Kay Rosen (b. 1943 in Corpus Christi) lives and works in New York City and Gary, Indiana. Kay Rosen: ICI is currently on view at Michèle Didier in Paris through July 13, 2024. Her work was recently the subject of the solo exhibition Kay Rosen. NOW AND THEN at the Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany, her first major institutional show in Europe. Her billboard-sized mural HI was installed on permanent public view at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, in March of 2023. In 2021, Rosen was commissioned by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, to create a site-responsive installation for the Gallery's East Building; her large-scale painting, entitled SORRY, was on view through March 2022. A two-venue mid-career survey entitled Kay Rosen: Li[f]eli[k]e, curated by Connie Butler and Terry R. Myers was exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Otis College of Art Design in 1998-99. Other institutional solo exhibitions include shows at the Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2017); Contemporary Art Museum Houston and Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, in collaboration with Matt Keegan (2016); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2014); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2013); Aspen Art Museum, CO (2012); University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (2004); and The Drawing Center, New York City (2002). Rosen was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2000 as well as in 1991 as part of Group Material's "AIDS Timeline." Rosen taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for twenty-four years.
Rosen has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2017), the SJ Weiler Fund Award (2013), Anonymous Was a Woman Grant (2009), and three National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grants (1995, 1989, 1987). Her work is included in the permanent collections of Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France; and The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH, among many others.
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