Paul Kos

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Paul Kos
Progression of 25 Minimals of Cast Red Salt
1969
Ink on Chrome Coat paper
Paul Kos
A Trophy/Atrophy
1972
Black-and-white video with sound
3:08 minutes
Paul Kos
Lightning
1977
Black-and-white video with sound
1:30 minutes
Paul Kos
Up, Down, Strange and Charm I
1978
Chalk, crayon and ink on paper
120” x 36”
Paul Kos
Memory Survives Silenced Tongues
1990
mixed media
3' x 7' x 28"
Paul Kos
Pawn
1991
2,500 magnetic chess pieces, steel, wood
118 x 88 x 11 1/2 in.
Paul Kos
Internationale Music Box (Spanish)
1992
mixed media
7 1/2" x 11 1/2" x 3 1/4"
Paul Kos
Attack on the Pawn with a Sling Shot at 8 meters
1992
Pencil on sheet-rock with two lead pellets shot with a sling shot from 8 meters
15" x 15" (framed)
Paul Kos
Luge and Luge Run
1995
wood flint, woodblock print, wooden dowel
75” x 216” x 53 1/2"/ Dimensions of print: 51-1/2” x 201”
Paul Kos
Das Geld IV
1998
Emboss, aquatint, 22k gold leaf, Frontier Press
11 9/16 x 11 3/4 in.
Paul Kos
Das Geld II
1998
Emboss, aquatint, 22k gold leaf, red felt on paper
5 1/2" x 5" (paper); 20 3/4” x 20 1/8” (frame)
Paul Kos
I Saw the Light
2007
saw, sheath and light bulb
dimensions variable (saw 10 1/2” x 58”; sheath 54 1/2” x 2” x 3”)
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Education

1965-67

MFA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 

1962-65 

BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 

1961-62 

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Select Solo Exhibitions   

2023

Brieftauben, House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA

2022

Art Genève, Solo booth D24 Genève, Switzerland – Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

Turning the Fork, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA                  

   

2018

Frieze with Anglim Gilbert Gallery, New York, NY

Kinetic Landscapes, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France

2016

Equilibrium: A Paul Kos Survey, di Rosa, Napa, CA

Symmetry, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

RR, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA

2012

Allegories and Metaphors (1968-2012), Vallois Galerie, Paris, France

Paul Kos Allegories & Metaphors, Nyehaus, New York, NY

Select Group Exhibitions

2023

Greetings From: A Postcard Two Week Vacation Sculpture, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

Montezuma’s Revenge, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

What are words worth? MAR MAR MARCH, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Abstraction, Quid Pro Quo, and Penny Bell, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA

2022

O, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA

2021            

The Paradox of Stillness, Object and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes From the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

A Spirit of Disruption, San Francisco Art Institute 150th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

 

2020             

Donner Pass, Art Kiosk, Lance Fung Collaboratives, Redwood City, CA                   

2019

Mother Nature: Elements and Archetypes, Fused Space, San Francisco, CA                                        

As If, 1599fdt, San Francisco, CA

Potts Gallery, Alhambra, CA

                  

2018

Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT         

10 Year Anniversary Show, Evergold Projects, San Francisco, CA

2017

Ways of Seeing, Foundation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels

Illegal, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Unsettled, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Feedback, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY

Air, Wind and Fire, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA  

Bitter Creek Sweet Water, Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, CA

   

2016

Mind Over Matter, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA

Zero, c/o FuturDome, Milan, Italy

 

2015

Against Automatism, Fused Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

2014

Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Karla’s Living Room, The Battery, San Francisco, CA

Summer in Black and White, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2013

California Landscape Into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

All Good Things, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA

Solid Concept VI, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

The Long Conversation, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Mono No Aware, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St. Kilda, Australia

The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA

EISKELLER UND HIMMELSLÖ: Ortsbezogene Interventionen, Rekonstruktionen und Erkundungen in Schleswig-Holstein (2012-2013), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Select Collections

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Kadish Foundation, Paris, France

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA

Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT