Born in DC, Sonya Clark has been exhibited in 500 venues worldwide and is in numerous museum collections including the Smithsonian. She is a Professor of Art at Amherst College. Along with four honorary doctorates, Clark is a United States Artists Fellow and has received awards from Pollock-Krasner, and Anonymous Was a Woman among others. Clark frequently uses everyday objects such as combs and flags to address themes of race and challenge white supremacy. She creates installations and objects to celebrate Black culture and interrogate historical imbalances. She employs the language of textiles, politics of hair, and power of text. She is a United States Artists fellow and has received numerous other awards. Her work has been favorably reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, ArtForum, PBS, NPR, BBC and many others.