COMPANY TIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN B

COMPANY TIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN b. 1981, Blytheville, Arkansas (AFB) Lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA

Education

2004 Film and Video apprenticeship with Larry Steele at Educational Media Center, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA 2002 Film and Psychology, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA

Solo Exhibitions

2020 The Trace of an Implied Presence, Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, BAM, Brooklyn, NY (Forthcoming) 2019 Hold on, let me take the safety off, Company Gallery, New York, NY 2018 CLUB, Performance Space, New York, NY 2017 KILO Iba Se 99 Exposition, Projectmanagementbureau, Amsterdam, AN 2016 ELEVATE Atlanta, Sweet Black Atlanta Simulacrum, Broad Street Visitor Center, Atlanta, GA (Se te subió el santo? (Are you in a trance?), Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA Dreaming of KIN, curated by Ladi'Sasha Jones , MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I, "The Visions, Esther Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Select Group Exhibitions

2019 79th Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Love and Ethnology: The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity, HKW, Berlin Ebslpoitation, Martos Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Journeys with the Initiated, Participant Inc + e-flux, New York, NY 2017 Speech/Acts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Sexual Fragments Absent, SVA MA Curatorial, Paddles, New York, NY One day this kid will get larger, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL 2016 To A Point, SVA CP Project Space, New York, NY Present Futures: Strategies Toward Emancipation (Part One), Denny Gallery, New York, NY UNLISTED, presented by Marginal Utility + Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Art Toronto, VERGE, Toronto, CA With For And Against, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2014 W A I T, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, DC 2011 Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, The Visions – Americanly Speaking, ICA, Philadelphia, PA Open Video Call Exhibit, Philadelphia, PA

Curatorial

2019 There Are No Shadows Here, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC 2018 Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental , The Kitchen, New York, NY 2017 Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental presented in conjunction with the East man Estate, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental Julius Eastman's Crazy Nigger for 4 pianos per formed by Joe Kubera, Adam Tendler, Michelle Cann, and Dynasty Battles with performance by sound artist Tracie Morris. + In Search of Eastman series of conversations and presentations. 2015 Surf Club, Vox Populi Gallery , Philadelphia, PA Kameelah Janan Rasheed "HOW TO SUFFER POLITELY (AND OTHER ETIQUETTE FOR THE LUMPENPROLETARIAT)”, Gallery 2, New York, NY

Films

2018 an offering | six years | a conjecture

88 Eldridge Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6 73 Allen St. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6 companygallery.us | [email protected] | +1 646 756 4547 COMPANY 2017 The Structure of My Desire The Labyrinth 1.0 The Brad Johnson Tape, II-X X, "On Subjugation I - The Hitter Dom Drop 2015 The Uncoolness of Grief Essex + Audre KILO|Ibase99 2014 Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic Movement I – The Visions 2013 roots.|&|rigor 2012 Bumming Cigarettes 2011 Nila, Bernice, & Christie. 2008 black./womyn.:conversations with lesbians of African descent 2004 Strange Black Nostalgia

Music Videos

2017 Welcome to Quazars (pt. 1), "Shabazz Palaces (Cinematographer) Dir. by Nep Sidhu THEESatis faction - Recognition Natalie Prass – Why Don’t You Believe In Me SassyBlack – Thriller

Select Film Festivals, Screenings, + Presentations

2018 Dom Drop premiere, "An Evening with Tiona Nekkia McClodden”, MoMA Modern Mondays, New York, NY 2017 ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, NYC Whitney Museum, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, MCA Chicago, MoCA Los Angeles + 100 Institutions KILO | Iba se 99 - ARIKA Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist, London, UK State of Emergency, "live projection by The Illuminator, New York, NY KILO, Black Queer Brooklyn on Film, Brooklyn Museum, 2016 KILO | Iba se 99, KEA’S ARK OF NEWARK: A LIFE IN WORKS - Locating the Ark Part 2 , Gallery Aferro, Main Gallery, Newark, NJ Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I – The Visions: Trailer 1+2 'Comrade, what is your visual bond today?' at Sunday Session, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements For Essex live presentation at BHQFU, Brooklyn, NY The Potter’s House, Washington D.C. Bowerbird GATE Series, Philadelphia, PA 2015 Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements For Essex , Institute of Contemporary Art, Phil adel phia, PA (Online Digital Commission Project for World AIDS Day) Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I – The Visions | SCENE II Bout Time, Short Films – MiniFestival @RAUMERWEITERUNGSHALLE KILO | Iba se 99, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA Recognition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA KILO | Iba se 99: special preview- “I Cried, Power!” On the Limits & Possibilities of Black Life (part of Black Artstory Month), New York, NY black./womyn. screening at PeaceCorps HQ for Women’s History Month , Washington, DC black./ womyn. Presented by Chicago Filmmakers and Reeling: The Chicago LGBT Int’l Film Festival, Chicago, IL 2014 Bumming Cigarettes: Queens World Film Festival, Queens, NY Massimadi Afrocaribbean LGBT International Film Festival, Montreal, Canada KANSAI QUEER FILM FESTIVAL Osaka, Japan Day With(out) Art, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Bumming Cigarettes: Langston Hughes African American Film Festival; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Sistah Sinema Screening Tour: Atlanta, Greensboro, Portland, Chicago Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, San Francisco, CA Long Island Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Long Island, NY Fresno Reel Pride Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Fresno, CA GFest Gaywise Festival, London, UK Queer Film Festival MEZIPATRA-Prague & Brno, Czech Republic Be Alarmed: The Visions- BlackStar Film Festival Closing Night Premiere; Philadelphia, PA

88 Eldridge Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6 73 Allen St. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6 companygallery.us | [email protected] | +1 646 756 4547 COMPANY 2012 Bumming Cigarettes: Philadelphia QFest World Premiere, Philadelphia, PA Corona Cork Film Festival BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA 2011 black./womyn.: Gays & Lesbians for Microsoft GLEAM, Seattle, WA 2010 black./womyn.: Forum for the Empowerment of Women, Johannesburg, South Africa 2009 black./womyn.: The Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Seattle, WA London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, UK NewFest: NYC LGBT Film Festival, New York, NY 2008 black./womyn.: 2008 New Orleans International Human Rights Festival New Orleans, LA Boston’s 24th Annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Boston, MA San Francisco Black Film Festival, San Francisco, CA Philadelphia Int’l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA Fresno Reel Pride LGBT Film Festival, Fresno, CA Clip! Tampa Int’l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Tampa, FL 10th bfm Int’l Film Festival Institute (Summer)

Awards

2019 The Bucksbaum Award, The Whitney Museum of American Art Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts 2018 Pew Arts Grant for Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement III, "The Triple Deities Magnum Foundation Fund 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Astraea Global Art Fund Award 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant- Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements For Essex 2014 Bumming Cigarettes: PIFVA Finishing Fund Award 2009 black./womyn.: Best of Newfest, New York LGBT Film Festival Leeway Foundation Transformation Award 2008 black./womyn.: Audience Award for Best Documentary (Feature), Philadelphia Int’l Gay + Lesbian Film Festival (now Philadelphia Qfest)

Residencies/Fellowships

2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts Carter/Johnson Leather Library Scholar Artist in Residence 2018 - 2019 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at CCS Bard/Bard College 2018 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Recess Session, "Shug Avery's Kiss 2016 Open Immersion: Virtual Reality Lab Fellow, Toronto, CA Pew Fellowship in the Arts Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee Fellow Center for Afrofuturist Studies Resident Ossian Arts Research Fellowship- Jain Family Institute 2015 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship-Philadelphia Fellow

Selected Press

2020 Artforum, “Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List For Prospect.5” 2019 ARTnews, “The Year in Queer Art: Stonewall at 50 the Future in Present Tense” The Brooklyn Rail, “TIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN with Sara Roffino" The Brooklyn Rail, “Tiona Nekkia McClodden: Hold on, let me take the safety off” New York Times, “New York Galleries: What to See Right Now” Artnews “‘We Ourselves Are Our Prize’: Lasting Works in the Whitney Biennial Evoke Toni Morri son and Ancestry Through the Ages” Artsy, “Tiona Nekkia McClodden won the Whitney Museum’s Bucksbaum Award.” Artnews “Tiona Nekkia McClodden Wins Whitney Museum’s Bucksbaum Award” Philadelphia Magazine, “Experimental Filmmaker Tione Nekkia McClodden Doesn’t Care If You Miss The Point” Artnews, “Lola Flash, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden on Lesbian Visibility” Artnews, “9 Art Events to Attend This Week in New York” Surface Magazine, “What to Expect at the Whitney Biennial 2019”

88 Eldridge Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6 73 Allen St. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6 companygallery.us | [email protected] | +1 646 756 4547 COMPANY The New York Times, “The Whitney Biennial Called. How Will They Answer?” Triple Canopy, “Tiona Nekkia McClodden” Artforum, “Tiona Nekkia McClodden 1000 Words” Art21 Magazine, “Black Mentifact and a Sense of Place” 2018 New York Times, “The Best Classical Music of 2018” Artforum, “Douglas Crimp’s Top Ten of 2018” Artspace, “Mysticism, Memes, and Bratty George Washington: 2018's Best Pieces of Art Criticism Artforum, "TEXAS ISAIAH an Introduction" Artforum, "BARD NAMES TIONA NEKKIA MCCLODDEN THE KEITH HARING FELLOW IN ART AND ACTIVISM" Village Voice, "Hammered Into Clouds: Nine Beginnings for Julius Eastman” NY Curbed, "How a Brooklyn art gallery is fighting mass incarceration” Mousse Magazine, "Traverse Nostalgia" ArtNews, “Speak Boldly When They Question You’: At the Kitchen, a Moving and Multifarious Tribute to Composer Julius Eastman" OpenSpace, SFMoma, "Draft for an epic #1: Communal Presences" New York Times, "A Long-Lost Composer Is Raised From the Dead" New York Times, "A Long-Lost Score, Rebuilt With the Help of a Photo" New York Times, "Your Week in Culture: Dakota Fanning, Khalid, City Ballet After Peter Martins" 2017 Art In America, "Striking Nerves: Art and Protest in 2017, Dec 28, 2017 Clodden, The Labyrinth 1.0. Broadway World, “Performance Space 122 Announces 2018 Coil Festival Lineup Frieze, “Looking Back 2017: Listening and Learning” Garage, “7 Films by Black Artists Give Voice to Marginalized Communities” Artforum 500 words, “Tiona Nekkia McClodden on her work in “Speech/Acts” Artforum, “Previews Sept 2017” The Alliance, "Photography Expanded at Magnum Foundation” Art in America, "Trusting the Camera: Black Queer Brooklyn on Film” Hyperallergic, "After Years of Research, Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman Gets the Tribute He Deserves" WHYY, "Setting right a composer's 'unjust malaise’" The Art Newspaper, "Work and play at BDSM show" Broadly, "Exploring Black Women's Sexuality and BDSM in NYC's Oldest Dungeon” Philadelphia Gay News, "Concerts, exhibit explore contributions of late classical musician” SVA MA Curatorial Practice Features, "Art Show in Dungeon Explores BDSM in Relation to Black Female Bodies” Real Life Magazine, "The Beautiful Ones” The Creators Project, "Meet the Artists Who Came of Age After the AIDS Epidemic” Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist and Filmmaker Tiona McClodden,” 2016 Hyperallergic, "Reflections from Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter,” VICE/The Creators Project, "A Langston Hughes Short Story Inspired a Contemporary Art Exhibi tion” Philly.com, "Unlisted' exhibit: A fair by and for Philly artists” Artforum.com, "Feel the Bern” Skin Deep Magazine, "Skin Deep meets Tiona McClodden Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Tiona McClodden, 2016 Pew Fellow” Pew Center for Arts & Heritage,That Which Is Fundamental” Little Village, "Genevieve Heinrich,The Center for Afrofuturist Studies welcomes its first artist-in- residence” NEXTpittsburg, "Jennifer Baron,Arts leaders of color convene for Pittsburgh’s first By Any Means symposium” Art21 Magazine MARCH / APRIL 2016 ISSUE "Renewal" - Jessica Lynne, Affixing Ceremony:Four Movements for Essex | An Interview with Tiona McClodden” HuffPost Black Voices- On the "A" w/Souleo: Dreaming of Kin Explores The Black Family Narra tive” The Visual AIDS Blog-T The Uncoolness of Grief: An interview with Tiona McClodden about Es sex Hemphill, Legacy and Art” The Creators Project, " An Artist Is Reimagining Black History Through Experimental Film” 2015 Windy City Times, "“LGBTQ media confab looks ahead to post-marriage reporting” Pew Arts & Heritage, Inside the Institute of Contemporary Art: Q&A with Amy Sadao” Okayplayer.com - “OKP Premiere: THEESatisfaction – “Recognition” [Official Video]”

88 Eldridge Street, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6 73 Allen St. 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10002 | Friday - Sunday, 12 - 6 companygallery.us | [email protected] | +1 646 756 4547 COMPANY The Art Blog- “Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic by Tiona McClodden”,, March 2014 Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, “WAIT at Project 4” Afropunk, "“QUEER MULTIMEDIA ARTIST TIONA MCCLODDEN” Mark Jenkins, “Galleries: ‘The Art of Comic Books,’ ‘Wait,’ ‘Vivid’” Salamishah Tillet, “20 Years of Black Lesbian Cinema” TFW, “Women Filmmakers Forum: tiona.m.”