Mustafa Ali Clayton
Los Angeles, CA - maclaytonschool@gmail.com
Solo Exhibitions
2025 - forthcoming solo, New York, NY
2024 - Frieze Los Angeles Dominique Gallery
2015 - Running Still, Studio Gallery Center, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024 - Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup curated by Jenny Hata Blumenfield, ATLA, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - 10 Years, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - Think Pinker curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - A Love Letter To LA curated by Storm Ascher, Phillips Auction House, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - Bunker Art Space 2022/2023 season curated by Thelma Golden & Anne Pasternak, Palm Beach, FL
2022 - Southland 2 curated by Patrick Martinez, Charlie James James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - Imaginary Dwellings, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - John Simmons + Mustafa Ali Clayton curated by Karon Davis, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - Ceramics Synthesized, Blumenfield Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 - Art Contemporary, Toronto Artist Collective, Toronto, ON, Canada
2020 - Healing Feeling, Artsy Online Exclusive, Push Projects, LA, CA + BK, NY
2019 - La Première Année, Dominique Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 - Visions In Clay, LH Horton Jr Art Gallery, Stockton, CA
2016 - Rare Earth: National Ceramics Exhibition, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA
2014 - Fonctions, Galerie Tomas, Montréal, QC, Canada
2012 - GO: a community-curated open studio project - Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art Fairs
2024 - Art Basel, Switzerland, Jenkins Johnson Gallery featuring Patrick Alston, Mustafa Ali Clayton, Dewey Crumpler, Lisa Corinne Davis, David Driskell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Ming Smith, Nnenna Okore, Gordon Parks, Gregory Rick, and Raelis Vasquez.
2024 - Frieze Los Angeles, Dominique Gallery
2023 - Felix Art Fair, Hollywood, CA, Wilding Cran Gallery featuring Michelle Blade, Mustafa Ali Clayton, Chris Cran, Karon Davis, Jeremy Everett, Robert Gunderman, Austin Irving, Elizabeth Malaska, Stephen Neidich and Herald Nix
2020 - Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL - group exhibition
2017 - Expo Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA - solo booth presentation
2009 - Group Exhibition - Art Toronto Fair, Toronto, ON, Canada
Art Auctions
2024 - Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction
2022 - WACO Art Gala, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA
2021 - WACO Art Gala (virtual)
2020 - Take pART Benefit Auction co-curated by Andrea Feldman Falcione and Cris McCall
2015 - Gold Rush, Rush Philanthropic Awards Ceremony & Silent Art Auction, Brooklyn, NY
2010 - Silent Auction - Jesse Thompkins III Foundation - Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
Press and Publications
2024 - Frieze Magazine, “The California African American Museum Acquires a New Work by Mustafa Ali Clayton” - March 2024
2023 - Cultured Magazine, “For Sculptor Mustafa Ali Clayton, It's All In Your Head” by Jenny Hata Blumenfield - March 2023
2020 - LALA Magazine review of Healing Feeling exhibition, May 2020
2019 - Artsy featured artist - LA Gallery Spotlight
Awards and Grants
2024 - Frieze Los Angeles - California African American Museum Acquisition fund
2020 - The Artist + Activist Relief Fund Grant awarded by The Soze Foundation, TaskForce and Invisible Hand
Select Commissions and Collections
Ayesha Selden Collection
The Rubell Collection
Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody
Collection of Janine and Lyndon Barrois, Los Angeles, CA
Collection of Judith Thompkins, JT3 Foundation for Young People in The Arts, Washington, D.C.
Education
Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Toronto, ON - partial credits completed