Alanna Fields (b.1990) is an American multimedia artist and archivist based in

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Early life and education

Fields was born in Upper Marlboro,

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, in 1990. She holds a BA in Literature from

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, and attended the

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has an additional campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The institute was founded in 18 ...

, graduating from the Photography MFA program in 2019.

Work

Fields uses archival material in her work to explore how Black queer people have been represented historically. 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. She has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, and Brooklyn's ''Photoville'' festival. Her work is held in the public collection of the Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center. In 2021 she was commissioned by the ''

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'' to produce work about the effects of the pandemic on friendship. She was part of the 2021-22 cohort of artists at Silver Art Projects in New York. Fields is represented by the agency and studio Assembly.

Awards

In 2018, she received the Gordon Parks Scholar Award, and was a 2020 Light Work Artist in Residence.

Selected exhibitions

Solo * ''Mirages of Dreams Past,'' Baxter Street at

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, 2021 Group shows * ''

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’s Inheritance: A Project About American History, Black Life, And The Resilience Of Memory,'' Photoville, 2021 * ''Assembly at EXPO CHGO Online'', 2021 * ''52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone'',

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, 2022-2023

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fields, Alanna Living people 1990 births Artists from Maryland 21st-century African-American artists 21st-century American women artists 21st-century American artists American multimedia artists Women multimedia artists People from Upper Marlboro, Maryland Trinity Washington University alumni Pratt Institute alumni