David Colosi

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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.

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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

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