{{Short description|British conceptual photographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} '''Clare Strand''' (born 1973) is a British conceptual photographer based in Brighton and Hove in the UK.<ref name="ohagan-guardian-2015">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/30/clare-strand-photographer-getting-better-and-worse-at-the-same-time | date = 30 April 2015 | access-date = 11 January 2016 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | author-link = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | work = The Guardian | location = London | title = Things fall apart: the photographer who destroys her work for fun}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/photographer-q-and-a/10117772/Clare-Strand-QandA.html | date = 13 June 2013 | access-date = 11 January 2016 | publisher = The Daily Telegraph | location = London | title = Clare Strand Q&A}}</ref> She makes, as David Campany puts it, "black-and-white photographs that would be equally at home in an art gallery, the offices of a scientific institute, or the archive of a dark cult. ... They look like evidence, but of ''what'' we cannot know."<ref name="campany-aperture-200">{{cite journal | year=2010 | title=Clare Strand: The Spot Marks the X | first=David | last=Campany | author-link=David Campany | periodical=Aperture | issue=200 | pages=54 | publisher=Aperture Foundation | url=http://davidcampany.com/clare-strand-the-spot-marks-the-x/ | access-date=11 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328053301/http://davidcampany.com/clare-strand-the-spot-marks-the-x/ | archive-date=28 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Strand's work has been published in the books ''Clare Strand: Photoworks Monograph'' (2009), ''Skirts'' (2013) and ''Girl Plays with Snake'' (2016). She has had solo exhibitions at Museum Folkwang in Germany,<ref name="photographers-gallery-blog">{{cite web | url = http://thephotographersgalleryblog.org.uk/2013/07/10/scrutinising-the-image-clare-strand-at-les-rencontres-darles-2013/ | date = 10 July 2013 | access-date = 13 March 2016 | publisher = The Photographers' Gallery | title = Scrutinising the Image: Clare Strand at Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013}}</ref> National Museum, Kraków<ref name="telegraph-2014">{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/10887361/A-tour-of-Krakow-Photography-Festival.html | date = 10 June 2014 | access-date = 12 January 2016 | first = Rebcecca | last = Mcclelland | publisher = The Daily Telegraph | location = London | title = A tour of Krakow Photography Festival}}</ref> and Centre Photographique d'Ile de France.<ref name="cpif">{{cite web|access-date=13 April 2018|title=Clare Strand: The Discrete Channel with Noise|url=http://www.cpif.net/en/Programme/the-discrete-channel-with-noise|website=Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France}}</ref> She has been included in group exhibitions at National Media Museum in Bradford,<ref name="mmu-the-dead" /> and at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A),<ref name="ward-independent">{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/signs-of-a-struggle-vampa-london-2341103.html | date = 20 August 2011 | access-date = 16 March 2016 | first = Ossian | last = Ward | work = The Independent | location = London | title = Signs of a Struggle, V&A, London}}</ref> Media Space and Barbican Centre in London. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the V&A; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York Library; Arts Council England and the British Council. In 2019 she was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
She is one half of creative partnership MacDonaldStrand with her husband Gordon MacDonald.<ref name="ohagan-guardian-2015" />
==Life and work== Strand was born in Brighton, England, in 1973.<ref name="andreasson-guardian" /> She studied at North East Surrey College of Technology,<ref name="the-dead">{{cite book | title=The Dead | first1 = Val | last1 = Williams | first2 = Greg | last2 = Hobson | year=1995 | publisher=National Museum of Photography, Film & Television | isbn = 0-948489-15-4 | pages=1467–1471}}</ref> University of Brighton (1992–1995),<ref name="the-dead" /> and at Royal College of Art, London (1996–1998), where she gained an MA in fine-art photography.<ref name="ohagan-guardian-2015" /><ref name="andreasson-guardian" />
Strand's first exhibition was as part of the touring exhibition, ''The Dead,'' curated by Val Williams and Greg Hobson, which opened at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in 1995. It included work by various photographers including Nobuyoshi Araki, Krass Clement, Donigan Cumming, Hans Danuser, Andres Serrano, Nick Waplington.<ref name="mmu-the-dead">{{cite web | url = http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/sfox/image/13580 | access-date = 21 January 2016 | publisher = Manchester School of Art | title = The Dead by Val Williams & Greg Hobson (1995)}}</ref> Her first major solo exhibition was ''Clare Strand Photography and Video'' at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany in 2009.<ref name="photographers-gallery-blog" /> In 2011 she had her first major London solo exhibition, ''Sleight,'' at Brancolini Grimaldi,<ref name="photographers-gallery-blog" /> the gallery that represented her at the time.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/10/grimaldi-gavins-inside-job/ | date = 29 October 2014 | access-date = 14 March 2016 | first = Diane | last = Smyth | publisher = Apptitude Media Ltd | website = British Journal of Photography | title = Grimaldi Gavin's inside job}}</ref> Strand's significant proportion of the group exhibition ''Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism,'' which took its title from Strand's piece, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2010 was singled out for praise in ''Aesthetica''<ref name="swain-aesthetica">{{cite news | url = http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/signs-of-a-struggle-photography-in-the-wake-of-postmodernism-va-london/ | first = Matt | last = Swain | date = 31 August 2011 | access-date = 17 March 2016 | publisher = Aesthetica | location = York | title = Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism: V&A: London | quote = Arguably the most effective work here is Claire Strand's Signs of a Struggle (2003), from which the display takes its title.}}</ref> and ''The Independent.''<ref name="ward-independent" />
She is one half of creative partnership MacDonaldStrand with her husband Gordon MacDonald.<ref name="ohagan-guardian-2015" /> Around 2000–2002, they made commercial work for ''Sleazenation,'' contributing photographs for stories.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2001| issue = April | periodical=Sleazenation | publisher=Swinstead Publishing}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|year=2001| issue = November | periodical=Sleazenation | publisher=Swinstead Publishing}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|year=2002| issue = March | periodical=Sleazenation | publisher=Swinstead Publishing}}</ref> In 2012 they self-published ''Bad Things Happen To Good People'' and ''Most Popular Of All Time.''
David Campany has written that "she is a photographer whose primary context is the medium itself and the habits of seeing, knowing, and picturing that have formed around it."<ref name="campany-aperture-200" /> Strand says that involves "investigating its origins, uses – and limitations".<ref name="andreasson-guardian">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/18/clare-strand-my-best-shot-photography | date = 18 June 2014 | access-date = 11 January 2016 | first = Karin | last = Andreasson | work = The Guardian | location = London | title = Clare Strand's best shot – the levitating woman}}</ref> Sean O'Hagan, writing in ''The Guardian,'' has said "there is always something odd – in a good way – about Strand's work. That oddity rests in the tension between her often personal, always playful take on conceptualism and her wilfully old-fashioned methods".<ref name="ohagan-guardian-2015" /> Her work has been described as surreal,<ref name="smyth-bjp" /><ref name="benge" /> having a "paranormal, scientific atmosphere", a narrative mystery, inspired by magic (illusion) and vernacular photography.<ref name="bjp-7738">{{cite journal|year=2009|title=Private investigations | first = Sue | last = Steward | periodical=British Journal of Photography|volume=156 |issue=7738 | pages=21–25 | publisher=Incisive Media}}</ref>
Strand's most notable series are ''Signs Of A Struggle'' (2002), ''Gone Astray Details'' (2002/3), ''Gone Astray Portraits'' (2002/3), ''The Betterment Room - Devices For Measuring Achievement'' (2005), ''Conjurations'' (2007-9), ''Skirts'' (2011), ''10 Least Most Wanted'' (2011), ''Spaceland/Flatland'' (2012), ''The Happenstance Generator'' (2015), and ''The Entropy Pendulum and Out Put.'' (2015).
==Publications==
===Books of works by Strand=== *''Clare Strand: Photoworks Monograph.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Clare Strand: a Photoworks Monograph|last1=Chandler|first1=David|last2=Eskildsen|first2=Ute|last3=Jeffrey|first3=Ian|date=2009|publisher=Photoworks/Steidl|isbn=9783865218384|location=Brighton|language=en|oclc=796075550}}</ref> Monograph series. Edited by Rebecca Drew. Brighton and Hove: Photoworks; Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. {{ISBN|978-3-86521-838-4}}. Contains Strand's series ''Gone Astray Portraits,'' ''Gone Astray Details,'' ''The Betterment Room – Devices for Measuring Achievement,'' ''Signs of a Struggle,'' ''Unseen Agents'' and ''Conjurations.'' With a foreword by Rebecca Drew and texts by David Chandler ("Clare Strand: Vanity Fair"), :de:Ute Eskildsen ("News from Photography"), Ian Jeffery ("Securing the Invisible in the Photography of Clare Strand") and a transcript of a conversation between Strand and Chris Mullen. *''Skirts.'' London: Gost, 2013.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Skirts|last1=Strand|first1=Clare|last2=Starck|first2=Philippe|date=2013|publisher=GOST|isbn=9780957427235|location=London|language=en|oclc=869186827}}</ref> {{ISBN|978-0-9574272-3-5}}. With an introduction by Philippe Starck. Edition of 500 copies. *''Girl Plays with Snake.'' <ref>{{Cite book|title=Girl plays with snake|last=Strand|first=Clare|date=2016|isbn=9781910164556|language=en|oclc=975239699}}</ref> London: Mack, 2016. {{ISBN|9781910164556}}.
===Other publications by Strand=== *''Gone Astray.'' Newspaper format. Self-published, 2003. *''Negatives for Fun with Clare Strand's Photography.'' Angle 24. Oslo, Norway: Multipress, 2019. Edition of 360 copies.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-24|title=Angle 24°: Fun with Negatives by Clare Strand|url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/03/angle-24-fun-with-negatives-by-clare-strand/|date=7 March 2019|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-24|title=Angle 23-24° : Multipress|url=https://www.multipressforlag.com/project/angle-23-24/|website=www.multipressforlag.com}}</ref>
===Publications with Gordon MacDonald=== *''Bad Things Happen To Good People.'' Newspaper format. Self-published, 2012. Edition of 50 copies. *''Most Popular Of All Time.'' Self-published, 2012. Edition of 200 copies.
===Books with contributions by Strand=== *''The Dead.'' By Val Williams and Greg Hobson, Bradford: National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1995. {{ISBN|0-948489-15-4}}. With essays by Williams ("Secret Places"), Hobson ("A Horrible Exhibition"), Elizabeth Edwards ("Seeing How Others Die") and Thomas Lynch ("Embalming Father"); and photographs by Strand and others. Published to accompany a touring exhibition starting at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, October 1995 – January 1996, curated by Williams and Hobson.<ref name="mmu-the-dead" /> *''Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960-1997.'' Edited by Val Williams. London: British Council, 1998. {{ISBN|978-0863553899}}. Catalogue of a touring exhibition. *''Imago 98.'' Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, 1998. {{ISBN|9788474819489}}. *''Fieldstudy 1.'' London: Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC), 2003.<ref group="n">The publication is reproduced [http://www.photographyresearchcentre.co.uk/what-we-do/fieldstudies/fieldstudy here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717221152/http://photographyresearchcentre.co.uk/what-we-do/fieldstudies/fieldstudy |date=17 July 2014 }} within PARC's site.</ref> *''Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography.'' London: Phaidon, 2006. {{ISBN|9780714846569}}. With an introduction by T.J. Demos. With work by Strand and 120 others. *''How We Are: Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present.'' Edited by Val Williams and Susan Bright. London: Tate, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1-85437-714-2}}. *''Between Times: Instants, Intervals, Durations.'' Madrid: La Fabrica, 2010. {{ISBN|978-84-92841-44-8}}. Catalogue of an exhibition curated by Sérgio Mah. With essays by Sérgio Mah ("Between Times: Instants, Intervals, Durations") and Jacinto Lageira ("Tempus Fugit"); writings about each photographer by Mah, José Gomez Isla and Javier Chavarria; and photographs by Strand (from ''Signs of a Struggle'') and others. *''Im Verborgenen: Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Leipzig und International = In the Hidden: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and International.'' F/Stop Vol 4. Leipzig: Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Fotografie (ZZF); Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2010. {{ISBN|978-3-86828-186-6}}. Catalogue of the fourth F/stop International Photography Festival. With texts in English and German by Kristin Dittrich, Axel Hütte, Julia Mauga, and Jule Hillgärtner, interviews, work from 45 photographers including examples of Strand's ''The Betterment Room'' and ''Gone Astray Details,'' and texts about each photographer. *''A Medium In Transition: Producing and Collecting Photography.'' Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2012. {{ISBN|978-3868283570}}. *''Miesiąc Fotografii w Krakowie 2014: Re:Search 15.05–15.06 = Krakow Photomonth Festival 2014: Re:Search 15.05–15.06.'' Kraków: Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych, 2014. {{ISBN|9788362978212}}. Polish and English text. Includes a chapter on Strand, and a transcript of a conversation between her and Clément Chéroux. *''(Mis) Understanding Photography: Werks und Manifeste.'' = Works and Manifestos. Essen, Germany: Museum Folkwang; Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. {{ISBN|978-3869307640}}. Photographs by various photographers, short texts, and introductions to each photographer written by themselves, in German. Includes examples of Strand's ''Gone Astray Portraits'' and ''The Betterment Room - Devices For Measuring Achievement.'' Catalogue of an exhibition held at Museum Folkwang. *''The Art of Fashion Photography.'' By Patrick Remy. Munich: Prestel, 2014. {{ISBN|978-3791348407}}. *''Photography Now!.'' Tokyo: Amana, 2014. {{ISBN|9784907519025}}. Text in Japanese and English. Published to coincide with an exhibition at IMA Concept Store, Tokyo. *''Une Histoire. Art Architecture Design des Années 1980 à nos Jours.'' Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2014. Edited by Christine Macel. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Text in French. *''European Portrait Photography Since 1990.'' Brussels: Centre for Fine Arts; Munich: Prestel, 2015. {{ISBN|978-3791349275}}. *''Revelations: Experiments in Photography.'' Edited by Benedict Burbridge. London: Mack; Media Space, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1907946455}}. With a foreword by Greg Hobson, an introduction by Burbridge, and essays by Ian Jeffrey, Kelley Wilder, :de:Gottfried Jäger, and Burbridge. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Media Space, London. "A series of comprehensive essays of how scientific photography has influenced modern art and continues to influence contemporary art".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gupmagazine.com/books/revelations-experiments-in-photography|title=Revelations: Experiments in Photography|author=x-publishers}}</ref>
===Books with sections about Strand=== *''Images Recalled: 3. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg = Bilder auf Abruf: 3. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg.'' Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2009. {{ISBN|9783868280753}}. Catalogue of the third :de:Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg. Texts in German and English. Includes a description of Strand's ''Unseen Agents, 2006–2007'' by Heide Häusler and two pages of photographs by Strand. *''Thinking Pars Pro Toto: Studien zur zeitgenässischen Kunst.'' By Doris Schumacher-Chilla. Oberhausen, Germany: Athena, 2013. {{ISBN|978-3-89896-526-2}}. Includes a chapter, "Einfuhrung in das Werk von Clare Strand anlässlich ihrer Austellung Taschenspielertrick im Forum für Fotografie, Köln (Eröffnung am 15.4.2012)".
==Exhibitions==
===Solo exhibitions=== *''Clare Strand Recent Works,'' {{ill|Fotografins Hus|sv|Panoptikon Fotografins Hus}}, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.<ref>[http://www.svd.se/stralande-portratt-med-drag-av-skrackromantik "Clare Strand: Strålande porträtt med drag av skräckromantik"], Clemens Poellinger, Svenska Dagbladet, 24 May 2008</ref> *''Clare Strand Photography and Video,'' Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 2009;<ref name="photographers-gallery-blog" /> Museum of Photography, Braunschweig, Germany.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.photomuseum.de/clare-strand-fotografie-und-video/ | access-date = 16 March 2016 | publisher = Museum für Photographie Braunschweig | title = Clare Strand. Fotografie und Video}}</ref> Included everything published in ''Clare Strand: Photoworks Monograph'' (2009). *''Sleight,'' Brancolini Grimaldi (now Grimaldi Gavin), London, 2011.<ref name="photographers-gallery-blog" /> *''Further Reading,'' National Museum, Kraków, Poland, May–August 2014. Part of Krakow Photomonth.<!-- Can this be considered a solo exhibition? --><ref name="telegraph-2014"/> *''Getting Better and Worse at the Same Time,'' Grimaldi Gavin, London, April–June 2015.<ref name="smyth-bjp">{{cite web | url = http://www.bjp-online.com/2015/04/five-minutes-with-clare-strand/ | date = 30 April 2015 | access-date = 12 January 2016 | first = Diane | last = Smyth | publisher = Apptitude Media Ltd | website = British Journal of Photography | title = Five minutes with...Clare Strand}}</ref><ref name="benge">{{cite web|url=http://harveybenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/clare-strand-at-grimaldi-gavin-london.html|title=Harvey Benge: Clare Strand at Grimaldi Gavin London|date=4 May 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.grimaldigavin.com/article/clare-strand-getting-better-and-worse-at-the-same-time | access-date = 16 March 2016 | publisher = Grimaldi Gavin | title = Getting Better and Worse at the Same Time: New work by Clare Strand: 29 April - 6 June 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160401204253/http://www.grimaldigavin.com/article/clare-strand-getting-better-and-worse-at-the-same-time | archive-date = 1 April 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> Included ''The Entropy Pendulum and Out Put.'' and other work. *''The Discrete Channel with Noise,'' Centre Photographique d'Ile de France (CPIF), Pontault-Combault, Paris, April–July 2018. Photography, paintings (made during a research residency in 2017 at the CPIF), machinery and sound installation.<ref name="cpif"/>
===Exhibitions with others and at festivals=== *''The Dead,'' National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK, October 1995 – January 1996, then toured. Curated by Val Williams and Greg Hobson.<ref name="mmu-the-dead" /> *'''Theatres of the Real' – Contemporary British Post-Documentary Photography'', Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, June–September 2009. Curated by David Green and Joanna Lowry.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.fotomuseum.be/en/exhibitions/archive/archive-2009.html | access-date = 17 April 2017 | publisher = Fotomuseum Antwerp | title = Archive 2009}}</ref> *''Between Times: Instants, Intervals, Durations,'' the :es:Teatro Fernán Gómez, Madrid during PHotoEspaña, June–July 2010; :it:Museo d'arte della provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy, October 2010 – January 2011; Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas, Spain, February–April 2011. With photographs by Strand from ''Signs of a Struggle.'' Curated by Sérgio Mah.<ref>{{cite book | title=Between Times: Instants, Intervals, Durations | year=2010 | publisher=La Fabrica | location = Madrid | isbn = 978-84-92841-44-8 | page=174 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KnmaSQAACAAJ}}</ref> *''Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism,'' Victoria and Albert Museum, London, August–November 2011. Included Strand's ''Signs of a Struggle.''<ref name="ward-independent"/><ref name="swain-aesthetica" /><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.standard.co.uk/arts/signs-of-a-struggle-va-review-7439510.html | date = 16 August 2011 | access-date = 16 March 2016 | publisher = London Evening Standard | location = London | title = Signs of a Struggle: V&A - review}}</ref> Curated by Marta Vice. *''Spaceland/Flatland,'' ''Skirts,'' and video, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2013. Selection for the Discovery Award.<ref name="photographers-gallery-blog" /> *''(Mis) Understanding Photography: Werks und Manifeste,'' Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, June–August 2014. Photographs by various photographers including examples of Strand's ''Gone Astray Portraits'' and ''The Betterment Room - Devices For Measuring Achievement.''<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.museum-folkwang.de/en/news/exhibitions/archive/misunderstanding-photography.html | access-date = 13 March 2016 | publisher = Museum Folkwang | title = (Mis)Understanding Photography: Works and Manifestos: June 14 – August 17, 2014}}</ref> *''Revelations: Experiments in Photography,'' Media Space, Science Museum, London, March–September 2015;<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/press/jan-2015/revelations| access-date = 13 March 2016| publisher = Media Space| title = Revelations: Experiments in Photography| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170403214012/http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about-us/press/jan-2015/revelations| archive-date = 3 April 2017| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.timeout.com/london/art/revelations-experiments-in-photography | first = Ananda | last = Pellerin | access-date = 16 March 2016 | publisher = Time Out | title = Revelations: Experiments in Photography}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11483493/Revelations-Experiments-in-Photography-Media-Space-review-engages-on-many-levels.html | date = 20 March 2015 | access-date = 13 March 2016 | first = Florence | last = Waters | publisher = The Daily Telegraph | location = London | title = Revelations: Experiments in Photography, Media Space, review: 'engages on many levels'}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/7e6d1138-d159-11e4-86c8-00144feab7de|title=Revelations: Experiments in Photography, Science Museum, London — review|work=Financial Times|date=31 March 2015 }}</ref> National Media Museum, Bradford, UK, November 2015 – February 2016.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/revelations-experiments-photography | access-date = 1 May 2020 | publisher = National Science and Media Museum | title = Revelations: Experiments in Photography}}</ref> Co-curated by Greg Hobson and Ben Burbridge. *''All That Hoopla: The Fairest Game at the Fair,'' Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, September 2016;<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.unseenamsterdam.com/all-hoopla-fairest-game-fair-1 | access-date = 29 September 2016 | publisher = Unseen | title = All That Hoopla: The Fairest Game at the Fair}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/qa-emilia-van-lynden-unseen-photo-fair-festival/ | date = 18 September 2016 | access-date = 29 September 2016 | publisher = Aesthetica | title = Q&A with Emilia van Lynden, Unseen Photo Fair & Festival}}</ref> LhGWR Gallery, the Hague, Netherlands, September–November 2016<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.grotewittereus.nl/html/exposities/2016/clare-strand.html | access-date = 29 September 2016 | publisher = Liefhertje en De Grote Witte Reus Den Haag | title = 'All That Hoopla': Clare Strand | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161002145810/http://www.grotewittereus.nl/html/exposities/2016/clare-strand.html | archive-date = 2 October 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> *''Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography,'' Barbican Centre, London, July–August 2020. Included Strand's ''Men Only Tower.''<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-24|title=Masculinities: Liberation through Photography|url=https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/press-room/masculinities-liberation-through-photography|website=Barbican Centre}}</ref> *“A Boring Grey Jumper and an Overcomplicated Top, Two-Person Show with Steffi Klenz, Filet, London, September – October 2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steffi Klenz and Clare Strand |url=https://oshibori.tokyobiennale.jp/en/artist/a-boring-grey-jumper-and-an-over-complicated-top.html |access-date=2025-10-04 |website=OSHIBORI Linkage {{!}} Tokyo Biennale 2023}}</ref>
==Awards== *1998: Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprises<ref>{{cite web|url=http://db-artmag.com/en/57/feature/deutsche-bank-awards/?dbiquery=null%3Aclare+strand|title=Deutsche Bank - ArtMag - 57 - feature - Deutsche Bank Awards|date=16 November 2009}}</ref> *2019: Nominated, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, London for her exhibition ''The Discrete Channel with Noise'' at PHotoEspaña, Madrid. The other nominations were Mark Neville, Mohamed Bourouissa and Anton Kusters.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2019-11-12|title=Shortlist announced for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020|url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/11/deutsche-borse-photography-foundation-prize-2020/|date=5 November 2019|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|access-date=2019-11-12|title=French dogs and death camp skies reach Deutsche Börse photography prize final|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/05/deutsche-borse-photography-prize-mohamed-bourouissa-anton-kusters-mark-neville-clare-strand|newspaper=The Guardian|date=5 November 2019|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> *2019: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2019-12-17|title=Royal Photographic Society announces its 2019 award winners|url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/09/royal-photographic-society-award-2019/|date=9 September 2019|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref>
==Collections== Strand's work is held in the following public collections: *Arts Council England<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artist/strand-clare|title=Strand, Clare|access-date=12 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826180805/http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/artist/strand-clare|archive-date=26 August 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> *British Council<ref>{{cite web |url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/clare-strand-1973 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-01-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20150904081020/http%3A//visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/clare%2Dstrand%2D1973 |archive-date=4 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> *Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris<ref>{{cite book | title=Miesiąc Fotografii w Krakowie 2014: Re:Search 15.05–15.06 | author = Clément Chéroux | year=2014 | publisher=Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych | isbn = 9788362978212 | pages=91–111}}</ref> holds her ''10 Least Most Wanted'' works displayed in a cabinet *Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, holds her ''Skirts'' series<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/artists/49089|title=Clare Strand: British, born 1973|publisher=Museum of Modern Art}}</ref> *New York Library, New York, holds her ''Skirts'' series<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wallachprintsandphotos.nypl.org/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=clare+strand&search_field=all_fields&commit=search|title=Wallach Prints and Photos Search Results|publisher=New York Library}}</ref> *San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California: ''Skirts''<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-24|title=Strand, Clare|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Clare_Strand/|website=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art}}</ref> *Victoria and Albert Museum, London holds her ''Signs of a Struggle'' series<ref>{{cite web | url = https://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/clare-strand/73818/ | access-date = 13 March 2016 | publisher = Victoria and Albert Museum | title = Search the Collections}}</ref>
==Residencies== *London College of Printing, University of the Arts London, London, 2001–2002.<ref name="clare-strand-monograph" /><ref name="portfolio-37">{{cite journal|year=2003|title=John Goto and Clare Strand: London Portraits | first = Val | last = Williams | author-link = Val Williams | periodical= Portfolio | issue=37 | pages=64–65 | publisher=Portfolio Photography Workshop}}</ref> One year residency to produce her ''Gone Astray'' series. *University of Sunderland International Photography Research Network (IPRN) artist-in-residence at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 2003–2004,<ref name="clare-strand-monograph">{{cite book | title= Clare Strand: Photoworks Monograph | author = Clare Strand | year=2014 | publisher=Photoworks, Steidl | isbn = 978-3-86521-838-4 | pages=109}}</ref> to produce ''The Betterment Room – Devices For Measuring Achievement''
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==External links== *{{Official website|www.clarestrand.co.uk}} *[http://www.macdonaldstrand.co.uk MacDonaldStrand]
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