Christopher Cozier

Collaboration History

In October 2011, artists Christopher Cozier and Luis Jacobs were invited into the Substation studio space to work on projects and interact with the students and wider art community at the Wits School of Arts on East Campus. Cozier was also invited to make an edition of prints at David Krut Workshop at Arts on Main during his occupation of the studio space. He created a series of monotypes and linocuts, called After All That Talk, featuring an antiquated table cleaner that Cozier inherited after his great aunt passed away.

 

Christopher Cozier is a mixed- media artist who lives and works in Trinidad. His drawings, videos, and installations investigate how Caribbean historical and contemporary experiences can inform our understanding of the wider world. He is co-founder and co-director of Alice Yard, an art collective based in Port of Spain which that organiszes art exhibitions, runs a residency programme, and hosts performances, film screenings, dialogues, and lectures. He is a Prince Claus Award laureate (2013), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee (2004), a previous Rauschenberg Foundation artist in residence (2016), and most recently a recipient of the Jorge M. Pérez prize (2023). Key group exhibitions include Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture (Wadsworth Atheneum, 1995), Infinite Island: Caribbean Contemporary Art (Brooklyn Museum, 2007), Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic (Tate Liverpool, 2010), Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, 2017), The Sea Is History (Historisk Museum, Oslo, 2019), Experiences of Oil (Stavanger Art Museum, 2022), Fragments of Epic Memory (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2021), Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s to Today (MCA Chicago, 2022), and Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica (Art Institute of Chicago, 2024). Cozier has also exhibited at the 5th and 7th Havana biennials (1994/2000), was an artist in residence in the 10th Berlin Biennial (2018), exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial (2019), the 11th Liverpool Biennial (2021), and Prospect 6 (2024). With Alice Yard, he participated in Documenta 15 (2022). Active as an art critic since the 1990s, he was a member of the editorial collective of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism from 1998 to 2010 and was an editorial adviser to BOMB Magazine for their its Americas issues in 2003, 2004, and 2005. Curator of multiple exhibitions, Cozier has served as curatorial adviser for SITE Santa Fe (2014) and as a member of the selection panels for About Change in Latin American in the Caribbean (World Bank, 2010) and the Kingston Biennial (2017). He was co-curator of Paramaribo Span: Contemporary Art in Suriname (2010) and, with Tatiana Flores, of Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions (Art Museum of the Americas, 2010). His work is in the collections of MCA Chicago, the Stavanger Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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