Although Ed Clark continued to paint into the 2010s, leading a career spanning over seven decades, he only received limited recognition, mainly from his artistic peers. In 2013 however, he began to receive wider recognition in the U.S., when the Art Institute of Chicago held a survey exhibition of his work, and in 2014, when artist David Hammons curated the solo exhibition Ed Clark: Big Bang at New York’s Tilton Gallery.
More recent solo exhibitions include Expanding the Image, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2021); Ed Clark Painting 2000—2013, Hauser & Wirth, New York (2019); Ed Clark: A Survey, Mnuchin Gallery, New York (2018); Ed Clark, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit (2016); Ed Clark, Art Institute of Chicago (2013).
Select group exhibitions include Coloring, University of Kentucky Art Museum (2021); Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art (2020); The Long Run, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018); Impulse, Pace Gallery, London (2017); Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2013).
Between 2017 and 2019, Clark’s work featured in the major touring exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, which was organised by the Tate Modern in London and travelled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arizona; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; and The Broad, Los Angeles.
