Sonya Clark

Sonya Clark has been exhibited in over five hundred venues worldwide, and her work is included in numerous museum collections. Along with four honorary doctorates, Clark is a United States Artists Fellow and has received awards from Pollock-Krasner and Anonymous Was A Woman, among others. Her work often addresses and redresses U.S. history, most notably in her Monumental Cloth series and The Descendants of Monticello at Declaration House in Philadelphia, made in collaboration with Monument Lab and Monticello. 

The land bears witness. The body holds truths. Dendrochronology is an LP. Clark visited Monticello to record the eyes of descendants of the people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson. She walked the plantation with folks whose embodiment of their ancestors manifests profoundly in the present. At the ghost circle of the famous felled tulip poplar, a new tree emerged. Within the textured bark, its watchful eye holds this nation accountable for our past and what becomes of our future.