Born in Vancouver, WA

Lives and works in Southern California

MFA, University of California, Irvine, CA,1993

BA, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1978

Career

Freelance Photo Direction & Editing – 10/2008 – present; Clients include Sunset magazine, Penguin Books, Leica Gallery Los Angeles, Digital Fusion, Musicians Institute, Hollywood and various photographers

Spot Photo Works Contemporary Photo Gallery – Director – 3/2014 – 3/2016, Hollywood

Clark | Oshin Gallery – Co-Director 6/2009 – 7/2011, Los Angeles.

Photo Director, 9/16/00 – 8/15/08, Los Angeles Magazine

Adjunct Faculty, 9/99 – 5/02, Art Center College of Design, Photography

Photo Editor, 9/93 – 9/00, LA Weekly Newspaper

Adjunct Faculty, 9/93 - 12/95, University of Southern California School of Fine Art, Photography Department

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

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

Selected Photography Exhibitions/Performance Art:

2017 The White House China, Center Santa Fe, Art & Oppression Online Exhibition, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1993 Sir/Miss, Queerly Defined exhibition with Catherine Opie and J. John Priolo, Eye Gallery, San Francisco

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

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

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

Exhibitions as a member of THE GIRL ARTISTS collaborative group:

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

1885-1986 Souvenirs, performance/installation:

- Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR 1985

- Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) co-sponsored by On The Boards, Seattle, WA 1986

- The Evergreen State College Experimental Theater, Olympia, WA 1986

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

1984The Coast Show, group show, performance photographic documentation, Public Image, New York

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

1983The 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, Seattle, WA

-The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR

1982Free 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

1981Getting Into Modern Artor aContemporary Look at Trends and Isms, installation, Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum

1981Split 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, 8 mins., Clash Pictures. European distribution through Cinenova, London. Screened at a number of 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. Various screenings including: 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

Misc. Project Grants:

-Templeton Foundation Grant, December 1986

-Oregon Arts Commission, Cultural Facility Grant, January 1986

-Oregon Arts Commission, Video Documentation Grant, June, 1985

-Oregon Arts Commission, Cultural Facility Grant, January 1985

Art Lectures

-PDN - panelist on 30 Emerging Photographers, Palm Springs Photo Festival 2010

-Society of Publication Design – Unsung Heroes of the West – Presenter, June 2010, Smashbox

-Advertising Photographers of America, panelist on Photo Competitions 2009, Los Angeles

-PDN - panelist on Strategies for the Young Photographer, 2006, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

-Visiting artist lecture, School of Art, UCLA 2006

-Editorial Photography, UCLA, International Photojournalism, Summer 2002

-Editorial Photography, Art Center College of Design, Spring 2001

-Editorial Photography, University of California School of Art, Irvine, May 1996

-Photography and Copywrite, Conference on Alternative Journalism, Santa Barbara, CA 1994

-S. F. Camerawork, Slide Lecture/Panel Participant, Women in Photography,

San Francisco, CA, June 1993

-Panel Moderator, L.A.C.E. (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), in conjunction with the All But the Obvious Exhibition, curated by Pam Gregg, 1990

-Visiting Artist Series, Pacific Northwest College of Art/Oregon Art Institute, Portland, OR, November 1987, and April 1983

-Visiting Artist Series, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR, November 1984

-Visiting Artist Series, Portland State University, Portland, OR, May 1983

-Women As Creative Artists Seminar, Marylhurst College, Marylhurst, OR, November 1981

Publications:

https://kathleenclarkexposed.wordpress.comblog 2014-17

Lenscratch, http://lenscratch.com/2014/07/the-kathleen-clark-mixtape/2014

-Cocazine, feature on The Girl Artists by Randal Bryan Davis, Larry Reed, Editor, Center on Art, Publisher, Seattle, WA, February-March, 1986

-High-Performance, review of Shopping in America, by Sabrina Ullman, Lynda Frye Burnham,Editor, Astro Artz, Publisher, Los Angeles, CA, Summer 1984 -High-Performance, Artist Chronicle, documentation of TV Guidance, Lynda Frye Burnham, Editor, Artz, Publisher, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 1982

-Images and Issues, review of Split Shift Cafe by Paul Sutinen, Los Angeles, CA 1981

Reviews of various performances: Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Weekly, LA Reader, LA Weekly, Portland Oregonian, Willamette Week