Tessa Thomas

Tessa first joined the AGO as the Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paper Conservation in 2013, and returned in 2021 as Conservator, Works on Paper, OPT. She holds a Master of Art Conservation degree from Queen's University and a BA in Art History with a minor in Chemistry from Winthrop University (SC). Tessa has served as a Conservator for the Toronto Public Library, Senior Conservator at the Archives of Ontario, Assistant Conservator, Works on Paper at the AGO, and Project Conservator at The National Archives (UK). She also completed internships at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Royal Ontario Museum, and was a 2008 Helena Rubenstein Summer Intern, Museum Archives at MoMA.