Jean-Clarence Lambert (born 1930 in Paris) is a French poet, essayist and art critic.
He met Paul Éluard in 1946 and spent time with André Breton's Surrealist group.
He spent time in Scandinavia, mainly Sweden. He met the artists of the CoBrA group, becoming its first historian and publishing numerous works on them, notably on the painter Guillaume Corneille and Karel Appel.
In 1955, together with Georges Fall, he founded the collection "Le Musée de Poche" and began to organise poetry and art events, inviting hundreds of artists to perform over a period of more than forty years.
His first collection of poems, Dépaysage, was illustrated by Pierre Soulages.
He travelled extensively throughout the world.
In 1967, together with Georges Fall and other critics, he founded the review Opus international.
In 1995, he was awarded the Grand Prix de Poésie by the SGDL (Société des Gens De Lettres) for his personal anthology Le Jardin le labyrinthe.
He collected his writings on the labyrinthe dans Dédalogrammes.

Opus international, n° 56, June 1975
French contemporary art magazine (from 1967 to 1995)