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| Biography
Born: Corpus Christi, Texas
Lives: Gary, Indiana
Teaches: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
| Selected Individual Exhibitions and Projects
2006
Project (04-05/06), Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (F)
Kay Rosen: Wall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York City (US)
2005
Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York City (US)
(NO) COMMENT, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin (D)
Never Odd Or Even a permanent installation for the Indianapolis Museum of Art (US)
2004
Kay Rosen: HAL F ULL, Recent Wall Paintings and Collages, University Art Museum, University of Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CL
Kay Rosen: Big Talk, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (NZ)
New Word Order: Kay Rosen Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia
Kay Rosen, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois (US)
2003
Kay Rosen: Rooms, Galerie Friedrich, Basel (CH)
2002
Kay Rosen: Collages 1999-2002, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2001
Rooms, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Kay Rosen: Up and Down Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2000
Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Connie Butler and Terry R. Myers
1998
Kay Rosen: Girl Talk, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL
ABC (At Beaver College), Beaver College Art Gallery (now Arcadia University), Philadelphia, PA
in collaboration with Billboard Project curated by Stuart Horodner, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1997
Kay Rosen: Short Stories/ Tall Tales, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf (D)
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY (2-person with Jody Rhone)
1996
Short Stories, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg (D)
Art: Concept, Nice (now Paris) (F)
Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, (GR)
1995
Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern (CH)
Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan (I)
Kay Rosen: 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
1993
Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
Feature, New York, NY
Jose Freire Gallery, New York, NY (2-person with Susan Silas)
1992
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Laura Carpenter Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
Feature, New York, NY
1991
Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Manum de Tabula, Shedhalle, Zurich (CH)
Feature, New York, NY
Laura Carpenter Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
Feature, New York, NY
1990
Feature, New York, NY
Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
Witte de With (Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam (NL)
1989
Feature, New York, NY
1988
Feature, New York, NY
Feature, Chicago, IL
1987
Feature, Chicago, IL
1986
Kay Rosen: Lines On Lines, University Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio Sate University, Columbus, OH
1983
Kay Rosen- Stair Walking: Notations/ Diagrams, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Kay Rosen: Photographic Performances, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1979
Kay Rosen: Photo-texts and Performances, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY
| Group Exhibitions (selected)
2006
Safe, (curated by Sergio Bessa,) Karen Cullen Gallery, New York (US)
Gaylen Gerber, Foundation Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (LUX)
Having New Eyes, (curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson,) Aspen Art Museum (US)
Role Playing, BCB Gallery, Hudson, New York (US)
40th Anniversary Exhibition, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (F)
No Lemons, No Melon, (curated by Sheila Pepe and Carrie Moyer) David Krut Projects, New York (US)
Under the Skin: Tattoos and American Culture, (curated by Ron Platt) Asheville Art Museum, North
Carolina (US)
2005
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea
Rosen Gallery, New York City (US)
General Ideas, (curated by Matthew Higgs), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco,
CA (US)
A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston (US)
R3: Reading, 'Ritin, 'Rithmatic 30 Years Later, (curated by Susan Canning,) Castle Gallery, The College
of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY (US)
Navy Pierwalk 2005, (curated by Peter Schjeldahl,) Chicago, IL,
Julian Opie, Kay Rosen, William Seaman BCB ART, Hudson, NY
Very Early Pictures, (curated by Dick Torchia,) Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia (US)
How To Read as part of Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; curated by Sergio
Bessa
The Vinyl Project, Cork 2005, Cork, Ireland, initiated and coordinated by Coracle
Situation Comedy, travelling exhibition curated by Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks for Independent Cu-
rators Incorporated
2004
Gaylen Gerber, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Between Letters and Abstraction, 3°W Gallery, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Great Britain, curated by Daniel Sturgis
On Message, Art For Our Time, Plant Zero Project Space, Richmond, VA, curated by Alyssa Salomon
Unclosed Stories, Unlimited Contemporary, Athens (GR)
Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Hubris, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, curated by The Pond
The Center Is Anywhere, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2003
Dark Companion, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens (GR)
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 (D)
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 (GR)
Words In Deeds, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art(PICA), Portland, OR; curated by Stuart Horodner
Time To Consider, Deutsch Bank Lobby Gallery, New York City, NY; curated by Elizabeth Christensen,
sponsored by Creative Time
2001
The Game Show, Massachusetts Museum of Comtemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Over, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens (GR)
Extra-Art: A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960-1999, California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco,
CA; curated by Steven Leiber (will travel to Minnetonka Art Center, Minneapolis & ICA, London, 2002-2003
Textual Operations, White Box, New York, NY, a lecture series curated by Sergio Bessa
A Work In Progress, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, curated by Dan Cameron
Een goes in de weg staande tafel, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam, curated by Jack Jaeger
Drawing On Language, Spaces, Cleveland, OH; curated by Stephan Jost and Carter Foster
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and Moreâ€_On Collecting; curated by Ingrid Schaffner for Independent Cura-
tors Inc.
Texty, M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Canada; curated by Hudson
Blondes + Brownies (Blondinchen und Braunchen), curated by Rafael von Uslar, Aktionsforum Praterinsel,
Munich (D)
2000
Biennial Exhibition 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Errant Gestures, Apex Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Susette Min
Words-Objects-Acts, Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia, 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, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg (D)
Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell Unicversity, Lewisburg, PA, curated by Stuart Horodner
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
Art In the City III,("Kunst in der Stadt III"), with Gaylen Gerber, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz Austria; cura-
ted by Dr. Rudolph 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; cura-
ted by Julie Courtney
The Sea, The Sea, Murray Guy, New York, NY
Wallpaintings, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, (D)
Works On Paper, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
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 (D)
Picture/ Image/ Word, Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University, NJ; curated by Mauro Altamura
and 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 Cinci-
nnati, Cincinnati, OH
Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
The End of the Line, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens (GR)
Visions, 1998, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Edifying Sappho and Sophocles, a Ministry of Public Works Project, Sydney, Australia, cgurated by Rafael von Uslar
A To Z: Language To Be Looked At and/ or Things To Be Read, curated by Matthew Higgs,The Approach,
London (GB)
Editions: General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg (D)
Pierre Molinier, Kay Rosen, Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkima), New York, NY
1997
Jingle Bells, a project by 806, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan (I)
Druck & Graphik, Klosterfelde, Berlin (D)
Critical Images: Conceptual Works from the 1960s to the Present, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Frankensteinian, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Collections in Context: Recent Acquisitions, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA
Point Mort, curated by Olivier Antoine, Art Concept, Paris, (F)
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 Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Varietes, Le Capitou: Art Contemporain Frejus, Frejus, France
Thinking Print: Prints and Illustrated Books 1980-1995, curated by Deborah Wye, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY"50x50x50," 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, curated by James Yood, Block Gallery, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL, Momento Mori, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, curated by Peter Huttinger
1995
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, NY
Word for Word, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; curated by Paula Marincola
The Friendly Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI; curated by Michelle Grabner
and Brad Killam
Art As Dramatic Comedy, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Marie Shurkus
Five Words or Less, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia; curated by Christopher Van der Craats
Murder, curated by John Yau, Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, CA
On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY
Altered States, curated by Robert Nickas and Jeannie Greenberg, Forum, St. Louis, MO
Pittura-Immedia: Painting in the 90's, Neue Galerie and Kunstler Haus, Graz, Austria, curated by Peter Weibel
Representional Drawings, Feature, New York, NY
Zimmerdenkmaler (Room Movements), curated and organized by Rafael von Uslar, Various residential
and commercial sites in Bochum (D);
1994
Small Paintings, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Scissors, Paper, Rock, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Korrespondenzen/ Correspondences, Berlinische Galerie, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Curated by Judith Kirshner and Gregory Knight
Synesthesia: Sound and Vision In Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX;
curated by Don Bacigalupi
The Use of Pleasure, San Francisco, CA; curated by Robert Nickas
1993
Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS, Washington Porject for the Arts, Washington D.C.; curated by Don
Russell
Money, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
Surface Tension, Michael Klein Gallery, New York, NY
Post-Dialectical Index, Piazza Costanza, Trieste, Italy; La Tuatta Studio, Milan; Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Robert Morgan
Words, Galerie Semmler(guest) at Galerie Jurgen Becker, Hamberg (D)
New Works, Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Substitute Teachers, Sadie Bronfman Cultural Center, Montreal, Canada, curated by Stuart Horodner
Legend in My Livingroom, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chcago, IL, curated by Terry R. Myers 1992
Small Talk, P.S.1 and Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Marilyn Minter
Painting Culture, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, curated by Deborah Kass
Artists' Books From the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Why Paint?, Renaissance Gallery at the University of Chicago, Chicago,IL
On Condition, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago,IL, curated by Julia Fish
Out of Bounds: The Word Becomes Art, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Jack Hanley Gallery, Group Show, San Francisco, CA
Oh, Eau, Project at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Andrea Rosen Gallery, Project with Michael Jenkins and Steven Evans, New York, NY
Multiples '92, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
25th Anniversary Show, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY
Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?, curated by Cary Leibowitz, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CN
1991
At the End of the Day, curated by Michael Jenkins, Randy Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
The Painted Word, Beth Urdang Fine Art, Boston, MA
Candy Ass Carnival (When Good Things Happen to Loozers), Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Hyde Collection, Great Falls, NY;
curated by Dan Cameron
Awards in the Visual Arts X, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Albuquerque Museum; Toledo Mus-eum, Toledo, OH
A New Low, curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, Claudio Botello Gallery, Turin (I)
Nine Is a Four-Letter Word (a letterpress project), Key Gallery, Richmond, VA, curated by Davi Det Hompson
Lists, C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, OH, curated by Peter Huttinger
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY; and Bloom Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
To Wit, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Directly On and Off the Wall, curated by Kip Eagen, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art
Women's Work, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (UK)
Five Artists, Marta Cevera Gallery, New York, NY
Artists in Words and #s, curated by Barry Rosenberg, Wright State University Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, OH
1990
In the Beginning, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; curated by William S. Radawec
Figure: See Feign, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; curated by Kathryn Hixson
Word As Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Art Against AIDS- On the Road, Chicago, IL, (50 bus tailgate posters)
Five Installation Artists, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (UK)
Your Message Here (Billboard Exhibition), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Randolph Street Gallery and Group Material
The Clinic, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Steven Evans and Simon Watson
1989
AIDS: A Time Line 1979-1990, Matrix Program at University Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CN; 1991 Whitney Biennial
Problems With Reading Rereading, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Hirsch Perlman and
Jeanne Dunning
The Center Show, The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, New York, NY, curated by Rick Barnett
& Barbara Sahlman
1988
From Right to Left, Churchman Fehsenfeld Gallery, Indianapolis, IN; curated by Christopher Skoates
Contention, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Nayland Blake
Brave and Cruel (Hudson, Lafreniere, Rosen), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Information As Ornament, Feature, Chicago, IL
Plato's Cave, Greathouse Gallery, New York, NY
Cartoon Like, Moming Dance and Art Center, Chicago, IL
Text Does Not Explain, Stux Gallery, Boston, MA, curated by Bill Arning
The Language of Form, The Form of Language, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Romantic Distance, Jeffrey Neal Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Bill Arning
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