Alanna Fields

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Alanna Fields
Born1990
NationalityAmerican
StyleMultimedia
Website https://www.alannafields.com/

Alanna Fields (b.1990) [1] is an American multimedia artist and archivist based in Brooklyn, New York. [2]

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Early life and education

Fields was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, in 1990. [2] She holds a BA in Literature from Trinity Washington University, and attended the Pratt Institute, graduating from the Photography MFA program in 2019. [3] [2]

Work

Fields uses archival material in her work to explore how Black queer people have been represented historically. [2] 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. [4] [3] She has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, [2] and Brooklyn's Photoville festival. [5] Her work is held in the public collection of the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center. [3] In 2021 she was commissioned by the New York Times Style Magazine to produce work about the effects of the pandemic on friendship. [6] She was part of the 2021-22 cohort of artists at Silver Art Projects in New York. [7] [8] Fields is represented by the agency and studio Assembly. [3]

Awards

In 2018, she received the Gordon Parks Scholar Award, [9] and was a 2020 Light Work Artist in Residence. [10]

Selected exhibitions

Solo

Group shows

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