Clifford Prince King Fine Print

untitled(m&q), 2017
Archival inkjet print, 11x16" image on 13x18" paper
Signed by the artist, AP

*please note the frame is not included and these prints do not include an edition number*

Clifford Prince King is a self-taught queer Black photographer from Arizona. The images in this exhibition focus on King's life in Los Angeles. In his work, King's lifestyle and experiences are starting points to explore desire, intimacy, and day-to-day life with HIV. King's images depict himself and others within lamp-lit domestic settings. We see a brotherhood of men enacting moments of domestic bliss, nude bodies in the moments before or after a sexual encounter, and the side effects and routine of living with HIV. After King's diagnosis, he focused anew on understanding the legacy of the AIDS crisis and the artists who responded to it. He took refuge in the words and images of those who once shared an experience like his own, and his work evokes that history while developing a new language of his own.

King has exhibited his photographs nationally and internationally. Public collections holding his work include the Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, and Minneapolis Institute of Art. King was runner-up for the Robert Giard Emerging Artist Grant in 2020 and among The British Journal of Photography's "Ones to Watch" in 2022. He has recently exhibited work at Higher Pictures (New York City), Jeffrey Dietch Gallery (Los Angeles), Leslie Lohman Museum (New York City), Mare Selwyn Gallery (Beverly Hills), MASS MoCA, and Stars Gallery (Los Angeles). Publications carrying King's images as commissioned work and in features include Aperture, Dazed, i-D, T Magazine, The New York Times, and Vogue.