Tom Clark is a researcher, writer, teacher and sometime curator and publisher living and working in Birmingham and Manchester. He holds a PhD in curating from the Art Department of Goldsmiths, University of London (2024). He is lecturer in Contextualising Practice in the School of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University — teaching at Goldsmiths, University of London, University of the Arts London, as well as the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam) and The Royal College of Art (alongside others).

He has curated exhibitions in the UK and Denmark exploring the politics, experiences and images of contemporary networked and infrastructured life and meaning making (including: Repeats (figures and infrastructures) (2018) – Curator, Featuring: Anna Zett, Asta Lynge, Dorine van Meel, Katie Hare, Paul Maheke, Simeon Barclay, Seecum Cheung, and Will Sheridan Jr., Sixty Eight, Copenhagen. May–June 2018; Instituting for the Contemporary: Public Editorial Meetings – Co-Convenor. Speaking: Simon Sheikh, Ewa Mejewska, Rachel O’Reilly; Füsun Türetken, Bernadette Buckley; 2013), pantxo ramas, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Angela Dimitrakaki, Tom Vandeputte. BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, NL. (2016); Just frustration (independent) – Co-curator. Featuring: Ester Fleckner (DK), Rachel McLean (UK), Imran Perretta (UK) Louise Haugaard Jørgensen (DK), Amel Ibrahimovic (DK), Hanne Lippard (UK), Chloe Seibert (US), Sixty Eight, Copenhagen. (2017).

He has also published and edited a number of publications on similar themes, exploring alternative models of value, publishing as curatorial practice, narrative and fiction in contemporary settings, dislocation, music and travel (Guest Editor – General Fine Arts Vol.2 #1. Ft. Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, Beatrice Loft Schulz, Eleanor Ivory Weber, John Hill, Josefine Wikström, Leila Kozma, manuel arturo Abreu, Marina Vishmidt, Martin Kohout, Owen G. Parry, William Kherbek [online] (Berlin: Version House, 2016); Curating as Publishing – Two-day workshop, developed and led – Grand Union, Birmingham, UK. (26–27th August 2017); Contributing Editor – Para\Fictions – Ed. Natasha Hoare (Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2018); Editor – Somewhere I’ve Never Been – novel by Steph Kretowicz (London and Berlin, Pool and TLTRPreß, 2017).)

He was Editor at basis voor actuelle kunst (BAK) a cultural organisation and publisher focusing on contemporary politics and social movements in Utrecht, the Netherlands (2015-2017).

He was also founding co-director / publisher at Arcadia_Missa (2010–2015) a gallery and publishers in London, which focused on the intersection of art, technology, online subjectivity and collectivity and feminist theory. As Co-Director of Arcadia_Missa Gallery he helped build and shape the programme of this internationally recognised gallery. In collaboration with its Founding Director, he initiated and co-curated ambitious exhibition and events programmes; developed and delivered its offsite events, talks and teaching; actively fostered its research community; co-authored funding bids and many institutional collaborations. He also led the development and editorial direction of the innovative print and online and digital journals How to Sleep Faster, and its Anthology and artist book series.

Education: • PhD Art – Goldsmiths, University of London, London (AHRC/CHASE consortium Scholarship Funded) (2017–2023) • MFA Curating, with Distinction, Goldsmiths, University of London, London (AHRC Funded). ( 2012–2014) • BA (Hons) Fine Art, 1st Class, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London. (2007–2010) • Foundation in Art and Design, with Distinction, De Montfort University, Leicester. (2006–2007)