Kay Rosen
Kay Rosen (b. 1943 in Corpus Christi) lives and works in New York City and Gary, Indiana. Kay Rosen: ICI was recently on view at Michèle Didier in Paris in 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.
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co
Solo
KAY ROSEN, Galerie Michèle-Didier (2024)
Prints and Drawings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (2024)
Kay Rosen: NOW AND THEN, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art ( 2024)
Kay Rosen: FREE FOOD (for thought), Lora Reynolds Gallery (2023)
Kay Rosen: Hi, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2023)
Kay Rosen: Lists, 1989-2021, Krakow Witkin Gallery (2021)
SORRY, wall mural commission, National Gallery of Art (2022)
Kay Rosen: Gravity of Language, Osmos Station (2019)
Kay Rosen: Stirring Words, Alexander Gray Associates (2018)
Kay Rosen: H is for House, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2017)
Kay Rosen: Construction Zone, Aspen Art Museum (2013)
Mañana Man, Museum of Fine Arts (2011-2013)
Kay Rosen: Scareful! Yvon Lambert Gallery (2009)
Kay Rosen: Collages 1999-2002, The Drawing Center (2002)
Group
What Men Live By, Office Baroque (2024)
Healing, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (2024)
Wörthersee, Wörtersee, Kunstraum Lakeside (2023)
Twenty-five, Ingleby Gallery (2023)
Sign Systems, Unit London (2022)
This is America*, The University of Kentucky Art Museum (2020)
Wrecked Language, Broodthaers Society of America (2020)
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum (2021)
Bluets, Chicago Manual Style (2020)
Small Talk, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2020)
WORD PLAY: language as medium, Bonnier Gallery (2019)
With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst (2019)
Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018)
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940 - 2017,
Whitney Museum of American Art (2018)
About Concrete Poetry, MAMCO (2017)
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery (2016)
Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Hadley Martin Fisher Collection, Miami Beach, FL
Harald Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Norton Family Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY