BRIAN CLARKE Born in 1953, Oldham, Lancashire, UK Lives and works in London, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020–2021 The Art of Light, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2020 Brian Clarke: On Line, The Gallery, Arts University Bournemouth
2018 The Art of Light, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
2017 Summer Solstice Screens, HENI Gallery, London
2016 Night Orchids, Pace Gallery, London Summer Solstice Spitfires, HENI Gallery, London
2015 Brian Clarke: Works 1977–1985 as curated by Robert Fraser, Pace Gallery/Royal Academy, London Spitfires and Primroses 2012–2014, Pace Gallery London
2014 Piper & Clarke - Stained Glass: Art or Anti-Art, The Verey Gallery and Eton College, Eton
2013 Between Extremities, Pace Gallery, New York Brian Clarke: Works on Paper, Gallery Oldham, Oldham
2012 Love Him More, Kristy Stubbs Gallery, Dallas
2011 Atlantes and Astragals, Christie’s, London The Quick and the Dead, Gemeentemuseum/Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague Brian Clarke: Works on Paper 1969-2011, Phillips de Pury/Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 Brian Clarke: Life and Death, Vitromusée, Romont, Fribourg
2008 Don’t Forget the Lamb, Phillips de Pury, New York
2005 Lamina, Gagosian Gallery, London
2003 Royal Ascot Grandstand Panels, Nash Conservatory, Kew Gardens, London
2002 Transillumination, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Flowers for New York, Steuben Gallery (Corning Museum of Glass), New York
1998 The Glass Wall, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Fleurs de Lys, Faggionato Fine Arts, London
1997 Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Headquarters ‘Hand and Cell Structure Panels’, Munich Stadtmuseum
1994 Brian Clarke: Stained Glass, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1993 Designs on Architecture, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham Brian Clarke: New Paintings, The Mayor Gallery, London
1990 Into and Out of Architecture, The Mayor Gallery, London Brian Clarke: Architecture and Stained Glass, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1989 Brian Clarke: Paintings, Indar Pasricha Gallery, Hauz Khas, New Delhi; Pyrri Art Centre, Savolinna
1988 Brian Clarke: Malerei und Farbfenster 1977–1988, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt Brian Clarke: Intimations of Mortality, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
1987 Brian Clarke: Paintings 1976–1986, Seibu Museum of Art, Ikebukuro, Tokyo; Yao Seibu Exhibition Hall, Osaka
1986 Brian Clarke: Stained Glass, Seibu Museum of Art, Yurakacho, Tokyo
1985 Brian Clarke: Works on Paper 1976–1984, Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1984 The Icon Series of Collages and Other Works on Paper 1980–1984, Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1983 Brian Clarke: Paintings, opening exhibition of the new Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1982 Brian Clarke – Serigraphien und Mosaik, Franz Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt, Munich
1981 Brian Clarke: New Paintings, Constructions and Prints (in association with the Robert Fraser Gallery), The Royal Institute of British Architects, London Brian Clarke: Prints, Vernon Gallery, Preston
1980 Brian Clarke: Paintings, Mappin Art Gallery and Museum, Sheffield
1979 Brian Clarke: Working Drawings, St. Edmunds Art Centre, Salisbury
1975 Brian Clarke: Glass Art One, Mid-Pennine Arts Association, Burnley; Derby Cathedral; Manchester Cathedral (with the Arts Council of Great Britain)
COLLABORATIONS 1998 Brian Clarke–Linda McCartney: Collaborations, Deutsches Glasmalerei-Museum, Linnich 1997 Brian Clarke–Linda McCartney: Collaborations, Vitromusée Romont, Fribourg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band, Gazelli Art House, London
2017 Benbai Expo, Oxo Tower, London
2015 A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser (co-curated with Harriet Vyner), Royal Academy of Arts/Pace Gallery, London
2013 7th Art Dubai Fair, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
2012 Kenny Schacter’s Friends and Family, ROVE Gallery Hoxton, London
2011 Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, Pace Gallery, New York
2007 Art 38 Basel (with the Tony Shafrazi Gallery), Basel Art Fair
2000 Fashion Acts (Olympus HIV/AIDS benefit auction), Mulberry New Bond Street, London
1998 80 Artistes autour du Mondial, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
1996 Works on Paper, The Mayor Gallery, London
1995 Fazit ’95: Die Sammlung des Museums fur Zeitgenossische Glasmalerei Langen, Museum for Contemporary Stained Glass, Altes Rathaus, Langen Exempla ’95, Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern/Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Bavaria, Munich
1993 Architettura e spazio sacro nella modernità/Architecture and Sacred Space in the Modern Age, 39th Venice Biennale Images of Christ, Northampton Museum; St. Paul's Cathedral, London
1992 Light and Architecture (in collaboration with Future Systems), Ingolstadt Addressing the Forbidden, Brighton Festival; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh Festival The Painter in Glass, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
1990 Rockens Billeder – Images of Rock, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
1988 British Paintings and Drawings, The Mayor Gallery, London Die Architektur der Synagoge/Architecture of the Synagogue, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt
1983 Black/White (with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring), Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1982 British Stained Glass, Centre International de Vitrail, Chartres
1980 Art in Education, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1979 Glass/Light (co-curated with John Piper, Martin Harrison and Marc Chagall), The Royal Exchange, Festival of the City of London, London