Dr Edmund Clark

Biography

Edmund Clark is an artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His research-led work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material.

He has made work about unseen processes and experiences of global conflict and terror, and criminal justice and experiences of incarceration in the UK.

Specific subjects include extraordinary rendition and the CIA secret prison programme, the detention camps at the US Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, the detention without trial of terrorism suspects in the UK, experiences of occupation and resistance in the war in Afghanistan, and the financing and representation of US military power. For four years he was artist-in-residence in Europe's only wholly therapeutic prison, HMP Grendon, which specialises in working with violent and sexually violent offenders.

His work has been exhibited in solo museum exhibitions, and acquired for national and international collections including the International Center of Photography Museum and the George Eastman House Museum in America and the Victoria & Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Imperial War Museum and National Science and Media Museum in Great Britain.

Awards include the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal for outstanding photography for public service, an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for outstanding achievement in photography and visual art, the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award, and the inaugural Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award. In 2018, he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.

He has a PhD by Published Work and is Reader in the Political Image at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

• Monographs and co-authored books:
. Clark E - White Cliffs, Blue Channel, Yellowhammer, London, Here Press
. Clark E - My Shadow’s Reflection, Birmingham, Ikon/London, Here Press
. Black C and Clark E - Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, New York, Aperture
. Clark E - The Mountains of Majeed, London, Here Press
. Clark E - Control Order House, London, Here Press
. Clark E - Guantanamo: If the light goes out, Stockport, Dewi Lewis Publishing
. Clark E - Still Life Killing Time, Stockport, Dewi Lewis Publishing

• Solo Museum and Public Gallery Exhibitions:
. The Day the Music Died - International Center of Photography Museum, New York
. In Place of Hate - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
. War of Terror - Imperial War Museum, London
. Terror Incognitus - Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim
. Guantanamo: If the light goes out and Letters to Omar - Photofusion, London
. Guantanamo: If the light goes out - Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, Chicago

• Solo Commercial Gallery Exhibitions:
. Guantanamo: If the light goes out - Flowers Gallery, London
. Guantanamo: If the light goes out, Letters to Omar, Section 4 Part 20: One Day on a Saturday - Flowers Gallery, New York
. The Mountains of Majeed - Flowers Gallery, London
. The Mountains of Majeed - Flowers Gallery, New York
. Unseen Conflicts: War on Terror - Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne and Bonn, Germany