Martin Clark

Camden Art Centre, UK
Director

Martin Clark is Director of the Camden Art Centre in London. Prior to this, he was Director of the Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen, Norway, a position that he held from 2013 to 2017. Prior to this, he served as Artistic Director of Tate St Ives from 2007 to 2013, and Curator of Exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol from 2005 to 2007. Over the last 20 years, he has curated more than 80 exhibitions, including recent solo shows with Mohammed Sami, Allison Katz, Lily van der Stokker, Walter Price, Jesse Darling, Julien Creuzet, Vivian Suter, Amy Sillman and Christodoulos Panayiotou, as well as group exhibitions including, The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree, at the Camden Art Centre (2020), Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm, at Art Sheffield (2016), I aint the noing uv it I'm jus onle the showing uv it at Bergen Kunsthall (2015), The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives (2009), and Pale Carnage, at Arnolfini, Bristol (2007). Clark has edited and contributed to numerous books and catalogues and writes widely on modern and contemporary art and artists. He is an advisor for Art on the Underground and is on the jury of the 2023 Turner Prize.

Martin Clark was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2016 when he was Director of the Bergen Kunsthall.

Martin Clark. Photo: Mark Blower.