Clifford Prince King
day one,(malcolm), 2017
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.
Orange Grove
TIS Books
“The photographs from this time detail the spectrum of exploration, bliss, and transformation that comes with burgeoning queerness in a new creative, social, and physical landscape that shaped the ethos of these two artists’ creative practices.”
- Syd Haliburton
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
