Clifford Owens

Clifford Owens (b. 1971, Baltimore, MD) received a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (1998), an MFA from Rutgers University (2000), and completed the Whitney Independent Study Program (2001). Owens makes photographs, videos, performances, paper-works, installations, and texts. Solo museum exhibitions include: “Anthology” at the Museum of Modern Art PS1, “Better the Rebel You Know” at Home in Manchester, England, and “Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,” “Greater New York 2005,” “Freestyle,” and “Performance Now: The First Decade of the New Century.” His on-going, performance-based projects have been widely presented in museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Owens was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. Public collections include the Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY.