BORN December 23, 1942, Rock Springs, Wyoming

EDUCATION

1965-67 M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1962-65 B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1961-62 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008   

“West of the Great Divide,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

“Paul Kos: Selected Works: 1971 - 2007,” Esso Gallery, New York

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

1998
"Sculptural Allegories," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1995
Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1994
“Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery”, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA

1992
“Paul Kos: Sculpture”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (travels)
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1991
“Tintinnabulations”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California

1990
"Paul Kos: Ber Lin," Laguna Art Museum, Satellite Gallery at South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1988
Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California
University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico

1987
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1986
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California

1982
University of Nevada, Reno

1980
MATRIX, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Site, Inc., 585 Mission Street, San Francisco, California

1979
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

1978
Video Free America, San Francisco, California
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York

1977
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

1976
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York

1975
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York

1974
"Howard Fried, Paul Kos," San Jose University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA
M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

1973
"Gutierrez-Solana, Glassman, Kos," (three one-man exhibitions), La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, CA 1972 Reese Palley Gallery, New York, New York

1971
"Fish, Fox, Kos," de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1969
"Participationkinetics," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
"Freeze-Drived Xmas," de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

“California Video,” Getty Research Institute and J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Neighbourhood Secrets, Stavanger, Norway

“Projected Image,” University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

“Looking for Mushrooms,” Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

2007 – 2008

“Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2007

“from_&_to,” kunst Merano arte, Merano, Italy

“Pioneers,” CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA

“On Ice,” Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

“Subversive Moves,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID

2006
“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, CA

“Evidences or This Object of Desire,” In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France

2005
“Soft Openings,” The Katzen American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
2003
“Sold Concept IV,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2004

"Beuys don't cry", Zero Gallery, Milan, Italy

2000
“Open House,” Art on Site 1, San Francisco, CA
“1:1,” Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

1999
"Line", Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY

1998
"PFormative Acts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Selections from the Weisman Collection, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

1997
"Video Group Show," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“The Art Orchestra: A Sculptors’ Ensemble”, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

1996
"Blurring the Boundaries" Installation Art 1969 - 1996 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
“Generations”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
“Austria SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Show,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Natural Histories”, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

1995
"Facing Eden," M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

1994
“Solid Concept Three”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1993
“In Out of the Cold,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1992
“California Art,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
“John Cage Memorial Exhibition”, Jernigan/Wicker, San Francisco, CA
“Unter Null”, Woh Museum, Barengasse, Zurich, Germany

1991
“After the Apocalypse: A Different Humanism”,SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“Transformations”, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California
“Unter Null” (Below Zero), Museum Indutriekultur, Nuremberg, Germany
“Gallery II”, (3-person show), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1990
“Lines of Force”, Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Bay Area Media", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Works in Media", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
"In Site, Five Conceptual Artists from the Bay Area", University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
"Public Art, Models and Drawings", San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Open Channels, Five Year Survey", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
"R/T SF - Colombia", San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California

1989-90
"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, Washington

1989
"Bay Area Conceptualism: Two Generations", Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York
"Machinations", Saint Gervais, Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Geneva, Switzerland

1989
"San Francisco Bay Artists" Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia
Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia; Centro Colombo Americano,
Bucaramanga, Columbia; Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia; Museo Arqueologico La Merced, Cali, Colombia; Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia
"Solid Concept," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1988
"Second International Exhibition of Artists of Slovenian Descent," Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
"3 Videonale," Bonn, West Germany
"Art of the Madonna," Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago, Illinois

1987
"Landscape Video: The Seventies," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
"Steirischer Herbst '87," Graz, Austria
"Object Poems," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
"30 From 25," Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada at Reno

1986
Second Newport Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California

1985
"Video from Vancouver to San Diego," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Reel to Real," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Nature as Metaphor," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
"Spacial Relationships in Video," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Selections from the de Saisset," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California

1984
"Artist's Valentines," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
"Artist Olympics," Video Gallery, San Francisco, California
"San Francisco Video Festival," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Video and Ritual," Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Reel to Real," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
"Bar Video," Vazac Hall, presented by MO David, Inc., New York, New York
"Video: A Retrospective 1974-1984," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

1983
"Art Video," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, France
"Performance," Restaurant Dalmatzi, Bern, Switzerland

1982
"Vision #5 Artists' Photography," Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California
Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York
"100 Years of California Sculpture," Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
"Elegant San Francisco Miniatures," Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California; Belca House, Kyoto, Japan; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Video," American River College, Sacramento, California
"Arts Alive," KVIE Channel 6, Sacramento, California

1981
"California Performance," Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
"TV in Place," Korot, Burden, Kos, San Francisco Art Institute

1980
"San Francisco Video Review," Video Free America, San Francisco, California
"San Francisco Video Festival," San Francisco, California
"Video Art," Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France

1979
"Video Roman '79," Rome, Italy
"Everson Video Review," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
"Bay Area Contemporary Strengths," University of California at Santa Barbara
"Space/Time/Sound/1970's — A Decade in the Bay Area," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

1978
"Art Video," La Mamelle and Cable Channel 25, San Francisco, California
"Video Art," Southland Cable Networks, Some Serious Business, and the Long Beach Museum of Art
"Americans in Paris," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
"Video Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Video Art," Lanchester Polytech, Coventry, England

1977
"A Tight Thirteen Minutes," Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
"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, California
"Video Art," Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts

1975
"Video Art," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
"The Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
"San Francisco Bay Area Artists' Work on Video Tape," And/Or Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Video Art USA," Bienal de Sao Paulo, American Pavillion, Brazil (traveled to five Latin-American countries)
"Information Show," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
"Exchange?DFW/SFO," Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1975, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Landscape Video," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

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

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, California
"All Night Sculpture," Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
"Bienal de Sao Paolo," Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Video, The New Wave," WGBH Television, Boston, Massachusetts
"Video Group Show," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
"Art Now," J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.

1972
"San Francisco Performance," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
"Video West One," Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
"Games," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
"Saint Jude Video Invitational," de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California
"The Bay Area Roach Clip Show," San Geronimo, California
"Toys of the Artist," Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, California
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
"MOCA FM," Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco and KPFA FM, Berkeley, California
"Video Works," 112 Greene Street, New York, New York

1970
"Richmond Sculpture Annual," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
"The Eighties," University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
"Sound; Sculpture As:," Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
"Films by Sculptors," Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California

1970
"Art in the Mind," Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

1969
"Invitational Drawing Exhibit," California State College, Hayward, California
"Return of Abstract Expressionism," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, California
Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1999–2000
Flintridge Foundation

1997
National Endowment for the Arts and FONCA (Fondacion y Organisacion National de Culutra yArtes) 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, Massachusetts
Western States Arts Fellowship
"Open Channels," Long Beach Museum of Art

1986
National Endowment Media Arts Grant (in conjunction with 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

COMMISSIONED WORKS

2000
“Poetry /Sculpture Garden,” 199 Freemont Street, San Francisco, CA (In Collaboration with Robert Haas)
1998
“2 X 2 ,” di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA

1997
Tunnel/Chapel, ZIZZIVA, La Petanque

1991
“Poetry Garden”, enclosed garden of Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco, California

1990
"Art in Transit", Market Street Program, San Francisco Arts Commission
(in collaboration with Delaney/Cochran Partnership), San Francisco, California
Secretary of State, State Archives Building, California State Arts Commission, Sacramento, California

1989
Passenger-Only Ferry Terminal, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington (in collaboration with Miller/ Hull Partnership)

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

Albright, Thomas, “Art”, Rolling Stone, June 24, 2023
____, “Art from a Giant Puddle”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1969.
____, “Marvels in Steel and Sand”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1971.
Anderson, Phil, “Chartes Bleu”, High Performance 10, no. 3, 1987: 99-100
Arms, John, “Agrisculpture”, Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 1969.
Arts Magazine 44, no. 8, summer 1970: 23, 38.
Arts Magazine 47, no. 1, September-October 1972: 58
Avalanche 1, Fall 1970: 6.
Avalanche 2, Winter 1971: 6
Avalanche 4, Spring 1972: 4.
Baker, Kenneth, “Art That Comes Across as Disposable”, San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 2022
Battcock, Gregory, ed., New Artists Video, New York: Dutton, 1978.
Belloil, Jay, Joel Glassman, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Paul Kos [exhibition catalog], La Jolla, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1973.
Belsito, Peter, “Sympathetic Vibrations”, High Performance 9, no. 2, 1986: 73.
Bonetti, David, “Two decades of MATRIX”, San Francisco Examiner, April 29, 1998.
____, “With sly wit, Paul Kos rings a bell”, San Francisco Examiner, October 28, 1994: C6-7.
Christensen, Judith, “Uncomfortable Cadence”, Artweek 21, March 15, 1990: 13-4.
Golonu, Berin, Artweek, January 2000: 41.
Jaszi, Jean, “Projects for the Eighties”, Artweek, March 28, 1970: 1, 8.
Junker, Howard, “Video Installation: Paul Kos and Sculptured Monitor”, Arts Magazine, November 1975: 65-6.
Kent, Tom, ‘Paul Kos – Videotapes and Sculptural Residue”, Artweek, November 2, 1974: 5.
McCann, Cecile N., “Richmond Sculpture Annual”, Artweek, February 18, 1970: 6.
____, “Authority and Art (Again)”, Artweek, June 26, 1971: 2.
____, Artweek, February 13, 1971: 2.
Marioni, Tom, “Art/By Jove”, San Francisco Magazine, March 1977: 94-5.
Morris, Gay, Art in America 77, February 1989: 173.
Moss, Stacey, Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery [exhibition catalog], Belmont, CA: College of Notre Dame, 1994.
“Museum of Conceptual Art Opens”, Artweek, March 28, 1970: 2.
Porges, Maria, “Paul Kos at Gallery Paule Anglim”, Artforum, February 1996: 89.
Reveaux, Tony, ‘Polytechnical Diversity (SFMOMA)”, Artweek 21, April 19, 1990; 1.
Richardson, Brenda, “Bay Area Survey: The Myth of Neo-Dada”, Arts Magazine, Summer 1970: 47.
____, “Bay Area Report”, Arts Magazine 45, no. 8, Summer 1971: 44.
Riddle, Mason, New Art Examiner 15, November 1987: 57.
Schneider, Ira, and Beryle Korot, eds., Video Art, New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1976.
“Sculpture in the Vineyards”, San Francisco Magazine, October 1969.
Smallwood, Lyn, ‘Sculptor in a Haystack”, Seattle Weekly, February 7, 1990: 49.
Soe, Valerie, “Lessons in Seeing”, Artweek, April 25, 1970: 2.
“Sounds Sculpture Event”, Artweek, April 25, 1970: 2.
Tamblyn, Christine, “A Ritual for Bells”, Artweek 17, March 15, 1987.
Tarshis, Jerome, “San Francisco”, Artforum 8, no. 10, June 1970: 91.
____, “San Francisco”, Artforum 9, vol 1, September 1971: 91.
“U.C. Project for the Eighties”, Artweek, March 14, 1970: 3.
Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Video and Ritual”, Afterimage 12, February 1985: 19.