Background
Owens was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1971 and spent his early life in Baltimore.
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Clifford Owens
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Clifford Owens attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating in 1998. He received his Master of Fine Arts in 2000 from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2000, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2001
He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2004 and was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem 2005-2006.
Owens has taught at The Cooper Union, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, as well as New York University, and was a Lecturer at the School of Art, Yale University in the fall, 2011.
Career
Clifford Owens’ art has appeared in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His solo exhibitions include, “Anthology: Clifford Owens” Museum of Modern Art PS1 (2011-2012) and “Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2011). His group exhibitions include, “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” Contemporary Arts Museum (2012), “Greater New York 2005” Museum of Modern Art PS1 (2005), “Freestyle” (2001), and the traveling exhibition “Performance Now” (2013-2014).
Solo shows Better the Rebel You Know, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.
2014. Anthology. MoMA PS1. November 13, 2011 – May 17, 2012.
Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
2011. Clifford Owens, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New New York 2008.
Selected group shows Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Artist (Traveling show) Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2012), Grey Art Gallery (New York University), Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. "The Kiss" at Danspace Project, Saint Marks Church. Legacy Russell and Clifford Owens.
2013.
GNY: 5Year Review, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New New York 2010. 100 Years, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New New York 2010. Collected. Reflections on the Permanent Collection,, New York, New New York 2010.
One Minute More, The Kitchen, New York, New New York 2009 Distillation, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden.
