Tiona Nekkia McClodden

Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and curator whose interdisciplinary work explores themes of Black interiority, biomythography, re-memory, and queer poetics. Traversing documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations, she interrogates ideas of power, ritual, and order through their relationship to identity formations.

Her works have been shown at Kunsthalle Basel, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in 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) in Berlin, MOCA LA, MCA Chicago, MoMA PS1, and the 61st Venice Biennale Arte.

She is the recipient of the 2021–2023 Princeton Arts Fellowship, a Bucksbaum Award for her work in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts (2019), among others.

In 2017–2018, she curated A Recollection. + Predicated. as part of the multi-artist retrospective Julius Eastman: That Which is Fundamental, presented at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2017 and The Kitchen in New York in 2018.