1962 - 1963: Royal Academy for Graphic Art, Amsterdam.
1961: Michaelis School of Fine Art (mentored by Katherine Harries), University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

2013: Peter Clarke - Just Paper And Glue, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.
2011: Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town; Standard Bank Gallery, Johanneburg.
2009: Woorde en Beelde, Breytenbach Sentrum, Wellington.
2009: A Hot and Quiet Evening, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town.
2008: Second Childhood, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town.
2006: Menu, Kalk Bay Modern, Cape Town.
2004 - 2005: Fanfare, Michael Stevenson, Cape Town.
1998 - 1999: Vital Expressions, Association of Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town; Technikon Natal Art Gallery, Durban.
1999: A Personal View, Lipschitz Gallery, Cape Town.
1999: Drawings of Tesselaardsal, Caledon Museum, Caledon.
1995: Small World, Full Stop Coffee Shop, Cape Town.
1992: The hand is the tool of the soul, Natale Labia Museum, Cape Town.
1981: Illusions and Others' Realities, Atlantic Gallery, Cape Town.
1977 - 1978: Exhibition, Grassy Park Public Library, Cape Town.
1977: Our World is a Ghetto, Association of of Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery, Cape Town.
1970: Exhibition, Edrich Gallery, Stellenbosch.
1957: Exhibition, Golden City Post, Cape Town.

2013: Peter Clarke: Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats, Retrospective, Institute of International Visual Artists (INIVA), London.
2012: Dak'Art 2012, (Honourary Gues Artist), Dakar.
2009: A Hot Quiet Evening, University of West Indies, Barbados
2000: Exhibition, Bertold Brecht House, Berlin; Media Centre, Exeter, Devon.
1984: Exhibition, Jerusalem Artist's House, Palestine.
1978 - 1979: Exhibition, Sandvika Kino Vestibyle, Sandvika.
1973-1974: Exhibition, Fisk University, Nashville.
1965: Exhibition, Mbari Cultural Centre, Ibadan.
1965: Exhibition, Chemi-Chemi Cultural Centre, Nairobi.

2011: Collection 13, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town.
2010: Hats off: 25 Years, Linocuts from Caversham, Tokara, Stellenbosch.
2010: Artists of the South, Old Library Hall, Simonstown, Cape Town.
2010: Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2010: Divisions: Aspect of South Africa Art 1948 - 2010, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2010: 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2010: Homage, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town.
2009: Strengths and Convictions, Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2009: The Art of the Relief Print, Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape Town.
2008: Collection 10, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2008: Revisions: Expanding the Narrative of South African Art, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch.
2007: Africa South, AVA, Cape Town.
2006: Botaki 4, Old Mutual Asset Managers, Cape Town.
2005: Botaki 3, OMAM, Cape Town.
2002: Exhibition, Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary, Johannesburg.
2001: MICROMACRO, South African National Library, Cape Town.
1993: I wish you well on your way (Tribute to John Muafangejo), Chelsea Gallery, Cape Town.
1991: Gallery International (with Willie Bester, Isaac Makeleni and Ishmael Thyssen), Cape Town.
1983: Minor Events and Situations, Bellville Art Gallery, Cape Town.

2009: Strengths and Convictions, Nobel Peace Centre, Oslo.
2007: Apartheid - The South African Mirror, Centro Cultural Bacanja of Valencia, Barcelona.
1995: 18th International Independent Exhibition of Prints, Kanagawa.
1994: 3rd World Triennale of Small Format Prints, Chamalières-Auvergne.
1992: Zeitzeichen - Art from Contemporary Africa, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt; St Virgil Bildungshaus, Satzburg.
1990: Freedom Now: Nambian Independence Exhibition, Windhoek.
1989: Exhibition, Rahmen Gallerie (with Tyrone Appollis and Ishmael Thyssen), Langei.
1986: Botschaften aus Sudafrika, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfurt.
1985: 10th International Triennale fur originale grafik, Grenchen.
1984: Norwergian International Print Bienniale, Frederikstad.
1983 - 1984: 9th International Independent Exhibition of Prints, Kanagawa.
1982: Culture and Resistance Conference, Gaborone.
1979 - 1982: Norway Series of Graphic Art, Aterlier Nord, Oslo.
1973: Benefit Exhibition of Graphics, Pratt Graphics Centre, New York.
1972: Tercera Bienniale Internacionale del Grabado de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires.
1971: South African Graphics, Netherlands; Belgium; then West Germany.
1969: 2nd Exhibition of International Graphics, Palazzo Strozzo, Florence.
1968: 1st Exhibition of International Graphics, Palazzo Strozzo, Florence.
1965: 6th International Graphic Art Biennale, Ljubljana.
1964: XXXII Bienale de Venezia, Venice.
1963: 5th International Graphic Art Biennale, Ljubljana; Albertine Museum, Vienna.
1960 - 1961: South African Graphic Art, Ljubljana; Gallery Schononger, Munich; Sao Paulo.

2005: Caversham Press, KZN, South Africa.
1983: United States -South Africa Leadership Exchange Programme, Rustenberg, South Africa.
1976: Kuumbe Workshop, Southside, Chicago. 1975: University of Iowa, USA.

Public collections in South Africa, Norway, Australia, USA, Germany, Yugoslavia, Botswana, Netherlands.

(Books, magazines, newspapers and catalogues)

2014: Philippa Hobbs, Elizabeth Rankin, Listening to Distant Thunder: The Art of Peter Clarke, Struik Nature/ Penguin Random House: South Africa.
2011: Sean O'Toole, Portrait of the artist as a spry old man, Business Day Magazine Supplement, March, pp. 20-22.
2009: Darren Newbury, Defiant Images: Photography and Anti-Apartheid South Africa, UNISA Press, Pretoria.
2009: Alex Dodd, Frederico Freschi, Imaging and Imagining : South African art c. 1896-2008, Grahams Fine Art Gallery: Johannesburg.
2008: Catalogue no 6. Annual Report, William Humphreys Art Gallery, Swiftprint: Kimberley.
2008: Gavin Jantjes, Strengths and Convictions, Press Publishing, Cape Town.
2008: Prestige Magazine, Neo Publishing, Johannesburg.
2008: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg.
2008: Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg: Artlogic.
2007: Kim Gurney, Dignity and Quiet Fanfare, Art South Africa, vol. 05 issue 03 Autumn.
2006: Donvé Lee, Peter Clarke: Following Dreams and Finding Fame, Awareness Publishing Group, Gallo Manor, Johannesburg.
2006: Hayden Proud, ReVisions+: Expanding the narrative of South African Art, Unisa Press, Pretoria.
2006: George Hallett, Portraits of African Writers, Wits University Press, Johannesburg.
2005: Kim Gurney, Clarke, Pinker and Nel, Art South Africa vol. 03 issue 03 Autumn, p71.
2005: Mario Pissarra, Botaki 3: Conversations with Donovan Ward, Old Mutual Asset Management, Cape Town.
2004: Sophie Perryer (ed.) 10 years 100 artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa, Bell Roberts Publishing, Cape Town.
2004: M Stevenson Fanfare: Peter Clarke in conversation with Michael Stevenson, David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg.
2002: Oprah Magazine, April - May issue.
2000: Hein Willemse (ed.) More than brothers: Peter Clarke and James Matthews at seventy, Kwela Books, Cape Town.
1997: Elza Miles, Land and lives: a story of early black artists, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg.
1992: Patricia Hardy, Peter E Clarke: the hand is the tool of the soul, South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
1988: Gavin Younge, Art of the South African Townships, Thames and Hudson, London.
1988: Grania Ogilvie, The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors, Everard Read, Johannesburg.

2010: Arts and Culture Trust Lifetime Achievement Award.
2005: Order of Ikhamanga, silver class, for excellence in Art and Literature.
1984: Honorary Doctor of Literature, World Academy of Arts and Culture, Taipei.
1984: Honorary Life Member, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles.
1982: Book illustration award for A message in the wind by Chris Van Wyk.
1982: Diploma of Merit, Art, Universita delle Arti, Salso Maggiore Terme Pr., Italy.
1975: Honorary Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
1965: C.P. Hoogenhout Book-illustration Award for Snoet-alleen by Frida Linder.
1965: Avvademico Onorario, Accademia Florentina delle Arti del Disegno, Florence.
1955: Drum International Short-story Award.

Numerous poems and short stories published in South Africa, USA, Sweden and Norway.
Taught art in Ocean View.
Founder member of Vakalisa.

Just Paper and Glue: review by Olga Speakes

Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats: review by Amy Halliday

"Interview with Peter Clarke"

"A portrait of South Africa"

'Correspondence with Langston Hughes'

Nic Maritz Interview (pdf 3.98MB)