Tiona Nekkia McClodden

2021: [***No longer partcipating in panels outiside of current commitments*** ]

Talk : Sept 14 2021 MOCA North Miami: Conversations at MOCA: Present & Possible—Honoring Michael Richards

Teaching:  2021 - 2023 Princeton University as Princeton Arts Fellow  [Fall 2021 - Curating Within Obscurity]

Curatorial:  Oct 2021 Tell me there is a lesbian forever...  Estate of Barbara Hammer at COMPANY Gallery, NYC

Exhibition: Oct 2021 PLAY ME HOME at Prospect New Orleans P5., New Orleans, LA

Curatorial: Nov 4 - 2021 Danielle Deadwyler at CUE Foundation, NYC

Past Events:

• 8/11-8/25 PRESENT FUTURES - Denny Gallery, New York, NY
• 8/11-21 Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee - 2016 Fellow in Bern, Switzerland
• 8/11-9/10UNLISTED - Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
  
• 9/8-9/25 To A Point... - CP Projects Space, 132 West 21st Street, 10th floor, New York, NY
• Oct 8, 2016 3rd annualGAZE for DAYS Film Screening presented by Yeah, Thats What She Said, UnionDocs Brooklyn, NY
  
• Oct 11 - Oct 19 - OPEN IMMERSION: A VR CREATIVE DOC LAB produced by the CFC Media Lab, The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and JustFilms | Ford Foundation Toronto, Canada
• Oct 14 - 21, 2016 - Elevate Atlanta:MICROCOSM, Atlanta, GA
• Oct 21, 2016 - Elevate Atlanta: MICROCOSM Artist Talk , Atlanta, GA
• Oct 28, 2016 - Cross Relations: Experimentation and the Arts Panel , Institute of Contemporary Art-Philadelphia, PA
• Nov. 12, 2016 - KEA’S ARK OF NEWARK: A LIFE IN WORKS - Locating the Ark Part 2 , Gallery Aferro, Main Gallery, Newark, NJ
• Nov. 13, 2016 - Stony Island Arts Bank, live presentation of Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I – The Visions with Tiona McClodden and Cauleen Smith, Chicago, IL
• March 10 2017- Satellite 2 < Transamerican Eye > Parsons, The New School., 6pm The Orozco Room (Room A712), 66 West 12th Street, NYC 10011
  
• March 16 2017- Artist Talk - One day this kid will get larger, Depaul Art Museum – Chicago, IL
• Exhibition: Jan. 26 - April 2nd - One day this kid will get larger, Depaul Art Museum – Chicago, IL
• Talk: April 4 - University of Delaware - Visiting Artist Talk
• Talk: April 6-7 Unworking Dark Matters: New Horizons in Black Feminist Visuality NYU, 239 Greene Street, Floor 8, New York, NY
  
• Exhibition: April 27 - Sexual Fragments Absent - NYC- 7pm—12am *RSVP IS REQUIRED
• Panel: May 9 - Precarious Collaboration and Equitable Conflict - Studio G05 at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St New York, NY 10002
• Curatorial: May 4th-28th - Julius Eastman:That Which Is Fundamental , Philadelphia, PA
  PUBLIC PROGRAMSSaturday May 13 6pm Co-Curators Dustin Hurt and Tiona Nekkia McClodden in conversation.Thursday May 18 • 6pmThe music of Julius Eastman with Dustin Hurt Saturday May 20 • 6pm
• Artist Talk moderated by Tiona Nekkia McCloddenSunday May 28 • 12pm to 5 pm Final day of exhibitionScreening: June 3 - Thursdays in June: Black Queer Brooklyn on Film Presented in conjunction with the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85
  Installation: June 3 - West Park Arts Fest, Philadelphia, PAPanel: June 4- Blonde Art Books Presents: The Fifth Annual BABZ Fair, Knockdown Center, NY
• Talk: Sept 26th - WHAT IS SHARED, WHAT IS OFFERED with Artist Chloë Bass, ICI Curatorial Hub, New York, NY 10013Talk: Oct.15 - [10:40am] Pioneer Works, Creative Time, and The Yes Men are proud to announce WTF Do We Do Now?, a one-day gathering with open forums, town hall meetings, and small-group dialogues. - Red Hook, Brooklyn
• Exhibition: Sep 17- Nov 17- KILO Iba Se 99 Exposition Gemeente Amsterdam, Weesperstraat 432, het ProjectmanagementbureauVR Prototype Presentation and Talk: Nov 11 - 13 - Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal (Montreal International Documentary Festival) - Open Immersion, Montreal, Quebec
  Screening: Nov 17th Arika - Tramway/Glasgow - Episode 9: Other Worlds Already Exist
• Screening + Talk: Dec 1 - 6:30pm NYC Whitney Museum - ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS
• Screening + Talk: Dec 5 - CHI Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS Screening: Dec 7 -LA Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles - ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS
• Exhibition: Sept. 13 - Dec 23 Speech/Acts , Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia. PA
  
• Talk: Dec 13, 2017 - PHL - Philadelphia Book Launch of Speech/Acts,
• Talk: Dec 15, 2017 - NYC - Triple Canopy (264 Canal Street, 3W, New York, NY) Friday, December 15 for Black Marks That Make up Letters, \
  

2018

• Talk: Jan 16th - L.A.B. series revolving around the term relation. This discussion brings together Jonathan Gardenhire and Carolyn Lazard, artists included in the upcoming exhibition A Recollection. Predicated. (on view January 19–February 10, 2018) with artist-curator Tiona Nekkia McClodden for a special conversation - NYC - The Kitchen
• Curatorial: Jan 19th - Feb 10th “Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental” A Recollection. + Predicated. January 19–February 10th. Opening Reception: January 19, 6–8pm- NYC - The KitchenTalk: Feb 12 Queer|Art|Film: Tiona Nekkia McClodden presents I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE NYC - IFC Theater
• Screening: March 1 KILO Iba Se 99, Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance NYC
• Installation: March 6th -April 21st NYC Recess Session - Shug Avery's Kiss
• Screening: April 21st - THE CINEMA OF GENDER TRANSGRESSION: TRANS FILM-TO SPEAK, TO FIND: PROGRAM 2, 5pm, Anthology Film Archives - NYC
• Installation: May 3-26th CLUB Performance Space New York - NYC Press Release
• Screening: May 7th An Evening with Tiona Nekkia McClodden, MoMA - NYC
• Screening: June 21 In the (Commercial) Break/ Screening and Conversation with Martine Syms, Kadist, Thursday, June 21st, 2018, 6pm – 8pm École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris Amphithéâtre des loges
• Lecture: Oct 10 Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Parsons Fine Arts
• Lecture: Oct 23 Visiting Artist Lecture Series at RISD
• Talk: Sexual Sorcery: A Night of Witchcraft and World Building Inspired by Leonor Fini , Museum of Sex NYC
• Lecture: Nov 16 + 17 Symposium | Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time Buffalo, NY
• Talk: Nov 30 REPARATIONS, Live with Morgan Parker at Ace Hotel NYC, NY

2019

• Exhibition: Dec 2- Jan 13, 2019 Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology - Journeys with the Initiated at Participant Inc. New York, NY Talk: Jan 5 Conversation with Darius Bost in celebration of his new book Evidence of Being at Brooklyn Museum, 6pm Talk: Jan 12 Journeys with the initiated - Film program in two parts featuring Charlie Ahearn, Ray Marsh, and Tiona Nekkia McClodden at e-flux, 311 E Broadway, New York, NY 10002
• Talk: Feb 11 Brown University Lecture/Workshop at Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Screening: Feb 14 Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs at BAM Cinemas - Shorts Program: Under The Influence , Brooklyn, NY
  Talk: Feb 18 Curatorial Workshop Lecture at Williams Grad Art at WMCA
• Talk: March 25 Master Symposium : Double Bound Possession, A proposition of Anselm Franke with Kader Attia, Avery Gordon, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Rachel O’Reilly, Ho Rui An, and others., Geneva
  Talk: March 30 Dark as the Door to a Dream Curated by Tavia Nyong’o at the The Stedelijk Museum, AmsterdamTalk/Performance: April 6 Bill Dietz & Hong-Kai Wang "Singing is what makes work possible" 6pm - Final Presentation & Panel Discussion on “The Aesthetics of Non-Productive Labor” with Special Guest: Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Philadelphia, PA
• Panel: April 26 The (Re) Making of Memory panel at Common Field CONVENING
• Exhibition: May 17 - Sept 22 2019 Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art,
  Performance: June 13 Stonewall50 Celebration with Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Talk: Sept. 25 – Oct. 2, 2019 School for Temporary Liveness | Philadelphia, PA
  
• Exhibition: Nov 3 - Dec 22 | Hold on, let me take the safety off | COMPANY Gallery New York, NY
• Talk: Nov 5 Gallery 400: Voices | UIC - Chicago, IL
• Talk: Nov 13 | Modern & Contemporary Forum | Yale University | New Haven, CT
• Talk: Nov 20 | Internal | New York, NY
• Talk: Nov 21 Visiting Artist Lecture | VCU | Richmond, VA
• Exhibition: Oct.18.2019 - Jan.2.2020 | Love and Ethnology The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte) | Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin

2020

• Panel: Jan 27th | NYC | Queer Archives: Between the Individual and the Institutional
• Talk: Feb 9th | Kink Out at MoMA PS1.
• Talk: March 5th | Bucksbaum Award Program | The Whitney Museum of American Art |NYC
• Virtual Exhibition:  WE BUY GOLD - FIVE. ▪️ Curated by Nina Chanel Abney, June 5- June 30th

2021

Talk: Mar 4th - Howardena Pindell's Legacy-Artists/Activists/Educators ,The Shed - NYC [online]

Exhibition: March 27 - August 15, 2021 - Enunciated Life , California African American Museum - LA

Exhibition: Feb 17 to June 6, 2021 - Grief and Grievance: Art andMourning in America , New Museum - NYC

Exhibition: May 7 2021 - August 2021 - New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art – Philadelphia

Talk: May 4, 2021 - Staedelschule Leture Series - Tiona NekkiaMcClodden [Online]

Conversation: May 3, 2021 - Tiona Nekkia McClodden inConversation with Margot Norton 2pm , New Museum - NYC [Online]