Clark V. Fox

Clark V. Fox was born in Austin, Texas, in 1946. He attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia, alongside fellow classmates David Lynch and Jack Fisk. Clark studied with Japanese art master Unichi Hiratsuka at the Japan- American Society of Washington, DC (1964–65), studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (1965–66), and had part-time stints at Andy Warhol’s Factory. He received his BFA in 1969 from the Corcoran School of Art.

He was involved in the Situationist International and Fluxus Mail Art School through Ray Johnson and in the 1980s became involved in the DC hardcore scene (his band, Twisted Teenage Plot, once opened for Fugazi at the White House) and the New York City No Wave movement with the noise- rock band Gag Reflex. He founded MOCA, DC, an art gallery in the Georgetown neighborhood that exhibited the works of Shepard Fairey, Ron English, and Mark Lombardi, among others. Clark also ran a conceptual art space, Flat, out of his New York City apartment, hosting experimental works of art. Clark’s work is in prominent institutional collections including Yale University Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American University Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, the Phillips Collection, and the High Museum of Art. Major grants and awards include a Ford Foundation Grant (1965); First Purchase Award at the National Drawing Society Eastern Regional Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1970); and Purchase Award, 35th Corcoran Biennial (1977).