Sonya Clark

Sonya Clark (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1967, Washington, D.C.) nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda zaŋ n-ti Afro-Caribbean. Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the late 1990s, which received critical acclaim, evoked African traditions of personal adornment and moved these common forms into the realm of personal and political expression. Although African art and her Caribbean background are important influences, Clark gba nyɛla ŋun tumdi o nuchee ni tumanima kamani nuchee ni baŋdiba Betye Saar mini David Hammons ni tumdi shɛm.

 Piligu biɛhigu 
Clark's ba nyɛla ŋun daa yina Trinidad ka o ma daa nyɛ Awuraba paɣa ŋun yina Jamaica. Clark yaapaɣa ŋun daa nyɛ teela mini o yab'doo ŋun daa nyɛ kaapinta nyɛ ban daa kpaŋsi o ni nuchee ni tuma baŋsim ŋɔ.

 Shikuru baŋsim 
Clark nyɛla ŋun daa naai Sidwell Friends School yuuni 1985. O daa deegi BA in psychology shikuru yuli booni Amherst College yuuni 1989. O daa lahi nya o BFA  shikuru yuli booni School of the Art Institute of Chicago yuuni 1993, where ni ka o daa bɔhim ni Nick Cave (performance artist), Anne Wilson n-ti pahi Joan Livingstone. Yuuni 1995, Clark nyɛla ŋun daa deegi o MFA shikuru yuli booni Cranbrook Academy of Art. 

 Exhibitions, collections, and awards 
Clark's tuma nyɛla din be nuchee  ni tuma duri din be Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia n-ti pahi  America.  Di ni be luɣ'shɛŋa maa nyɛ Indianapolis Museum of Art, Delaware Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ni Memphis Brooks Museum.  O tumanima nyɛla lahabali yaɣa kamani Art in America, The New York Times, Sculpture, Surface Design Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Fiber Arts, New American Paintings, Philadelphia Inquirer, Italian Vogue, Hyperallergic, Mother Jones, n-ti pahi Huffington Post ni tooi labiri lihiri shɛli.

Sonya Clark  daa nyɛla "artist in residence" din be McColl Center for Art + Innovation yuuni 2011.Unraveling: An Artist's Take On The Confederate Flag WFAE charlotte, June 22, 2015 O nyɛla ŋun deei pina pam kamani Anonymous Was a Woman Award,  United States Artists Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Award, Rockefeller Foundation Residency din be Italy,  Art Matters Grant, Red Gate Residency din be China,  Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship,  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship,  Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship,  Civitella Ranieri Fellowship din be Italy,  yuuni 1858 pini zaŋ n-ti Contemporary Southern Art ka di daa yina Gibbes Museum, yuuni 2014 ArtPrize, Juried Grand Prize mini Juried pini zaŋ n-ti Best Two-Dimensional work, n-ti pahi Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Clark nyɛla ŋun daa be American Craft Council College of Fellows  yuuni 2020. O tumanima shɛŋa nyɛla din be bukunima kamani Wrapped in Pride, Mami Wata, Hand + Made, The Global Africa Project, Second Lives, Manufractured, Material Girls, Contemporary Black Women Artists,Pricked, African American Art and Artists, Choosing Craft ni Master: bead-weaving. O tuma "Monumental" nyɛla Smithsonian American Art Museum ni daa zaŋ shɛli pahi Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign. Yuuni 2023, Clark's  tuma nyɛla  Nasher Museum of Art din be Duke University nyɛla ban daa zaŋ li wuhi salo ka nyɛ bɛ ni daa lahi zaŋ shɛli niŋ Pérez Art Museum Miami.

 Exhibition history 
 2023: Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other Cranbrook Art Museum, June 17 –September 24
 2021: Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend, National Museum of Women in the Arts, March 3 – June 28 
 2019: Monumental Cloth: the flag we should know, Fabric Workshop and Museum, March 29 – August 4, 2019
 2019: Sonya Clark: Hair|Goods, An Homage to Madam CJ Walker, Goya Contemporary Gallery, January 25 - March 30, 2019
 2017: Oaths and Epithets: Works by Sonya Clark, Contemporary Craft, April 12 – August 19, 2017
 2015: Loving After Lifetimes of All This, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, January 30 – May 23, 2015
 2008: Sonya Clark: Loose Strands, Tight Knots, Walters Art Museum, June 28 – September 2, 2008

Kundivihira

External links

 Hair art
 Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects, Chronicle Books
Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects, Museum of Contemporary Craft Exhibition 

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Category:1967 births
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