KK Kozik

Magnesium Elektron, NA, Prize, North American Biennial of Prints, 2009

Commission, Arts For Transit, Rockaway Park Beach 116th St Subway Station, 2008

New American Painting, Selected Artist, 2004, 2007

Weir Farm Trust Visiting Artist Fellowship, 2003-4

Rotunda Gallery Multimedia Grant at BCAT, 2002

Artist in Residence, Hofstra University, 2000-2001

Marie Walsh  Sharpe Art Foundation Grant, 1994

University Fellowship, Syracuse University 1985-86

 

M.A., Syracuse University, 1986 

B.A., University of Virginia, 1983

Edinburgh University, 1981-82

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2012 Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

2011 Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2010 "Imitation of Life," Black & White Gallery, New York

       "Recent Work," Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Connecticut

2009 Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles

         Interiors, Fitton Center for the Arts, Hamilton, Ohio

2007 Gotham Haiku, New Etchings, VanDeb Editions, New York, collaboration with Barry Schwabsky

2006  Shelter, Black & White Gallery, New York

2003  Ashcan Rococo, Black & White Gallery, New York

2000  Wild Kingdom, Roebling Hall, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

          Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia

          James Fuentes Gallery, New York

1996  Secrecy, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York

1995  Faraway, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York

1994  Sugar, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York

          Hudson Hall, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York

1993 White Columns, New York

         Trial Balloon 2, New York

1992 Eleven East Ashland, Phoenix

         Durham Arts Council, North Carolina

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2012 Affordable Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA

2011 "Cabin Fever," Mixed Greens, New York

      "So Zik," Ober Gallery, Kent, CT

      "Shaker Collects Art," Jack and Linda Lissauer Art Gallery, Shaker Heights, Ohio

      Capital Art Fair, Washington, DC with Van Deb Editions

      PULSE Los Angeles with Black & White Gallery

      NurtureArt Benefit, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

 

2010 Vernissage at the Granary (Bucksbaum/Learsey), Sharon, CT

       "Portraits," Storefront, Bushwick Brooklyn

       PULSE Art Fair with Black & White Gallery, Miami

       NurtureArt Benefit, ZieherSith Gallery, New York

       Group Show, VanDeb Editions, New York,

       PULSE Art Fair with Black & White Gallery, New York

       Capital Print Fair, Washington DC

       Baltimore Fair for Contemporary Prints and New Editions, Baltimore

       Museum of Art Editions: Monotypes and Etchings from a Printmaking Atelier,
       curated by Emily J. O'Leary, Hebrew Home at Riverdale

       Group Show, Green and Blue Gallery, Stowe, VT

       "Bibliophilia," Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, CT

       ArtGarage Benefit, Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT

 

2009 North American Biennial of Prints, 808 Gallery, Boston University

       VanDeb Editions 10th Anniversary Show, New York

       Summer Group Show, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles

       Palms, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington

       Pierogi a Go Go, Pierogi Boiler, Brooklyn

       Slow News, Marks Art Garage, Honolulu, curated by Peggy Cyphers

       Miniatures, Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT

       Publishing Partnerships: VanDeb Editions and Olive Branch Press, Ithaca, NY

       Benefit, Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron

 

2008 Cleveland Museum of Art Prints, Cleveland

      Past Meets Present, University of Virginia Gallery, Charlottesville

      Thoreau Reconsidered, Concord Art Museum, Concord, MA, curated by Jennifer McGregor

      Touring Connecticut, State Capitol Building, Hartford, CT

      Mapping Correspondence, Center for Book Arts, New York

      Viewing New Yorkers, NY Society of Etchers, New York

      Etchings and Monoprints, VanDeb Editions, New York

      Cultural Corridor, Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA, curated by Geoffrey Young

      The Artist and the Object, Sharon Historical Society, curated by Stephanie Plunkett

      BAMArt Benefit, Brooklyn

      Black and White Gallery Project Space Benefit, New York

 

2007 The Sheltering Sky, Black &White Gallery, New York  

          NextNext BAMArt Benefit, Brooklyn         

          Aphrodite, three-person show, Geoffrey Young  Gallery, Great Barrington, MA   

          Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York

 

2006 Summer of Philocracy, SilentSpace Gallery, Kingston, NY

        Next Next BAMArt Benefit, Brooklyn        

        Postcards from the Edge, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York              

         ArtMiami, Miami

         NextNext BAMArt , Brooklyn, curated by Dan Cameron and Claryssa Dalrymple       

 

2004 Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art

         Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

         ScopeNYArt Fair, New York

         Enchantment, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx

         Pierogi a Go Go, Pierogi, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

         Drawn to the Present, Pace University (curated by Jane Dickson and Linda Gottesfeld)

         Power Ts, Pierogi, Willamsburg, Brooklyn

         Weir Farm Visiting Artists, University of Conn. Stamford Gallery

 

2003  NextNext Visual Art Series (curated by Dan Cameron), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

          Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

          The ‘Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York (curated by John Nickle)

          New Acquisitions, Florida State Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee

          Rethinking Landscape,  Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster

          BQE, White Box, New York (curated by Christian Viveros and Joel Beck)

 

2002  Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

          Phoenix, NY, Parker’s Box, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

          Artist to Artist, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Retrospective, Ace Gallery, New York

          Animals in Art, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania

          Reactions, Exit Art, New York; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena

          Postcards From the Edge, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York        

          Benefit Auction, Art Resources Transfer, New York

          Benefit Auction, Bellwether Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

          Benefit, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn

 

2001  The Entropic Garden, Scales Fine Arts Center, Wake Forest University, North Carolina 

           (curated by Joel Beck)

          Benefit Auction, Art Resources Transfer

          Made in Brooklyn, Cono’s, Williamsburg, Brooklyn  (curated by Chris Martin)

          Postcards From the Edge, Benefit Visual Aids, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York

 

2000  Works on Paper, Serran Cano Gallery, Barcelona

          Yardsale, Downtown Arts Festival, New York

          Meat Market Art Fair, New York

          Quirky, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

          The Entropic Garden, www.massurrealism.com (curated by Joel Beck)     

 

   1999  Contemporary Visions:  Women on the Verge,

             General Electric Corporate Headquarters Lobby Gallery

          (P)review, Roebling Hall, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

             Austrotel Art Fair, Vienna, Austria

          Familiar Strangers, Galapagos Art and Performance Space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

          Community Art Auction, Brooklyn Museum of Art

  

1998   Utopia, Roebling Hall, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

           Pay-Per-It, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

           Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, New York

           Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York

           Are You Looking at Me?, Acme Art Company, Columbus, Ohio

 

1997   Collector's Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

           Paradise, E. S. Vandam, New York

           Current Undercurrents: Living and Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Art Museum

           Treffpunkt Niemandsland, organized by P.T.T. Red, Brennaro, Italy

           New York Drawers, Gasworks, London (travelled to Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England)

           Gramercy International Art Fair (with Momenta Art), New York

 

1996   Body Language, Florida State University, Tallahassee

          Alem de Agua, Museo de Arte Extremeo e lberamericano, Badajoz, Spain

          Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, New York

          Fictional Archives, Four Walls, Oslo, Norway

          Benefit Auction, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York

          Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York

          Crude Art, Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, Vermont

 

1995   The Wheel of Fortune, Lombard/Freid Gallery, New York (curated by Amy Lipton)

             Artwalk 95, Benefit Auction for the Coalition for the Homeless, New York

             Works for a Fun House, E.S. Vandam, New York (curated by Yvonne Muranushi, Sue Canning,    

and Saul Ostrow)

             Happy Valley, A/C Project Room, New York (curated by Dan Cameron)

             Pilgrims, Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York

             Hardware Show, Crest Hardware, Brooklyn, New York

             Telling Tales, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

 

1994  Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York

             The Job Show, Kunstverein, Munich

             Benefit Auction, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York

             Expressionism: Abstract or Not, Community Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey

             Drop Dead Painting, New York (curated by John Ford)

             White Columns Benefit, New York

             Erika Knerr, KK Kozik, and Stuart Nicholson, Janos Gat Gallery, New York

             Fallen Idylls: American Figurative Painting, Miami Art Expo and Cultural Center of the Martin  County Council for the Arts, Florida (curated by Wendy Olsoff and Christopher Sweet)

 

1993     Promotional Copy, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York

             Four Walls Benefit, David Zwirner Gallery, New York

             OIA Benefit, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York

             Route 66 Revisited, Red Mesa Arts Center, Gallup, New Mexico (traveled to New Mexico Center for the Arts, Albuquerque; Near Northwest Arts Center, Chicago; Illinois State Museum,                            Springfield)

             Update 1993, White Columns, New York

             Anxious Art, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston

              Inaugural Group Exhibition, Rowles Studio, Hudson, N.Y. (curated by Bill Maynes)

              Group Show, World Tattoo, Chicago

              American Gothic, Art In General, New York (curated by Laura Hoptmann)

              Malta's Cradle: Reflections on the Abyss of Time, Solo Press, New York (curated by Peggy Cyphers)

 

   1992  Route 66 Revisited, Red Mesa Arts Center, Gallup, New Mexico (traveled to Near Northwest Arts Center, Chicago)

             Body Double, LaMama La Galleria, New York

             Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, New York

             Consumption of Paradise, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, Lexington Avenue YMCA, New York (curated  by Paul Bridgewater)

             Radio Show, Artist's Space, New York

             Salon, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York

             Reform/Refigure, Organization of Independent Artists, New York

 

Selected Bibliography:

Arning, Bill.  Update 1993, catalogue essay, September 1993

Artists to Artists, catalogue, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 2002

Artscope Magazine, review of "Thoreau REconsidered," fall 2008

Beck, Joel.  The Entropic Garden, catalogue essay, Scales Fine Arts Center, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, 2001

Beck, Joel.  Wild Kingdom, catalogue essay, Roebling Hall and Randolph-Macon College, 1999

Cameron, Dan.  KK Kozik: Sugar, catalogue essay, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, March 1994

Chambers, Christopher.  New York Soho Arts, exhibition review, January 1996

Cotter, Holland. “Phoenix, NY,” The New York Times, exhibition review, January 2002

Currah, Mark.  “New York Drawers,” Time Out London, exhibition review, October 1997

Diehl, Carol.  Artnews, exhibition review, February, 1997

Fowlkes, Stephan, review, The New York Optimist, Feb. 1, 2010

Fuentes, James.  “Open Space -- James Fuentes Gallery, A Diary,” Zing Magazine 12, Summer 2000

Gallery, catalogue essay, Dooley le Cappelaine Gallery, New York, April 1992

Glyndor Gallery, "Enchantment," Wave Hill, July 2004

Hamburger, Susan.  Waterfront Weekly, column, November 5, 1998

Handy, Ellen.  Cover, exhibition review, September 1994

Harper’s Magazine, Artist’s Page, October 2000

H-O, Paul, video interview, Gallery Beat, September 2010

Hoptmann, Laura.  Manual, catalogue essay, Art In General, New York, February 1994

Jones, Casey, "KK Kozik Brings Color to Black & White for Heifer.org," Scallywags and Vagabonds, Feb. 9, 2010

Kalm, James, "James Kalm Frames New York,", video interview

Kalm, James, "K.K. Kozik," The Brooklyn Rail, January 2006

Kalm, James, “Wild Kingdom,” NYARTS, exhibition preview, December 3, 1999

Kleinman, Elise.  “Impressed by Works of  KK Kozik,” The Chatham Courier, Chatham, N.Y., August 4, 1993

Karmel, Pepe.  The New York Times, exhibition review, November 10, 1995

Kotik, Charlotta,  OPEN , exhibition catalogue, Open House Brooklyn Museum, 2004

Laster, Paul.  Art Net, exhibition review

Lavine, Matt T.  “After the End of Art, How Does it Begin Again,”  www.indieplanet.com, March 2000

Karmel, Pepe, "Also of Note," New York Times, November 10, 1995

Lombardi, D. Dominick, "From Romantic to Edgy: Works that Compel," New York Times, July 25, 2004

Levin, Kim.  “Voices Choices,” The Village Voice, exhibition review, November 1995

Levin, Kim.  “Voices Choices,” The Village Voice, exhibition review, June 1996

Lloyd, Ann Wilson, "K.K. Kozik at Bill Maynes," Art in America, exhibition review, May 1, 1996

Mahoney, Robert.  “Sisyphean Struggles,” Cover, exhibition review, April 1993

Marlow, Shelly.  Zing Magazine, project, Fall 1998

McCormick, Carlo.  KK Kozik: Faraway, catalogue essay, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, October 1995

McCormick, Carlo.  Ashcan Rococo, catalogue essay, Black and White Gallery, 2003

Molesworth, Carol.  Manhattan User's Guide, Vol. 2, Issue 12, April 1994 (review)

Morgan, Robert C. “Doric Column,” Cover, exhibition review, March 1993

New York Magazine, “Into the Woods,” exhibition review, July 31, 2002

New Yorker, “Artists to Artists,” exhibition review, May 25, 2002

New Yorker, exhibition review, January 16, 2006

Palladino-Craig, Allys.  Body Language, catalogue essay, Museum of Fine Arts Florida State University

Partegas, Ester, Interview with KK Kozik, Zing Magazine, Spring 2000

Richard, Francis. The New Yorker, exhibition review, May 1, 2003

Robinson, Walter, Weekend Update, Artnet, Feb. 10, 2010

Robinson, Walter, H-0, Paul and Lebowitz, Cathy.  Gallery Beat TV, exhibition review, January 1997

Sabine7, "Au Plein Air," (Weblog Entry) Painting. ArtMoco. January 19, 2006

Saltz, Jerry.  “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday,” Art in America, exhibition review, September 1993

Schwabsky, Barry, Artforum, exhibition review, April 2000

Servetar, Stuart. “Best Bets,” New York Press, exhibition review, May 18, 1994

Sherman, Mary.  “Art Show Makes an ‘Anxious’ Bid to the Market,” Boston Sunday Herald, exhibition review, August 15, 1993

Smith, Champe, Culture/Context:  KK Kozik, TV interview with Austin Thomas, Brooklyn Cable

Smith, Roberta.  “Artists to Artists,” The New York Times, exhibition review, May 24, 2002

Smith, Roberta.  “Current Undercurrents: Living and Working in Brooklyn,” The New York Times,  exhibition review, October 1997

Smith, Roberta.  “Utopia, Roebling Hall,” The New York Times, exhibition review, November 6, 1998

Smith, Roberta, "Chelsea's Works in Progress," New York Times, November 29, 1996

Smith, Roberta, "Brooklyn Haven for Art Heats Up," New York Times, November 6, 1998

Stapen, Nancy.  “Summer Jolt of  ‘Anxious’ Art,” The Boston Globe, exhibition review, July 29, 1993

Streitfeld, L.P. “Beyond Impressionism,” The Advocate and Greenwich Time, exhibition review, January   2, 2005

Sublette, Bill.  “Art from a Voice Within,” interview, University of Virginia Alumni News, December 1990

Sweet, Christopher.  Fallen Idylls, catalogue essay, January 1994

“U.Va. Alumni Featured in Fayerweather Show,” Charlottesville Observer Magazine, September 8, 1990

Valentin, Estee.  Artscape, exhibition review, October 1998

Viveros-Faune, Christian.  “Pay Per It,” exhibition review, NY Press, November 18, 1998

Waddell, Roberta, catalog essay, North American Biennial of Prints, 2009

Walfred, Arnold, III. “Simply Grand,” NYArts Magazine, February 2002

Weathered, Laura.  Vision Through the Windshield, catalogue essay, Route 66 Revisited, September 1992

Whitman, Arthur, Ithaca Times, review of "Publishing Partnerships," February 2009

Wright, Jeff.  Crash Force, catalogue essay, Body Double, New York, September 1992.  Reprinted in Exquisite Corpse.  University of Illinois Press, 1995

Wright, Jeff.  Cover, exhibition review, February 1997

Yablonsky, Linda.  Time Out New York, Issue No. 68, exhibition review, January 9-16, 1997

Youens, Rachel, Cover, exhibition review, Winter 1999

 

Projects:

 

Curator, "Bibliophilia," Hotchkiss Library of Sharon. Co-curator, "Paradise," E.S. Vandam, New York, 1997. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Hofstra University (2002-present).  Guest Lecturer, Pratt Institute (November 2000).  Artist in Residence, Hofstra University (Fall 2000, Spring 2001).  Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut (Spring/Fall 1999, Spring 2000).  Adjunct Professor, Pennsylvania State University (Spring 1998). 

 

Visiting Artist, University of Virginia, February 2000.  Visiting Artist, Randolph-Macon College, February 2000.  Visiting Artist, Penn State University, November 1997.  Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts, March 1994. 

 

Contributor to Time Capsule, an anthology of women's art published by Creative Time.  Organizer and participant, panel discussion “TABU,” Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York, June 1993.

 

Senior Editor and Art Critic and Music Critic, Cover Arts New York, 1989 to 1999.  Contributing Editor, Arte en Colombia/Art Nexus  (Bogota, Colombia) 1996 to present; Published  in Vitvarne Umeni (Prague); Latin American Art,  Journal of Contemporary Art,  New York and Brooklyn Rail.  Co-guest-editor, “Pilgrims and Pop Pioneers,” New Observations, New York; Co-organizer and participant, “Pilgrims and Pop Pioneers,” Four Walls, Brooklyn, 1996; Contributing writer, The Exhibitionist. 

 

Co-curator, “Paradise,” E.S. Vandam, New York, 1997.  Curator, “We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming,” White Columns, New York, 1992; District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC, 1993.

 

Collections:

William Benton Museum

Florida State Museum of Fine Arts

General Electric Corporation

Great Valley Corporate Center

Harvard Business School
Library of  Congress

Progressive Corporation

Prudential Securities

Weir Farm Trust

Private Collections in the US and Abroad

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