| Born 1981, Exeter, New Hampshire (US) | |
| Lives and works in London (UK) and Hamburg (DE) |
Education
| 2012/16 | Hoschschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, MFA, Time Based Media |
| 2011 | Goldsmiths College, London, BA (Hons) |
| 2007 | University of Edinburgh, BA (HSS) |
Solo exhibitions
| 2021 | 1981 - 1986 (Active Analysis), Karin Guenther, Hamburg (DE) |
| 2020 | A Little Night Music (And Reversals), CRAC Occitanie, Sète (FR) |
| 2019 | The Paintings of Selma Vaz Dias, Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels (BE) |
| L’Isola Dei Baci (Disappearing Acts), KURA. c/o Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milano (IT) | |
| 2018 | His Leftover Heart (Pauly et Cie), Crèvecoeur, Marseille (FR) |
| The Director’s Theatre Writer’s Theatre, GAK Bremen, Bremen (DE) | |
| 2017 | Recognition (Love at the Frankfurt Autoshow), VI VII, Oslo (NO) |
| Hollywood Regency, Crèvecoeur, Paris (FR) | |
| Parcours, Art Basel 2017, Basel (CH) | |
| 2016 | A Month In The Country, Karin Guenther Gallery, Hamburg (DE) |
| The Tragedy Machine (with Villa Design Group), MIT List Visual Arts Centre Boston (US) | |
| Tête a Tête (A Doll’s House), Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (NL) | |
| 2015 | Meatlocker (with Villa Design Group), Art Basel Miami Solo (CH) |
| Presentation with Mathew Gallery, Miami (US) | |
| Frieze Frame, Solo Presentation with Mathew Gallery, Frieze New York, New-York (US) | |
| DEBTS (Erotic Review Sinai), Futura, Prague (CZ) | |
| Authorizations (L’aigle à deux têtes), Mathew Gallery, New-York (US) | |
| The Violet Crab, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK) | |
| The Bernard Natan Centre for the Arts, with Villa Design Group, Mumok, Vienna (AT) | |
| 2014 | Inauguration of the Russian Season: The House of Adelaida (RU) |
| Ivanovna, with Villa Design Group, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (UK) | |
| Solo Presentation with Mathew Gallery, Liste 2014, Basel (CH) | |
| Sessions, with Christiane Blattmann, Amstel 47, Amsterdam (NL) | |
| Vengeance… Oh Libya!, WCW Gallery, Hamburg (DE) | |
| 2013 | Waves (Das Glückliche Rothschild), Mathew Gallery, Berlin (DE) |
Selected group exhibitions
| 2023 | Jahresgaben 2023, Kunstverein in Hamburg (DE) |
| House of Dreamers, Villa Empain, Bruxelles (BE) | |
| 2022 | British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton, Aberdeen, Plymouth and Manchester (UK) |
| 2021 | The Dreamers, 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale 2021, Belgrade (RS) |
| 2020 | Jacques de Bascher, Treize, Paris (FR) |
| 2019 | Futomomo, CAC Brétigny - centre d’art contemporain, Brétigny (FR) |
| 2018 | School of Pain, Art in General, New York (US) |
| Condo, Crèvecœur, New York (US) | |
| Deux sens du décoratif, CAC Passerelle, Brest (FR) | |
| Room Raiders, Mathew Gallery, New York (US) | |
| 2017 | Art Basel Miami, Nova section, w. Crèvecoeur (FR) |
| 2016 | WHO ARE YOU?, Salts, Basel, Switzerland (CH) |
| Exhume / Consume, Mathew NYC, New-York (US) | |
| Carpet For A Lord, Supportico Lopez, Berlin (DE) | |
| The King And The Mockingbird, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen (FDK) | |
| Liverpool Biennial, with Villa Design Group, Liverpool (UK) | |
| Museum Ludwig, with Villa Design Group, Cologne (DE) | |
| Group Presentation with Mathew Gallery, Liste 2016, Basel (CH) | |
| MM Mundus Muliebris, Cura Basement, Rome (IT) | |
| Condo, Carlos/Ishikawa, LondonSalzburg (AU) | |
| 2015 | Mon Horizontalité, Until Then, Paris (FR) |
| Group Presentation with Mathew Gallery, Liste, Basel (CH) | |
| Group Presentation with VI VII, Oslo Gallery, Liste, Basel (CH) | |
| 2014 | Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles (US) |
| Dolce Fare Neite, with Villa Design Group, Marabiers 14, Geneva, Switzerland (CH) | |
| Transatlantic Transparency, Mathew Gallery & Mathew NYC, Berlin(DE) & New-York (US) | |
| There is Nothing Personal of Yours to Exhibit, Crèvecoeur, Paris, France (FR) | |
| I Love You Me Either, Project Native Informant, London (UK) | |
| Like A Virgin, VI, VII, Oslo, Norway (NO) | |
| 2013 | Don’t Worry – This One is On US, Salt 3: Pageantry, with Villa Design |
| Group, Lima Lima Zulu, London (UK) | |
| Homes and Gardens, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles (US) | |
| Heavy Listening, Jahresausstellung HFBK, Klasse Michaela Melian, Hamburg (DE) | |
| Platitude Normale, CAPC, Bordeaux (FR) | |
| Love Is Still Colder Than Capital, Mathew, Berlin (DE) | |
| The Portshead Garden, with Villa Design Group, Beton Galerie, Hamburg (DE) | |
| Clay Pipe, HFBK Galerie, Hamburg (DE) | |
| 2012 | Volcano Extravaganza 2012, curated by Nick Mauss and Milovan |
| Faronatto, Fiorucci Arts Trust, Stromboli (IT) | |
| Coffers IV – Emperor! Emperor! Emperor (with Christiane Blattman), Vitrine, Berlin The Photographers (DE) | |
| Tragedy, Beton Galerie, Hamburg, Germany (DE) | |
| Life will be Frozen in Peaches and Cream, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands (NL) | |
| Montez Press at Palazzo Visconti, with Villa Design Group (IT) | |
| 2011 | Spring 2007: Fall 2007, Zurück in die Zukunft, with Villa Design Group, KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz (DE) |
| 2010 | Villa 1: This House is a Triadic Fascist and Made of Industry Glass, with Villa Design Group and Luis Lazaro Matos, George and Dragon Cabaret Bar, London (UK) |
Plays and performances
| 2019 | “Chamber Music for Europe (Nonent for Selma Vaz Dias)”, Flagey, Brussels (BE) |
| “Stage for a Theatre on Mars”, PLATO, Ostrava (CZ) | |
| “Meet Me In Saint Louis, Lewis!”, Move, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) | |
| 2017 | “Three Types of Wind in Trieste”, GAK Bremen (DE) |
| “Yes Yes, All The News That’s Fit to Print”, Parcours, Art Basel 2017, Basel (CH) | |
| “Love at the Frankfurt Auto Show”, Kunstnernes Hus Kino, Oslo (NO) | |
| “Said The Assassinations”, Club Silencio, Paris (FR) | |
| 2016 | “This Is It or Dawn at Bar Bouzkha”, MIT List Visual Arts Centre (with Villa Design Group), Massachusetts (US) |
| Tête-à-Tête, & OUD”, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (NL) | |
| 2015 | “The Violet Crab”, DRAF, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK) |
| “DEBTS (Erotic Review Sinai)”, Studio Hrdinů, Prague (CZ) | |
| “A Summer’s Rest (Je t’aime Mont Blanc)”, Junges Theater, Basel (CH) | |
| “Launch of Heterophobia” (with Villa Design Group and SALT.), South London Gallery, London (UK) | |
| 2014 | Inauguration of the Russian Season: “The Banquet” (with Villa Design Group), Royal Institute of British Architecture, London (UK) |
| “The Pool’s Edge or Gstaad Will Never Change”, The Swiss Instute, New-York (US) | |
| Montez Press at Palazzo Visconti (with Villa Design Group), Milan (IT) | |
| 2013 | Spring 2007: Fall 2007, Zurück in die Zukunft (with Villa Design Group), KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (AU) |
| “The Alvar Aalto Sleepover” (with Villa Design Group), Mathew, Berlin, Germany (DE) | |
| 2012 | “Villa 1: This House is a Triadic Fascist and Made of Industry Glass”, with Villa Design Group and Luis Lazaro Matos, George and Dragon Cabaret Bar, London (UK) |
| 2011 | Demetriou Penthouse, with Villa Design Group |
Prizes
| 2019 | Hublot Design Prize Shortlist |
| 2013 | Preis des DAAD für hervorragende Leistungen ausländischer Studierender (DAAD Prize for Exceptional Achievement by a Non-German Student) |
| 2011 | Art School Alliance Residency, Fall 2011, Goldsmith College |
Press
“From Paul Thek’s Accidental Etchings to Gabriel Kuri’s Cigarette Butts, Here Are 5 Must-See Shows in Brussels”, Artnet, 2019
“The Play’s the Thing The politics of melodrama in the work of THAN HUSSEIN CLARK”, Frieze No.195, 2018
“POST-PERFORMANCE FUTURE”, Mousse, 2018
“Verweise, Verweise und noch mehr Verweise”, Taz.de, 2017
“Than Hussein Clark vermischt darstellende und bildende Kunst”, Kreiszeitung.de, 2017
“7 Great Things I Saw at Frieze and Frieze Masters”, New York Times / T Magazine, 2017
“Innovative art, surprising prices”, Frieze.com (Online), 2017
“Day Two – Frieze London 2017”, The Glass Magazine (Online), 2017
“Top 10 Booths at Frieze London and Frieze Masters”, Observer.com, 2017
“Dekorativt alvor”, kunstkritikk.no, 2017
“Body talk - The rise of performance art”, The Economist, 2017
“Than Hussein Clark”, Les InRockuptibles, 2017
“Views Paris”, Spike No. 52, 2017
“Irony Is Mandatory ”, Elephant Magazine, 2017
“Review of Carpet for a Lord ”, Frieze.com, 2016
“Queer Décadentisme”, L’Officiel Art, 2016
“The Recognitions”, Mousse Magazine No. 52, 2016
“The Recognitions ”, Mousse , 2016
“Gowns For The Actress Laura Schuller by Than Hussein Clark ”, 299792458 M/S, 2016
“Review of “The Violet Crab””, Frieze #171, 2015
“Life is a Cabaret”, Artforum Scene & Herd, 2015
“Review of The Violet Crab”, Artforum Vol. 53, 2015
“Review of The Violet Crab”, Spike #43, 2015
“Design, Deception, Sexuality”, Frieze d/e #17, 2014
“In Defence of Style, Than Hussein Clark interviewed by Simon Castets”, Mousse , 2014
“Betongalerie – Türme der Hoffnung”, Lerchenfeld #20, 2013
“Review of Waves (Das Glückliche Rothschild)”, Artforum, 2013
“Review of Waves (Das Glückliche Rothschild)”, Flash Art, 2013