Photo credit: Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
Clifford Owens makes photographs, videos, performances, paper-works, installations,
and texts. His works have appeared in many solo and group exhibitions, both nationally
and internationally. Owens’s solo museum exhibitions include “Anthology” at the
Museum of Modern Art PS1, “Better the Rebel You Know” at Home in Manchester,
England, and “Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens” at the Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston. “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” “Greater New
York 2005,” “Freestyle,” and “Performance Now: The First Decade of the New
Century.” His on-going, performance-based projects have been widely presented in
museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum of Art,
and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Zoom Link for 10/7 talk with Clifford Owens –https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/83556880494
Owens graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Rutgers University, and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a William H. Johnson Prize, an Art Matters Grant, a Louis Tiffany Comfort Award, a New York Community Trust, a Lambent Foundation Fellowship, and the Rutgers University Ralph Bunche Graduate Fellowship. Owens has been an artist in residence at the Studio
Museum in Harlem, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, MacDowell Colony, and Artpace.
Publications, reviews, and interviews about his work have appeared in Art in America,
The New York Times, Village Voice, Modern Painters, Artforum, The New Yorker,
BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, The Drama Review, Performa: New Visual Art
Performance, Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, Why Art
Photography? and Anthology, his exhibition book. He has written for several exhibition
publications, The New York Times, Artforum, and Performing Arts Journal. His works are
in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the
Studio Museum on Harlem.
Owens has been visiting faculty, critic, and lecturer at many institutions, including the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Union, Yale University, Columbia
University, Williams College, New York University, Lafayette College, Virginia
Commonwealth University, New York University, University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill. He is currently Guest Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.
Owens was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He lives and works in New York City and
Jersey City, New Jersey.
Zoom Link for 10/7 talk with Clifford Owens – https://evergreen.zoom.us/j/83556880494