Sonya Clark
Reversals (Performance)

Reversals (Performance)

2019
Photo by Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
these days, this country, this history

these days, this country, this history

2019
cotton flags
Monumental Cloth, The flag we should know

Monumental Cloth, The flag we should know

2019
Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño
Monumental Cloth, installation

Monumental Cloth, installation

2019
Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño
Edifice and Mortar (detail)

Edifice and Mortar (detail)

2018
Brick, human hair
Unraveling & Unraveled

Unraveling & Unraveled

2015
Battle Flag of the Confederacy (cotton)
Hair Craft Project 2014

Hair Craft Project 2014

Jamilah Williams (left)
Kamala Bhagat (right)
Pickney

Pickney

1997
cloth, wood, and thread
Madam CJ Walker

Madam CJ Walker

2008
combs
afro Abe II (peacock)

afro Abe II (peacock)

2010
paper and thread
Black Hair Flag

Black Hair Flag

2010
cloth and thread
Onigi 13

Onigi 13

1997
cloth and thread
Mom's Wisdom

Mom's Wisdom

2011
photograph
Iterations

Iterations

2008
combs

Current Exhibitions

This Present Moment

May 23, 2022 - April 2023

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

NEWS

Read Lowery Sim’s review in Hyperallergic of retrospective ‘Tatter, Bristle and Mend’ at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, June 24, 2021

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Read Art in America ,“Outsize Symbols: Sonya Clark at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,” by Jackson Davidow, July 1, 2021

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Read American Craft, “On Hair, and Tatter, Bristle, and Mend,” by Paulette Young, June 17, 2021

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Order your Hair Craft Project Catalog at haircraftproject.com.

“No matter her materials, Clark “braids” and “twists” associations, creating works with a distinctly emotional tensile strength.”

—Leah Ollman
Art Critic, L.A. Times