Artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden

This episode we are hugely excited to be joined by the artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden!

Tiona is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. 

Born in Blytheville, Arkansas and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, Tiona weaves narratives through archives, memories and objects, integral to her past and present, that shape her broader practice. 

In 2022, Tiona’s exhibitions at The Shed and 52 Walker alongside her year-long installation at MoMA in New York, garnered significant acclaim, prompting The New York Times to identify Teeona as “one of the most singular artists of our aesthetically rich, free-range time.”

Her work have been shown at Kunsthalle Basel, the Institute of Contemporary Art-Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) ; the New Museum (New York); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) – Berlin, among many others.

And, just in September, Tiona opened up the installation Tiona Nekkia McClodden: Play Me Home at the Baltimore Museum.

Some artists and institutions discussed in this episode:

• Chryssa
• Jacob Lawrence
• Brad Johnson (American, 1952–2011)
• Barbara Hammer
• Steve McQueen
• Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Conceptual Fade, Philadelphia
• Whitney Museum, New York
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 52 Walker, New York

Tiona is represented globally by White Cube gallery.

https://www.whitecube.com/artists/tiona-nekkia-mcclodden

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