Clark Fox (1946-, born Michael V. Clark) started making art full time in Houston, Texas at age 5 and has never slowed down since. Clark studied with Japanese art master Unichi Hiratsuka (1895-1997) at the Japan-American Society of Washington DC 1964-1965. He studied fine art and took a figure drawing class with the painter Lennart Anderson (American, 1928-) at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn 1965-1966, and painted on projects with the color field painters Gene Davis (American, 1920-1985) and Thomas Downing (American, 1928-1985).
Clark received his Bachelors of Fine Art (BFA) from the Corcoran College of Art and Design where he studied from 1966-1968. He subsequently taught there from 1968-1970. Any idea of organized education was abandoned to work against the war in Vietnam. He copied portrait paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He considers himself largely self taught. Eventually, in 1992, he founded and directed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington DC from 1992-2006.
Clark moved to New York City in 1970 and currently lives and works there and in Los Angeles.