Alanna Fields

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

Alanna Fields
Born	1990 Maryland
Nationality	American
Style	Multimedia
Website	https://www.alannafields.com/

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

• Mirages of Dreams Past, Baxter Street at The Camera Club of New York, 2021^[4]

Group shows

• The Atlantic’s Inheritance: A Project About American History, Black Life, And The Resilience Of Memory, Photoville, 2021^[5]
• Assembly at EXPO CHGO Online, 2021^[11]
• 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2022-2023^[12]

References

1. Ducey, Kerry Anne. "52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone Opens June 6 at The Aldrich". www.hamlethub.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
2. Smith, Cornelia; Lesser, Casey (2021-05-27). "5 Emerging Artists to Discover at the one x Artsy Exhibition". Artsy. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
3. "Alanna Fields". Assembly. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
4. "Alanna Fields: Mirages of Dreams Past". Contemporary And (in German). Retrieved 2022-04-12.
5. Peterson, Pia. "11 Of The Photos We're Most Excited For At Brooklyn's Photoville". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
6. Hong, Cathy Park (2021-04-12). "The Composer of Noise". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
7. 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.
8. "INITIATIVES". Anti Racism Fund. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
9. "Alanna Fields - Scholars - The Gordon Parks Foundation". www.gordonparksfoundation.org. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
10. "Light Work / Announcing the 2020 Light Work Artists-in-Residence". www.lightwork.org. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
11. "Assembly at EXPO CHGO Online | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
12. Ducey, Kerry Anne. "52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone Opens June 6 at The Aldrich". www.hamlethub.com. Retrieved 2022-04-12.