Clifford Owens

Clifford Owens is an interdisciplinary artist. He makes photographs, performance art, drawings, videos and texts. His art has appeared in many solo and group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. Owens’s solo museum exhibitions include Anthology at MoMA PS1, Better the Rebel You Know at the former Cornerhouse in Manchester, England, and Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; and his group exhibitions include Freestyle, Greater New York 2005, and Performance Now: The First Decade of the New Century. His performance-based projects have been widely presented in museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Owens has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other fellowships and awards. He is guest faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and he lives and works between New York City and Jersey City.

During his residency at KinoSaito, Owens envisages activity and actions in the studio that constitute a series of large-scale, abstract drawings, and a suite of itinerant performance-based film photographs constructed on and around its consecrated grounds.

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