24 Facts About Joyce Kozloff

Joyce Kozloff was born on December 14,1942 and is an American artist known for her paintings, murals, and public art installations.

Joyce Kozloff was one of the original members of the Pattern and Decoration movement and an early artist in the 1970s feminist art movement, including as a founding member of the Heresies collective.

Joyce Kozloff has been active in the women's and peace movements throughout her life.

Joyce Kozloff then attended Columbia University and received a Masters of Fine Arts in 1967.

Joyce Kozloff joined with other women in the arts in 1971 to form the Los Angeles Council of Women Artists, a group that organized the first protests about the lack of women included in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibitions and collections.

Joyce Kozloff joined the Ad Hoc Committee of Women Artists and was a founding member of the Heresies Collective in 1975, which produced the quarterly magazine Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics.

Joyce Kozloff visited Morocco in 1975 and Turkey in 1978.

Joyce Kozloff became interested in public art while studying under Robert Lepper at Carnegie Mellon.

Joyce Kozloff taught the Oakland Project, in which students went out into the Oakland neighborhood and made art documenting the infrastructure, buildings and people.

Joyce Kozloff began incorporating images from the cities' histories to make the works site specific.

Joyce Kozloff was interested in public art because it makes art accessible to everyone, and not just the public and private collectors.

Joyce Kozloff said she became disheartened after the 1990s political "culture wars", feeling she would have to censor her creative expression to create acceptable "safe art", and stopped vying for public art commissions.

Joyce Kozloff copied old charts of the Silk Road and downloaded online maps of all the places in the world called China.

Joyce Kozloff has utilized mapping since the early 1990s as a structure for her long-time passions - history, geography, popular arts and culture.

Joyce Kozloff subsequently examined bodies of water such as the Baltic Sea in Bodies of Water, the Mekong and Amazon Rivers in Mekong and memory and Calvino's Cities on the Amazon.

Joyce Kozloff painted an aerial map on the inside surface of each section to depict a site bombed by the United States military between the years 1945 and 2000.

For several years, Joyce Kozloff worked on a huge installation about the history of western colonialism, shown at Thetis in the Venice Arsenale, Voyages + Targets.

Joyce Kozloff painted islands across the world on 64 Venetian Carnival masks situated inside windows with light streaming through their eyes; hanging from the ceiling and along the brick walls, there were banners with maps of islands in the Pacific and jazzy carnival imagery as it has morphed around the planet.

Joyce Kozloff drew upon a wide range of artistic practices, incorporating 125 images of Christ from worldwide sources.

Joyce Kozloff expanded them to mural scale, layered with outtakes from earlier projects.

Joyce Kozloff incorporated these drawings, many of which are cartographic, into paintings of early maps.

In 2018, Joyce Kozloff began work on a General Services Administration commission for a new federal courthouse in Greenville, SC.

Joyce Kozloff has had group and solo exhibitions since 1970 in many US cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, DC She had a traveling exhibition with her husband Max, "Crossed Purposes", that started in Youngstown, Ohio and traveled to eight other museums and university galleries in the US from 1998 to 2000.

Joyce Kozloff is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York City and has been exhibiting there since 1997.