Upcoming Exhibitions + Events
2021: [No longer available for panels outiside of current commitments ]
Exhibition: May 2021 - August 2021 - New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia
Exhibition: Fall 2020 - Winter 2021 - Enunciated Life , California African American Museum - LA
Exhibition: Feb 17 to June 6, 2021 - Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America , New Museum - NYC
Talk: Mar 4th - Howardena Pindell's Legacy-Artists/Activists/Educators ,The Shed - NYC [online
Conversation: May 3, 2021 - Tiona Nekkia McClodden in Conversation with Margot Norton 2pm , New Museum - NYC [Online}
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