Kay Rosen                                                                                                                                                                            . . .

 

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas; lives & works in Gary, Indiana, USA.

Teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Education

B.A. Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

M.A. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

 

Recent Solo Exhibitions & Projects

 

2004     Kay Rosen: HAL F ULL, Recent Wall Paintings and Collages, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
Kay Rosen: Big Talk, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004
New Word Order: Kay Rosen, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
Kay Rosen, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois

2003     Kay Rosen : Rooms, Friedrich Gallery, Basel, Switz.

2002     Collages: 1999-2002, The Drawing Center, NY

2001          Rooms, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY

Up and Down, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

2000          Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY

Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY

1998          Lifeli(k)e, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (25-years survey, curated by Connie Butler & Terry R. Myers)

Girl Talk, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL

ABC (At Beaver College), Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, in collaboration with Billboard Project curated by Stuart Horodner, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1997          Short Stories / Tall Tales, M.I.T List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany

Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema), New York, NY (2-person)

1996          Short Stories, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany

Galerie Art: Concept, Nice, France

Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens

1995          Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland

Morris-Healy Gallery (Paul Morris Gallery), New York, NY

1994          Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy

Home on the Range, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Kay Rosen: Back Home in Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1993     Victoria Miro Gallery, London, GB

            Feature, New York, NY

 

Recent Group Exhibitions

 

2004     Unclosed Stories,Unlimited Contemporary, Athens, Greece
Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Hubris, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, curated by The Pond
The center Is Anywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Lynne Warren
Situation Comedy, travelling exhibition curated by Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks for Independent Curators Incorporated

2003     Dark Companion, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens

Back in Black, Cohan, Leslie, & Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Summer of Lust, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Editions and Multiples 1990-2003, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Michael Ochs and Craig Butler

2002     Just What It Says, Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawn 2, Barry Whistler Gallery,
Dallas, TX
Art Basel Miami Beach, Artists Projects, curated by James Rondeau
Interstate (Fehrer, Moffet, Rosen, Villareal), Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX, curated by Alex Gray
Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, curated by Jennifer Gross
Henrik Olesen, Gabriel Orozco, Kay Rosen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
Words In Deeds, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art(PICA), Portland, OR, curated by Stuart Horodner
Time To Consider, Deutsch Bank Lobby Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Elizabeth Christensen, sponsored by Creative Time

2001          The Game Show, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA

Over~, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens

2000Biennal Exhibition 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Errant Gestures, Apex Gallery, New York, curated by Susette Min

Words-Objects-Acts, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Makedonia, curated by Suzana Milevska

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

Drawn, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

Ralph Nader President, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL

Editions, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA, curated by Stuart Horodner

Reverend Writings, Columbus College of Art and Design (with Ohio State University), Columbus, OH

Out of Line, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1999          Billboard: Art On the Road, Inaugural exhibition @ Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA, organized by Joseph Thompson, Laura Heon, Peggy Diggs

Art In the City III (Kunst in der Stadt III), with Gaylen Gerber, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria, curated by Dr Rudolf Sagmeister

Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, curated by Linda Michael

Points of Departure: Art On the Line, Main Line train stations site-specific projects, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Julie Courtney

The Sea, The Sea, Murray Guy, New York, NY

Wallpaintings, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany

Works on Paper, rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

1998          In the Beginning, Murray Guy, New York, NY

The 3-D Project, Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany

Picture/ Image/ Word, Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Mauro Altamura & Ellen Quinn

Collective Visions, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

Pushing Boundaries: Lithographs from nine American Fine Art Presses, Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY

XxYxZ…The End of the Line, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

Visions, 1998, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Edifying Sappho and Sophocles, A Ministry of Public Works Projects, Sydney, Australia, curated by Rafael Von Uslar

A To Z: Language to be looked at and/or Things To Be Read, The Approach, London, curated by Matthew Higgs

Editions: General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Helga maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany

Pierre Molinier, Kay Rosen, Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkema), New York, NY

1995          Jingle Bells, A Project by 806, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

Druck & Graphik, Klosterfelde, Berlin

Critical Images: Conceptual Works from the 1960s to the Present, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY

New York, Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL

Frankensteinian, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

From a Whisper to a scream, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL

Collections in Context: Recent Acquisitions, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Point Mort, Art: Concept, Paris, France

1996          Art In Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Preview, Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany

Small Scale, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY

Tangles, Otis College of Arts and Design, Los Angeles, CA

Varietes, Le Capitou: Art Contemporain Frejus, France

Thinking Print: Prints and Illustrated Books 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, curated by Deborah Wye

50x50x50x50, Answering machines at various sites, London, GB, curated by David Goldenberg and John Roberts

Frankenstein(in Normal), Illinois State University, Normal, IL, curated by Stuart Horodner

Mist, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, curated by James Yood

Memento Mori, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, curated by Peter Huttinger

 

 

Recent Publications

 

            Nancy Princenthal, Kay Rosen at the Drawing Center, in Art In America, April 2003

Frances Richard, Kay Rosen: The Drawing Center in Artforum.com/ Critics’ Picks, 2002

Ken Johnson, Kay Rosen, Ten in One Gallery and Paul Morris Gallery in The New York Times, 7/4/2000, p B38

Adrian Dannatt, Our choice of New York contemporary galleries: Slippery words from Kay Rosen in The Art Newspaper, April 2000, No102, p 77

Max Henry, Okay Kay uh-huh! In Gotham Dispatch/ Artnet.com, 14/4/2000

Eileen Myles, True to Type in Art In America, september 1999, vol. 87, No 9, pp 110-115

Jacqueline Cooper, Kay Rosen: Lifeli(k)e in New Art Examiner, April 1999, vol.26, #7, p 43

Frank-Alexander Hettig, Kay Rosen: Lifeli(k)e in Kunstforum, march/april 1999, pp 408-409

Claudine Ise, Reading Between Much More Than Just the Lines in “Lifeli(k)e”, in Los Angeles Times, 15/01/1999, p F24

Peter Frank, Dreaming Out Loud: El, Ray ‘n’ Kay in L.A. in LA Weekly, 15-21/01/ 1999, p 49

Alan Artner, Chicago’s Finest: 23 People who Made Significant Contributions to the Arts in 1998/ Artists As Wordsmith in Chicago Tribune, 27/12/1998, section 7, pp 1-4-6-9

Erica Firpo, Read It and Speak: The Smart Text Art of Kay Rosen in L.A. Downtown News, 21/12/1998, volume 27, No51, pp1 &13

Tim Porges, Kay Rosen: Lifeli(k)e in The Contemporary: The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, winter 1999, pp4-5

Alan Artner, Kay Rosen at Ten in One Gallery in Chicago Tribune, 23/10/1998, section 7, p 66

Miriam Seidel, Kay Rosen at Beaver College Art Gallery in Art In America, october 1998, pp 141-143

Katerina Gregos, Kay Rosen: Unlimited, Athens in Zing Magazine, vol 2, winter 1998, p 157

Tim Norris, Kay Rosen- M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center in New Art Examiner, september 1997, p61

Catherine Macchi, Kay Rosen: Art: Concept in BlocNotes (Paris), No14,January 1997, p127

Katerina Gregos, Kay Rosen:Unlimited Gallery in Art Net (Athens), No4, summer 1997, p72

 

 

 

Recent Exhibition Catalogues & Brochures

 

Kay Rosen, Collages 1999 – 2002, Drawing Papers No 32, The Drawing Center, New York, 2002

Min Susette, Errant Gestures: Visual and Verbal Correspondences, Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York, NY, 2000

Heon Laura, Billboard: Art on the Road, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, 1999

Meyers Terry R., Sounding Out Kay Rosen in Kay Rosen : Lifeli(k)e, Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis Gallery of Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, 1998

Butler Connie, The forest for the trees in Kay Rosen : Lifeli(k)e, Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis Gallery of Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, 1998

Goodman Jonathan, Picture/Image/Word, Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, 1998

Riddell Jennifer, Kay Rosen: Short Stories/Tall Tales, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, 1997

 

 

Unlimited Contemporary Art

Athens