Sonya Clark

(MA) Artist Sonya Clark was awarded this year’s $35,000 Rappaport Prize by the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. The Prize, endowed by the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation, is awarded annually to a contemporary artist with ties to New England and a proven record of achievement. Clark’s practice includes large-scale installation, performance, archival research and participatory actions. Some of Clark’s projects celebrate Black identity and craft, while others confront viewers with the damage of white supremacy in the United States. Clark’s work has been exhibited in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Clark is currently a professor of art at Amherst College.