Christen Clifford
Christen Clifford is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, curator, educator, filmmaker, and mother. In April 2021, she launched her first risograph artbook, BabyLove. She is currently continuing a large body of work INTERIORS: We Are All Pink Inside and working on a summer 2021 social practice piece of creating mushroom beds around NYC and tagging #myceliumhealing. Her work has been seen at Project for Empty Space, the New Museum, LACE, Galerie Eva Presenhuber. She is working on her first film, supported by the Independent Film Project (now Gotham) and Women Make Movies; the trailer won a Women in Film award and screened at Netflix. She was an IFP Documentary Screen Forward Fellow. She teaches at The New School and curates at Dixon Place. She is the winner of the Gregory Millard Nonfiction Fellowship from NYFA, as well as grants from Newark Creative Catalyst, LMCC, NYSCA, and she was a Feminist-in-Residence at Project for Empty Space.
She has also been a Mainstage storyteller for The Moth and a mentor at Girls Write Now, as well as a salesperson at Victoria’s Secret and was a bartender and waiter for many years. ACTOR: The Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, PS 122, HERE, OHIO Theatre, Dixon Place, regional and international. SOLO THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES: 17 Guys I Fucked; BabyLove (Winner Best of Fringe SFFF and NYFF); (What I Know About) My Parents’ Sex Life aka Fuck Me Like It’s 1945; Cancer A Love Story. WRITER: The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Broadly, Filmmaker, also the essay Mother, Daughter Moustache in the NYTimes bestselling anthology Women In Clothes and The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art. SELECTED PRESS: Interview with 3AM, Abortion Is Normal in Hyperallergic, Interiors in Hyperallergic and ARTFORUM, PussyBow in NYLON, Refinery29 and HuffPoUK. Clifford is a studio member at Project For Empty Space,Newark and she lives in Queens and online: @cd_clifford christenclifford.info
