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[she/her] living + working in North PHL | artist. | curator. | quester. | dutiful child of Ogun⛓🔪 | Autistic ♾

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Bio: 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. Her work explores themes of re-memory and narrative biomythography.

McClodden has exhibited and screened work at the Institute of Contemporary Art-Philadelphia, the Museum of Modern Art-New York); the Whitney Museum; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) – Berlin; MOCA LA; MCA Chicago, and MoMA PS1.

Most recently she is the recipient of the 2021-2023 Princeton Arts Fellowship, the Bucksbaum Award for her participation in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2019), Magnum Foundation Fund (2018), a Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism from Bard College (2018-2019), the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a Pew Fellowship (2016), among others.

In 2017-18 she curated A Recollection. +Predicated. featured within Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental, an interdisciplinary, multi-artist project that examined the life, work, and resurgent influence of Julius Eastman, a Black,gay minimalist composer and performer.

Her writing has been featured on Triple Canopy, in Artforum, Cultured Magazine, ART21 Magazine + many other publications.

Tiona lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA + is the Founder + Owner of Philadelphia based, Conceptual Fade, a micro-gallery + library space centering Black thought + artistic production.