Camden Art Centre (formerly known as Hampstead Arts Centre until 1967 and Camden Arts Centre until 2020) is a contemporary art gallery in the London Borough of Camden, England that hosts temporary exhibitions and educational outreach projects. The changing programme includes exhibitions, learning, residencies, off-site projects, artist-led activities and courses. Activities Exhibitions feature emerging artists, international artists showing for the first time in London, historic figures who inspire contemporary practice, and thematic group shows. Camden Art Centre also strives to support artists in making new artworks. Central to its programme is the artist residency programme, which aims to develop artists' practices with practical support, resulting in new work and public participation. Past residency artists include Salvatore Arancio, David Raymond Conroy, Caroline Achaintre, Jesse Wine, Phoebe Cummings, Anne Hardy, Alexandre da Cunha, Emma Hart, Veronica Ryan, Sally O'Reilly, Francis Upritchard, Jonathan Baldock, Mike Nelson, Graham Gussin, Martin Creed, Vivien Blackett, Simon Starling, Adam Chodzko, Athanasios Argianas and Walter Price. More recently, exhibitions including: Olga Balema and Elizabeth Murray. Learning activity includes talks and discussions, film screenings and live art performances, alongside family activities, schools' projects led by artists, projects for young people and courses in ceramics, drawing, painting, performance and art theory. Off-site artists' projects include new commissions and performance in areas such as King's Cross, London and the Borough of Brent, and in local schools and community centres. Since 2018 there has been a renewed emphasis on public programmes both on and off-site, as well as a developing digital programme that includes a new Camden Art Audio podcast programme. A shop is on site, as well as a Café and Garden. Management Martin Clark has been the director of Camden Art Centre since 2017. He was previously Director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2013–17), Artistic Director of Tate St Ives, (2007–13) and Exhibitions Curator at Arnolfini, Bristol, (2004–07). Clark succeeded Jenni Lomax OBE, who was the Director of Camden Arts Centre for 27 years, between 1990 and 2017. Under her stewardship, Camden Arts Centre established a programme of exhibitions, including solo shows by Anya Gallaccio, Tal R, Victor Grippo, Yinka Shonibare, Hanne Darboven, Kara Walker, Eva Hesse, Laura Owens, Kerry James Marshall, and Angela de la Cruz, whose first solo exhibition in the UK, entitled 'After', was held at Camden Arts Centre in April and May 2010. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2010. In 2020 Clark oversaw a