CHRISTEN CLIFFORD
Christen Clifford is an interdisciplinary artist whose most recent work is in installation and sculpture. She is a feminist performance artist, writer, curator, professor, actor, and mother. Her work has been seen at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Project for Empty Space, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The New Museum, Postmasters Gallery, SoHo20, AUNTSisdance, PS 122, Grace Exhibition Space, Panoply Lab, Dixon Place, ArtShare LA, LACE, Root Division as well as Canada and Slovenia.
Clifford's first film is supported by the 2020 Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program. She was a 2019 ACE Hotel AIR, 2018 Feminist in Residence at Project for Empty Space and a 2018 Independent Film Project Screen Forward Fellow, as well as received grants and fellowships from NYFA, NYSCA, The Ragdale Foundation, The Museum of Motherhood and Some Serious Business. In 2019, she co-chaired with Jasmine Wahi “RAPE, REPRESENTATION, AND RADICALITY” for the Feminist Art Project’s national conference, and created The New School's inaugural Sexual Justice Symposium.
Clifford is a core member of No Wave Performance Task Force and was the lead artist on #WeWishAnaMendietaWasStillAlive , a Feminist Public Action; she created the PussyBow, a Feminist Public Action Disguised as a Fashion Accessory, and her recent work is Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside and IWantYourBlood, which was part of the show Abortion Is Normal. Her work has been written about in Artforum, ArtNews, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Bookforum, Entertainment Weekly, Filmmaker Magazine, Dazed, Huffington Post, Guardian, Bustle, Vice, The New York Times, and Mashable. Her writing has been published in the bestselling anthology Women in Clothes, and she has written for The Brooklyn Rail, The Guardian, Broadly, and Hyperallergic.
She teaches at The New School, curates at Dixon Place and has a studio at Project for Empty Space. She has also been a Girl Scout Leader and a mentor for Girls Write Now. She lives in Jackson Heights with her partner and two children.
