Baker Artist Portfolios

Allana Clarke, born 1987, Trinidad, is an interdisciplinary artist working and living in Baltimore MD. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has a BFA in photography from New Jersey City University. Via performance, video and sculpture Clarke explores ideas of hybridity, ambiguity and mutability in relation to power as experienced through colonial/post colonial ideologies and her transcultural experiences, being born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and living and absorbing American cultural histories.