BIOGRAPHY

Clifton Childree is interested in the aesthetic and filmic representations of the early 1900s, frequently focusing on historical figures, as in his installation-based show Orchestrated Gestures at Dorsch Gallery reviewed in Art in America (March 2011). In May 2012 a new work, made entirely in Vienna, will be included in a group show The Circus as a Parallel Universe, at KUNSTHALLE Wien. The Flew, Childree’s first feature-length film, won Best Feature at the Downstream Film Fest in Atlanta and also won Childree the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, among other awards. Miami Light Project and the Miami Performing Arts Center co-commissioned She Sank on Shallow Bank, a hauntingly choreographed silent film, and Something Awful, a ballsy slapstick film, for the Here and Now Festival. With momentum building around his work, Childree won the 2007 LegalArt Native Seeds Grant, with which he made the film It Got Worse, and then the 2008 Locust Projects Hilger Artist Award, with which he made and installed Dream-Cum-Tru, a completely immersive installation of a carnival, whose games and rides had taken on lives of their own. He made pieces for Pulse Art Fair in New York in 2009 and 2010, the last of which was an arcade machine called Gluttony Gun. Childree lives and works in Miami, FL.
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