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| Joyce Kozloff | |
|---|---|
| Name | Joyce Kozloff |
| Birth date | 1942 |
| Birth place | Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Muralism, cartography-based art, pattern, public art |
Joyce Kozloff is an American artist and curator known for large-scale murals, map-based artworks, and critical engagement with ornament and geopolitics. Her practice spans painting, printmaking, public commissions, and collaborative projects, intersecting with movements and institutions across the United States and Europe. Kozloff's work connects historical cartography, decorative motifs, and feminist critique, engaging audiences at museums, civic sites, and international exhibitions.
Kozloff was born in Cleveland and raised in a milieu that included connections to Cleveland Museum of Art, Case Western Reserve University, and regional cultural institutions like the Cleveland Orchestra. She studied at Carnegie Mellon University and completed graduate work at Hunter College, where she encountered faculty and fellow students linked to Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, Frank Stella, and movements such as Minimalism and Conceptual art. During her formative years she engaged with artists and educators associated with Art Students League of New York, Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, and learned from visiting critics and curators from institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Kozloff emerged during the 1970s as part of a generation that included Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Hannah Wilke, and Suzanne Lacy who foregrounded feminist perspectives in art. She co-founded collaborative mural projects and was involved with artist-run spaces such as A.I.R. Gallery, Artists Space, The Kitchen, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Her career intersected with curators and critics affiliated with New York University, Columbia University, Yale University, and the Smithsonian Institution. She created works that dialogued with historical figures and movements like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, and Islamic art traditions, while participating in initiatives linked to municipal arts programs such as New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and federal programs like the National Endowment for the Arts.
Kozloff's major projects include map-based series and civic murals commissioned by entities like Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York Transit Authority, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and municipal arts councils in cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston. Notable installations reference historical cartographers and explorers like Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and navigational history tied to Silk Road and Spice trade. She produced print editions and portfolios with print publishers and workshops including Tamarind Institute, Parker Gallery, Crown Point Press, and collaborated with institutions like Library of Congress and British Library for research. Her site-responsive commissions have been sited in venues overseen by organizations such as Port Authority Bus Terminal, John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, San Diego International Airport, and university collections at Princeton University, Yale University Art Gallery, and University of California, Berkeley.
Kozloff's style synthesizes ornamental vocabulary from sources including Ottoman Empire tilework, Mughal Empire miniature painting, Yoruba textiles, Chinese porcelain, and Japanese pattern traditions while referencing modernists like Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee. Her thematic concerns address imperial navigation histories involving British Empire, Spanish Empire, Dutch East India Company, Portuguese Empire, and the geopolitics of trade routes connected to Silk Road and Indian Ocean. She interrogates gender and authorship alongside feminist contemporaries Lucy Lippard, Griselda Pollock, and Rosalind Krauss, engaging scholarship from curators and historians at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Getty Research Institute, and Smithsonian Institution. Kozloff employs processes related to fresco, mosaic, painting, and printmaking, drawing technique parallels with practitioners such as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros while situating ornament within debates advanced by critics like Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried.
Kozloff participated in collaborative mural collectives alongside artists affiliated with Harlem Children's Zone, community arts agencies, and nonprofit organizations like Public Art Fund, Americans for the Arts, and Mural Arts Philadelphia. She partnered with architects, urban planners, and institutions including Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, SOM, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Bjarke Ingels Group, and municipal commissions such as Percent for Art programs in New York City and Los Angeles. Collaborative projects connected her to cultural figures and civic leaders from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to arts administrators at National Endowment for the Humanities and international partners like curators at Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Stedelijk Museum.
Kozloff's work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, ICA Boston, Walker Art Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and internationally at venues including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum, Haus der Kunst, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Tamayo, and the Kunsthalle Basel. Critics from outlets tied to The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, and The Guardian have assessed her engagement with ornament, geopolitics, and public space. Retrospectives and survey exhibitions have been organized by university museums and cultural institutions such as Smithsonian American Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Chicago Cultural Center.
Kozloff has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and awards from regional arts councils including New York Foundation for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her public commissions earned recognition from Americans for the Arts Public Art Network, municipal honors from mayors' offices in New York City and Los Angeles, and collections acquisitions by institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library of Congress, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Category:American artists Category:1942 births Category:Living people