Tiona Nekkia McClodden

[***No longer participating in panels outiside of current commitments*** ]

Jan 2022

Presentation:  35th CIHA WorldCongress | MOTION: Migrations taking pace in São Paulo | January 17-21, 2022 at the InstitutoGoethe de São Paulo - Rua Lisboa, 974 - Pinheiros, São Paulo. Thursday, January 20, 2022 during the

Exhibition Closing: Jan 22, 2022  FETICHE curated by Ebony Haynes

Program: Prospect New Orleans P.5 installation PLAYME HOME reading of script in New Orleans, LA. Saturday, Jan 22 2pm – 4pm

Feb 2022

Exhibition: “Olvido, Sombra, Nada” an exhibition of works by Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Lucas Samaras and Paul Mpagi Sepuya exploring the tension betweenacts of concealment and revelation within modes of portraiture. Hosted within the ground floor andcourtyard of Galería Hilario Galguera in Colonia San Rafael, Mitchell-Innes& Nash’s debut exhibition in Mexico City will be on view from February3–March 5, opening to the public ahead of Zona Maco Week. 

March 2022

Exhibition: Vessels March 2—April 2, 2022  David Zwirner - London

David Zwirner is pleased to present Vessels, a group exhibition at the gallery’s London location featuring works by artists from both generationally and geographically diverse backgrounds. Working in a range of media, these artists engage in different ways with the idea that the living body is a vessel—one that contains a life force or a spirit, but one that is also subjected to social, political, and cultural constructs. 

Conceptual Fade [ Cf. ] - Vol. 2.1 - Black Interior Space by Ladi'Sasha Jones on View March 24 - May 27, 2022

June 2022

Exhibition: June 12 - 18 -  Art Basel Switzerland TBA

Exhibition:   - Los Angeles TBA 

Conceptual Fade [ Cf. ] - Vol. 2.2 - TBA

July 2022

Exhibition: MASK | CONCEAL | CARRY at 52 Walker, NYC

August 2022

Exhibition: The Trace of An Implied Presence, NYC TBA

Exhibition: NYC TBA

Oct 2022

Exhibition: NYC TBA

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]

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