Kathleen Clark

Lives and works in the Los Angeles area.

Education:

Masters of Fine Arts, Studio Art, University of California, Irvine 1993, Chancellor’s Fellow

Bachelor of Arts, Art, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 1978

The papers of The Girl Artists performance and installation works are in the collections of The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Awards/Grants:

2022 Lensculture Critics Choice 22 Award Winner, The White House China

2020 September, Px3- Prix de la Photographie Paris, Honorable Mention, Fine Art/Book, The White House China

2020 August, Critical Mass 2020 Top 200 Finalist, Photolucida

2020 May, Honorable Mention, Center Santa Fe Project Launch Grant, The White House China

Recent Exhibitions:

2022, PhEST festival internazionale di fotografia e arte Monopoli, The White House China - Lens culture Critics Choice Award Winner, Puglia, Italy

2020, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, artogonow, Zachary Taylor Butter Dish, The White House China, 2020

2020, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA., Unbound 9, George W. Bush Dinner Plate, The White House China

Recent Artist Talks:

Photographer Compendium 20/20, Center Santa Fe, Oct 2020

Palm Springs Photo Festival, 2011

Career History:

Mentor, Center Santa Fe, 2021

Guest Lecturer, Art Center College of Design, present, Pasadena, CA ongoing

Photo Direction & Editing – present, California

Sunset magazine, Travel Photo Editor, 2018-2019, California

Spot Photo Works Gallery – Founder/Director – 2014 – 2016, Los Angeles,CA

Clark | Oshin Gallery – Founder/Co-Director 2009 – 2011, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles Magazine, Photo Director, 2000 – 2008, Los Angeles, CA

Art Center College of Design, Photography, Faculty, 1999 – 2002, Consultant-Ongoing, Pasadena, CA

LA Weekly Newspaper, Photo Editor, 1993 – 2000, Los Angeles

USC Photography Department, Faculty,1993–1995, Los Angeles

The Woman’s Building, Creative Director 1990 -1991, Los Angeles

Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum, Publicist, 1981-1988, Portland, OR

Photo Juries & Reviews:

Critical Mass & Photolucida, Portland, Or; Fotofest Meeting Place, Houston, TX; Review Santa Fe & Review LA, Palm Springs Photo Fest; Los Angeles Center of Photography, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA ; International Photography Awards, One Shot Movement - IPA Awards; Tokyo International Photo Awards, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.

Selected Art Exhibitions:

1993 Kathleen Clark, Sir/Miss photographic murals, Queerly Defined exhibition with Catherine Opie & J. John Priolo, Eye Gallery, San Francisco

1993 Sir/Miss solo exhibition, photographic murals, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine

1992 Hot & Cold, solo exhibition, photographic murals, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine

1987 Untitled performance commissioned for ART/AIDS, Portland Art Museum

1980 Solo Exhibition, A.R.C. (Art Resource Center). Seattle, Washington

1979 Solo Exhibition, Arts Place, Portland, Oregon

Performance/Installations as a member of THE GIRL ARTISTS collaborative:

1987 Domestic Intrigue, performance/installation, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR

1986 Souvenirs, performance/installation:

-co-sponsored by Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) and On The Boards, Seattle, WA

-The Evergreen State College Experimental Theater, Olympia, WA

1985 Souvenirs, performance/installation, Portland Center for the Visual Arts

1984 Shopping in America, performance/installation:

-Oranges/Sardines Gallery, co-sponsored by LACE and The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA

-Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1984 The Coast Show, group show, Public Image, New York

1983 Shopping in America, performance/installation, Portland Center for the Visual

Arts, Portland, OR

1983 The Matrons of the Arts, unofficial performance, Oregon Biennial reception,

Portland Art Museum

1982 TV Guidance, performance/installation:

Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR

913 E. Pine Gallery, Seattle, WA

The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR

1982 Free Portraits, performance, Bumbershoot Festival, commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission

1981 The Girl Artists: A 30-Year Retrospective, 1952-1981, Troy Laundry Studios,

Portland, OR

1981 Art in Spite of Artquake/Free Portraits, unofficial performance, ArtQuake Festival,

Portland, OR

1981 Getting Into Modern Art or a Contemporary Look at Trends and Isms, installation,

Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum

1981 Split Shift Cafe, performance/installation:

Open Space, Seattle, WA

The Art Politik, National Conference sponsored by And/Or gallery and The

National Endowment for the Arts, Seattle, WA

1980 Split Shift Cafe, performance/installation, Arts Place, Portland, OR

1980 The Girl Artists' Group Show, Northwest Artists Workshop, Portland, OR

Film/Video:

Bathroom Gender (1990) performance for video, Clash Pictures, European distribution through Cinenova, London. Screened at film & video festivals throughout the world including: 1993-12th American Film Institute's National Video Festival, Los Angeles; 1992 - Festivals in Melbourne, Australia; British Film Institute, London; Toronto and London, Ontario, Canada; Film in the Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota; Olympia, Washington; Austin, Texas; University of California, Irvine; 1991 - Berlin, West Germany; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; San Francisco, CA; 1990 - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA; Directors Guild of America, L.A.; L.A.C.E., Los Angeles; Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles; L.A. Freewaves Video Festival, broadcast on KCET, Los Angeles; the Collective for Living Cinema, New York.

Minor Disturbances (1992) Co-producer, production designer. A 16mm film, B&W, 20 mins. Distributed by Frameline, San Francisco. Screened at the Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA; Big Muddy Film Festival; Frameline, San Francisco, CA

A Girl's Best Friend (1988) Filmmaker, S8mm, B&W, 10 mins. Screenings included: 1992 - AIDS, Media and Metaphor, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, WA; 1989 -ART/AIDS - Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Seattle Art Museum; Webster University, St. Louis, MO; Frameline '89, A Festival Winner, San Francisco; and 1988 - Festival Winner, 16th Northwest Film & Video Festival, Northwest Film & Video Center of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.

Grants (with The Girl Artists):

Domestic Intrigue:

-National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Grant, through PCVA commission, April 1988

-Oregon Arts Commission, Arts Organization Project Grant, June 1986

-Metropolitan Arts Commission, Artists Project Grant, June 1986, Portland, OR

Souvenirs:

-Oregon Arts Commission, Arts Organization Project Grant, June 1984

-Metropolitan Arts Commission, Artists Project Grant, June 1984, Portland, OR

Shopping in America:

-Oregon Arts Commission, Arts Organization Project Grant, June 1983

-Metropolitan Arts Commission, Artists Project Grant, June 1983, Portland, OR

TV Guidance:

-Sitka Trust, Project Grant, September 1982, Portland, OR

-Oregon Arts Commission, Arts Organization Project Grant, June 1982

-Metropolitan Arts Commission, Artists Project Grant, June 1982, Portland, OR

-And/Or Artists Project Grant, August 1982, Seattle, WA

Free Portraits by The Girl Artists:

-Seattle Arts Commission, Artists Project Grant, September 1982

Split Shift Cafe:

And/Or Visual Art Service, Program Support and Artist Project Grant, June 1981, Seattle, WA

-McKenzie River Gathering, Project Grant, April 1981 and Documentation Grant, January 1981, Seattle, WA & Portland, OR

-Sitka Trust, Project Grant, December 1980, Portland, OR