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Thomas Batista is Creative Director, President and CEO of The Batista Group, an Oklahoma City advertising, design, public relations and corporate communications firm. He is co-owner of Tom and Jerry’s restaurant in Oklahoma City. Born in La Guaria, Venezuela, of Canary Islands (Spain) descent, he holds bachelors and masters degrees in Art from Oklahoma City University and has studied at Atelier Nazaret CHARITAS in La Guaira, Academia de Arte Power and Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. Batista has taught Design, Graphic Design, Package Design, Color, and Drawing at Oklahoma City University, University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma Christian University.
Batista has been honored with numerous ADDY and Merit Awards by the Oklahoma City Advertising Club. In 1987, he received the Award of Merit from the Houston Illustrators Society and the Award of Excellence from the Graphic Communications Society of Oklahoma. He was the 1983 and 1984 recipient of the Fritz Ford Art Award at Oklahoma City University. In 1981, he was awarded a four-year full scholarship in the USA by the Fundacion Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho.
Batista’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Oklahoma, Texas and Venezuela including a one-man show, Pentimentos, at the Kirkpatrick Center Museum Complex in Oklahoma City. His artwork can be found in private and public collections in Venezuela, Italy and the United States.
Browse our complete catalog by this artist. Pieces are ordered by the year of the item's production.
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