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Ed Clark

The Estate of Ed Clark

Biography

Born

New Orleans LA, 1926

Education

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, 1951

L’Academie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France, 1953

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Turner Contemporary, 'Ed Clark', Margate, UK

2023

Hauser & Wirth, 'Ed Clark', New York NY

Group Exhibitions

2025

Centre Pompidou , 'Paris noir. Artistic Movements and Anticolonial Struggles, 1950–2000', Paris, France

2024

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now', New York NY
Addison Gallery of American Art, 'Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962', Andover MA (Traveling Exhibition)
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 'Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962', New York NY (Traveling Exhibition)

Awards & Grants

2020

Alain Locke International Art Award, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI

2013

Legends and Legacy Award, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Bibliography

Monographs

2023

Brodsky, Jake (ed.), 'Ed Clark: The Big Sweep; Chronicles of a Life, 1926–2019', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2023, ill.

2018

Antwaun Sargent, 'Ed Clark. A Survey', New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2018 (exh. cat.)

Publications

2024

Rabottini, Alessandro, 'Frequencies. Oscar Murillo', Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2024, pp. 112-114, ill.
Goode Bryant, Linda, Philips, Marcy S., 'Contextures', Brooklyn NY: Pacific and Primary Information, 2024, p. 81, ill. (exh. cat.)

2023

Gumpert, Lynn, Bricker Balken, Debra, 'Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France', New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2023, frontispiece, pp. 18, pp. 34-37, 70-72, 80, 82, 103, 124, 131, 168, 171, 175, 209, 215, 264, 271, 274 ill. (exh. cat.)

Press

2025

Bennett, Catherine, 'The Black artists who found themselves in post-war Paris', on: apollo-magazine.com, 23 April 2025, ill.

2024

Oduor, John-Baptiste, 'Ed Clark. Turner Contemporary, Margate' [review], in: ArtReview, October 2024, pp. 92-93, ill.
Fox, Killian, 'On my radar: Raymond Antrobus’s cultural highlights', on: theguardian.com, 7 September 2024, ill.
Sharrock, Lee, 'Summer Exhibition Highlights in Margate', on: fadmagazine.com, 14 August 2024, ill.