Tiona Nekkia McClodden

2019:

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

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 , is the 28th annual iteration of Visual AIDS’ longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett for Visual AIDS, the video program prioritizes Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic, commissioning seven new and innovative short videos from artists Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Brontez Purnell.
  Premiering at The Whitney Museum of American Art on World AIDS Day, a post-screening discussion will feature artists Reina Gossett, Brontez Purnell and Tiona Nekkia McClodden in conversation with ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS co-curators Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett. This event is free. Registration is required. Screening: Dec 4 - 6:30pm NYC Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS will be screened at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on December 4, 2017 at 6:30pm, in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem. A post-screening discussion will feature artists Cheryl Dunye, Ellen Spiro and Thomas Allen Harris in conversation with curators Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett. Screening + Talk: Dec 5 - CHI Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS will be screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on December 5, 2017 at 6pm, free and open to the public. A post-screening discussion will feature artists and activists Rae Lewis-Thornton, Charles Long and Tiona Nekkia McClodden in conversation with VIsual AIDS Programs Director Alex Fialho. Screening: Dec 7 -LA Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles - ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS will be screened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles on December 7, 2017 at 7pm, in collaboration with ONE Archives at the USC Libraries and the ONE Archives Foundation, followed by a performance by Kia Labeija and a discussion featuring Reina Gossett and Kia Labeija in conversation with Day With(out) Art curators Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett.
• Exhibition: Sept. 13 - Dec 23 Speech/Acts , Institute of Contemporary Art - Philadelphia. PA
  
  
• Talk: Dec 13, 2017 - PHL - Philadelphia Book Launch of Speech/Acts, a fully illustrated catalogue co-published with Futurepoem to accompany the ongoing exhibition, featuring reprints of seminal texts by Fred Moten and Harryette Mullen, newly commissioned poetry by Morgan Parker and Simone White, and an essay from the curator.
  Alongside the catalog launch, there will be readings and conversations by Speech/Acts artists and poets Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Morgan Parker, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Simone White. This event is free and open to the public; register here.
• Talk: Dec 15, 2017 - NYC - Triple Canopy (264 Canal Street, 3W, New York, NY) Friday, December 15 for Black Marks That Make up Letters, featuring readings from the forthcoming Speech/Acts exhibition catalogue and a discussion by Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Morgan Parker, Simone White, and Speech/Acts curator Meg Onli.
  
• 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 KitchenCuratorial: 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
• 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