Peter Clarke (artist)

**Peter Clarke** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni June dabaa ayi dali yuuni 1929 tiŋ yuli booni Simon's Town, South Africa ka daa kpi Silimiin goli April biɛɣ'pinaata dali yuuni 2014, Ocean View, Cape Town) 

## Shikuru baŋsim

*1948: Technical College, Roeland Street, Cape Town, SA
*1961: Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town – etching classes
*1962-3: Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten – graphics
*1978-9: Atelier Nord (Graphic Art Workshop) in Oslo

## Awards and recognition
* 1955: Drum International Short Story Award
* 1965: Awarded the Accademico Onorario of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence, Italy
* 1975: Elected Honorary Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa, US
* 1982: Diploma of Merit in Literature, Universita delle Arti, Italy
* 1983: Diploma of Merit in Art, Academia Italia
* 1983: Honorary Life Member of the Museum of African American Art, LA, US
* 1984: Elected Honorary Doctor of Literature, World Academy of Arts and Culture, Taipei, Taiwan

*1929: Peter Clarke was born
*1957: *Golden City Post*, Cape Town, South Africa (first solo)
*1960: Yugoslavia (SA Graphic Art)
*1961: Galerie Schoninger, Munich, West Germany (SA Graphic Art)
*1961: São Paulo Biennial
*1963: 5th International Graphic Art Biennale, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (International Graphic Art)
*1964: Venice, Italy (Biennale)
*1965: Mbari Cultural Centre, Ibadan, Nigeria (solo)
**Chem-Chemi Cultural Centre, Nairobi, Kenya (solo)
**6th International Graphic Art Biennale, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
*1968: Palazzo Strozzo, Florence, Italy (First Exhibition of International Graphics)
*1969: Palazzo Strozzo, Italy (Second Exhibition of International Graphics)
*1970: Edrich Gallery, Stellenbosch (solo)
*1971: SA Graphic Art touring Netherlands, Belgium and W. Germany
*1972: Buenos Aires, Argentina (Tercera Bienal Internacional del Grabado)
*1973: Shell Harbour Art Centre, Shell Harbour, NSW Australia (solo)
**Pratt Graphics Centre, New York City (group)
*1973-74: Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, US (solo)
*1976: Kuumba Workshop, Southside, Chicago, US (solo)
*1977-78: SAAA, Cape Town (*Our World is a Ghetto* – solo)
**Community Arts Project, Mowbray, Cape Town (solo)
**Public Library, Grassy Park, Cape Town (solo)
*1978-79: Sandvika Kino Vestibyle, Sandvika, Norway
*1979–82: Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway (Graphic Art – group)
*1979: Pratt Institute, New York
*1981: Atlantic Art Gallery, Cape Town (Illusions and Other Realities – solo)
*1982: South African Art, National Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana
*1983: Kanagawa, Japan (International Exhibition of Prints)
*1984: SANG (Masterworks on Paper), Kanagawa, Japan (International Exhibition of Prints), Jerusalem Artists' House, Israel, Frederikstad, Norway (Norwegian International Print Biennale)
*1985: FUBA (A Selection of Work by Distinguished Black Artists), Grenchen, Switzerland (X Internationale Triennale Fur Originale Graphik)
*1987: Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg, Cape Town (solo), Campinas, Brazil (Bienal Internacional de Gravura), Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt, W. Germany
*1990: *Freedom Now*, Namibian independence exhibition, Windhoek, Namibia
*1992: Retrospective exhibition – *The Hand is the Tool of the Soul*, at Natale Labia Museum, Muizenberg, Cape Town
*1994: 3rd Triennial World Exhibition of Prints, Auvergne, France
*1995: 18th Triennial World Exhibition of Prints, Kanagawa, Japan
*1996: Drawings of Tesselaarsdal, Caledon Museum
*1998: *Vital Expressions*, Association of Arts Gallery, Bellville, South Africa
*1999: Lipschitz Gallery – *A Personal View*, Cape Town
*1999: Vital Expressions at Natal Technikon Art Gallery, Durban
*2000: Bertolt Brecht House, Berlin, Germany
*2000-01: City Press exhibition called *Baggage*
*2001: Manuscript Exhibition 3 (Art Studio), Johannesburg
*2001: Solo exhibition in Exeter, UK
*2002: Collection of books at Natal Technikon, KwaZulu-Natal
*2003: AVA, Cape Town: *Surface=/=Print* (part of Impact conference)
*2011: *Listening To Distant Thunder*, The SA National Gallery 

## Nintiɣili
Yuuni 2016, Peter Clarke Art Centre bɛ ni daa na mi shɛli Frank Joubert Art Centre nyɛla ban daa zaŋ o yuli n-ti li.

## Kundivihira

## External links
*Peter Clarke profile on Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) website