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Born 1987 in Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies
Lives and works in Detroit, MI, USA
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
Adjunct Professor of Photography, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, USA
MFA, Interdisciplinary, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
BFA Photography, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Cultural DC, Washington DC, DC
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
Pearl Arts Diving Residency, Pittsburgh, PA
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
Ordinary Project, Chicago, IL
FCA Emergency Arts Grant
Red Bulll Arts Micro Grant
Puffin Foundation Grant
Franklin Furnace Fund Grant
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship
Vermont Studio Center Civil Society Fellowship
MICA Skowhegan Matching Fellowship
Peter W. Brooke Endowed Fellowship for the Mt. Royal School of Art
Maryland Institute College of Art Graduate Scholarship, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art Graduate Scholarship, Baltimore, MD
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Allana Clarke: Tender, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Linger, Library Street Collective, Detroit, Michigan, USA
I Feel Everything, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Renunciation, two-person exhibition with Corinne Spencer, SOVA Gallery, University of Oklahoma, USA
Allana Clarke. A Particular Fantasy, Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, Bennington, VT & Art Omi, Ghent, NY, USA
Allana Clarke. An Infinitive Breath, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
The Armory Show with HOUSING Gallery, 2021 Gramercy International Prize Winner, two-person presentation with Nathanial Olivier, New York, USA
Yet Here We Were, Art Basel OVR: Pioneers, Galerie Thomas Zander, Basel, Switzerland
What Lies Beneath is Already on the Surface, Two person exhibition with Alejandro T. Acierto, Langer Over Dickie Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Relative Semblance, WDR+G, Brooklyn, New York, USA
When I Feel the Need to Be, I Can Not Regard the Pain of Others, Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
|Sindikit| Projects Presents: Joyce Scott + Allana Clarke, Baltimore, MD, USA
Social Abstraction, Gagosian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Auditions, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA, USA
We wake in the middle of a life, hungry, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, CA, USA
HOME/WORK, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
100 Years, Jeffrey Deitch & Gagosian Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
FRONT International 2022, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, USA
Expo Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Düsseldorf, Galerie Thomas Zander, Duesseldorf, Germany
In These Truths, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, USA
Art Cologne, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Social Works, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
Alternating Currents, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
NXTHVN Group Show, James Cohen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Un/Common Proximity, James Cohen Gallery, NY, USA
Wrecked Alphabet, Broodthaers Society of America, Harlem, NY, USA
Desire N Flux, HOUSING Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fallen Monuments, Virtual Exhibition, Epoch Gallery
Do-Over, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN, USA
Indoor Outposts, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
That Around Which the Universe Revolves, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Spiral/Recoil, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, USA
Let Me Look At You, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA, USA
No Agenda, Williamstown Town Hall, Williamstown, MA, USA
A Seed Don’t Make a Tree, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
A (Mis) Perceived Physique, Target Gallery @ Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA, USA
Love2016, Columbia University Neiman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Desired, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL, USA
Surfaced, D Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Femme, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, USA
SlamUp!, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Paths That Cross, 313 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Metanoia: Practices of Exhaustion, Grace Exhibition space (Volta NYC), Brooklyn, NY, USA
3x3x3, Leidy & Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Texture of the Drift, Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Transmorgrify, Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, MD, USA
Mount Royal Fall Show, Leidy & Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
In Her Strength, The Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Process Impact: A National Exhibition of Activist Art, Murray State University, Murray, KY, USA
Nouns, 32 Jones Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Breaking Boundaries II: International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
University of Oklahoma, Visiting Artist Panel Discussion
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Visiting Artist Lecture
Bennington College, Visiting Artist Lecture
Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast, December 2021 episode
Museum of African American Art San Francisco, In the Artists Studio interview
Cuesta College Laboratory Speaker Series
Archives of American Art Pandemic Oral Histories, Smithsonian Institute
Panelist: Women Artists: Reshaping the Conversation, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
University of Chicago Open Practice Committee Lecture Series
Mount Royal School of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
SUNY New Paltz Visiting Artist for Andrew Hamilton’s Intro to Sculpture Course
A Recollection of Memories Associated with My Being & How I Forgot Them, Women Between the Arts Performance Series, New School Glassbox Studio, New York, NY
Notes on Belonging to Boundaries, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Archeology of a Silence: A Duet, Invisible Exports Gallery (In Conjunction with Hard & Fast: Clifford Owens, a Solo Exhibition), New York, NY
ShowDown: Archeology of a Silence: A Duet, Gibney Dance, New York, NY
Bearden Migrations Symposium, Columbia University, New York, NY (Performance collaboration with Clifford Owens)
In Situ, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (Performance Collaboration with Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong & Clifford Owens)
The Kitchen On-Screen Series
Dance/Performance in Interdisciplinary Perspective symposium, ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Are You Loathsome?, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY
Thomasson Theature Presents: ThatInItself, 426 West Franklin, Baltimore, MD
The Divine Feminine, Black House Cinema, Chicago, IL
Allana Clarke. An Infinitive Breath, Zander Galerie, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
Allana Clarke Talks Back to History by Morgan Jerkins, Art in America New Talent Issue
At Gagosian, Art That Reverberates Beyond the Gallery Walls by Holland Cotter, New York Times
Antwaun Sargent Muses on Space and the Black Social Practice at Gagosian by Pearl Fontaine, Whitewall
D’Souza, Aruna: ‘The Ambivalence of Care’ in ‘Relative Semblance’, exh. cat., WDG + R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Dionne-Krosnick, Ariele: ‘Appropriation Mediation’ in ‘Do-Over’, exh. cat., Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN
Jessica Almereyda, “Sharing the Void: Boundlessness in Allana Clarke’s ‘Notes on Belonging to Boundaries,’” Filthy Dreams (website)
Zander Galerie
Schönhauser Straße 8
50968 Cologne
Germany
Zander Galerie
6 Rue Jacob
75006 Paris
France
