Tiona Nekkia McClodden

Tiona Nekkia McClodden

b. 1981, Blytheville, Arkansas
lives in Philadelphia

Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work explores, and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and social commentary. McClodden’s interdisciplinary approach traverses documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations. Themes explored in McClodden's films and works have been re-memory and more recently narrative biomythography. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and MoMA PS1, New York, among others. She recently exhibited work in the Whitney Biennial (2019), for which she received the Bucksbaum Award. McClodden has been the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.

Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I - The Visions, 2014. Single-channel video, HD 1920 x 1080, 10 min., 48 sec. © Tiona Nekkia McClodden. Courtesy of the artist