Sonya Clark

Born in Washington, DC to Caribbean parents, Sonya Clark creates installations and objects rooted in craft’s legacy. She employs the language of textiles, politics of hair, and power of text to celebrate Blackness while interrogating injustice. She’s the Winifred Arms Professor of Arts at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Previously she chaired the Craft/Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University where she held the instituition’s highest honor, a Commonwealth Professorship.  She is an alumna of Amherst College (BA), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA), and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA). She holds four honorary doctorates and has received awards from organizations including United States Artists, Pollock-Krasner, Art Prize, Trellis Foundation, Art Matters, Rappaport Foundation, Anonymous Was a Woman, among others. She has been granted residencies at the Red Gate in China, BAU Camargo in France,  Rockefeller Bellagio in Italy,  Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in DC, Civitella Ranieri in Italy, Indigo Arts Alliance in Maine, Yaddo in NY, American Academy in Rome, Black Rock in Senegal, among others. Her work has been favorably reviewed in the New York Times, Le Monde, Sculpture, Art in America, Philadelphia Inquirer, Hyperallergic, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, ArtForum, PBS, NPR, BBC World News and many others. Her work has been exhibited in over 500 museums and galleries worldwide.

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