1981 Elected member of the Accademia Italia degli Arti e del Lavoro, Parma, Italy 1956 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Gold Medal 1952 Pacific Northwest Artists Exhibition Award, Seattle, WA, USA 1949 Emily Carr Trust Fund, Scholarship |
1963 Sir Thomas More, relief mural, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK 1958 Untitled (Symbols for Education), mosaic relief, Brock Hall Annex, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 1958 Mosaic mural, St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB 1958 Mosaic, Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Calgary, AB 1957 St Mark and the Lion, relief, St. Mark's Theological College (Duke Hall), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 1957 Flight of Canadian Geese, bronze fountain, Edmonton City Hall, Edmonton, AB 1957 Origin and Evolution of the Alphabet, interior mosaic mural and Symbols of the Cuneiforms, exterior sculpture, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC |
1965 Art in British Columbia: Heritage and Promise, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1960 Art in Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1955 First Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1954 Tenth Inter-American Conference, Caracas, Venezuela 1954 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953 Progressive Painters of Western Canada, University of Manitoba, Fort Gary Campus, MB 1952 Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of Canadian Painting, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1952 Annual Spring Exhibition (juried show), The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, QC 1950-52 Canadian Group of Painters, National Tour 1943 Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL, USA National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC University of Victoria, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, Victoria, BC Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver, BC |
2010 Lionel Thomas: Abstractions 1949-1990, The West Vancouver Museum, West Vancouver, BC 2005 Defying Depiction: The Distant Practice of Lionel and Patricia Thomas, Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1989 The Constellations of the Celestial Sphere, H.R. MacMillan Planetarium, Vancouver, BC 1988 Saga of the Salmon Series and Constellations, The Arts Centre and Hunter Gallery, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC 1977 Myths, Legends and Lores, Centennial Museum, Vancouver, BC 1976 The Constellations 88, Exposition Galleries, Vancouver, BC 1973 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 1973 Universityof Calgary Art Gallery, Calgary, AB 1953 Toronto Art Gallery, Toronto, ON 1951 Recent Paintings, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 1951 Calgary Allied Arts Council, Calgary, AB 1948 Drawings and Paintings, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1948 Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 1947 Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 1942 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |