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

Becoming the Sea

August 9, 2024 - January 20, 2025

Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina

Scrawlspace

August 19, 2024 – January 7, 2025

The 8th Floor, New York, New York

American Stories / American Myths

through July 20, 2025

Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

NEWS

View virtual walkthrough of ‘Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other‘ at the Cranbrook Museum of Art

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Forbes, “Sonya Clark, A Collaboration, At The High Museum Of Art In Atlanta,” Chad Scott, November 19, 2023

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Burnaway, “Tactile Grace: Sonya Clark’s We Are Each Other at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta,” Bryn Evans, January 19, 2024

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Colossal, “Sonya Clark Uses Common Fibers to Weave Together Craft, Community, and Activism,” Grace Ebert, November 13, 2023

“This ambitious, intellectually focused artist is already deepening dialogue within the fiber arts.”

—Jody Clowes
Surface Design Journal