In November 2024 I received a Newark Creative Catalyst Award and a NYSCA Artist Grant!
“I made it as a very political piece when our bodily autonomy started being taken away,” Clifford said. “And it was made out of frustration. I was like ‘here you want me to put the inside on the outside? – there, go ahead!’ ”
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BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY (BODY) launches in Times Square on September 4th, 2024. I have a new limited edition photo on view, Interior Self Portrait, and so excited to share gallery space with artists I admire and am inspired by. I am also doing public workshops in Times Square, NYC and in Championship Plaza in Newark, NJ! SIGNAL CELEBRATION: a sign making workshop for Bodily Autonomy uses recycled materials to create signs about Trans Joy, Queer Liberation, and Reproductive Justice. It will be fun! Come join!
MAY 4 and 5th 2024, I was a part of HOPE AGAINST HOPE at CARA: with Pamela Sneed, Loretta J. Ross (!!!!), Brujas, The Blacksmiths and more!
April 19th, 2024 I did a story for Drae Campbell’s excellent series TELL at BGSQD at The Center. Theme is FIRE.
March 31st, 2024 I did a bit of my solo performance CANCER: A LOVE STORY (originally directed by Lucy Sexton) , and some new writing from my manuscript, at ON THE VERGE festival at The Wild Project, curated by Heather Litteer.
April 11th, 2024 My Interiors project was part of Art and Abortion Access, an amazing collaboration with the Reproductive Health Access Project
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I did the keynote for The Feminist Art Project at the College Art Association conference in Chicago on February 17th, 2024 in the Waldorf Room of the Hilton Chicago.
Some recent (2023) press: Ana Mendieta and the “Fuck Carl Andre” shirts in Hyperallergic, Paper Magazine on Abortion Stories at The Brooklyn Museum, and my “sorrow and rage” mentioned in this beautiful piece by Helen Shaw in The New Yorker about the great Mikéah Ernest Jennings.
2023: performing with Alix Pearlstein at The Neuberger Museum of Art in Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment; panel on Sexuality in Art at C24 Gallery February 23; I was honored to be a part of 50 Years Since Roe: a Convening on Reproductive Justice, Abortion Stories USA/BK at The Brooklyn Museum on January 22, 2023; panel at The New School about Feminist Mythologies;
2022
New INTERIORS installation at Connecticut College in the show The Will To Change: Gathering as Praxis. I have a whole gallery to myself- covered in pink plexiglass with pillows and videos (October 2022).
Cancer: A Love Story short film in the group show
The Newark Museum of Art (October 2022).
INTERIORITY
A new lecture performance called INTERIORITY at the Inverse Performance Festival at THE MOMENTARY in Bentonville, AR. November 5, 2022.
Thomas J. Watson Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Call Number: N7433.4.C55 B33 2021
Library Hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday — 10:00am-5:00pm
The Lyman Allyn Museum
A new and unique installation of Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside (2022) is on view in The Will to Change: Gathering as Praxis organized by Nasty Women Connecticut.
Exhibition runs:
June 18 – August 12, 2022.
Exhibition Opening:
Friday, June 24th, 5:00pm-8:00pm
Suggested Donation $10
Call (860) 443-2545 ext. 2129 or email info@lymanallyn.org to RSVP
P R E S E N T: Queer Art for the Here and Now
The inaugural prideART New York group show features the exciting, innovative work of 36 multidisciplinary queer artists from Berlin and New York, hosted in a historic East Village building.
DMAC 62 East 4th St, 3rd fl, New York, NY 10003
A virtual tour will be made available to provide access for all.
VIEWING TIMES
Thursday 6/16 – Sunday 6/19, 4:00pm–8:00pm
Wednesday 6/22 – Saturday 6/25, 4:00pm–8:00pm
CLOSING RECEPTION
Saturday 6/25, 6:00pm–10:00pm
My Obvious Presence
Should I give up everything once again? A thought formulated in my head on one autumn day when I learned that I was again pregnant. The known and the unpredictable challenges of my pregnancy were the reasons, why I started to think as curator about the shifts of directions on the discourse on pregnancy. Our current social environment created a political standard out of ultra-conservative, patriarchal phrases connected to motherhood, therefore giving a special currency to the topic.
—Kata Oltai, Curator
Erika Deak Gallerie, Budapest, Hungary
The Unseen
THE UNSEEN is a community-first project started by RANKIN CREATIVE to utilise the platforms and voice of the group to those who have been unfairly de-platformed online. THE UNSEEN has bought together hundreds of people, spanning a huge range of identities and experiences of becoming UNSEEN across multiple platforms. We aim to showcase the breadth and human consequences of unfair censorship practices and move forward the discussion on solutions in a way that emphasises the voices of those affected.
On view June 16th to 24th, 2022.