David Colosi
Tesselrod Cloud Attempts to Escape the Land of Borrowed Imagination and Ride Into a Universe of His Own Making, 2009. Mixed media installation, 400 square feet overall.
The Proof (First Laboratory), 2007. Mixed media installation, 1000 square feet overall.
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2006 MA: New York University, Draper Program: Art & Literary Theory
1991 MFA: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Art & Writing
1989 BA: SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, Art & English
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 LMCC Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, The Proof
2007 Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Annals of Roentgenology Vol. XXII
2005 Art Basel, Art Statements, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
1992 Highways, Los Angeles, CA. Between Candy in the Village and Home
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Nova, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2005 NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2004 Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2003 NY Arts Gallery, NYC, Drawing Conclusions II - Works by Artists/Writers
Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC, There's Got to be a Morning After
2002 Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, Science Friction
1998 Cool Ranch, Antelope Valley, CA, Line of Sight
450 Broadway Gallery, NYC, Y.G.A.H.A: Revisiting Duchamp
Round Table New York Inc, 580 Broadway, NYC, Round 1
1993 Floating Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. In Between
COLLABORATIONS
1999 SoundLab Cultural Alchemy @ Farenheit, with Boaz Barkan, NYC. Verticulate
1994 Proto Theater, with DA.M, Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Style
1992 Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, with Veronica LaJambe, LA. Stove Crushing
WEB-BASED PROJECTS
Present-2006 The Center for Three-Dimensional Literature, http://www.3dlit.org
1999 Visual-Text Art Venue, Verticulating a Tree http://mteww.com/VTAV/archive/verticulate/entrance.html
Visual-Text Art Venue, Group Text http://mteww.com/VTAV/archive/index.html
READINGS
2004 Bowery Poetry Club, Laughing Blood release, NYC, Left Hand Books
Maryland Institute College of Art, Spectrum of Poetic Fire: Postmodern Blues with Ishmael Reed
Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC, with Amy Holman, and Jeremy Sigler
Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, From Totems to Hip Hop release
Tribes Gallery, NYC, From Totems to Hip Hop release
2002 TriBeCa Temporary, NYC
2001 Serena, NYC, David Colosi and Jimmy Raskin
2000 New York Underground Music & Poetry Festival, Tribes Gallery, NYC
KGB Bar, NYC, David Colosi & Jimmy Raskin
Cyclic Voices @ Gershwin Hotel, NYC
Thermal Dynamic Reading Series @ Tonic, NYC
1999 Good World Bar and Grill, NYC
Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY, Slide and Film Club
1998 Greene Naftali Gallery: Contemporary Literature Series, NYC
1995 NY: Nuyurican Poets Cafe, Alterknit Theater, Biblio's, NP Le Poeme Cafe
1991 LA: Beyond Baroque, Highland Grounds, Toltec Poetry Series, Lizards
SELECTED WRITINGS & BOOK WORKS
2004 Profound Shapes: The Art of Don Osborn - Twenty Years in Plattsburgh, 1985-2005 Retrospective exhibition catalog essay, SUNY Plattsburgh
Laughing Blood: Selected Poems of David Colosi 1987-2003. NY: Left Hand Books
2003 The Left-Hand Side Show, (selected pieces), NY: Left Hand Books
From Totems to Hip Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, (selected piece) ed. Ishmael Reed (NY: Thunders Mouth Press)
1999 Ten Impressions of Kamepao, Kakegawa, Japan http://www.kamepao.com
1997 C31. Impossible Monkeys/Possible Imps. http://www.strikingdistance.com/
Nasunogahara Sculpture Symposium in Ohtawara '97. Catalog Co-translation with Mochizawa Aiko, City Ohtawara, Japan
1996 An Untold Story. Artist's book: Printed Matter Bookstore & Dia Bookstore, NYC
1995 Tender. Artist's book: Printed Matter Bookstore & Dia Bookstore, NYC
1990 400 Rubs Magazine. (Selected pieces): Rubs Pub. Co., Los Angeles, CA
Oversight Magazine. (Selected pieces): CalArts, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Z-Platt Almanac. Robert Frost Poetry Award: Plattsburgh, NY
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES, VISITING ARTIST
2009 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, residency (June 15 - July 3)
2005 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, visiting artist
2004 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, visiting artist with Ishmael Reed
2002 Atlantic Center for the Arts. Associate Artist with Ishmael Reed (July 18 - Aug. 10) New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Avant Guard, X-Initiative's No Soul For Sale, fanzine by Swiss Institute, NYC
Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 1: http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/phaenex/issue/current
2007 Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1: http://www.phaenex.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/phaenex/issue/view/47
2006 Flavorpill Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach preview by Michelle Weinberg http://miami.flavorpill.net/event/view/339
2005 Am harten Rand der etablierten Kunst: Die Statements der Art Basel: Eine Vorstellung in Vorfreude auf eine deutliche Sprache, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Kunstmarkt extra, Juni 2005, Seite B7
Art Basel 36, June 15-20, 2005, Catalog
2004 Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 2-5, 2004, Catalog
Bizarre Bazaar, Naples Daily News, by Donald Miller, Dec. 3 (photo)
2002 Hallucinogenic Ogres and Anatomical Machinery, by Jessica Misener (w photo) Miami Hurricane, October 31
Science Friction, by Sarah Stites, Nov. 23. miamiartexchange.com
COLLECTIONS
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Sherman Art Library, Dartmouth College
Various national and international private collections