Chris Clark was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She majored in Printmaking at the University of New Orleans. Since 1983, Clark has exhibited her work through out the southern region of the United States. Her work has been featured at the Pensacola Contemporary Art Museum, the Contemporary Museum of Houston, the Shreveport Museum and the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center. She has received honors and awards through the Arts Council of New Orleans, Artist in Residency Award, and the Public Arts Program 2000, the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002, the Alpha Award Design Winner from the Fashion Group International, and the Saint Tammany Art Association of Louisiana. Clark was also awarded a Gottleib Foundation Grant in 2006 and received an Artist Residency with the La Napoule Art Foundation in La Napoule, France. Her work can currently be seen at La Napoule Art Foundation Group Exhibition which will then travel to the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans in August 2007. Clark's work was selected as part of a permanent collection of living Louisiana artist for the Louis Armstrong International Airport of New Orleans. Her community involvement includes 15 years of teaching art programs in the New Orleans area which include: the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals, the Contemporary Art Center in addition to several area public schools. In 1998 Ms. Clark became the founder and director of the Unity for the Homeless Art Program, where she taught until hurricane Karina's damage of the gulf coast region resulted in the closure of the program.
Human relations are the main theme of Clark's work. She explores the form, shapes and movement the figure offers. Always searching for human connections through a universal experience, her images examine the topic of female power in relation to American society.