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1953 geboren in New York City

1976 Studium Sculpture B.F.A., The Cooper Union, New York

2011 Biennial Beijing: Super-Organism. Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China.

 

Kevin Clarke lebt und arbeitet in Payrac, Frankreich und Frankfurt am Main.

 

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)

2020

"Genetic Moments", Galerie Rubrecht Contemporary, Wiesbaden, DE

 

2013

“Portraits, Kevin Clarke”. Chateau de la Treyne, FR

 

2009

“The Portrait Studio” Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE

 

2008

“NewCircles” Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt, DE

 

2005

“Becoming Human”. Sara Tecchia Roma-New York. NYC. Gallery, USA

 

2003

“Genetic Reveries” Janos Gat Gallery, New York. Catalog, USA

“Kevin Clarke- Portraits of the Future” Hecksher Museum of Art, New York, USA

 

2002

“Dust to DNA, Kevin Clarke and Mikey Flowers 9/11” International Center of Photography, New York, USA

“Kevin Clarke” Galeria de Arte Pillar Parra, Madrid and Photo Espagne ‘02, ES

“Kevin Clarke” B-W Bank, Stuttgart, DE

“Kevin Clarke” art Frankfurt. Galerie Michael Sturm, DE

“Frankfurt Meets New York” Mayor’s Honor at Beethoven Hall, New York, USA

 

2001

“Fantasia in the Key of Berger, Opus ATCG” Tribes Gallery, New York, USA

Atrium project: 6 Portraits. B-W Bank Stuttgart, Permanent installation, DE

 

2000

“Kevin Clarke”, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE

 

1999

“The Invisible Body,” Museum Wiesbaden, DE

 

1998

“Drawing (blood)” Karlstrasse Studio, Wiesbaden, DE

 

1997

“Vernal Passage,” Grand Salon, New York, USA

 

1996

“From the Blood of Poets,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA

 

1990

“The Red Couch,” Tampa Museum of Art, Florida, USA

 

1988

“The Apotheosis of the Couch,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

 

1986

“The Red Couch,” Fotoforum in Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt Germany, DE

 

1985

“The Red Couch” Represented U.S. photography at the Ampitheater, Summer Rencontres, Arles, FR

“The Red Couch,” Galleria Il Diaframma, Milan, IT

“The Red Couch,” Galerie Lanterna Majika, Stockholm, SWE

 

1984

“The Red Couch,” International Center of Photography, Bookstore, New York, USA

“The Red Couch,” Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

 

1983

“The Red Couch,” The Photographer’s Gallery, London, GB

“The Red Couch,” Galerie RZA, Dusseldorf, Germany, DE

 

1980

“Kaufhauswelt,” Frankfurter Kunstverein in “Steinernes Haus” Germany, DE

 

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

2013

“Love and Life. Portraits of Women from the Klöcker Collection”. Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, DE

“KONZEPT. 20 Years Collection DZ Bank Frankfurt.” Art Foyer Gallery. Frankfurt, DE

 

2011

Biennial Beijing: Super-Organism. Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, CN

“FAME” DZ Bank Art Foyer Gallery. Frankfurt, DE

 

2009

“EXPosition of Mythology. Electronic technology” Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, KOR

 

2008

“REAL” Photographic Works from the Collection of the DZ Bank. Stadel Museum Frankfurt, DE

“Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others”. Spertus Museum, Chicago, USA

“typisch! Klischees von Juden und Anderen” Jewish Museum Berlin. Catalog, DE

 

2007

“Portrait. The View Behind” Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, DE

 

2006

“Happy Birthday Nam June Paik” Nassauische Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, DE

 

2005

“Touché” Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, DE

 

2004

“A Promise of Photography” Moscow House of Photography, RUS

“Franz von Lenbach and the Art of Today” Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE

“Art is not Untouchable” Pablo’s Birthday, New York, USA

“Relating to Photography. Highlights from private Collections” Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, DE

 

2003

“How Human? Life in the Post-Genome Era” ICP, New York, USA

“From Code to Commodity”, NY Academy of Science, USA

“Face To Face, Masterworks From The Collection of the DZ Bank.” Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, DE

Fotosommer Stuttgart, Galerie Sturm, DE

“Four Plus: Writing DNA “ Wellcome Trust, London, GB

“Paradise Now” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

“Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution” Tulane U., New Orleans, USA

 

2002

“American Photography” Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, DE

Berlin Art, Art fair, Arco Madrid. Art fair, Art Frankfurt. Art fair, DE

“Paradise Now” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

“Return of Beauty” Kristen Fredrickson Contemporary Art, New York, USA

 

2001

“Blood: Power, Politics, and Pathology” Schirn Kunsthalle and Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt, DE

“Under the Skin- Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art” Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE

“Genomic Art: Portrait of the 21st Century” UC Santa Cruz, USA

“Paradise Now” Tang Art Museum, Saratoga, New York

“The Promise of Photography” Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE

 

2000

“Paradise Now” Exit Art, New York, USA, Catalog

“Do We Know Each Other?” Kunsthalle Nuremberg, DE

“Bridget Reiley and Kevin Clarke” Brussels Art Fair, Galerie Sturm, DE

 

1998

“Gene Worlds,” Portrait of John Cage, Bundeskunsthalle, Catalog, Bonn, DE

“Power by Consent,” artcenter of South Florida, Miami Beach, USA

 

1997

“Multiple Identities,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA

“Willem de Kooning, The Late Paintings, The 1980’s” Museum of Modern Art, NY

 

1996

“Body of Work,” Genaro Ambrosino Gallery, Florida

“The Portrait Now,” Elga Wimmer Gallery , Madrid Art Fair, Spain

 

1995

“Group Exhibition,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York

“The Portrait Now,” Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York

 

1994

“Gene Culture,” Fordham College at Lincoln Center, New York

 

1988

“Out Into Space.” Condeso/Lawler Gallery, NY, USA

 

1985

“New Color Photography” Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

“Private Treasures,” San Antonio Art Museum, Texas, USA

 

1983

“Kaufhauswelt,” Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, USA

“Willem de Kooning, Retrospektiv” Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, DE

 

1980

“POOL” Artist’s Space, New York Catalog, USA

 

1979

“Journey to Mauritius,” collaboration with Jochen Gerz

 

1977

“documenta 6,” 100 days Freie Universitaet, Joseph Beuys

 

1976

“Pyramids”, Collaboration with Yoko Ono, New York & Yucatan, MEX

“Das Kollektiv” Exhibition and Happenings, Kunsthalle Basel, CHE

 

Bücher (Auswahl)

KUNST UND MEDIEN, MATERIALIEN ZUR DOCUMENTA 6, 1977 Stadtzeitung und Verlag, Kassel. Documenta 6 anti-catalog and prize-winning best seller. 300pp. Text and photographs

KAUFHAUSWELT (Department Store World), 1980 Schirmer + Mosel Verlag, Munich. Black & white photographs by Kevin Clarke in Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe) in West Berlin. Text by Hans J. Scheurer

THE RED COUCH, A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA, 1984, Alfred van der Marck Editions/ Harper & Row. Photographs of Americans on a red velvet couch. Photos by Kevin Clarke and Horst Wackerbarth, text by William Least Heat Moon

PORTRAITS, KEVIN CLARKE, 1998 ( x+c ). Portraits including From the Blood of Poets and Portrait of John Cage. Text by Alan Jones

THE INVISIBLE BODY, 1999, Museum Wiesbaden. 118pp. Twenty-six portraits of people from New York and Frankfurt by Kevin Clarke plus texts and background history by Dr. Volker Rattemeyer, Dr. Renate Petzinger, and Luminita Sabau, illustrated

MIKEY FLOWERS 9/11; ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DNA, 2002, ars genetica, inc Michael Collarone and Kevin Clarke. Vivid photographs of the attack on the World Trade Center and 16 genetic meditations based on survivor’s DNA sequences. 96 pages, illustrated

 

Kataloge, Publikationen & Reviews (Auswahl)

2011 

LIFE China Kevin Clarke’s Conceptual Photography

a+a architecture and art Beijing. “Who We Are, KC’s Conceptual Photography” Super-Organism. Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China

 

2008

REAL Concept Photography. Stadel Museum Frankfurt

Typisch, Clischees von Juden und Anderen. Jewish Museum Berlin

 

2005

"KUNST AUS DEM LABOR” Zum Verhaeltnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter der Technoscience. Ingeborg Reichle. Springer, Wien NewYork

“ART ET BIOTECHNOLOGIES” Louise Poissant and Ernestine Daubner. University of Quebec Press. CD Rom

 

2004

“GENETIC REVERIES” Catalog, exhibition at Janos Gat Gallery, New York

“THE MOLECULAR GAZE; ART IN THE GENETIC AGE” Suzanne Anker and Dorothy Nelkin. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, illustrated

 

2002

“ART IN OUR HOUSE- 7 PORTRAITS BY KEVIN CLARKE”. B-W Bank Stuttgart, Catalog, illustrated

“KEVIN CLARKE”. B-W Bank Stuttgart. Catalog, illustrated. Text by Ralf Christofori

“PARADISE NOW, PICTURING THE GENETIC REVOLUTION” Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric. Tang Museum, Skidmore College. 124pp, illustrated

LOSS AND PROFIT: WE REMEMBER, WE CREATE, WE MAKE A BUCK. HOW SHOULD WE FEEL? By Tim Carman. Outlook page, The Washington Post. 8/25/02

EL PUNTO DE LAS ARTES “K.C., la alusion como estrategia de construccion retratistica” Madrid, July. Carlota De Alfonso. Review

ABC CULTURAL “El retrato metafisico” Fernando Martin Galan. Review

 

2001

“UNDER THE SKIN-BIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY ART” Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Hatje Cantz. Catalog. Illustrated

“PARADISE NOW”. Catalog by JGS Foundation, New York. Illustrated

“BLOOD; POWER, POLITICS, AND PATHOLOGY” Catalog to the exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle and Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt. Prestel, Illustrated, hardcover & soft

FAZ, Oct. 22. Ralf Christofori: “Show me your Genetic Formula and I’ll Tell You Who You Are: Kevin Clarke’s Photographs Cross Abstraction and Appearance”. Review. 

WIRED, September, 2000. “The Essential James Watson”. Illustrated.

SCIENCE NEWS December, 2000 “Genetic Artistry”. Illustrated.

 

2000

KUNSTFORUM “Kevin Clarke, Der Unsichtbare Koerper” 149 Review by Martin Pesch

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW “Kevin Clarke’s Innen-schau Portrait im Museum Wiesbaden. text Michael Scheuermann. Illustrated.

 

1999

"THE END OF THE ART WORLD”. critical writings by Robert C. Morgan. Allworth Press New York, NY. 226 pp. Chapter 3 Kevin Clarke, Signs of Loss and Intimacy. Illustrated.

“THE INVISIBLE BODY” Kevin Clarke, Dr. Volker Rattemeyer Museum Wiesbaden 118pp. Illustrated.

ART KALEIDOSCOPE Frankfurt, October, 1999 “Experimental Portraits by Kevin Clarke. Illustrated.

FRANKFURT ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG “Die Menschen Mit Metaphern Beschreiben” Katharina Deschka October 23. Illustrated.

 

1998

“GENE WORLDS- PROMETHEUS’ LABORATORY?” Catalog, BundesKunsthalle Bonn.

TEXAS MONTHLY “Our 100 Best photographs. Feb. issue. Photo number six. Illustrated.

 

1997

VERNAL PASSAGE catalog exhibition at Grand Salon, New York. Illustrated.

REVIEW review by Robert C. Morgan, “Vernal Passage”. Dec 15. issue.

 

1996

IMPAKT 1997, Utrecht, Netherlands. Catalog. “Time> 1996 ART JOURNAL “Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code”. Text, “From the Blood of Poets” by Kevin Clarke. Spring 1996

INTELLIGENT AGENT Review of Kevin Clarke website From “The Blood of Poets”, by Richard Ledes. Appeared on-line and in print form. Illustrated. Volume 1, No. 3, 1996

 

1995

SYNAESTHETIC 2 The Intersection of Science & Art. Alex Cigale. 4 color illustrations and text “From The Blood Of Poets, Taken, Literally”

 

1994

99 TURN OF THE CENTURY MAGAZINE Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 1994 New York.

“The Blood of the Poets, Taken Literally” text by Kevin Clarke, edited by Richard Milazzo.

 

1993

TEMA CELESTE Spring 1993. “Kevin Clarke” by Alan Jones. Illustrated.

 

1989

CLINICAL CHEMISTRY “Automated DNA Sequencing Methods Involving Polymerase Chain Reaction”. Koepf, Hunkapillar, Venter, et al. Vol. 35, No 11, 1989. Blood supplied by Kevin Clarke. Illustrated.

 

1985

EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY 84. Abrams. Edited by Edward Booth-Clibborn, London.

Kevin Clarke/Horst Wackerbarth, “The Red Couch”. Illustrated.

“THE RED COUCH, A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA”, 1984 , Alfred van der Marck Editions/ Harper & Row. Photographs of Americans on a red velvet couch. Text by William Least Heat Moon. Softcover edition.

 

1984

“THE RED COUCH, A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA”, 1984 , Alfred van der Marck Editions/ Harper & Row.

Photographs of Americans on a red velvet couch. Text by William Least Heat Moon. Hardcover. Numerous reviews, television appearances, magazine articals, etc. world wide accompanied publication.

STERN magazine, Germany. The Red Couch. 20pp color illustrations. May 11,1983. Two Gold Medals were awarded by the Art Director’s Club of Germany for this article, including Best Photography and Best Editorial in a magazine. It was the first double gold of the ADC’s 80 year history.

LIFE “Red Rover” The Red Couch, November, 1982. Illustrated.

 

1980

KAUFHAUSWELT “(Department Store World), 1980 Schirmer + Mosel Verlag, Munich. Black & white photographs by Kevin Clarke in Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe) in West Berlin. Text by Hans J. Scheurer.

“KAUFHAUSWELT (Department Store World), 1980 Frankfurter Kunstverein. Black & white photographs by Kevin Clarke in Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe) in West Berlin. Text by Dr. Peter Weiermair and Kevin Clarke. Catalog. Illustrated.

“POOL”, Artist’s Space, New York. Edited by Russell Maltz. Begin of Red Couch project. catalog. Illustrated.

 

1977

“KUNST UND MEDIEN, MATERIALIEN ZUR DOCUMENTA 6”, Stadtzeitung und Verlag, Kassel. Documenta 6 anti-catalog and prize-winning best seller. 300pp. Illustrated

 

Arbeiten in privaten und öffentlichen Sammlungen (Auswahl)

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Permanent Archive, Washington, DC

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

International Center of Photography, New York

The Wellcome Trust, London

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Tampa Museum of Art, Florida

San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas

Museum Wiesbaden, Germany

Cold Spring Harbor Lab, New York

Vitra Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

Pitney Bowes Collection, New York

Georg von Holtzbrinck Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany

Coca Cola Collection, Atlanta, Georgia

B-W Bank, Stuttgart, Germany

DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

Howard and Janet Stein, JGS Foundation, New York and Santa Barbara

A & B Moeckel, Frankfurt, Germany

William N. Copley Estate Connecticut

Estate of John Cage, New York

Lothar Schirmer, Munich

Hartmut and Heike Schwesinger, Bad Homburg, Germany

H.+ I. Bergmann, Bad Homburg

Gegia Adinolfi, Rome

F. + E. Heintzeler, Stuttgart

H.+ K. Dauster, Stuttgart

Dr. M. Thriemer, Stuttgart

Ann & Jim Harithas, New York, Houston

Ute & Michael Berger, Wiesbaden

Lahl Collection, Wiesbaden

Detmar Westoff, Dusseldorf

Martin Kunz, Switzerland

James D. Watson, Cold Spring Harbor, New York

James Bernstein, Maryland

Dr. Thomas Duhnkrack, Frankfurt

Maria Lucia and Ingo Klöcker, Bad Homburg

 

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