Donation Opportunity: Tiona Nekkia McClodden at the Venice Biennale

Tiona Nekkia McClodden [she/her] is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose interdisciplinary work explores themes of Black interiority, biomythography, re-memory, and queer poetics. Based in Philadelphia, she creates documentary film, experimental video, sculpture, and sound installations that interrogate ideas of ritual and order through its relationship to identity and the conditions of being human. 

Facilitated by Lightbox Film Center as Fiscal Sponsor, McClodden is accepting financial support for her upcoming installation in Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, the International Exhibition of the 61st La Biennale di Venezia opening May 2026. Supporters of this project will be featured in the funding credit line when it appears online and in reference to this new installation by McClodden in Venice and in future presentations. 

McClodden’s installation for the Venice Biennale is one of her most ambitious projects to date. Comprised of paintings, objects, film, and video, it continues her trajectory of fusing fact and fiction through biomythography, drawing from both literary sources and imagined narratives that unfold in moving images. Featuring themes of restraint, marking, and ritual, the installation forms an intimate rumination on the ways in which access and participation in a highly covert sequence of actions can become currency for status. Atmospheric, poignant, and incisive, McClodden’s project expands her oeuvre into scripted cinema vérité style production while maintaining a throughline with her conceptual approach to sculpture and painting.