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Joseph Kosuth

(American, born 1945)

Joseph Kosuth

Art as Idea as Idea (Meaning)

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Joseph Kosuth

Five Fives (to Donald Judd)' [orange], 1965

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Joseph Kosuth

The solution of the riddle (Z&N), 1987

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Joseph Kosuth

Fetishism Corrected #2, 1988

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Joseph Kosuth

'Self-Described Twice' [pink], 1966

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Biography

Timeline

1945: Born on January 31 in Toledo, OH
1963 - 1964: Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1965 - 1967: Attended the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1967 - 1985: Faculty, Department of Fine Art, the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1968: Cassandra Foundation Grant
1971 - 1972: New School for Social Research, New York, NY (anthropology and philosophy)
1988 - 1990: Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
1990: Brandeis Award
1991 - 1997: Professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildende Künste, Stuttgart, Germany
1991: Frederick Weisman Award
: Received the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government
1993: The Menzione d'Onore at the Venice Biennale
1999: A ₣3 postage stamp was issued by the French Government in honor of his work in Figeac
2001: Received the Laura Honoris Causa, doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Bologna
: His novel Purloined was published by Salon Verlag
2003: Received the Austrian Republic’s highest honor for accomplishments in science and culture, the Golden Cross
: Lives in New York, NY and Rome, Italy; currently a professor at the Kunstakademie Munich and the Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, Italy

Exhibitions

2015: By the Book, Sean Kelly, New York, New York
: Joseph Kosuth, Castelli Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth and Marcel Duchamp, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth, MAMM, Moscow, Russia (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: The Xerox Book, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
: Agnosia, an Illuminated Ontology an Installation by Joseph Kosuth, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
: Transparency, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
: 12th Havana Biennale, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
: Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom
: Signs/Words, Sperone Westwater, New York, New York
: The Thing and the Thing-in-Itself, Andrea Rosen, New York, New York
: Tomorrow Today, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
: TRA/BETWEEN arte e architettura, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
: what marcel duchamp taught me, The Fine Art Society Contemporary London, United Kingdom
: Sigmund Freud, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
: Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
: Sed Tantum Dic Verbo (Just Say The Word), Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany
: Amnesia: Various, Luminous, Fixed. Spruth Magers, London, United Kingdom (solo)
: Insomnia: Assorted, Illuminated, Fixed, Sprueth Magers, London, United Kingdom (solo)
2014: Joseph Kosuth: Das Dasein und die Welt, Kunstmuseums Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland (solo)
: CounterIntelligence, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
: Anni ’70. Arte a Roma., Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
: The Red Queen, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania
: Sammlung #3, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
: ‘absence-presence, twice’: Mohssin Harraki, Joseph Kosuth, Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, France
: Mappamundi, Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
: Once Again the World is Flat (curated by Haim Steinbach), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, New York
: White Light/ White Heat, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
: Ars Aevi Collection in Progress 1993-2013, Arsenale, Tesa 105, Venice, Italy
: Fragile (curated by Mario Codognato) Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy
: Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art Gallery, New York, New York
: Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder - Schrift in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
: Joseph Kosuth: Eine verstummte Bibliothek, Kunstmuseums Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland (solo)
2013: Insomnia: Assorted, Illuminated, Fixed, Sprueth Magers, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013 (curated by Germano Celant), Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy
: Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey.
: Enlightened: Electric Light As The Fairy Of Art, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden
: Malereien In Fotografie - Strategien Der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
: Decade: Contemporary Collection 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
: The 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China
: Neon, Who’s Afraid Of Red, Yellow And Blue?, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
2012: ‘(Waiting for - ) Texts for Nothing’ Samuel Beckett, in Play, Happy Days – Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, Ireland (solo)
: Neon - La Materia Luminosa Dell'arte, Museo D'arte Contemporanea Di Roma, MARCO, Rome, Italy
: Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
: The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting, Albright-Knox Art Gallery at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: The Wake (An arrangement of references with all the appearance of autonomy, Kuad Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
: ‘Freud, Wittgenstein, Musil’, Castelli Gallery, New York (solo)
: Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, Enniskillen, Ireland.
: The Mind’s Image of Itself #3' a play of architecture and the mind, Sprüth Magers, London, England (solo)
: 'Private / Corporate VI', Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
: Albert Oehlen/ Joseph Kosuth, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
: Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
: Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, Selections from the Hadley Martin Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, Selections from the Hadley Martin
2011: Sparking Dialogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Living Under the Same Roof, The Marieluise Hessel Collection and the Center for Curatorial Studies, CCS Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
: Painting: Process and Expansion: From the 1950s till Now, Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Ludwig Foundation), Vienna, Austria
: Portrait, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Radical Conception, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
: Max’s Kansas City, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
: Psychoanalysis – The Unconscious in Everyday Life, Science Museum, London, England
: Joseph Kosuth:Texts for Nothing, Samuel Beckett, in play, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth:Personal Structures: Time – Space – Existence, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: (Waiting for-) Texts for Nothing, Samuel Beckett, in play, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: (Waiting for-) Texts for Nothing, Samuel Beckett, in play, Eine Geschichte des Installationen, 1965-2010, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2010: ‘(Waiting for-) Texts for Nothing’ Samuel Beckett, in play, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
: JUST LOVE ME. Regard sur une collection privée, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Switzerland
: Joseph Kosuth:ni apparance ni illusion, Louvre Museum, Paris, France (solo)
: Just What Are They Saying…, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
: Electricity, Leo Castelli, New York, NY
: Picturing in America, The Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
: Content, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth: An Interpretation of This Title, Nietzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth, Galleria Six, Milan, Italy (solo)
: A Mancha Humana / The Human Stain, Conceptual Art in the CGAC Collection, A Coruña, Spain
: In-Finitum, Palazzo Fortuni, Venice, Italy
2009: Joseph Kosuth and Tsang Kin-Wah, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China
: Where do we go from here: Selections from La Collexion Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
: Zig Zag, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
: Joseph Kosuth: An Interpretation of This Title: Nietzsche, Darwin and the Paradox of Content, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
: Arte/Natura-Natura/Arte, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
: Artists' Speculations - Four Generations in the Mirror, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
: Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KA
2008: Neon, Fondazione Nomas, Rome Italy
: Neon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
: Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, Zwirner & Wirth and David Zwirner, New York, NY
: Cancelled, Erased, and Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
: De L’écriture (with Writing): Selected works from the Collection of the Musée d’art contemporain, Amos, Quebec; traveling to: Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon. The Art Gallery of the South Oknagan, Penticton, British Colombia. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario. The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande, Prairie, Alberta.
: ‘neither appearance nor illusion’, A Selection of Early Works from the 1960's by Joseph Kosuth, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth:This is how things are hidden from us, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth: Al Fin Creí Entender (Madrid), La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: The Artist’s Library, Centre International d’Art et du Paysage (CIAP), Ile de Vassiviere, France
: Summer 2008, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Joseph Kosuth: Il Linguaggio dell’Equilibrio / The Language of Equilibrium, la Biennale di Venezia, Monastero Mekhitarista, Isola di San Lazzaro deglia Armeni, Venice, Italy.
: Joseph Kosuth, ‘Terra Ultra Incognita,’ Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, San Antonio Abad, Casa de Colon, El Museo Canario, The Palms of Great Canary, The Canary Islands, Spain (solo)
: PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Uncontained, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of the Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: Word, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
: Inventory – Works from the Herbert Collection, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
: Group Show (organized by Clarissa Dalrymple), Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Full House – The Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
: Notations: Out of Words, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
: Matière grise (show organized by Kosuth), Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth, Sprüth Magers Lee, London, England (solo)
: Joseph Kosuth, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy (solo)
2006: Joseph Kosuth : a labyrinth into which I can venture (a play of works by guests and foreigners),’ Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
: Busy Going Crazy: Collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
: Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, München (solo)
: Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Joseph Kosuth and Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Hans Christian Andersen-A Life World.(solo)
: Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Exhibition on the occasion of the 200th Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen
: Translation: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
: Romance [a novel], Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
: Public Space/Two Audiences: works and documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
: Mark Tansey & Joseph Kosuth, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
: Long Playing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Ma
: The Painted Word: Language as Image in Modern Art, Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts, Easton, PA (solo)
: Recognizable Differences & Andersen Self-Described [part of ‘H.C. Andersen: A Life World’], Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo)
: Il bianco e altro – artisti contemporanei al lavoro, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
: 13 Locations of Meaning: Curated by Giacomo Zaza, Molfetta, Torrione Passari, Italy (solo)
: Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
: Big Bang, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Drawn to Cleveland, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2005: Artisti dalla Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna 1980-2000, Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy
: EXIT – Stepping Out of the Picture, Zentrum fur Kunst and Medientechnologie Karslruhe, Germany
: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Joseph Kosuth. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
: Group Show (organized by Clarissa Dalrymple), Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Exhibition on the occasion of the 200th Birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Joseph Kosuth, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany (solo)
2004: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Re-defining the Context of Art: 1968-2004, ‘The Second Investigation’ and Public Media(solo)
: Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece, ‘Guests and Foreigners, Rules and Meanings (Athens)’(solo)
: Foreigners, Rules and Meanings (Athens) 'Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, ‘À Propos (Réflecteur de Réflecteur)’(solo)
: Dickinson Roundell, New York, USA, Aftershock
: The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, Joyce in Art:Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce
: Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Nice, Nice, France, Intra-Muros
: Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CONN, USA, Off the Wall: Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, Singular Forms Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present
: Museum für neue kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, The Daimler Chrysler Collection
: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA, upon reflection…
: Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, USA, Then All the World Would be Upside Down
: Couvent de Morsiglia (FRAC Corse), Mairie de Morsiglia, France, ré-invention de la collection
: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, Living With Duchamp
2003: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, From Broodthaers to Horn Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Die Neue Kunsthalle II
: Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, Raid the Icebox
: Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, ‘Guests and Foreigners, Rules and Meanings (Te Kore)’(solo)
: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, ‘Essays’(solo)
: Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy, ‘Essays’(solo)
: Galerie Achim Kubinski, Berlin, Germany, ‘Essays’(solo)
: Musée Champollion, Figeac, France, ‘Place of Writing, Five Works by Joseph Kosuth, from ‘One and Three Chairs’ to ‘Ex Libris, J.-F. Champollion (Figeac)’(solo)
2000: Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzogovenia, ‘Eight Locations of Meaning’(solo)
: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 'Artist, Curator, Collector: James McNeill Whistler, Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner–Three Locations in the Creative Process'(solo)
: Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy, ‘Essays’ (solo)
1999: Villa Medici – Académie de France, Rome, Italy, ‘Condizioni D’Assenza (Il nome e chi lo porta, a G.)’ / ‘Conditions of Absence (The name and its bearer, for G.)’(solo)
: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, ‘Gäste und Fremde: Goethes Italienische Reise. Eine Installation’ / ‘Guests and Foreigners: Goethes Italian Journey. An Installation’(solo)
: Römerberg Subway Station, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,‘Von Angesicht zu Angesicht’(solo)
: Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Italy, ‘Frammenti di Rossini (Ospiti e Stranieri)’(solo)
: Borusan Kültür ve Sanat. Istanbul, Turkey. ‘Konuklar ve Yabancilar: Rossini Türkiye de’ / ‘Guests and Foreigners:Rossini in Turkey’(solo)
: Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Ittingen, Switzerland. ‘Eine verstummte Bibliothek’ / ‘A Silenced Library’(solo)
: Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City, Japan. Guests and Foreigners: The Years of Isolation. Including a Survey of Works 1965-1999). Traveled to Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan (2000)(solo)

Public Collections

: The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers, London, United Kingdom
: Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nimes, France
: Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Collection Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, Milan, Italy
: College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
: Fer Collection, Ulm, Germany
: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
: Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano, Italy
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C
: IAC - Institut d´art contemporain - Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
: The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin
: Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
: Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
: Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH, USA
: MMK Frankfurt am Main | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
: The Ludwig Collection, Cologne, Germany
: Kunstmuseum Des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Ittingen, Switzerland
: KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art | Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
: Panza di Biumo Collection - Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY
: Picasso Foundation - Native Home Museum (Fundacion Picasso), Malaga, Spain
: The Tate Gallery, London, England
: Tibet House, New York, NY
: REFCO, Ray E. Friedman and Co, New York, NY
: Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
: Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
: Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
: Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
: Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France
: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Shiga, Japan
: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
: IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
: The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Dr. Nils Forsblom Collection, California

Joseph Kosuth

(American, born 1945)

Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth

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