David Colosi
http://davidcolosi.com
dcolosi@gmail.com
Instagram: @colosi_david
Podcast: Napping Wizard Sessions
EDUCATION
2006 MA: New York University, Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought:
Art and Literary Theory
1998 Middlebury College, VT, Japanese: Second Year Advanced, summer intensive
1991 MFA: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Art & Writing
1989 BA: SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, Art & English
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 SNAILEIDOLIA, council_st, Los Angeles, CA
2016 David Colosi, Poly, Russell, Belle-Ile-en-mer, Musée des Morlaix, France
2015 The Proof: Third Laboratory, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, project space
2011 The Superintendent’s Keys, NYU Broadway Windows, NYC
2009 Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions, Cueto Project, NYC
2008 The Proof, LMCC Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
2007 Annals of Roentgenology Vol. XXII, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2005 Ed Kienholz Owes Me 2/5¢,Art Basel, Art Statements, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
1999 Verticulating a Tree, Visual-Text Art Venue
1992 Between Candy in the Village and Home, Highways, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Night of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, NYC
The Art of the Score, ABC No Rio, NY
2015 Night of Philosophy, Ukrainian Institute, NYC, performance/lecture
The Purloined Letter, ABC No Rio, NY
2014 Fonds regional d’art contemporain, FRAC Bretagne, Le Centre du monde
What is a Book? Sherman Art Library, Dartmouth College
2011 Help Me Out, ABC No Rio, NY
Decorative Punch: The #$&()^% Of Logorrhoea, ABC No Rio, NY
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Cueto Project, NYC
Dallas Art Fair, Cueto Project, NYC
2010 Floating World, LMCC Arts Center, Governors Island, NYC
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cueto Project, NYC
2000-2010, Galerie Catherine Bastide Ten-Year Anniversary, Brussels
2006 Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2005 NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2004 Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2003 Drawing Conclusions II- Works by Artists/Writers, NY Arts Gallery, NYC
There’s Got to be a Morning After, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NYC,
2002 Science Friction, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
1999 Group Text, Visual-Text Art Venue
1998 Line of Sight, Cool Ranch, Antelope Valley, CA
Y.G.A.H.A: Revisiting Duchamp, 450 Broadway Gallery, NYC
1993 In Between, Floating Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
COLLABORATIONS
1999 Verticulate, SoundLab Cultural Alchemy @ Fahrenheit, with Boaz Barkan, NYC
1994 Tokyo Style, Proto Theater, with DA.M, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Stove Crushing, Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, with Veronica LaJambe, LA.
RADIO
Present-2016 Napping Wizard Sessions podcast
SELECTED WRITINGS & BOOK WORKS
2021 The Wisconsin Review, Vol. 53, Issue 2, The Drunk Pharmacist, (short story)
2019 The Offbeat, Vol. 19, Spring 2019, The Rudleys’ Carpet, (short story)
2018 Finalist: The Offbeat Short Fiction Prize, Michigan State University
2017 Obsidian, Here Come The Songs (poem)
Finalist: Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize, Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University
Permafrost, Empire Allergies (short story)
Searching for the Cold Spot, Hanna Mattes, photography monograph
2015 Intercourse Issue 4, Portfolio of Polyte and Synesthesia
KONCH Magazine, Oct.-Nov. issue, The Bugle Boy and Albert
2013 LA Times, OP-Poetry, August 25, The Gun Permit
A Fixation With a Poem's Disgrace, chapter in Corner Jump: Birth of The Documentarian, Jimmy Raskin. Paris: One Star Press
2012 Miss Pumpernickel Bread, (novel), NYC
Towards A Three-Dimensional Literature, Part 1, NYC
2011 Dynamic Duels and Embattled Bromances: Spy Vs. Spy, Tuesday, June 21, 2011: Network Awesome Magazine
Imaginary Numbers And Other Calculated Fictions, exhibition catalog Cueto Project, NYC
2010 The Life And Thoughts Of A Retired Apostrophe, Governors Island, NY
2004 Profound Shapes: The Art of Don Osborn – Twenty Years in Plattsburgh, 1985-2005 Retrospective exhibition catalog essay, SUNY Plattsburgh
Laughing Blood: Selected Poems 1987-2003. NY: Left Hand Books
2003 From Totems to Hip Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, (poem) ed. Ishmael Reed (NY: Thunders Mouth Press)
1999 Ten Impressions of Kamepao, Kakegawa, Japan
1997 C31. Striking Distance: “Impossible Monkeys/Possible Imps.”
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
READINGS & PERFORMANCES
2016 Underlining the Horizon, Hot August Nights, BLAM Projects, Los Angeles
Strange Things That Boys Do, Adobe Books, San Francisco
2015 Letters to Poly excerpt, Clocktower Radio, March 8
2014 Match #3 David Colosi & Eric Mattijssen, Amstel 41, Amsterdam
2012 Miss Pumpernickel Bread, book tour: NYC, Miami, Los Angeles
2009 Cueto Project NYC, Prometheus’ Chariot (Or Frankenstein Was Not A Monster)
2004 Bowery Poetry Club, Laughing Blood Release Party, 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, Featured Reading: David Colosi and Jimmy Raskin
2000 New York Underground Music & Poetry Festival, Tribes Gallery, NYC
KGB Bar, NYC, An Evening with David Colosi & Jimmy Raskin
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
1991-90 LA: Beyond Baroque, Highland Grounds, Toltec Poetry Series, Lizards
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Beach64Retreat, Rockaway, NY (August)
2018 BRIC Podcast Fellowship, Brooklyn, (May-June)
2017 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY (Jan.-Dec.)
2016 VARDA, Sausalito, CA (August)
2015 Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (Jan.-March)
2014 Le Grand Phare, Belle-Île-en-mer, France, A.I.R. (Feb. 24-March 8)
2012-10 LMCC Swing Space/Artist-in-Residence, Governors Island
2010 Le Centre du Monde, Belle-Île-en-mer, France, A.I.R. (Oct.8-Nov.8)
2009 Fountainhead Residency, Miami, A.I.R. (June 15 - July 3)
2002 Atlantic Center for the Arts. Assoc. Artist with Ishmael Reed, New Smyrna Beach, Fl
AWARDS
2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fonds regional d’art contemporain, FRAC, Bretagne, France
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, M HKA, Antwerp
State University of Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
Sherman Art Library, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Thomas J. Watson Art Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Metropolis M, Meet-up – Micro-initiatieven #1 – Labor of Love (photo), May 17
2015 Clocktower Radio, Pioneer Works artist interview, Feb. 08
2014 The Art Book Review, Review of Towards a Three-Dimensional Literature Part 1, Kara Hansen, March 24: http://theartbookreview.org/2014/03/24/towards-a-three-dimensional-literature-part-1/
Studija No. 98 (October-November, 2014) “Ilja Kabakovs. Labirinta Domasana Komunalaja Dzivokli. Ilya Kabakov. Labyrinthine Thinking in a Communal Flat”, Laine Kristberga, pgs. 10-23: http://issuu.com/neputns/docs/98studija/1
2013 SWIM International, No. 1, ENSAV La Cambre, Bruxelles: Herman Byrd
2012 New York Times, From The Miser, Art On Governors Island, A.C. Lee, May 24
The Lisbon Lecture. Jimmy Raskin, NY: Sequence Press, 2012
2011 Ed Kienholz/Five Car Stud, Ed Kienholz’s Shifting Location: Five Car Stud in Europe Again, Thomas McEvilley, Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark, pg. 94-5
Arts Journal, Still Chill: Colossal Colosi Documents Denver’s "Betrayal of Trust", CultureGrrl, Lee Rosenbaum’s Cultural Commentary, October4, 2011, http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2011/10/still_chill_colossal_colosi_do.html
2010 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2009 Award, catalog
2009 Village Voice, David Colosi’s Imaginary Numbers, Robert Shuster, http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-11-17/art/david-colosi-s-imaginary-numbers-gerhard-richter-at-marian-goodman-jos-e-bienvenu-s-toluca-editions/
Avant Guard, X-Initiative’s No Soul For Sale, NYC: Swiss Institute
Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 1 (image)
2008 Hersatt, Claudia. Women Gallerists in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2008. (image)
2007 Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1 (image)
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 "ART SEEN: Dorsch Show," by Damarys Ocaña. Street Miami, November 23
"Hallucinogenic Ogres and Anatomical Machinery,” by Jessica Misener(w photo)Miami Hurricane, October 31
“Science Friction,” by Sarah Stites, Nov. 23. miamiartexchange.com
1993 “Japan’s Artists vs. Galleries, Round II.” The Asian Wall Street Journal, Sept. 3
Esquire Magazine Japan. October, Vol. 7, No. 11, p. 145 (photo)
Weekly AsahiGraph, September 24, p. 116
“In Between,” APO Tokyo 2 Weeks, September. 19, p. 160 (photo)
1992 “Art Takes on a Hot New Form,” The Santa Clarita Daily News, April 3, page 1;
“CalArts Wants to Show Off,” Santa Clarita Daily News, April 4
“Is it Art or is it Compacting?” LA Times, April 1