Name Clifford Owens | Role Writer | |
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Known for Mixed media and performance art Books Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art | ||
On clifford owens
Clifford Owens is an African-American mixed media and performance artist, writer and curator. Owens was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1971 and spent his early life in Baltimore. Owens is known for his works which center on the body and often include interactions with the audience and spontaneity.
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- On clifford owens
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- Education
- Work
- Exhibitions
- Collections
- References
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Education
Clifford Owens attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1998. He received his MFA in 2000 from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2000, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2001
He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2004 and was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem 2005-2006.
Owens has taught at The Cooper Union, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, as well as NYU, and was a Lecturer at the School of Art, Yale University in the fall, 2011.
Work
At Owens' first solos show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, he presented, Photographs with an Audience, a piece about how the history of performance art is intertwined with the history of photography. In it, Owens asked questions of the audience and those that had answered the same would have their picture taken as a group.
In Owen's solo exhibition, Anthology at MoMA PS1, he performed instructional scores submitted by black artists that he had asked to participate. One score written by artist Kara Walker, was withdrawn by Walker while the exhibition was on view but was performed by Owens three times at MoMA PS1.
Exhibitions
Clifford Owens’ art has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His solo exhibitions include, “Anthology: Clifford Owens” Museum of Modern Art PS1 (2011-2012) and “Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2011); his group exhibitions include, “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” Contemporary Arts Museum (2012), “Greater New York 2005” Museum of Modern Art PS1 (2005), “Freestyle” The Studio Museum in Harlem (2001), and the traveling exhibition “Performance Now” (2013–14).
Solo shows
Selected group shows