KAY ROSEN (b. 1949, Corpus Christi, TX) lives and works in Gary, IN.
Kay Rosen has been exploring language through her art for over twenty-five years. In her paintings, drawings, wall works, collages, editions, and published projects, she uses various visual, grammatical, and typographical strategies to release new meaning from found words and phrases, and to challenge the way people read. In the works that brought her recognition in the late 1980s, such as the well-known Ed Paintings (1988), she created visual drama by manipulating the limits of color, spacing and punctuation, creating an epic writing form all her own. In her latest work, Rosen delves into systems of language, color, letterforms, and the architecture of the page, canvas, and wall to investigate alternative ways of reading, representation, and interpretation.
Rosen's work has been exhibited in an important retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA (1998-1999); at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; the Whitney Biennial (1991/2000); The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and most recently at the Prague Contemporary Art Festival (2007). She has also exhibited in La Parola Nell'arte at Museo de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, and in Numerica at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy.
Rosen is represented by Yvon Lambert in Paris and New York.