Joseph Kosuth
Toledo, Ohio, 1945 -
Since 1968, Kosuth has been a faculty member of the School of Visual Arts. In 1969, the artist organized an exhibition of his work, Fifteen Locations, which took place simultaneously at 15 museums and galleries worldwide; he also participated in the seminal exhibition of Conceptual art [more], January 5–31, 1969, at the Seth Siegelaub Gallery, New York. From 1970 to 1974, for a number of solo shows he created classroom environments in which participants were accommodated at desks, given documents to read, and presented with texts or diagrams on the walls. In 1973, the Kunstmuseum Luzern, presented a major retrospective of his art that traveled in Europe.
Kosuth was coeditor of The Fox magazine in 1975–76 and art editor of Marxist Perspectives in 1977–78. In the series Text/Context (1978–79), the artist posted statements about art and language and their sociocultural contexts on billboards. In 1981, he began using the theories of Sigmund Freud in series such as Cathexis, which is composed of text and inverted photographs of Old Master paintings marked with colored Xs. Also in 1981, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld organized a major Kosuth retrospective. In his Zero and Not (1986), words were mechanically printed on paper and then partially obscured by tape. The artist lives in New York and Belgium.
--from Guggenheim website
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Füssen, Germany, 1952 - 2013, Freiburg, Germany
Newcastle, CA, 1965 - 2006, Los Angeles, CA
Mexico City, Mexico, 1902 - 2002
National City, California, 1931 - 2020, Venice, California
Hartford, Connecticut, 1928 - 2007, New York, New York