Clifford Prince King

Clifford Prince King

Clifford Prince King (b. 1993, Arizona) is a photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2023, King presented his first solo institutional exhibition at the Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach. He has recently had solo shows at STARS Gallery, Los Angeles (2022, 2020) and Light Work, Syracuse, New York (2021). Two-person and group exhibitions include Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Marc Selwyn Gallery, Gordon Robichaux, and STARS Gallery, Los Angeles; Higher Pictures and Leslie Lohman Museum, New York; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; and Light Work, Syracuse, New York.

King’s work is held in numerous institutional collections including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, California; Los Angeles County Museum of Arts; ICA Miami; Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

In 2022, TIS books published Orange Grove, the first monograph dedicated to King’s work. Profiles of King’s and commissions have been published in Aperture, BUTT, Cultured, Dazed, i-D, Interview, T Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vice, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal.

Works

Rabbit Hole

Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM

24 x 16 inches

2022

Plymouth

Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM

24 x 16 inches

2021

Safe Space

Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM

48 x 32 inches

2020

Where Seed Falls

Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM

48 x 32 inches

2022

Untitled, Unknown Boy

Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM

30 x 20 inches

2018

Untitled, (m & q)

Archival Pigment Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM

48 x 32 inches

2017

Exhibitions

Clifford Prince King

Hush-a-bye Dreams

Mar. 12–Apr. 30, 2023

Did I Ever Have a Chance?

Helène Aylon, Leilah Babirye, Jenny Holzer, Otis Houston Jr., Corita Kent, Clifford Prince King, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Lorraine O'Grady, Martha Rosler, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong

Aug. 15–Sept. 19, 2020

A Page From My Intimate Journal (Part II) —

Wilder Alison, Leilah Babirye, Matt Connors, Jenni Crain, Stephanie Crawford, Florence Derive, DW Fitzpatrick, Gillian Garcia, Daniel Marcellus Givens, Janice Guy, Otis Houston Jr., Miles Huston, KIOSK, Marco ter Haar Romeny, Clifford Prince King, Elisabeth Kley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Siobhan Liddell, Rosemary Mayer, McDermott & McGough, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Matt Paweski, Signe Olson, Sanou Oumar, Kerry Schuss, Dean Spunt, Tabboo!, Ken Tisa, Boris Torres, Frederick Weston

Mar. 1–Apr. 19, 2020

Publications

Clifford Prince King, Orange Grove

2022

TIS books

Press

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