, June 2012

Group Exhibitions:

2021 Bear Gallery, Annual Spring Juried Exhibition; Vivid, Fairbanks, AK

2020 Bear Gallery, Annual Spring Juried Exhibition; Resilience, Fairbanks, AK

2020 ConocoPhillips/Leah J. Peterson Galleries, Indigenous Voices, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK

2019 Bear Gallery, Annual Spring Juried Exhibition; Adaptation, Fairbanks, AK

2018 Bear Gallery, Limited Edition, Fairbanks, AK

2018 Bear Gallery, 33rd Annual 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks, AK

2015 Bear Gallery, 30th Annual 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks, AK

2015 Alaska Native Arts Foundation, Scape: a place of mind, Anchorage, AK

2014 Bear Gallery, Limited Edition, Fairbanks, AK

2014 Bear Gallery, 29th Annual 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks, AK

2014 Well Street Art Company, Well Street United, Fairbanks, AK

2014 Well Street Art Company, Four Painters, Fairbanks, AK

2012 Well Street Art Company, Group Invitational, Fairbanks, AK,

Grants/Awards

2021 Second Place, Bear Gallery, Annual Spring Juried Show; Vivid

2019 Honourable Mention, Bear Gallery, Annual Spring Juried Show; Adaptation

2018 Jared Baker “Gutsy Art Award”, Bear Gallery, 33rd Annual 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition

2018 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award

Press

 DuBrock, Francesca. "Colleen Firmin Thomas on Painting as a Process of Reflection and Transformation", Anchorage Museum, www.anchoragemuseum.org/about-us/museum-journal/museum-journal-archive/colleen-firmin-thomas-on-painting-as-a-process-of-reflection-and-transformation/

Watson, Erica, "Home and Wholeness, Quill and Fur", 49 Writers, www.rasmuson.org/49writers/colleen-firmin-thomas/

Lester, Marc, “Native Voices,” Alaska Beyond, 42 no. 7 (July 2018): 90