Billie Clarken American, b. 1992

Billie Clarken (b. 1992 in Fairfax, Virginia, lives and works in Berlin) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work directs referential signs and objects in a satirical performance of the immortal image. She studied at Universtät der Künste in Berlin under Monica Bovincini (2019) after obtaining her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia (2015). Often returning to tropes in television culture, Clarken points out the paradoxes of a projected identity in the search for inauthenticity. Their work captures and appropriates use-objects and borrowed memory in combination with exaggerated forms, to install the evolving narrative of the Western consumer.

The artist is currently a fellow at the LABA Berlin residency in collaboration with Künstlerhaus Bethanien. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Brugger, Austria; wanda gallery, Warsaw; Number 1 Main Road, Berlin; Kunstraum and Sammlung, Lustenau and Ada Gallery, Richmond. She has also participated in group shows internationally, such as the Conceptual Biennale, Berlin; General Expenses, Mexico City; Wehrmuelle, Biesenthal; Fotohof Galerie, Salzburg; Gruppe Motto, Hamburg; Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg; Galerie Brugger, Bregenz; Medusa, Brussels; gr_nd, Berlin; Kunzten, Berlin; Exgirlfriend Gallery, Berlin; Grove, London; PLOP, London; Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck; von Raecknitz + Baer Gallery, Berlin; Villa Schöningen, Potsdam and Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin.  She is in various private and public international collections, including Krupa Art Foundation, Wroclaw and DOCK20 Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau.