Visiting Artist Lecture: Tiona Nekkia McClodden

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 7 p.m.

The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is central to Art & Design and includes weekly lectures, studio visits, and critiques by leading artists, curators, and writers working across a wide spectrum of practices and critical perspectives. Students across all programs are invited and encouraged to attend these public lectures, which take place throughout the academic year. All visiting artist talks are free and open to the public.

For access to the Zoom lecture, please email art.design@mgsa.rutgers.edu.

Tiona Nekkia McClodden [she/her] is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work often employs a citational practice exploring and critiquing issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. Her interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. McClodden has exhibited and screened work at the Institute of Contemporary Art-Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Whitney Museum; MOCA LA; MCA Chicago; MoMA PS1; among others. She was awarded the 2019 Bucksbaum Award–McClodden was chosen from among the seventy-five artists whose works were presented in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. McClodden was also awarded the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, the 2018–19 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism, the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and the 2016 Pew Fellowship in the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. McClodden curated the traveling exhibitions “A Recollection. + Predicated.” featured within “Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental,” and more recently “There Are No Shadows Here: The Perfect Moment at 30.” She lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA.