Kay Rosen

1943	in Corpus Christi, Texas geboren,
	lebt und arbeitet in Gary, Indiana and New York City.
Ausbildung
MA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
BA, Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Indiana University, Gary.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lehrende Funktion
Spanisch an der Indiana University, Gary.
Kunst am Art Institute of Chicago.
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2024	KAY ROSEN - ICI, Michele Didier, Paris.
2023	Kay Rosen. Now and Then, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen.
	Kay Rosen. Prints and Drawings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.
	KAY ROSEN. FREE FOOD (for thought), Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas.
	HI, permanent commission, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas.
	KAY ROSEN. NEW WORK 2020-2021, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.
2021	KAY ROSEN. LISTS 1989-2021, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.
	SORRY, a commission by Kay Rosen for the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2020	Kay Rosen. 202020… Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas.
2019	One Wall, one work, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.
2018	Kay Rosen. Stirring Wirds, Alexander Gray Associates, New York City.
2017	Jumbo Mumbo, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Texas.
	H is for House, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conneticut.
	Kay Rosen, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.
	Kay Rosen. Letterpress Prints, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.
2016	Baroken, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main.
	A Traveling Show. Kay Rosen and Matt Keegan, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz;
	Contemporary Art Museum Houston.
2015	This Means War..., Ingleby Gallery - Billboard Project, Edinburgh, Scotland.
	MINI/Goethe-Institut, Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York City.
2014	Map of the World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
	Kay Rosen, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.
	Kay Rosen, Galerie Zilberman, Istanbul.
2013	Kay Rosen, Windows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
2012	Here Are the People and There Is the Steeple, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, Neuseeland.
	Construction Zone, Aspen Art Museum.
	Kay Rosen, Wide and Deep, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York.
	Mañana Man, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
2011	Kay Rosen, On the Off Ramp, Taubman Museum of American Art, Roanoke, Virginia.
	Kay Rosen. Art Loop 2011, Public Commission, State Street, Chicago.
2010	Black and White and Read All Over, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.
2009	Kay Rosen. You and Your Landscapes! Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.
2008	Kay Rosen. Huen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
	Kay Rosen. Scareful!, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York.
	Kay Rosen. Alone and Together, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.
	No Noose Is Good Noose, Alexander Gray Associates, New York.
2007	Kay Rosen. Editions and Multiples, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.
2006	Kay Rosen. Wall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York.
2005	Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York.
	Kay Rosen. (No) Comment, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.
2004	Kay Rosen. HALFULL, Recent Wall Paintings and Collages, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.
	Kay Rosen. Big Talk, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Neuseeland.
	New Word Order. Kay Rosen, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia.
2003	Kay Rosen, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois.
	Kay Rosen. Rooms, Galerie Friedrich, Basel.
2002	Kay Rosen. Collages 1999-2002, The Drawing Center, New York.
2001	Rooms, Paul Morris Gallery, New York.
	Kay Rosen. Up and Down, Aspen Art Museum.
2000	Paul Morris Gallery, New York.
	Ten in One Gallery, New York.
1999	Kay Rosen. Lifeli[k]e, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) und Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 25-year survey.
1998	Kay Rosen. Girl Talk, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago.
	ABC (At Beaver College), Beaver College Art Gallery (now Arcadia University), Philadelphia.
1997	Kay Rosen. Short Stories/Tall Tales, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf.
1996	Short Stories, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.
	Art. Concept, Nizza.
	Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athen.
1995	Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern.
	Paul Morris Gallery, New York.
1994	Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan.
	Kay Rosen. Home On the Range, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
	Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.
	Kay Rosen. Back Home In Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
1993	Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
	Feature, New York.
1992	Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
	Laura Carpenter Gallery, Sante Fe.
	Feature, New York.
1991	Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica.
	Feature, New York.
1990	Feature, New York.
	Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
	Witte de With (Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam.
1989	Feature, New York.
1988	Feature, New York.
	Feature, Chicago.
1987	Feature, Chicago.
1979 – 1983	Kay Rosen. Lines On Lines, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1983.
	Kay Rosen- Stair Walking. Notations/Diagrams, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1981.
	Kay Rosen. Photographic Performances, Franklin Furnace, New York, 1980.
	Kay Rosen. Photo-texts and Performances, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1979.
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2024	What Men Live By, Office Baroque, Antwerpen.
	More Than Once. 35 Years of Klosterfelde Edition, Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.
	Healing, in memory of Brent Sikkema, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.
2023	Mosaic, James Barron Art, Kent, CT.
	Twenty-five, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
	Wörthersee, Wörtersee, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.
2022	Material Language, Bonnier Gallery, Miami.
	:What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag?, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen.
2021	Ideas for Monuments In Homage To Heroines and Unknown Heroes, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires.
	Was/Is/Ought, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago.
	The Flag Project, Rene Schmitt, Berlin.
2020	Catalyst: Art and Social Justice, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York City.
	We Fight To Build a Free World. An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum, New York City.
	Energy In All Directions, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York.
	When We First Arrived…, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington D.C.
	Overbooked, Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong.
2019	IN/SITU, EXPO, Chicago.
	OVERRIDE, citywide public art initiative, City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago.
	She Persists. A Century of Women Artists in New York, Gracie Mansion/Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York City.
	Go With the Flow. Swim Against the Tide, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London.
	Small Talk, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
	Zombies. Pay Attention!, Aspen Art Museum.
2018	In Light Of… Chicago Manual Style, Chicago.
	Everything Has Been Done 2, Forde Geneva, Geneva.
	FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art.
	This Brush for Hire. Norm Laich and Many Other Artists, ICA, Los Angeles.
	Do I Have To Draw You a Picture?, Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, England.
2017	An Incomplete History of Protest. Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
	From Christo to Kiefer - The Collection Lambert, Avignon, The Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster.
2016	(T)here to (T)here, video collaboration with choreographer Liz Gerring, Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Barishnikov Arts Center, New York.
	Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.
	I-71, Billboard project, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2015	Colorwheel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
	Artists' Recipes, Publikation von Admir Jahic and Comenius Roethlisberger, Basel.
	25 Years of Fun, eine Feier zum Anlass des 25-jährigen Geburtstags von Edition Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin.
	Softly Overripe, Ha Ha Gallery, Southhampton, England.
	Re(a)d, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York City.
	Over and Under, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.
	Once Upon a Time and Now, The LGBT Community Center, New York.
	Assisted, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.
2014	Take My Word For It, Art Museum an der University of Kentucky.
	I Was a Double, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
	The I-70 Sign Show, Highway I-70 in der Nähe von Columbia, Missouri.
2013	Entropy, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul.
	Signs and Messages II, Kate MacGarry, London.
	Chick Lit, Tracy Williams Gallery, New York.
	The Cat Show, White Columns, New York.
	PROCHOICE, Fri-Art Centre d'art Contemporain de Fribourg, Fribourg.
	Auf Zeit Wandbilder-Bildwande, Kunsthalle Bielefelde, Bielefeld, in Kollaboration mit der Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
	ABCDEFGHI, Marabouparken Konstall, Sundbyberg, Schweden.
	Semicolon Hyphen Bracket, MKG127 Gallery, Toronto.
2012	Beasts of Revelation, DC Moore Gallery, New York City.
	Literature Language Word, Honolulu Museum of Art.
	==, mfc-michèle didier gallery, Paris.
	Don't Smile, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz.
	Girl Talk. Women and Text, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Musuem of Modern Art, New York.
	Postscript, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art.
2011	“Brainbodygame” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
	About Painting, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary.
	In Other Words, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork.
	Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking. A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
	Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.
	Playtime, LAC - Lieu d'Art Contemporain Narbonne.
	Mixed Messages, La Mama La Galleria, New York.
	De-Building, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch.
2010	Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca.
	We Between the Lines, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York City.
	Che Cosa Sono Le Nuvole?, (The Enea Righi Collection), Museion, Bolzano, Italien.
	A to B, MKG127, Toronto.
2009	Learning Modern, Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
	Just What Are They Saying?, Jonathon Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans.
	Rich Text, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.
	Broken Thorn, Sweet Blackberry, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York.
2008	Archeology of Longing, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.
	Political Corect, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Genf.
	Idiolects, Brown Gallery, London.
	In the Beginning. Artists Respond to Genesis, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
	Always There, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin.
	Prospect .1, New Orleans.
2007	La parola nell'arte, Mart–Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.
	Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).
	Emerging Wor(l)ds, Billboard Projects for Tina B.– The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2007, Prag.
	Sign Language, Des Moines Art Center Downtown.
	Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver.
	numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena.
2006	Gaylen Gerber, Foundation Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg.
	40th Anniversary Exhibition, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.
	No Lemons, No Melon, David Krut Projects, New York.
	Under the Skin. Tattoos and American Culture, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina.
	Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
	General Ideas, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco.
	A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston.
	Navy Pierwalk 2005, Chicago.
	Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia.
	How To Read, Teil der "Collection Remixed", The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.
	The Vinyl Project, Cork 2005, Cork, Irland.
	Situation Comedy, Reiseausstellung für Independent Curators Incorporated.
2004	Between Letters and Abstraction, 3°W Gallery, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England.
	Unclosed Stories, Unlimited Contemporary, Athen.
	Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York.
	The Center Is Anywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
2003	Dark Companion, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athen.
	Back in Black, Cohan, Leslie, & Brown Gallery, New York.
	The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica.
2002	Art Basel Miami Beach, Artists Projects.
	Interstate (Fehrer, Moffet, Rosen, Villareal), Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin.
	Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
	Henrik Olesen, Gabriel Orozco, Kay Rosen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.
	Words In Deeds, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art(PICA), Oregon.
2001	The Game Show, Massachusetts Museum of Comtemporary Art.
	Extra-Art. A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960-1999, California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco; Reiseausstellung nach Minnetonka Art Center, Minneapolis & ICA, London, 2002-2003.
	Textual Operations, White Box, New York.
	Drawing On Language, Spaces, Cleveland.
	Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More On Collecting für Independent Curators Inc, New York.
2000	*Biennial Exhibition 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
	Errant Gestures, Apex Gallery, New York.
	Words-Objects-Acts, Museum of the City of Skopje, Makedonien.
	Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina.
1999	Billboard: Art On the Road, Eröffnungsausstellung im Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCa), North Adams.
	Kunst in der Stadt III, mit Gaylen Gerber, Kunsthaus Bregenz.
	Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
	Points of Departure. Art On the Line, Main Line train stations site-specific projects, Philadelphia.
	The Sea, The Sea, Murray Guy, New York.
	Wallpaintings, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.
1998	In the Beginning, Murray Guy, New York.
	Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
	A To Z. Language To Be Looked At and/ or Things To Be Read, The Approach, London.
	Editions. General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.
	Pierre Molinier, Kay Rosen, Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkima), New York.
1997	Critical Images. Conceptual Works from the 1960s to the Present, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York.
	Point Mort, Art Concept, Paris.
1996	Art In Chicago. 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
	Small Scale, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York.
	Varietes, Le Capiton. Art Contemporain Frejus.
	Thinking Print. Prints and Illustrated Books 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
	50x50x50, Answering Machines at various sites, London.
	Second Sight. Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
1995	Temporarily Possessed. The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
	Word for Word, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania.
	Five Words or Less, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
	On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York.
	Altered States, Forum, St. Louis.
	Pittura-Immedia. Painting in the 90's, Neue Galerie and Künstlerhaus, Graz.
	Zimmerdenkmaler, (Room Movements), verschiedene öffentliche Plätze in Bochum.
1994	Korrespondenzen/Correspondences, Berlinische Galerie, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin und Chicago Cultural Center.
	Synesthesia. Sound and Vision In Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art.
	The Use of Pleasure, San Francisco.
1993	Beyond Loss. Art in the Era of AIDS, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
	Post-Dialectical Index, Piazza Costanza, Trieste; La Tuatta Studio, Milan; Horodner Romley Gallery, New York.
	Substitute Teachers, Sadie Bronfman Cultural Center, Montreal.
	Legend in My Livingroom, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
1992	Small Talk, P.S.1 and Postmasters Gallery, New York.
	Painting Culture, University of California Irvine.
	Why Paint?, Renaissance Gallery at the University of Chicago.
1991	Manum de Tabula, Shedhalle, Zürich.
	At the End of the Day, Randy Alexander Gallery, New York.
	Candy Ass Carnival (When Good Things Happen to Loozers), Stux Gallery, New York.
	Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Hyde Collection, Great Falls, New York.
	Awards in the Visual Arts X, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Albuquerque Museum; Toledo Museum, Ohio.
	A New Low, Claudio Botello Gallery, Turin.
	Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, und Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles.
	Artists in Words and #s, Wright State University Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, Ohio.
1990	Word As Image. American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum; Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
	Art Against AIDS- On the Road, Chicago.
	Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
	Your Message Here, (Billboard Exhibition), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.
	The Clinic, Simon Watson Gallery, New York.
1989	AIDS. A Time Line 1979-1990, Matrix Program at University Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
1991	Whitney Biennial.
	Problems With Reading Rereading, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
	The Center Show, The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, New York.
1988	From Right to Left, Churchman Fehsenfeld Gallery, Indianapolis.
	Contention, New Langton Arts, San Francisco.
	Brave and Cruel, (Hudson, Lafreniere, Rosen), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.
	Text Does Not Explain, Stux Gallery, Boston.
	The Language of Form, The Form of Language, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York.
	Romantic Distance, Jeffrey Neal Gallery, New York.
1987	Wet Paint, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago.
	Summer Group Show, American Fine Arts Gallery, New York.
	Non-Spiritual In Art. Abstract Painting From 1985-?, Chicago.
1986	Cryptic Languages, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
	Spiritual America, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
	Promises, Promises, Feature, Chicago and C.A.G.E., Cincinnati.
1984	Indiana Influence, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Indiana.
1982	Artists Tribute to Bertha Urdang, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
	Tracking, Tracing, Marking, Pacing, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York; Sherman Gallery, Ohio State University; Anderson Gallery, University of Richmond; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
1981	Bookworks. New Approaches to Artists Books, Franklin Furnace, New York.
	Ikons/Logos. Word As Image, Alternative Museum, New York.
1980	New Dimensions Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
1979	Midway Between Comedy and Art, Midway Studios, University of Chicago.
1978	Daley's Tomb, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago.
1977	All Over the Place, Moming Dance Center, Chicago.
Ehrungen
2017	John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.
2014	Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work, presented by the CAA (College Art Association).
2013	S.J. Weiler Fund Award.
2009	Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Grant.
1995	National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant.
1990	Award in the Visual Arts 10 Fellowship.
1989	National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant.
1987	National Endowment fot the Arts Visual Arts Grant.
Werke in öffentlichen Sammlungen (Auswahl)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Israel Museum.
The Jewish Museum, New York City.
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Collection of Clayton Press and Gregory Linn, New Jersey.
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Whitney Museum of American Art.

1943

in Corpus Christi, Texas geboren,

lebt und arbeitet in Gary, Indiana and New York City.

MA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

BA, Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Indiana University, Gary.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Spanisch an der Indiana University, Gary.

Kunst am Art Institute of Chicago.

2024

KAY ROSEN - ICI, Michele Didier, Paris.

2023

Kay Rosen. Now and Then, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen.

Kay Rosen. Prints and Drawings, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.

KAY ROSEN. FREE FOOD (for thought), Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas.

HI, permanent commission, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas.

KAY ROSEN. NEW WORK 2020-2021, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.

2021

KAY ROSEN. LISTS 1989-2021, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.

SORRY, a commission by Kay Rosen for the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

2020

Kay Rosen. 202020… Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas.

2019

One Wall, one work, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.

2018

Kay Rosen. Stirring Wirds, Alexander Gray Associates, New York City.

2017

Jumbo Mumbo, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Texas.

H is for House, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conneticut.

Kay Rosen, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.

Kay Rosen. Letterpress Prints, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.

2016

Baroken, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main.

A Traveling Show. Kay Rosen and Matt Keegan, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz;

Contemporary Art Museum Houston.

2015

This Means War..., Ingleby Gallery - Billboard Project, Edinburgh, Scotland.

MINI/Goethe-Institut, Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York City.

2014

Map of the World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Kay Rosen, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.

Kay Rosen, Galerie Zilberman, Istanbul.

2013

Kay Rosen, Windows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.

2012

Here Are the People and There Is the Steeple, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, Neuseeland.

Construction Zone, Aspen Art Museum.

Kay Rosen, Wide and Deep, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York.

Mañana Man, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

2011

Kay Rosen, On the Off Ramp, Taubman Museum of American Art, Roanoke, Virginia.

Kay Rosen. Art Loop 2011, Public Commission, State Street, Chicago.

2010

Black and White and Read All Over, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston.

2009

Kay Rosen. You and Your Landscapes! Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.

2008

Kay Rosen. Huen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.

Kay Rosen. Scareful!, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York.

Kay Rosen. Alone and Together, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.

No Noose Is Good Noose, Alexander Gray Associates, New York.

2007

Kay Rosen. Editions and Multiples, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.

2006

Kay Rosen. Wall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York.

2005

Gray Kapernekas Gallery, New York.

Kay Rosen. (No) Comment, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.

2004

Kay Rosen. HALFULL, Recent Wall Paintings and Collages, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kay Rosen. Big Talk, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Neuseeland.

New Word Order. Kay Rosen, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia.

2003

Kay Rosen, The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois.

Kay Rosen. Rooms, Galerie Friedrich, Basel.

2002

Kay Rosen. Collages 1999-2002, The Drawing Center, New York.

2001

Rooms, Paul Morris Gallery, New York.

Kay Rosen. Up and Down, Aspen Art Museum.

2000

Paul Morris Gallery, New York.

Ten in One Gallery, New York.

1999

Kay Rosen. Lifeli[k]e, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) und Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 25-year survey.

1998

Kay Rosen. Girl Talk, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago.

ABC (At Beaver College), Beaver College Art Gallery (now Arcadia University), Philadelphia.

1997

Kay Rosen. Short Stories/Tall Tales, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf.

1996

Short Stories, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.

Art. Concept, Nizza.

Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athen.

1995

Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern.

Paul Morris Gallery, New York.

1994

Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan.

Kay Rosen. Home On the Range, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.

Kay Rosen. Back Home In Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art.

1993

Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Feature, New York.

1992

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

Laura Carpenter Gallery, Sante Fe.

Feature, New York.

1991

Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica.

Feature, New York.

1990

Feature, New York.

Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Witte de With (Center for Contemporary Art), Rotterdam.

1989

Feature, New York.

1988

Feature, New York.

Feature, Chicago.

1987

Feature, Chicago.

1979 – 1983

Kay Rosen. Lines On Lines, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1983.

Kay Rosen- Stair Walking. Notations/Diagrams, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1981.

Kay Rosen. Photographic Performances, Franklin Furnace, New York, 1980.

Kay Rosen. Photo-texts and Performances, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, 1979.

2024

What Men Live By, Office Baroque, Antwerpen.

More Than Once. 35 Years of Klosterfelde Edition, Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.

Healing, in memory of Brent Sikkema, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City.

2023

Mosaic, James Barron Art, Kent, CT.

Twenty-five, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.

Wörthersee, Wörtersee, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.

2022

Material Language, Bonnier Gallery, Miami.

:What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag?, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen.

2021

Ideas for Monuments In Homage To Heroines and Unknown Heroes, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires.

Was/Is/Ought, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago.

The Flag Project, Rene Schmitt, Berlin.

2020

Catalyst: Art and Social Justice, Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York City.

We Fight To Build a Free World. An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum, New York City.

Energy In All Directions, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York.

When We First Arrived…, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington D.C.

Overbooked, Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong.

2019

IN/SITU, EXPO, Chicago.

OVERRIDE, citywide public art initiative, City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago.

She Persists. A Century of Women Artists in New York, Gracie Mansion/Gracie Mansion Conservancy, New York City.

Go With the Flow. Swim Against the Tide, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London.

Small Talk, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.

Zombies. Pay Attention!, Aspen Art Museum.

2018

In Light Of… Chicago Manual Style, Chicago.

Everything Has Been Done 2, Forde Geneva, Geneva.

FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art.

This Brush for Hire. Norm Laich and Many Other Artists, ICA, Los Angeles.

Do I Have To Draw You a Picture?, Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, England.

2017

An Incomplete History of Protest. Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.

From Christo to Kiefer - The Collection Lambert, Avignon, The Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster.

2016

(T)here to (T)here, video collaboration with choreographer Liz Gerring, Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Barishnikov Arts Center, New York.

Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.

I-71, Billboard project, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2015

Colorwheel, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. 

Artists' Recipes, Publikation von Admir Jahic and Comenius Roethlisberger, Basel. 

25 Years of Fun, eine Feier zum Anlass des 25-jährigen Geburtstags von Edition Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin. 

Softly Overripe, Ha Ha Gallery, Southhampton, England.  

Re(a)d, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York City.

Over and Under, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York City. 

Once Upon a Time and Now, The LGBT Community Center, New York.

Assisted, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago.

2014 

Take My Word For It, Art Museum an der University of Kentucky. 

I Was a Double, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.

The I-70 Sign Show, Highway I-70 in der Nähe von Columbia, Missouri. 

2013 

Entropy, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul.

Signs and Messages II, Kate MacGarry, London. 

Chick Lit, Tracy Williams Gallery, New York. 

The Cat Show, White Columns, New York. 

PROCHOICE, Fri-Art Centre d'art Contemporain de Fribourg, Fribourg.

Auf Zeit Wandbilder-Bildwande, Kunsthalle Bielefelde, Bielefeld, in Kollaboration mit der Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.  

ABCDEFGHI, Marabouparken Konstall, Sundbyberg, Schweden.

Semicolon Hyphen Bracket, MKG127 Gallery, Toronto.

2012

Beasts of Revelation, DC Moore Gallery, New York City.

Literature Language Word, Honolulu Museum of Art.

 ==, mfc-michèle didier gallery, Paris.

Don't Smile, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz.

 Girl Talk. Women and Text, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina.  

Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Musuem of Modern Art, New York. 

Postscript, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art.

2011

“Brainbodygame” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

About Painting, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary.  

In Other Words, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork.

Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking. A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. 

Playtime, LAC - Lieu d'Art Contemporain Narbonne.  

Mixed Messages, La Mama La Galleria, New York.

De-Building, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch.

2010 

Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca.

We Between the Lines, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York City.

Che Cosa Sono Le Nuvole?, (The Enea Righi Collection), Museion, Bolzano, Italien.

A to B, MKG127, Toronto.

2009 

Learning Modern, Sullivan Galleries, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Just What Are They Saying?, Jonathon Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans.

Rich Text, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.

Broken Thorn, Sweet Blackberry, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York. 

2008 

Archeology of Longing, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.

Political Corect, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Genf.

Idiolects, Brown Gallery, London.

In the Beginning. Artists Respond to Genesis, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.

Always There, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin.

Prospect .1, New Orleans.

2007

 La parola nell'arte, Mart–Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.

Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).

Emerging Wor(l)ds, Billboard Projects for Tina B.– The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2007, Prag.

Sign Language, Des Moines Art Center Downtown.

 Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver.

numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena.

 2006

Gaylen Gerber, Foundation Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg.

40th Anniversary Exhibition, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.

 No Lemons, No Melon, David Krut Projects, New York.

Under the Skin. Tattoos and American Culture, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina.

Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

General Ideas, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco.

A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston.

Navy Pierwalk 2005, Chicago.

Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia.

How To Read, Teil der "Collection Remixed", The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.

The Vinyl Project, Cork 2005, Cork, Irland.

Situation Comedy, Reiseausstellung für Independent Curators Incorporated.

2004

Between Letters and Abstraction, 3°W Gallery, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England.

Unclosed Stories, Unlimited Contemporary, Athen.

Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York.

The Center Is Anywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

2003 

Dark Companion, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athen.

Back in Black, Cohan, Leslie, & Brown Gallery, New York.

The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica.

2002 

Art Basel Miami Beach, Artists Projects.

Interstate (Fehrer, Moffet, Rosen, Villareal), Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin.

Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Henrik Olesen, Gabriel Orozco, Kay Rosen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.

Words In Deeds, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art(PICA), Oregon.

2001 

The Game Show, Massachusetts Museum of Comtemporary Art.

Extra-Art. A Survey of Artists' Ephemera 1960-1999, California College of Art and Crafts, San Francisco; Reiseausstellung nach Minnetonka Art Center, Minneapolis & ICA, London, 2002-2003.

Textual Operations, White Box, New York.

Drawing On Language, Spaces, Cleveland.

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More On Collecting für Independent Curators Inc, New York.

2000 

*Biennial Exhibition 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Errant Gestures, Apex Gallery, New York.

Words-Objects-Acts, Museum of the City of Skopje, Makedonien.

Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina.

1999 

Billboard: Art On the Road, Eröffnungsausstellung im Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCa), North Adams.

Kunst in der Stadt III, mit Gaylen Gerber, Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Points of Departure. Art On the Line, Main Line train stations site-specific projects, Philadelphia.

The Sea, The Sea, Murray Guy, New York.

Wallpaintings, Galerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.

1998 

In the Beginning, Murray Guy, New York.

Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York.

A To Z. Language To Be Looked At and/ or Things To Be Read, The Approach, London.

Editions. General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg.

Pierre Molinier, Kay Rosen, Kara Walker, Wooster Gardens (Brent Sikkima), New York.

1997 

Critical Images. Conceptual Works from the 1960s to the Present, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York.

Point Mort, Art Concept, Paris.

1996 

Art In Chicago. 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Small Scale, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York.

Varietes, Le Capiton. Art Contemporain Frejus.

Thinking Print. Prints and Illustrated Books 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

50x50x50, Answering Machines at various sites, London.

Second Sight. Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

1995

Temporarily Possessed. The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

Word for Word, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania.

Five Words or Less, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.

On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York.

Altered States, Forum, St. Louis.

Pittura-Immedia. Painting in the 90's, Neue Galerie and Künstlerhaus, Graz.

Zimmerdenkmaler, (Room Movements), verschiedene öffentliche Plätze in Bochum.

1994 

Korrespondenzen/Correspondences, Berlinische Galerie, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin und Chicago Cultural Center.

Synesthesia. Sound and Vision In Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art.

The Use of Pleasure, San Francisco.

1993

 Beyond Loss. Art in the Era of AIDS, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

Post-Dialectical Index, Piazza Costanza, Trieste; La Tuatta Studio, Milan; Horodner Romley Gallery, New York.

Substitute Teachers, Sadie Bronfman Cultural Center, Montreal.

Legend in My Livingroom, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

1992

Small Talk, P.S.1 and Postmasters Gallery, New York.

Painting Culture, University of California Irvine.

Why Paint?, Renaissance Gallery at the University of Chicago.

1991 

Manum de Tabula, Shedhalle, Zürich.  

At the End of the Day, Randy Alexander Gallery, New York.

Candy Ass Carnival (When Good Things Happen to Loozers), Stux Gallery, New York.

Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, Hyde Collection, Great Falls, New York.

Awards in the Visual Arts X, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Albuquerque Museum; Toledo Museum, Ohio.

A New Low, Claudio Botello Gallery, Turin.

Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, und Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles.

Artists in Words and #s, Wright State University Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton, Ohio.

1990 

Word As Image. American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum; Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.

Art Against AIDS- On the Road, Chicago.

Broken Lines, Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Your Message Here, (Billboard Exhibition), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.

The Clinic, Simon Watson Gallery, New York.

1989 

AIDS. A Time Line 1979-1990, Matrix Program at University Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

1991

Whitney Biennial.

Problems With Reading Rereading, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

The Center Show, The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, New York.

1988 

From Right to Left, Churchman Fehsenfeld Gallery, Indianapolis.

Contention, New Langton Arts, San Francisco.

Brave and Cruel, (Hudson, Lafreniere, Rosen), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago.

Text Does Not Explain, Stux Gallery, Boston.

The Language of Form, The Form of Language, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York.

Romantic Distance, Jeffrey Neal Gallery, New York.

1987 

Wet Paint, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago.

Summer Group Show, American Fine Arts Gallery, New York.

Non-Spiritual In Art. Abstract Painting From 1985-?, Chicago.

1986 

Cryptic Languages, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

Spiritual America, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

Promises, Promises, Feature, Chicago and C.A.G.E., Cincinnati.

1984 

Indiana Influence, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Indiana.

1982 

Artists Tribute to Bertha Urdang, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Tracking, Tracing, Marking, Pacing, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York; Sherman Gallery, Ohio State University; Anderson Gallery, University of Richmond; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

1981 

Bookworks. New Approaches to Artists Books, Franklin Furnace, New York.

Ikons/Logos. Word As Image, Alternative Museum, New York.

1980 

New Dimensions Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

1979 

Midway Between Comedy and Art, Midway Studios, University of Chicago.

1978 

Daley's Tomb, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago.

1977 

All Over the Place, Moming Dance Center, Chicago.

2017

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.

2014

Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work, presented by the CAA (College Art Association).

2013

S.J. Weiler Fund Award.

2009

Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Grant.

1995

National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant.

1990

Award in the Visual Arts 10 Fellowship.

1989

National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Grant.

1987

National Endowment fot the Arts Visual Arts Grant.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Israel Museum.

The Jewish Museum, New York City.

Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Collection of Clayton Press and Gregory Linn, New Jersey.

Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio.

Whitney Museum of American Art.

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