ALLANA CLARKE
Born 1987 in Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies
Lives and works in Detroit, USA
Education and Teaching
2020 Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
2017 – 2020 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA
Adjunct Professor of Photography, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, USA
MFA, Interdisciplinary, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
2011 BFA Photography, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Awards and Fellowships
2023 FCA Emergency Arts Grant
2021 Red Bulll Arts Micro Grant
2019 Puffin Foundation Grant
2015 Franklin Furnace Fund Grant
2014 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship
Vermont Studio Center Civil Society Fellowship
MICA Skowhegan Matching Fellowship
2013 Peter W. Brooke Endowed Fellowship for the Mt. Royal School of Art Maryland
Institute College of Art Graduate Scholarship, Baltimore, MD
2012 Maryland Institute College of Art Graduate Scholarship, Baltimore, MD
Residencies
2023 Cultural DC, Washington DC
2022 Bennington College, Bennington, VT
2021 NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
2020 Pearl Arts Diving Residency, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
2014 Ordinary Project, Chicago, IL
Solo/Two Person Exhibitions
2024 Tender, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC
2023 I Feel Everything, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Renunciation, University of Oklahoma, SOVA Gallery, two-person exhibition with
Corinne Spencer
2022-2023 A Particular Fantasy, Art Omi, Ghent, NY & Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA
An Infinitive Breath, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
A Particular Fantasy, Solo companion exhibitions, Art Omi, Ghent, NY, USA and Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA
2021 The Armory Show with HOUSING Gallery, 2021 Gramercy International Prize Winner, two-person presentation with Nathanial Olivier
Yet Here We Were, Art Basel OVR: Pioneers, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
2020 What Lies Beneath is Already on the Surface, Langer Over Dickie (two person exhibition with Alejandro T. Acierto, curated by KT Duffy)
2019 Relative Semblance, WDR+G, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 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, |Sindikit| Projects, Baltimore, MD, USA
Group Exhibitions
2022-2023 Home/Work, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
100 Years, Jeffrey Deitch & Gagosian Gallery, Miami, FL
2022 Paris+ par Art Basel, Galerie Thomas Zander, Paris, France
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
2021 Art Cologne, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Social Works, Gagosian, New York, USA (curated by Antwaun Sargent)
Alternating Currents, Fridman Gallery, NY, USA (curated by Niama Sandy)
Group Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA
NXTHVN Group Show, James Cohen Gallery, NY, USA
2020 Desire N Flux, HOUSING Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Wrecked Alphabet, Broodthaers Society of America, Harlem, NY, USA (Curated by Joe Scanlan)
Fallen Monuments, Virtual Exhibition, Epoch Gallery (Curated by Peter Wu)
2019 Do-Over, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN, USA (Curated by Didier Morelli)
2018 Indoor Outposts, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France (Curated by Joe Scanlan)
2017 That Around Which the Universe Revolves, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Spiral/Recoil, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, USA
Let Me Look At You, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA, USA
No Agenda, Williamstown Town Hall, Williamstown, MA, USA (Curated by Alexander Jen)
2016 A Seed Don’t Make a Tree, ACRE Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Others, 56 Bogart Gallery, NY, USA (Curated by Baseera Khan)
A (Mis) Perceived Physique, Target Gallery @ Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA, USA
Love2016, Columbia University Neiman Gallery, NY, USA (Curated by Rachel Stern)
2014 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
Untitled, TenMarc Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA (Curated by Deborah Jack)
2013 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
2012 Mount Royal Fall Show, Leidy & Riggs Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
2011 In Her Strength, The Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
2010 Process Impact: A National Exhibition of Activist Art, Murray State University, Murray, KY, USA
Nouns, 32 Jones Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, USA
2009 Breaking Boundaries II: International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Visiting Artist Lectures/Panels
2023 University of Oklahoma, Visiting Artist Panel Discussion
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Visiting Artist Lecture
2022 Bennington College, Visiting Artist Lecture
2021 Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast, December 2021 episode
Museum of African American Art San Francisco, In the Artist’s Studio interview
2020 Cuesta College Laboratory Speaker Series
Archives of American Art Pandemic Oral Histories, Smithsonian Institute
2018 Panelist: Women Artists: Reshaping the Conversation, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
University of Chicago Open Practice Committee Lecture Series
2017 Mount Royal School of Art Visiting Artist Lecture Series
2014 SUNY New Paltz Visiting Artist
Performances
2018 A Recollection of Memories Associated with My Being & How I Forgot Them, Women
Between the Arts Performance Series, New School
Glassbox Studio, NY, NY. Curated by Luisa Muhr
2016 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), NY, NY
ShowDown: Archeology of a Silence: A Duet, Gibney Dance, NY, USA
2015 Bearden Migrations Symposium, Columbia University, NYC (Performance
collaboration with Clifford Owens)
In Situ, School of Visual Arts, NYC, (Performance Collaboration with Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong & Clifford Owens)
Screenings
2022 The Kitchen On-Screen Series
2017 Dance/Performance in Interdisciplinary Perspective symposium, ’62 Center for Theatre & Dance, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2016 Are You Loathsome?, Video Revival, Brooklyn, NY
Thomasson Theature Presents: ThatInItself, 426 West Franklin, Baltimore, MD
2015 The Divine Feminine, Black House Cinema, Chicago, IL