Clifford Prince King (b. 1993) documents his intimate relationships in everyday settings that speak to his experiences as a queer black man. In these instances, communion begins to morph into an offering of memory; it is how he honors and celebrates the reality of layered personhood. Within King's images are nods to the beyond. Shared offerings to the past manifest in codes hidden in plain sight, known only to those who sit within a shared place of knowledge. 

His work has been featured in publications including Apartamento, Aperture, BUTT, Cultured, The CUT, Dazed, Fantastic Man, i-D, Interview, T Magazine, The New York Times, Vice, Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal. King’s work is held in the public collections of the Hammer Museum, Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, ICA Miami, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem. 

SELECT Exhibitions

• keep a place for me, with Ryan Patrick Krueger, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, 2023

• Hush-a-bye Dreams, Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY, 2023

• Dreaming of Home, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2023

• Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 2023

• Yesterday and Beyond, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, CA, 2023

• RASPBERRY BLOW, Stars Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

• We Used to Lay Together, LightWork, Syracuse, NY, 2021