Alanna Fields | |
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Born | 1990 Maryland |
Nationality | American |
Style | Multimedia |
Website | https://www.alannafields.com/ |
Alanna Fields (b.1990) is an American multimedia artist and archivist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Early life and education
Fields was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, in 1990. She holds a BA in Literature from Trinity Washington University, and attended the Pratt Institute, graduating from the Photography MFA program in 2019.
Work
Fields uses archival material in her work to explore how Black queer people have been represented historically. Her work uses photography, text and painting, and often uses wax to represent the way in which Black queer bodies and histories have been obfuscated. She has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, and Brooklyn's Photoville festival. Her work is held in the public collection of the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center. In 2021 she was commissioned by the New York Times Style Magazine to produce work about the effects of the pandemic on friendship. She was part of the 2021-22 cohort of artists at Silver Art Projects in New York. Fields is represented by the agency and studio Assembly.
Awards
In 2018, she received the Gordon Parks Scholar Award, and was a 2020 Light Work Artist in Residence.
Selected exhibitions
Solo
- Mirages of Dreams Past, Baxter Street at The Camera Club of New York, 2021
Group shows
- The Atlantic’s Inheritance: A Project About American History, Black Life, And The Resilience Of Memory, Photoville, 2021
- Assembly at EXPO CHGO Online, 2021
- 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2022-2023
References
- Ducey, Kerry Anne. "52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone Opens June 6 at The Aldrich". www.hamlethub.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Smith, Cornelia; Lesser, Casey (2021-05-27). "5 Emerging Artists to Discover at the one x Artsy Exhibition". Artsy. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ "Alanna Fields". Assembly. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ "Alanna Fields: Mirages of Dreams Past". Contemporary And (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- ^ Peterson, Pia. "11 Of The Photos We're Most Excited For At Brooklyn's Photoville". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- Hong, Cathy Park (2021-04-12). "The Composer of Noise". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- Cardwell, Erica (2021-12-01). "Tariku Shiferaw's Luminous, Black and Blue Abstractions Reflect the History of the African Diaspora". Artsy. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- "INITIATIVES". Anti Racism Fund. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- "Alanna Fields - Scholars - The Gordon Parks Foundation". www.gordonparksfoundation.org. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- "Light Work / Announcing the 2020 Light Work Artists-in-Residence". www.lightwork.org. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- "Assembly at EXPO CHGO Online | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
- Ducey, Kerry Anne. "52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone Opens June 6 at The Aldrich". www.hamlethub.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.