Name: Tiona McClodden
Nationality: US
Place of Birth: Blytheville, USA
Year of Birth: 1981
Areas of Work: film, video, sculpture
Website: www.tionam.com

Tiona McClodden b. 1981, Blytheville, AK, is a filmmaker and visual artist with an interest in time-based images and objects. She produces and distributes her work through her film and media imprint, Harriet's Gun Media, whose mission is to produce and distribute works of art across a range of media platforms that examine, explore, and critique issues at the intersections of race, gender and sexuality. Themes explored in McClodden's films and works have been social change, social realism, re-memory and more recently narrative biomythography. She has produced, written and directed a range of films in feature length and short form.

McClodden has exhibited and screened work at the Institute of Contemporary Art – Philadelphia, Project 4 Gallery in Washington, D.C., Vox Populi Gallery – Philadelphia, PA, Esther Klein Art Gallery – Philadelphia, PA, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art – New York, Art Toronto’s VERGE Video program, On The Ground Floor Gallery – L.A., Imperfect Gallery – Philadelphia, PA, @RAUMERWEITERUNGSHALLE in Berlin, MOMA PS1, New York, and in a range of international film festivals and film programs.

She has received commissions from the Institute of Contemporary Art – Philadelphia, The Requisite Movers dance company, Flyground Movers dance company, Leeway Foundation, The New York Women's Foundation & The Barnard Center for Research on Women, Spelman College, and many contemporary visual artists as an avid art documentarian.  

McClodden has been awarded the 2016 Ossian Arts Fellowship under the Jain Family Institute, attended the 2015 Flaherty Film Seminar as a Philadelphia Fellow, further awards include the 2007 Leeway Foundation Art + Change Grant, the 2009 Leeway Transformation Award, the Philadelphia Film and Video Association Finishing fund grant for both Bumming Cigarettes (2014) and black./womyn (2009). She recently received a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for her ICA – Philadelphia's Day With(out) Art online commission Af·fixing Ceremony: Four Movements For Essex.
She has held residencies for Leeway Foundation Art + Technology Nextfab Studio resident Sanctuary at the Rotunda where she produced her first sound installation The Chills, and the 2016 Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Iowa City, IA. McClodden has also produced and directed experimental music video works for Sub Pop record label artists THEESatisfaction, Sony Records music artist Natalie Prass, and independent artists SassyBlack.
Tiona lives and works in North Philadelphia, PA.

EDUCATION

2000-2002
Film + Psychology, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA

2002-2004
Film + Video mentorship with Larry Steele at Educational Media Center, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
Dreaming of KIN – Tiona McClodden, Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I – The Visions, curated by Ladi'Sasha Jones – Feb 6 – April 10, 2016 Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Art

2014
Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I – The Visions, January 31 – March 15, 2014, Esther Klein Art Gallery – Philadelphia, PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016
History As I Know It - On The Ground Floor Gallery – L.A. + Imperfect Gallery – Philadelphia, PA

2015
Art Toronto – VERGE Video : Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, Movement I – The Visions

2015
With For And Against, Vox Populi Gallery, New Members group Exhibition

2014
THE CHILLS (sound installation), SANCTUARY residency group show, Philadelphia, PA

2014
W A I T, Project 4 Gallery – Washington, DC

2011
Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, The Visions – Americanly Speaking, Philadelphia ICA, Open Video Call Exhibit – Philadelphia, PA