Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke is a Trinidadian-American artist whose practice is built upon a foundation of uncertainty, curiosity, a will to heal, and an insistence upon freedom. Fluidly moving through photography, sculptural and text-based works, video and performance, her research-based practice incorporates socio-political and art historical texts, to contend with ideas of Blackness, the binding nature of bodily signification, and of the possibility to create non-totalizing identifying structures.

Born in Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies in 1987.
Lives and works in Detroit, MI

Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke in the studio 2024. Photos by Daniel Ribar.

“I’m thinking of black not as an end or a site of negation, but as a beginning and a site of destabilizing multiplicity.”

— Allana Clarke

Selected Work

Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke

I Feel Everything , 2023
30 Sec. hair bonding glue
65 x 72 x 4 in
Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke

Detail of No one, 2023
30 Second hair bonding glue (rubber latex, black carbon dye)
77h x 70w x 4d in

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