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Born: Corpus Christi,
Texas
Lives: Gary, Indiana
Represented: Yvon Lambert Paris/ New York and Klosterfelde Gallery in Berlin
Teaches: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SELECTED
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
“Kay Rosen,” Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2008
“Kay Rosen,” Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, 2008
"Kay Rosen," Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, 2008-2009
"Kay Rosen: Editions and Multiples," Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition,
Berlin, 2007
"Kay Rosen: Wall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006," Yvon Lambert Gallery,
New York, 2006
"Project (04-05/06)", Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, 2006
Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York, 2005
Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, 2005
"Kay Rosen: HALFULL, Recent Wall Paintings and Collages," University
Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004
"Kay Rosen: Big Talk," Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2004
"New Word Order: Kay Rosen," Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville,
Virginia, 2004
"Kay Rosen," The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois, 2003-4
"Kay Rosen: Rooms," Galerie Friedrich, Basel, 2003
"Kay Rosen: Collages 1999-2002," The Drawing Center, New York, 2002
"Rooms," Paul Morris Gallery, New York, 2001
"Kay Rosen: Up and Down," Aspen Art Museum, 2001
Paul Morris Gallery, New York, 2000
Ten in One Gallery, New York, 2000
"Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e," Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) and Otis
College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 25-year survey); curated by Cornelia
H. Butler and Terry R. Myers, 1998-99
"Kay Rosen: Girl Talk," Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, 1998
"ABC (At Beaver College), Beaver College Art Gallery (now Arcadia University),
Philadelphia, in collaboration with Billboard Project curated by Stuart Horodner,
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1998
"Kay Rosen: Short Stories/Tall Tales," M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997
Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1997
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, (2-person with Jody Rhone), 1997
"Short Stories," Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany, 1996
Art: Concept, Nice (now Paris), 1996
Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 1996
Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland, 1995
Paul Morris Gallery, New York, 1995
Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, 1994
"Kay Rosen: Home On the Range," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
1994
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, 1994
"Kay Rosen: Back Home In Indiana," Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1994
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 1993
Feature, New York, 1993
Jose Freire Gallery, New York, (2-person with Susan Silas), 1993
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, 1992
Laura Carpenter Gallery, Sante FE, 1992
Feature, New York, 1992
Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, 1991
"Manum de Tabula," Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 1991
Feature, New York, 1991
Feature, New York, 1990
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 1990
Witte de With (Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1990
Feature, New York, 1989
Feature, New York, 1988
Feature, Chicago, 1988
Feature, Chicago, 1987
"Kay Rosen: Lines On Lines," University Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio
Sate University, Columbus, 1986
"Kay Rosen- Stair Walking: Notations/Diagrams, " Bertha Urdang Gallery,
New York, 1983
"Kay Rosen: Photographic Performances," Franklin Furnace, New York,
1980
"Kay Rosen: Photo-texts and Performances," Bertha Urdang Gallery,
New York, 1979
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis", Contemporary
Jewish Museum, Inaugural Exhibition, San Francisco
"Always There," Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, curated by Arturo Herrera
"Prospect .1 New Orleans", an international biennial curated by Dan
Cameron
2007
"La parola nell'arte," Mart–Museo di Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, curated by Julia Trolp
"Words Fail Me," Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), curated
by Matthew Higgs
"Emerging Wor(l)ds," Billboard Projects for Tina B.– The Prague
Contemporary Art Festival 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, curated by Grey Zone
(curator collective)
"Sign Language," Des Moines Art Center Downtown
"Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me," Presentation
House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Mark Soo and Reid Shier
"Go Between," curated by Dan Devening, Devening Projects + Editions,
Chicago
"Touch-Down," Galerie Freidrich, Basel, Switzerland
"numerica," Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena,
curated by Lorenzo Fusi and Marco Pierini
2006
"Safe," Karen Cullen Gallery, New York, curated by Sergio
Bessa
"Gaylen Gerber", Foundation Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
“Having New Eyes,” Aspen Art Museum, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
“Role Playing,” BCB Gallery, Hudson, New York
“40th Anniversary Exhibition,” Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
“No Lemons, No Melon,” David Krut Projects, New York, Curated
by Sheila Pepe and Carrie Moyer
"Under the Skin: Tattoos and American Culture," Asheville
Art Museum, North Carolina, curated by Ron Platt
2005
"Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary
Works on Paper," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
"General Ideas," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco,
curated by Matthew Higgs
"A Thousand Words," Inman Gallery, Houston
"R3: Reading, 'Ritin, 'Rithmatic 30 Years Later," Castle Gallery, The College
of New Rochelle, New York, curated by Susan Canning
“Navy Pierwalk 2005,” Chicago, curated by Peter Schjeldahl
“Julian Opie, Kay Rosen, William Seaman,” BCB ART, Hudson, New York
“Very Early Pictures,” Luckman Gallery at California State University,
Los Angeles; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, curated by Dick Torchia
"How To Read" as part of "Collection Remixed," The Bronx
Museum of the Arts, New York, 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 Curators Incorporated
2004
"Gaylen Gerber," Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
"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,
Virginia, curated by Alyssa Salomon
"Unclosed Stories," Unlimited Contemporary, Athens, Greece
"Disturbing the Peace," Danese Gallery, New York
"Hubris," Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, curated by The Pond
"The Center Is Anywhere," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated
by Lynne Warren
2003
"Dark Companion," Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"Back in Black," Cohan, Leslie, & Brown Gallery, New York
"Summer of Lust," Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
"Editions and Multiples 1990-2003," Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
"The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were," Track 16 Gallery, Santa
Monica, curated by Michael Ochs and Craig Butler
2002
"Just What It Says," Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery,
Chicago
"Drawn 2," Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
"Art Basel Miami Beach," Artists Projects, curated by James Rondeau
"Interstate" (Fehrer, Moffet, Rosen, Villareal), Texas Fine Arts Association,
Austin, curated by Alex Gray
"Between Language and Form," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
Connecticut, 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), Oregon,
curated by Stuart Horodner
"Time To Consider," Deutsch Bank Lobby Gallery, New York, curated
by Elizabeth Christensen, sponsored by Creative Time
2001
"The Game Show," Massachusetts Museum of Comtemporary Art,"
North Adams
"Over," Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"Extra-Art: A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960-1999," California College
of Art and Crafts, San Francisco, curated by Steven Leiber, Travel to Minnetonka
Art Center, Minneapolis & ICA, London, 2002-2003
"Textual Operations," White Box, New York, a lecture series curated
by Sergio Bessa
"A Work In Progress," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, curated
by Dan Cameron
"Een goes in de weg staande tafel," Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam,
curated by Jack Jaeger
"Drawing On Language," Spaces, Cleveland, curated by Stephan Jost
and Carter Foster
"Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More„On Collecting,"
curated by Ingrid Schaffner for Independent Curators Inc.
"Texty," M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, curated by Hudson
"Blondes + Brownies (Blondinchen und Braunchen)," Aktionsforum Praterinsel,
Munich, curated by Rafael von Uslar
2000
"Biennial Exhibition 2000," Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
"Errant Gestures," Apex Gallery, New York, 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, North Carolina
"Drawn," Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
"Ralph Nader President," The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois
"Editions," Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
"Animal Magnetism," Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell Unicversity, Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, curated by Stuart Horodner
"Out of Line," Chicago Cultural Center
1999
"Billboard: Art On the Road," Inaugural exhibition @ Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCa), North Adams, organized by Joseph Thompson,
Laura Heon
"Art In the City III," ("Kunst in der Stadt III"), with
Gaylen Gerber, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, curated 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, curated by Julie Courtney
"The Sea, The Sea," Murray Guy, New York
"Wallpaintings," Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
"Works On Paper," Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
"What Big Is," Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1998
"In the Beginning," Murray Guy, New York
"The 3-D Project," Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Picture/ Image/ Word," Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University,
curated by Mauro Altamura and Ellen Quinn
"Collective Visions," San Antonio Museum of Art
"Pushing Boundaries: Lithographs From Nine American Fine Art Presses,"
Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati
"Video Library," David Zwirner Gallery, New York
"The End of the Line," Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
"Visions, 1998," Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
"Edifying Sappho and Sophocles," a Ministry of Public Works Project,
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
Sikkima), New York
1997
"Jingle Bells," A Project by 806, Galleria Massimo De Carlo,
Milan
"Druck & Graphik," Klosterfelde, Berlin
"Critical Images: Conceptual Works from the 1960s to the Present,"
Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York
"New Work," Feigen Gallery, Chicago
"Frankensteinian," Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
"Collections in Context: Recent Acquisitions," University Art Museum,
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Point Mort," Art Concept, Paris, curated by Olivier Antoine
1996
"Art In Chicago: 1945-1995," Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
"Preview," Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Small Scale," Joseph Helman Gallery, New York
"Tangles," Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
"Varietes," Le Capitou: Art Contemporain Frejus, France
"Thinking Print: Prints and Illustrated Books 1980-1995," Museum of
Modern Art, New York, curated by Deborah Wye
"50x50x50," Answering Machines at various sites, London, curated by
David Goldenberg and John Roberts
"Frankenstein (in Normal)," Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois,
curated by Stuart Horodner
"Mist," Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee
"Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago," Block Gallery, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois, curated by James Yood
"Momento Mori," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, curated by Peter
Huttinger
1995
"Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection," The
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"Word for Word," Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania,
curated by Paula Marincola
"The Friendly Village," Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, curated
by Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam
"Art As Dramatic Comedy," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, curated
by Marie Shurkus
"Five Words or Less," Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia,
curated by Christopher Van der Craats
"Murder," Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, curated by John Yau
"On Target," Horodner Romley Gallery, New York
"Altered States," Forum, St. Louis, curated by Robert Nickas and Jeannie
Greenberg
"Pittura-Immedia: Painting in the 90's," Neue Galerie and Kunstler
Haus, Graz, Austria, curated by Peter Weibel
"Representional Drawings," Feature, New York
"Zimmerdenkmaler," (Room Movements), Various residential and commercial
sites in Bochum, Germany, curated and organized by Rafael von Uslar
1994
"Small Paintings," Paul Morris Gallery, New York
"Scissors, Paper, Rock, " Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
"Korrespondenzen/Correspondences," Berlinische Galerie, Martin Gropius-Bau,
Berlin and Chicago Cultural Center, Curated by Judith Kirshner and Gregory Knight
"Synesthesia: Sound and Vision In Contemporary Art," San Antonio Museum
of Art, curated by Don Bacigalupi
"The Use of Pleasure," San Francisco, curated by Robert Nickas
1993
"Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS," Washington Project
for the Arts, Washington D.C., curated by Don Russell
"Money," Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
"Surface Tension," Michael Klein Gallery, New York
"Post-Dialectical Index," Piazza Costanza, Trieste, Italy; La Tuatta
Studio, Milan, Italy; Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, curated by Robert Morgan
"Words," Galerie Semmler(guest) at Galerie Jurgen Becker, Hamburg,
Germany
"New Works," Feigen Gallery, Chicago
"Substitute Teachers," Sadie Bronfman Cultural Center, Montreal, curated
by Stuart Horodner
"Legend in My Livingroom," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chcago, curated
by Terry R. Myers 1992
"Small Talk," P.S.1 and Postmasters Gallery, New York, curated by
Marilyn Minter
"Painting Culture," University of California Irvine, curated by Deborah
Kass
"Artists' Books From the Permanent Collection," Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago
"Why Paint?," Renaissance Gallery at the University of Chicago
"On Condition," Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, curated
by Julia Fish
"Out of Bounds: The Word Becomes Art," Scottsdale Center for the Arts,
Arizona
Jack Hanley Gallery, Group Show, San Francisco
"Oh, Eau," Project at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Andrea Rosen Gallery, Project with Michael Jenkins and Steven Evans, New York
"Multiples '92," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
"25th Anniversary Show," Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
"Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?" Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut,
curated by Cary Leibowitz
1991
"At the End of the Day," Randy Alexander Gallery, New York,
curated by Michael Jenkins
"The Painted Word," Beth Urdang Fine Art, Boston
"Candy Ass Carnival (When Good Things Happen to Loozers)," Stux Gallery,
New York
"Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?"
Hyde Collection, Great Falls, New York, curated by Dan Cameron
"Awards in the Visual Arts X," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.;
Albuquerque Museum; Toledo Museum, Ohio
"A New Low," Claudio Botello Gallery, Turin, Italy, curated by Tricia
Collins and Richard Milazzo
"Nine Is a Four-Letter Word" (a letterpress project), Key Gallery,
Richmond, Virginia, curated by Davi Det Hompson
"Lists," C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, curated by Peter Huttinger
"Something Pithier and More Psychological," Simon Watson Gallery,
New York, and Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
"To Wit," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
"Directly On and Off the Wall," Palm Beach Community College Museum
of Art, curated by Kip Eagen
"Women's Work," Victoria Miro Gallery, London
"Five Artists," Marta Cevera Gallery, New York
"Artists in Words and #s," Wright State University Museum of Contemporary
Art, Dayton, Ohio, curated by Barry Rosenberg
1990
"In the Beginning," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
curated by William S. Radawec
"Figure: See Feign," Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated
by Kathryn Hixson
"Word As Image: American Art 1960-1990," Milwaukee Art Museum; Oklahoma
City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
"Art Against AIDS- On the Road," Chicago (50 bus tailgate posters)
"Five Installation Artists," Dart Gallery, Chicago
"Broken Lines," Victoria Miro Gallery, London
"Your Message Here," (Billboard Exhibition), Randolph Street Gallery,
Chicago, curated by Randolph Street Gallery and Group Material
"The Clinic," Simon Watson Gallery, New York, curated by Steven Evans
and Simon Watson
1989
"AIDS: A Time Line 1979-1990," Matrix Program at University
Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut;
1991 Whitney Biennial
"Problems With Reading Rereading," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago,
curated by Hirsch Perlman and Jeanne Dunning
"The Center Show," The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center,
New York, curated by Rick Barnett & Barbara Sahlman
1988
"From Right to Left," Churchman Fehsenfeld Gallery, Indianapolis,
curated by Christopher Skoates
"Contention," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, curated by Nayland
Blake
"Brave and Cruel," (Hudson, Lafreniere, Rosen), Randolph Street Gallery,
Chicago
"Information As Ornament," Feature, Chicago
"Plato's Cave," Greathouse Gallery, New York
"Cartoon Like," Moming Dance and Art Center, Chicago
"Text Does Not Explain," Stux Gallery, Boston, curated by Bill Arning
"The Language of Form, The Form of Language," Rosa Esman Gallery,
New York
"Romantic Distance," Jeffrey Neal Gallery, New York, curated by Bill
Arning
1987
"Signs of Intelligent Life," Greathouse Gallery, New York
"New Chicago," Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati
"Wet Paint," Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Summer Group Show, American Fine Arts Gallery, New York
"(Dark Laughter)," Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
"Non-Spiritual In Art: Abstract Painting From 1985-?," Chicago, curated
by Hudson
1986
"Cryptic Languages," Washington Project for the Arts, Washington
D.C.
"Spiritual America," CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, curated by Tricia
Collins/Richard Milazzo
"Promises, Promises," Feature, Chicago and C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, curated
by Hudson
1985
"National Artists Book Exhibit," Fifth Conference of Artists
Organizations, Houston
"Critical Messages: The Public Media for Political Art by Women,"
Artemesia Gallery (out-of- gallery exhibition), Chicago, curated by Anita David
"Messages From the Interior," N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1984
"Indiana Influence," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Inaugural
Exhibition, Indiana, curated by Peter Frank
1982
"Artists Tribute to Bertha Urdang," Israel Museum, Jerusalem
"Tracking, Tracing, Marking, Pacing," Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New
York; Sherman Gallery, Ohio State University; Anderson Gallery, University of
Richmond; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., curated by Ellen
Schwartz
1981
"Bookworks: New Approaches to Artists Books," Franklin Furnace,
New York, curated by Howard Goldstein (traveled)
"Ikons/Logos: Word As Image," Alternative Museum, New York, curated
by Robert H. Browning
1980
"New Dimensions: Time," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
curated by Pauline Saliga
SELECTED
PUBLISHED PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
KAYROSEN: ABC, A Primer, ESOPUS 9, Fall 2007
KAYSAYS: Essays and Interviews by Kay Rosen, 2007, published by Sara Ranchouse
Publications, in conjunction with KAY ROSEN, an ubu.com project.
TOP TEN, Artforum, April, 2007, p.134
WHITE COLUMNS 2007 PRINT PORTFOLIO, curated by Matthew Higgs
NEW YIPES READER No. 5, Edited by Bruce Andrews, January, 2006, page 44-45.
NEVER ODD OR EVEN, a permanent installation for the Indianapolis Museum of Art,
2005
HELLO AGAIN, commission, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago, 2006
BLUE MONDAY, Web Page Project, Bronx Museum of Art, 2006
ARTUS, "The Center is a Concept," Issue 5/6, pp.32-35, January-February,
2005
LANDFALL (Journal of Arts and Letters, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New
Zealand), Issue 207 "[SIC]", cover + 12-page portfolio, May, 2004
BLACK BOOK MAGAZINE, "Fact Annihilates Fantasy," pp.66-67, New York,
Winter, 2001-2002
BIENNIAL VOICES, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000 Biennial, Audio CD (Kay
Rosen, "Banner Yet Wave," track 6)
PUBLIC + ARTISTS PROGRAM, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999
(CD Audiotour written and produced by artist for "Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e"
CHICAGO REVIEW (front and back covers), University of Chicago, Vol.44, No.2,
1998
SURPLUS, a screensaver project by Camel Work In Progress, a Camel Cultural Initiative,
1998
SCHOOL OF FISH (cover of book of poetry by Eileen Myles), Black Sparrow Press,
Santa Rosa, California, 1997
NEW OBSERVATIONS, "Ripple Effects: Painting and Language," #113, Winter,
1996, guest edited by Mira Schor and Susan Bee, New York, pp.18-19
PERMANENT FOOD, published by Maurizio Cattelan and Dominique Gonzales-Foerster,
#2, 1996
ART MUSCLE (cover), published by Art Muscle, Milwaukee, Oct./Nov., 1995, Vol.10,
Issue 1
BLOC NOTES, Paris, France, #8, Winter, 1995, pp.10-11
GOETHE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO NEWSLETTER (cover), Feb.-Aug., 1995
WHITE WALLS, Chicago, #33 & 34, 1994
DU (8-page image/text project), Zurich, Switzerland, N0. 11, November, 1993
L'ENDROIT IDEAL (Ideal Place) Un Livre (a book), Eric Troncy, Nice, France,
1993, pp.150-151
THE PROGRESSIVE CORPORATION ANNUAL REPORT, Mayfield Heights, Ohio, 1991
SPUNKY International (back cover), published by Billy Miller, New York, 1992
WHITE WALLS, #30, Chicago, Summer, 1992
BOMB, New York, #36, Summer, 1992, p.97
DEAR WORLD, published by Nayland Blake and Camille Roy, San Francisco, 1991,
p.72
DU, Zurich, Switzerland, No.6, June, 1991, pp.58-61
ART IN AMERICA, " AIDS: A Time Line," Group Material Project, Dec.,
1990, pp.162-163
LITTLE CRITIC PAMPHLET 3: Kay Rosen, Paintings 1990, (artist book/catalog),
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Sept., 1990
ART JOURNAL, College Art Association Journal, Summer, 1990, pp.104-105
WHITE WALLS, Chicago, #21, Winter, 1989, pp.29-31
P-FORM (cover), Chicago, issue #12, Feb.-Mar., 1989, plus pp.6,18
FILE AMGAZINE, published by Art Metropole, Edited by General Idea, #29, 1989
FARM, published by Feature and ICI, Chicago, 1998
JOURNAL, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Fall, 1987, #48, p.8
FARM (back cover), published by Feature and ICI, Chicago, 1987
REALLIFE, published by Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan, New York, #15, Winter,
1986, pp. 20-23
WHITE WALLS, Chicago, #12, Autumn, 1985, pp.28-35
FORMAT, published by C.L. Morrison, Chicago, Vol. 2, #3, Nov., 1979, p.11
FORMAT, published by C.L. Morrison, Chicago, Vol. 1, #4, Dec., 1978, pp.1,7
HONORS
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant, 1995
Award in the Visual Arts 10 Fellowship, 1990
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant, 1989
National Endowment fot the Arts Visual Arts Grant, 1987
SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Periodicals
Matt Keegan, "The Urge In Surge: KayRosen and Shannon Ebner want to have
a word with you," Art On Paper Magazine, July/August 2007, Vol. 11 No.
6, pp. 24-25
David Frankel, Review: "Kay Rosen-Yvon Lambert," Artforum, January,
2007, p. 250
Roberta Smith, Art in Review: "Kay Rosen: Wall Paintings and drawings 2002-2006,"
The New York Times, Friday, October 13, 2006, p.B32
Matthew Higgs, Top Ten List, Artforum, December, 2005, pp. 258-259
Brian Sholis, Review: "Kay Rosen - Gray Kapernekas Gallery," New York,
Artforum, September, 2005, p.307
Ken Johnson, Extended Listing: "Kay Rosen..." The New York Times, Friday, May
10, 2005, p.B30
Martin Herbet, Review: “Between Letters and Abstraction,” Art Monthly,
UK, March, 2005, No. 284, pp.33-34
Josef Woodard, "Word play writ large," Art Scene, October 8-14, 2004,
pp.16-17
Carly Andrews, "Word Play," The Independent, October 7, 2004, p.53
Paul Ryan, Review: "Kay Rosen," Art Papers, September/October 2004,
p.46
Louise Poppelwell, "Word Up," Pavement, New Zealand, Autumn 2004,
Issue 63, p.98
Alan G. Artner, Review: "Kay Rosen finds excellence in found objects,"
Chicago Tribune, January 16, 2004, Section 7, p.19
David Colman, "Sculpture, Improved by a Martini," The New York Times,
September 7, 2003, section 9, p.11
Nancy Princenthal, Review: "Kay Rosen at the Drawing Room," Art in
America, April, 2003, p.141
Frances Richard, "New York Critics' Picks: Kay Rosen Collages 1999-2000,"
artforum.com, October, 2002
Grace Glueck, Review: "Art May Not Be All Fun and Games, but Some of it
Certainly Is," The New York Times, Friday, August 24, 2001, p.B31
Ken Johnson, Review: "Kay Rosen: Ten In One Gallery and Paul Morris Gallery,"
The New York Times, Friday, April 7, 2000, p.B38
Adrian Dannatt, "Our Choice of New York Contemporary Galleries: Slippery
Words from Kay Rosen," The Art News-Paper, April, 2000, No. 102, p.77
Max Henry, Review: "Okay Kay uh-huh!" Gotham Dispatch/ Artnet.com,
April 14, 2000
Eileen Myles, "True to Type," Art In America, September, 1999, Vol.
87, No.9, pp.110-115
Jacqueline Cooper, Extended Review, "Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e," New Art
Examiner, April, 1999, Vol. 26, #7, p.43
Frank - Alexander Hettig, Review: "Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e," Kunstforum,
March/April, 1999, pp.408-409
Claudine Ise, Review, "Reading Between Much More Than Just the Lines in
Lifeli[k]e," Los Angeles Times, Friday, January 15, 1999
Peter Frank, Review, "Dreaming Out Loud: El, Ray 'n' Kay in L.A.,"
LA Weekly, January 15-21, 1999, p.49
Alan Artner," Chicago's Finest: 23 People Who Made Significant Contributions
to the Arts in 1998/ Artist As Wordsmith," Chicago Tribune, Sunday, December
27, 1998, section 7, pp.1,4,6,9
Erica Firpo, "Read It and Speak: The Smart Text Art of Kay Rosen,"
LA Downtown News, December 21, 1998, Volume 27, No. 51, pp.1,13
Tim Porges," Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e," The Contemporary: The Museum
of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Winter, 1999, pp.4-5
Kathryn Hixson, "Speech! An Interview with Kay Rosen," New Art Examiner,
November, 1998, volume 26, #3, pp.38-43 And cover
Alan Artner, Review, "Kay Rosen at Ten in One Gallery," Chicago Tribune,
October 23, 1998, section 7, p.66
Miriam Seidel, Review, "Kay Rosen at Beaver College Art Gallery,"
Art in America, October, 1998, pp.141-143
Katerina Gregos, Review, "Kay Rosen: Unlimited, Athens, Greece," Zing
Magazine, Vol. 2, Winter, 1998, p.157
Edward J. Sozanski, Review, "Kay Rosen: Showing That ABC Isn't So Simple
After All," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 6, 1998, p.36
Victoria Donohoe, Review, "Kay Rosen: Beaver College," The Inquirer
(Philadelphia), Sunday, March 1, 1998, MC2
H.N.Jocks, Review, "Kay Rosen: Summoning Lust for Lettering," West
deutschZeitung (Dusseldorf), October 18, 1997
Tim Norris, Review, "Kay Rosen-M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center," New
Art Examiner, September, 1997, p.61
Catherine Macchi, Review: "Kay Rosen: Art Concept," BlocNotes (Paris),
No.14 (January-February, 1997), p.127
Katerina Gregos, Review: "Kay Rosen: Unlimited Gallery," Art Net (Athens),
No. 4, Summer, 1997, p.72
Von Ralf Poerschke, Review: "Vom Mangel der Sprache-Short Stories: Kay
Rosen in der Galerie Klosterfelde," Hamburger Rundschau, September 19,
1996, No. 39
Elizabeth Gerber, Review: "Bern:Kay Rosen in der Galerie Erika+Otto Freidrich,"
Kunst-Bulleetin, No 7/8, Jul./Aug., 1995, p.36
Rafael Rubenstein," Full Circle," Art in America, May, 1995, pp.108-109
Graeme Reid, "The Language of Art," Arts Indiana, March, 1995, Vol.17,
No. 2, p.30
Holland Cotter, Review: "Kay Rosen: Morris Healy Gallery," New York
Times, April 21, 1995, p.C19
Susan Kandel, Review: "Wonderful Tinkering By Rosen," Los Angeles
Times, October 28, 1994, p.F23
Tim Porges, "Kay Rosen-Museum of Contemporary Art," New Art Examiner,
#22, December, 1994, p.39
Sharon L. Calhoun, Review: "Kay Rosen-Back Home In Indiana/Indianapolis
Musuem of Art," Dialogue, November/December, 1994, p.25
Terry R. Myers, "Painting Camp," Flash Art, November/December, 1994,
Vol. 27, No. 179. pp.73-76
Terry R. Myers, "Bloc: Kay Rosen," BlocNotes (Paris), #5, January,
1994, pp. 68-69
Rhonda Lieberman, "Recent Painting by a Jewish Woman in Indiana,"
Art+Text, #46, Sept., 1993, pp.54-59
Eileen Myles, "Prints of Words," Print Collectors Newsletter, September/October,
1993, pp.132-135
Katherine Hixson, Review: "Kay Rosen: Rhona Hoffman Gallery," Flash
Art, #168, Jan-Feb, 1993, p.94
Review, Nikkei Art, April, 1992, pp.188-189
Alan Artner, Review: "Kay Rosen-Rhona Hoffman Gallery," Chicago Tribune,
November 6, 1992, Sec. 7, p.38
John Byrum, Review: "Kay Rosen-Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,"
New Art Examiner, Nov., 1992, pp.33-34
Mark Van De Walle, Review: "Kay Rosen-Laura Carpenter Gallery," THE
Magazine (Santa Fe), October, 1992, p.17
Craig Adcock, "After Duchamp." Tema Celest, Sumamer, 1992, Edition
36, pp.50-53
Rhonda Lieberman, Review, Arts Magazine, April, 1992, p.75
Alan Artner, Review: "Is Painting Dead?" Chicago Tribune, April 12,
1992, p.16
Catherine Grout, Review: "Manum de Tabula: Shedhalle, Zurich," Arte
Factum (Belgium), #42, Feb.-Mar., 1992. p.48
Susan Kandel, Review: "Kay Rosen, Shoshana Wayne Gallery," Los Angeles
Times, Dec. 13, 1991, p.24
Ken Johnson, "The Painted Word," Vogue Magazine, Aug., 1991, pp.142-148
Kathryn Hixson, Review: "Kay Rosen, Insam-Gleicher Gallery," Arts
Magazine, #65, May, 1991, p.106
John Brunetti, Review: "Kay Rosen, Insam-Gleicher Gallery," New Art
Examiner, #18, May, 1991, p.44
Robert Mahoney, Review: "Kay Rosen, Feature," Arts Magazine, #65,
January, 1991, p.104
Alan Artner, Review: "Kay Rosen, Insam-Gleicher," Chicago Tribune,
March 1, 1991, sec. 7, p.38
Linnea B. Vacca, "Words, Words, Words," Arts Indiana, #31, May, 1991,
pp.24-27
Liam Gillick, Review: "Kay Rosen, Victoria Miro Gallery," Artscribe,
#85, Jan.-Feb., 1991, p.76
Judith Russi Kirshner, "Read, Read, Rosens," Artforum, #29, Dec.,
1990, pp.91-95 + cover
Mark Thompson, Review: "Kay Rosen, Ed Ruscha," Art Monthly (London),
#141, Nov., 1990, pp. 22-23
Janneke, Wesseling, Review: Witte de With, NRC Handelsblad CS, Oct. 31, 1990,
p.5
Flora Steimer, "Pionierstaak Waargemaakt," Agetleen Dagblad (Rotterdam),
Oct. 31, 1990
Stuart Morgan, Review: "Kay Rosen, Victoria Miro Gallery," Time Out
(London), Sept. 26- Oct. 3, 1990, p.57
Roberta Smith, "The Group Show As Crystal Ball," The New York Times,
July 6, 1990, pp.C1-C23
Kathryn Hixson, Review: "Dorothy," Center for Contemporary Art, Arts
Magazine, #64, Nov. 1989, pp.109-110
Rob Wittig, Review: "Kay Rosen, Feature," Art In America, #77, Jan.
1989, p.157
Buzz Spector, Review: "Kay Rosen, Feature," Artforum, #26, May, 1988,
p.154
Alan Artner, Review: Chicago Tribune, March 17, 1988, sec. 5, p.14
Walter Robinson, "State of the Art: Young, Gifted, and Affordable,"
Metropolitan Home, Nov., 1987, pp.58-70
Alan Artner, Review: Chicago Tribune, March 12, 1987, sec. 5, p.9F
Judith A. Hoffberg, Review: "Lines On Lines by Kay Rosen," Umbrella,
#6, March, 1983, p.50
Vivian Raynor, "Kay Rosen/Kay Walkingstick, Bertha Urdang Gallery,"
The New York Times, Friday, June 19, 1981, p.C20
Deborah Bright, "New Dimensions: Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, New
Art Examiner, #7, April, 1980, p.23
Holland Cotter, Review: "Kay Rosen, Bertha Urdang Gallery," New York
Arts Journal, Feb., 1979
Selected
Exhibition Catalogues and Brochures
Higgs, Matthew, Interview Project, "Kay Rosen: Wall Paintings and Drawings
2002-2006," Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, 2006
Bevis, John, "vinyl: material location placement," Project for
Installation: Vinyl, CBS, Sullivan's Quay, Cork, Ireland, 2005
Higgs, Matthew, "General Ideas," General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual
Art 1987-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Conetmporary Arts, San Fransisco,
2005
Molon, Dominic and Rooks, Michael, "Comedy Is Not Pretty," Situation
Comedy: Humor In Recent Art, Independent Curators International, 2005
Bessa, Sergio, "How To Read," Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum
of the Arts, 2005
Hixson, Kathryn, "Kay Rosen: Blur," Kay Rosen: New Word Order,
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2004
Sturgis, Daniel, "Between Letters and Abstraction," 3°W Gallery,
The Wordsworth Trust, Cumbria, Great Britain, 2004
Leiber, Steven & Alden, Todd, "Extra Art: Surveying Artists' Ephemera,
1960-1999," California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, 2001
Lieberman, Rhonda, "Kay Rosen: Up and Down," Aspen Museum of Art,
2001
Heon, Laura, "The Game Show," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary
Art (Mass MoCa), North Adams, 2001
Milevska, Suzana, "Words-Objects- Acts," Museum of the City of Skopje,
Macedonia, 2001
Min, Susette, "Errant Gestures: Visual and Verbal Correspondence,"
Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York, 2000
Heon, Laura, "Billboard: Art on the Road," Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Adams, 1999
Meyers, Terry R., "Sounding Out Kay Rosen," "Kay Rosen Lifeli[k]e,"
Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis Gallery of Otis College of Art and Design,
Los Angeles, 1998
Butler, Connie "the forest for the trees," "Kay Rosen: Lifeli[k]e,"
Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis Gallery of Otis College of Art and Design,
Los Angeles, 1998
Riddell, Jennifer, "Kay Rosen: Short Stories/Tall Tales," MIT List
Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997
Wye, Deborah, "Thinking Print: Prints and Illustrated Books 1980-1985,"
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996
"Art In Chicago: 1945-1995," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
1996
Yood, James, "Second Sight: Modern Printmaking In Chicago," Block
Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1996
Von Uslar, Rafael, "Zimmerdenkmaler," Bochum, Germany, 1995
Van der Craats, Christopher, "Five Words Or Less," Museum of Modern
Art, Melbourne, Australia, 1995
Nickas, Robert and Greenberg, Jeanne, "Altered States," Forum, St.
Louis, 1995
Weibel, Peter, "Pittura-Immedia: Painting In the 90's," Neue Galerie
and Kunstler Haus, Graz, Austria, 1995
Wasserman, Nadine, "Kay Rosen: Home On the Range," Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, 1994
Day, Holliday, "Kay Rosen: Back Home In Indiana," Indianapolis Museum
of Art, 1994
Kirshner, Judith and Knight, Gregory, "Korrespondenzen/Correspondences,"
Berlinische Galerie, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin and Chicago Cultural Center,
1994
Terry R. Myers, "Kay Rosen: A Picture Is Worth More Than a Thousand Words,"
(catalogue essay) "Korrespondenzen/Correspondences," 1994-95
Morgan, Robert, "Post-Dialectical Index," Piazza Costanza, Trieste;
La Tuatta Studio, Milan, Italy, 1993
Horodner, Stuart, "Substitute Teachers," Sadie Bronfman Cultural Center,
Montreal, 1993
Pagel, David, "Why Paint?" Renaissance Gallery, University of Chicago,
1992
Lux, Harm, "Manum de Tabula," Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 1991
Cameron, Dan, "Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So
Appealing?" Hyde Collection, Great Falls, New York, 1991
Collins, Tricia; Milazzo, Richard, "A New Low," Claudio Botelo Gallery,
Turin, Italy, 1991
Rosenberg, Barry, "Artists In Words and #'s," Wright State University
Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, Ohio, 1991
Hixson, Kathryn, "Awards In the Visual Arts X," Hirshhorn Museum,
Washington D.C. (toured), 1991
Bowman, Russell, "Word As Image: American Art 1960-1990," Milwaukee
Art Museum (toured), 1990
Collins, Tricia; Milazzo, Richard, "Spiritual America," CEPA Gallery,
Buffalo, New York, 1986
Frank, Peter, "Indiana Influence," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort
Wayne, Indiana, 1984
Urdang, Bertha, "Artist Tribute To Bertha Urdang," Israel Museum,
1982
Schwartz, Ellen, "Tracking, Tracing, Marking, Pacing," Pratt Manhattan
Gallery, New York, (toured), 1982
Browning, Robert H., "Icons/Logos: Word As Image," Alternative Museum,
New York, 1981
SELECTED
COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
Norton Family Collection
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
Refco Corporation, Chicago
Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City