Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2001 Joysmith Gallery, Memphis, TN

• 1999 Thelma Harris Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

• 1997 Thelma Harris Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

• 1996 Claude Clark: on My Journey Now, A Selection of Paintings from 1940 – 1986, The Apex Museum, Atlanta, GA

• 1995 Bomani Gallery, San Francisco. CA

• 1994 Samuels Gallery, Oakland, CA

• 1990-1991 Fifty Years of painting by Georgian Artist Claude Clark, Hammonds House Galleries, Atlanta, GA

• 1990-1991 Fifty Years of painting by Georgian Artist Claude Clark, Hammonds House Galleries, Atlanta, GA

• 1972 A Retrospective Exhibition, 1937 – 1971, Paintings by Claude Clark, Fisk University, Nashville, TN

• 1956 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

• 1951 Wharton Settlement, Philadelphia, PA

• 1946 & 1947 Roko Gallery, New York City

• 1945 Bonstell Gallery, New York

• 1944 Artist Gallery of Philip Ragan Associated, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2018 Modern Times: American Art 1910 - 1950, Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

• 2017 The Color Line, Mu du quai Branly, Paris, France

• 2000 20th Century African American Icons, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA

• 1997 A Visual Heritage 1945 to 1980: Bay Area African American Artists, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

• 1996 Pro Arts, Oakland, CA

• 1989 Black Printmakers and the WPA, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York

• 1988 Master Art Exhibition (NCA), Salvador-Bahia. Brazil

• 1986 Kenkeleba House, New York, NY

• 1985 Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA

• 1983-84 Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA

• 1982 Grand Oak Gallery. Oakland, CA

• 1976 Los Angeles (circuit)

• 1975 Philadelphia (circuit)

• 1968 New Perspectives in Black Art, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

• 1953 Sorbonne, Paris, France

• 1946 The Harmon Foundation, New York, NY

• 1945 The Negro Artist Comes of Age, Albany Institute of History and Art, New York, NY

• 1945 Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, New York, NY

• 1945 Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

• 1945 Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA

• 1942-44 Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA

• 1942 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

• 1941-42 American Negro Art, 19th and 20th Centuries, The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY

• 1939-40 World's Fair, New York, NY

“As a child in the churches, the schools and the community, I dreamed of a destiny. My search became a single purpose for the dignity of Black Americans instead of attempting to solve the concerns of all humanity. Early on, I was convinced a creative spirit must soar beyond compartments of religion and politics. It was through the roots of African Art that I learned of the creative source of most Western art. As I stood near the Nile at Cairo and looked toward the Mediterranean in awe, I envisioned how the Greeks, Persians, Romans, etc., had sailed up the Nile, taking away the fine arts, sciences, history and other disciplines. There were records on paper, on stone, on walls in the temples that rivaled anything produced later in the Renaissance....

Over the years, I have painted representative and figurative subjects. About thirty years ago, I was introduced to Non-Objective Expressionism. I didn't attempt abstract art in the 1930s, nor did I try during my years at the Barnes Foundation. Dr. Barnes not only has the world's finest collection of Modern Art, but presents the theory in his book, "The Art of Painting," that the format of the Modern Masters was the same as that of old Western Masters. For instance, the contemporary artist presents a simple design, while the old Master presented the same format, but built in the detailed subject matter. I believe that the African creative artists gave the format to the Western world and they are masters of design (especially Egyptians). I feel that I understand contemporary directions; and I relax for a while, to have fun such as with inventive avant-garde. I have learned much that I have applied to my craft, and I feel that I have become a more flexible creative spirit.”

-Made by Claude Clark in 1989