EDMUND CLARK

Edmund Clark is an artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His research based work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material; whatever is conceptually and formally relevant to investigating the subject and communicating with an audience.

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  • The Mountains of Majeed
  • In a Place of Hate
  • Negative Publicity

Edmund Clark is an artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His research based work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material; whatever is conceptually and formally relevant to investigating the subject and communicating with an audience.

Recurring themes include developing strategies for reconfiguring how subjects are seen and engaging with state censorship to explore unseen experiences, spaces and processes of control and incarceration in the ‘Global War on Terror’ and elsewhere.

Clark has published six books and been exhibited widely including in major solo museum exhibitions at the International Center of Photography Museum, New York, the Imperial War Museum, London, and Zephyr Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim.

His work has been acquired for national and international collections including the ICP Museum and the George Eastman House Museum in America and the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the National Media Museum in Great Britain.

Awards include the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal for outstanding photography for public service, the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award and, together with Crofton Black, an ICP Infinity Award and the inaugural Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award.

Edmund Clark lives and works in London, UK.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2018
The Day the Music Died, International Center of Photography, NYC, USA (Jan – May 2018)
The Mountains of Majeed, Flowers Gallery, New York, USA

2017
In Place of Hate, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK 
Situation #81: Edmund Clark, Letters to Omar, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, Palazzo da Mosto, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT

2016
Terror Incognitus, Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim, DE
War of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, UK

2015
The Mountains of Majeed, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

2013
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Gage Gallery, Chicago, USA

2012 
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Letters To Omar & Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday, Flowers Gallery, New York, USA
Control Order House, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK
Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday, Berwick International Film Festival, Berwick, UK  

2010 
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, AU 
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out & Letters To Omar, Photofusion, London, UK 

2009 
Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out, British Journal of Photography International Photography Award, Association of Photographers Gallery, London, UK  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2017
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (2008), Der Aa-Kerk, Norderlicht Photo Festival, NUCLEUS | Imagining Science, Groningen, NL 
Control House Order, Getxophoto International Photography Festival 
The Mountains of Majeed, Group Exhibition, ‘The Wall’ (curated by Dr. Christiane Stahl, Director of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung) , Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin DE
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (selection), Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, IT
Revealing Pictures, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Letters to Omar (selection), ‘Images in Conflict’, Galerie Fur Fotografie, Hanover, DE
‘Scratch on the Eyelid’, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, PL

2016
Scratch on the Eyelid, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Festiwal Ars Cameralis, Katowice, Poland
Caméra(Auto)Contrôle, Centre de la photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
Where Are We Now? – East Wing presentation for Paris Photo, FR

2015
[7P] [7] Places [7] Precarious Fields, Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Mannheim, DE