![]() Education Ĭlark holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and in 2011 was honored with their first Distinguished Mid-Career Alumni Award. Clark was influenced by the craftspeople in her family, including a grandmother who worked as a tailor, and a grandfather who was a furniture maker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Biography Ĭlark's father was a psychiatrist from Trinidad while her mother was a nurse from Jamaica. Although African art and her Caribbean background are important influences, Clark also builds on practices of assemblage and accumulation used by artists such as Betye Saar and David Hammons. Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the late 1990s, which received critical acclaim, evoked African traditions of personal adornment and moved these common forms into the realm of personal and political expression. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. Sonya Clark (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. ![]() Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2010, 2011).Fellow of the American Craft Council (2020). ![]()
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