Sonya Clark

Obama and Lincoln, (Penny Portrait)

2011
Print

Jamilah Williams (left)
Kamala Bhagat (right)

2013
cotton thread, combs

2012
Chair, cloth, thread

2011
hair

2008
combs

2008
hair

2005
beads and wood

2008
paper and thread, peacock feathers

2008
paper and thread, peacock feathers

through July 20, 2025

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

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

“Clark’s authentic obsession springs in part from the potent, multisensory memories of having her hair combed and braided as a child”

—Ashley Kistler
Director, Anderson Gallery