Paul Kos — Biographie — Slash Paris

personal exhibitions

2012

• Allegories & Metaphors, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
• Paul Kos Allegories & Metaphors, Nyehaus, New York, USA

2011

• Selected Works: 1969-2011, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2009

• Allegories and Metaphors, Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA, Athens, Greece
• MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
• Conceptual Art Form California, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

2008

• S_elected Works_, Esso gallery, New York, USA
• This Is Not a Void, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil

2007

• from_&_to, kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
• West of the Great Divide,Paule Anglim gallery, San Francisco, USA
• Pioneers, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, USA

2006

• Evidences or This Object of Desire, IN SITU Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
• Work Zones, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• Three Cities: Berlin, Anna-Catharina Gebbers Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin, Germany

2005

• Marking Time, LACE Los Angeles, USA

2003

• Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
• Paul Kos, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, USA

2002

• Beyond Preconceptions, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA

2001

• Paul Kos / Nam June Paik, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

1998

• Sculptural Allegories, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1995

• Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
• Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA

1994

• Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, USA

1992

• Paul Kos: Sculpture, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
• J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA (exposition itinérante)
• Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

1991

• Tintinnabulations, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

1990

• Paul Kos: Ber Lin, Laguna Art Museum, Satellite Gallery at South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, USA
• Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

1988

• Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, USA

1987

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

1986

• New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
• Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA

1982

• University of Nevada, Reno, USA

1980

• MATRIX, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley California, USA
• Site, Inc., 585 Mission Street, San Francisco, USA

1979

• University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1978

• Video Free America, San Francisco, USA
• Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, USA

1977

• Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA

1976

• Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1975

• Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1974

• Howard Fried, Paul Kos, San Jose University Art Gallery, San Jose, USA
• M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA

1973

• Gutierrez-Solana, Glassman, Kos, (trois expositions personelles), La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, USA

1972

• Reese Palley Gallery, New York, USA

1971

• Fish, Fox, Kos, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, USA
• Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1969

• Participationkinetics, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, USA
• Freeze-Drived Xmas, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, USA

group exhibitions

2012

• Temporary Structures, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA 

• [Invisible] Relic, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
• Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA

2011

• State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange Country Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
• Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 — 1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
• Spread — California Conceptualism Then and Now, SOMArts, San Francisco, USA

2010

• Silence, Exile & Cunning, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, USA
• Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 — 2000, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA

2009

• The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1969, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
• MOCA’s First Thirty Years, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
• Conceptual Art from California, Paul Kos and Tony Labat, Arge Kunst, Bolzano, Italy

2008

• This Is Not A Void, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paolo, Brasil
• Eureka, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. San José, USA
• Conceptual Art From California, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlin, Germany
• Looking For Mushrooms, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
• California Video, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
• 15th Anniversery Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary religious Art, ST. Louis, USA
• Neighborhood Secrets, Stavanger, Norway
• Matrix, 30th Birthday Bash, Berkekey Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
• Projected Image, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, USA

2007

• A Principle of Immortality, Video from 1970 to the present, Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA
• Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA

2007

• from_&_to, kunst Merano arte, Merano, Italy
• Pioneers, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
• On Ice, Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, USA
• Subversive Moves, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, USA

2006

• Evidences or This Object of Desire, In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
• The Three Cities — Berlin: The Apartment, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany
• Work Zones: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from SFAI, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

2005

• _Soft Openings, _The Katzen American University Museum, Washington, USA
• Solid Concept V, Gallery , San Francisco, USA

2003

• Solid Concept IV, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA

2001

• Labyrinth Of Pleasure, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
• Double Feature: Paul Kos and Nam June Paik, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

2000

• Open House, Art on Site 1, San Francisco, USA
• 1:1, Refusalon, San Francisco, USA

1999

• Line, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, USA

1998

• PFormative Acts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• Selections from the Weisman Collection, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA

1997

• Video Group Show, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
• The Art Orchestra: A Sculptors’ Ensemble, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

1996

• Blurring the Boundaries Installation Art 1969 — 1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
• Generations, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, USA
• Austria SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Show, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
• Natural Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA

1995

• Facing Eden, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA

1994

• Solid Concept Three, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA

1993

• In Out of the Cold, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

1992

• California Art, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
• John Cage Memorial Exhibition, Jernigan/Wicker, San Francisco, USA
• Unter Null, Woh Museum, Barengasse, Zurich, Switzerland

1991

• After the Apocalypse: A Different Humanism, SECCA, Winston-Salem, USA
• Transformations, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, USA
• Unter Null (Below Zero), Museum Indutriekultur, Nuremberg, Germany
• Gallery II, (3-person show), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA

1990

• Lines of Force, Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• Bay Area Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Works in Media, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
• In Site, Five Conceptual Artists from the Bay Area, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, USA
• Public Art, Models and Drawings, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• Open Channels, Five Year Survey, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA
• R/T SF — Colombia, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• Awards in the Visual Arts 8 High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

1989

• Bay Area Conceptualism: Two Generations, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, USA
• Machinations, Saint Gervais, Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Genève, Suisse
• San Francisco Bay Artists, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombie ; Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombie; Centro Colombo Americano, Bucaramanga, Colombie; Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombie; Museo Arqueologico La Merced, Cali, Colombie; Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia
• Solid Concept, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA

1988

• Second International Exhibition of Artists of Slovenian Descent, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Yougoslavia
• 3 Videonale, Bonn, Germany
• Art of the Madonna, Old St. Patrick’s Church, Chicago, USA

1987

• Landscape Video: The Seventies, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
• Steirischer Herbst ’87, Graz, Austria
• Object Poems, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
• 30 From 25, Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

1986

• Second Newport Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum, USA

1985

• Video from Vancouver to San Diego, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
• Reel to Real, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Nature as Metaphor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• Spacial Relationships in Video, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
• Selections from the de Saisset, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA

1984

• Artist’s Valentines, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• Artist Olympics, Video Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• San Francisco Video Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Video and Ritual, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
• Reel to Real, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• Bar Video, Vazac Hall, presented by MO David, Inc., New York, USA

1984

• Video: A Retrospective 1974-1984, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA

1983
*_ Art Video_, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, France

• Performance, Restaurant Dalmatzi, Bern, Switzerland

1982

• Vision #5 Artists’ Photography, Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, USA
• Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
• 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland, USA
• Elegant San Francisco Miniatures, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco; Belca House, Kyoto, Japon; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Video, American River College, Sacramento, USA
• Arts Alive, KVIE Channel 6, Sacramento, USA

1981

• California Performance, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
• TV in Place, Korot, Burden, Kos, San Francisco Art Institute, USA

1980

• San Francisco Video Review, Video Free America, San Francisco, USA
• San Francisco Video Festival, San Francisco, USA
• Video Art, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France

1979

• Video Roman ’79, Rome, Italy
• Everson Video Review, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
• University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
• Bay Area Contemporary Strengths, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Space/Time/Sound/1970’s — A Decade in the Bay Area, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

1978

• Art Video, La Mamelle and Cable Channel 25, San Francisco, USA
• Video Art, Southland Cable Networks, Some Serious Business, and the Long Beach Museum of Art, USA
• Americans in Paris, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, USA
• Video Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Cincinnati, USA
• Video Art, Lanchester Polytech, Coventry, UK

1977

• A Tight Thirteen Minutes, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, USA
• Paris Biennale, Paris, France
• Video Art USA, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France

1976

• Video Art: An Overview, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Video Art, Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, USA

1975

• Video Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
• The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
• San Francisco Bay Area Artists’ Work on Video Tape, And/Or Gallery, Seattle, USA
• Video Art USA, Biennale de São Paulo, Pavillon américain, Brésil (Voyager à travers cinq pays latino-américain)
• Information Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• Exchange?DFW/SFO, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1975, et le San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• Landscape Video, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA

1974

• Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
• Collector’s Video, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
• Video Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
• Basel 5, 1974, Bâle, Switzerland
• Trigon, Vienne, Austria
• Cologne Art Fair, Köln, Germany
• Project 74, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln, Germany
• Video Art, Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, USA
• South of the Slot, 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco, USA

1973

• Circuit, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Art Institute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• All Night Sculpture, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, USA
• Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Video, The New Wave, WGBH Télévision, Boston, USA
• Video Group Show_, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
  * Art Now_, J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., USA

1972

• San Francisco Performance, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA
• Video West One_, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, USA
  * Games_, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
• Saint Jude Video Invitational, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, USA
• The Bay Area Roach Clip Show, San Geronimo, USA
• Toys of the Artist, Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, USA
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• MOCA FM_, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco and KPFA FM, Berkeley , USA
  * Video Works_, 112 Greene Street, New York, USA

1970

• Richmond Sculpture Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, USA
• The Eighties, University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
• Sound; Sculpture As: Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, USA
• Films by Sculptors, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, USA

1970

• Art in the Mind, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA

1969

• Invitational Drawing Exhibit, California State College, Hayward, USA
• Return of Abstract Expressionism, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, USA

public collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Fondation Kadist, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, USA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, USA
Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Köln, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphie, USA
de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, USA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, USA

prizes

2005–2007
Eureka Fellowship Program for the Visual Arts

1999–2000
Flintridge Foundation Fellowship

1997
National Endowment for the Arts and FONCA (Fondacion y Organisacion National de Culutra y Artes) Residency in Mexico

1993
National Endowment Fellowship

1990
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

1989
Award in the Visual Arts (AVA)

1987
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
Engelhard Award, Boston
Western States Arts Fellowship
“Open Channels,” Long Beach Museum of Art

1986
National Endowment Media Arts Grant (en partenariat avec the Walker Art Center)
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship

1986
Capp Street Project, Residency

1983
Western States Arts Fellowship

1982
National Endowment Fellowship

1976
National Endowment Fellowship

1974
National Endowment Fellowship

state commissions

2011-2014
South Plaza, Public Safety Building, San Francisco, USA

2009-2013
San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, USA

2009-2010
UCSF, Lobby, Cancer Research, San Francisco, USA

2005-2010
Freeport Water Authority, Sacramento, USA

2006
California Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

1991-2000
Poetry Sculpture Garden, avec le poète Robert Hass, 199 Fremont, San Francisco, USA

1997
Tunnel/Chapel, di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, California, USA, avec Isabelle Sorrell

1990-1994
Secretary of State, State Archives Building, Sacramento, USA, avec Mandell/Sultan

bibliography (selection)

2012

• “Artists Presaged Social Media”, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mars
• Chang, Soojin, “Berkeley Art Museum Showcases California’s Conceptual Artists of the 70’s”, The Daily Californian, 4 Mars

2008

• Kaufman, Jason Edward. “Hidden Asian influence on US modern masters revealed,” The Art Newspaper, Décembre
• “Exhibitions Evoke Signs of Ruin, Scars of War”, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Janvier

2004

• Gilmore, Jonathan, Art in America, Avril
• Oliman, Leah, “Images that Call for Action”, Los Angeles Times, 15 Février

2003

• Camhi, Leslie, “Human Comedy: A Bay Area Conceptualist’s Antic, Melancholy Body of Work”, Village Voice, 1-7 Octobre
• Kimmelman, Michael, “Why Faith That’s a Bit Slapstick”, The New York Times, 12 Septembre
• Haber, John, “Us and Them”, Haber’s Art Reviews

2000

• Golonu, Berin, Artweek, Janvier

1998

• Baker, Kenneth, “Art That Comes Across as Disposable”, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Novembre
• Bonetti, David, “Two decades of MATRIX”, San Francisco Examiner, 29 Avril

1996

• Porges, Maria, “Paul Kos at Gallery Paule Anglim”, Artforum, Février

1994

• “With sly wit, Paul Kos rings a bell”, San Francisco Examiner, 28 Octobre
• Moss, Stacey, Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery [exhibition catalog], Belmont, CA: College of Notre Dame

1990

• Reveaux, Tony, ‘Polytechnical Diversity (SFMOMA)”,_ Artweek 21_, 19 Avril
• Christensen, Judith, “Uncomfortable Cadence”, Artweek 21, 15 Mars
• Smallwood, Lyn, ‘Sculptor in a Haystack”, Seattle Weekly, 7 Février

1989

• Morris, Gay, Art in America 77, Février

1987

• Riddle, Mason, New Art Examiner 15, Novembre
• Tamblyn, Christine, “A Ritual for Bells”, Artweek 17, 15 Mars
• Anderson, Phil, “Chartes Bleu”, High Performance 10, no. 3
• Belsito, Peter, “Sympathetic Vibrations”, High Performance 9, no. 2

1985

• Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Video and Ritual”, Afterimage 12, Février

1978

• Battcock, Gregory, ed., New Artists Video, New York: Dutton

1977

• Marioni, Tom, “Art/By Jove”, San Francisco Magazine, Mars

1976

• Schneider, Ira, and Beryle Korot, eds., Video Art, New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich

1975

• Junker, Howard, “Video Installation: Paul Kos and Sculptured Monitor”, Arts Magazine, Novembre

1974

• Kent, Tom, ”Paul Kos — Videotapes and Sculptural Residue”, Artweek, 2 Novembre

1973

• Jay Belloil, Joel Glassman, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Paul Kos [catalogue d’exposition], La Jolla, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art

1972

• Arts Magazine 47, no. 1, Septembre-Octobre
• Avalanche 4, Printemps

1971

• Avalanche 2, Hiver
• “San Francisco”, Artforum 9, vol 1, Septembre
• “Bay Area Report”, Arts Magazine 45, no. 8, Eté
• “Authority and Art (Again)”, Artweek, 26 Juin
• Albright, Thomas, “Art”, Rolling Stone, 24 Juin
• “Marvels in Steel and Sand”, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Avril
• Artweek, 13 Février

1970

• Avalanche 1, Fall
• Richardson, Brenda, “Bay Area Survey: The Myth of Neo-Dada”, Arts Magazine, Eté
• Arts Magazine 44, no. 8, Eté
• Tarshis, Jerome, “San Francisco”,_ Artforum 8,_ no. 10, Juin
• Soe, Valerie, “Lessons in Seeing”, Artweek, 25 Avril
• “Sounds Sculpture Event”, Artweek, 25 Avril
• Jaszi, Jean, “Projects for the Eighties”, Artweek, 28 Mars
• “Museum of Conceptual Art Opens”, Artweek, 28 Mars
• “U.C. Project for the Eighties”, Artweek, 14 Mars
• McCann, Cecile N., “Richmond Sculpture Annual”,_ Artweek_, 18 Février

1969

• “Sculpture in the Vineyards”,_ San Francisco Magazine_, Octobre
• Arms, John, “Agrisculpture”, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Août »
• “Art from a Giant Puddle”, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Juillet