Clifford Owens, “Your Head is Connected to Your Body”, Performance-Based Lecture

February 5th, 2025 from 5:30-6:30pm in Hanes Art Gallery

Join us for an evening with Clifford Owens, acclaimed mixed media and performance artist, writer, and curator, as he presents “Your Head is Connected to Your Body,” an audience-sensitive, performance-based lecture exploring his artistic practice. The talk begins at 5:30 PM on February 5th in Scales 110. Following the talk, will be the Opening Reception of Young, Gifted and Black at 6:30 PM in Hanes Art Gallery.

Clifford Owens is a visual artist. His solo museum exhibitions include Anthology at MoMA PS1 (2011) Better the Rebel You Know at the former Cornerhouse in Manchester, England (2014), and Perspectives 173: Clifford Owens at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2011). His performance-based projects have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art (2017), Baltimore
Museum of Art (2019), Brooklyn Academy of Music (2014). Owens’ art is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Studio Museum in Harlem. He is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Owens was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971, and he lives and works between New York City and Jersey City.