Monet Clark
b. Los Angeles, 1968
Monet Clark is primarily a performance, video, and photographic artist, and works in other mediums . Using tripods and an interval timer she captures her elaborately costumed and wryly humorous characters posing and performing in sweeping natural landscapes. Her works play off of sexual stereotypes, exploitation, objectification and the male gaze, cultural biases, mysticism, animal rights, and nature’s sentience. They reference sub-culture, advertising, old Hollywood, history and more. Her ecofeminist theories and art making practice is rooted in her tri-racial ancestry and the decolonizing process she underwent as child with her mother, as part of the back-to-nature subculture. Further shaping her work are the holistic, indigenous, and mystic disciplines she rigorously trained in to assist in recovery from a life threatening disability. She calls her practice Holistic Intersectionality.
She recently performed in the 3 day Art in Odd Places performance art festival presented by the city of West Hollywood, 2025. She’s shown with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAMPFA; SFMOMA’s Now Playing series; the Northern California Museum of Art, Chico; had a solo exhibition with Krowswork Gallery, Oakland; a 10 screen performance video installation collaboration with John Sanborn at SF Camerawork; shown with Almost Public/Semi Exposed performance art festival, SOMArts, and Telematic Gallery in San Francisco; with Chicago’s International Performance Art Festival; RETHink Art Digital, Rethymno, Greece; Bideodromo, Bilbao, Spain; Palos Verdes Art Center, CA; The Kitchen, NYC, presented by EAI; WP8, Dusseldorf, Germany; the Smart Show Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Mondrian Hotel for the Amanda M. Obering Gallery of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California, and more.
Her works have received full features in afterimage The Journal for Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, and European Coeur et Art, and articles twice in Hyper-Allergic and more. In 2020 she curated virtual Invocation Democracy, A Political and Mystical Exhibition for ProArts Commons, Oakland reviewed by art and culture critic Donald Brackett for Critics at Large. In 2021 she was artist in residence with the International Living Future Institute Portland, Oregon and curated Ritual for a Living Future. In 2022 her piece FLYING BLIND, Raven Woman Monet Clark, Interviewed by Chicken Woman Linda Mary Montano was hosted by NYC’s virtual Interior Beauty Salon.