About the Artist

A major figure in both the Pattern and Decoration and the Feminist art movements of the 1970s, Joyce Kozloff began to focus on public art in 1979, increasing the scale of her installations and expanding the accessibility of her art to reach a wider audience. Since the early 1990s, Kozloff has utilized mapping as a device for consolidating her continued interests in history, culture, politics, and the decorative and popular arts.

Recent solo exhibitions of Kozloff's work include: Joyce Kozloff: Navigational Triangles, DC Moore Gallery, New York (2010); Joyce Kozloff: Co+Ordinates, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (2008); Joyce Kozloff: Voyages + Targets, Spazio Thetis, Venice, Italy (2006); and Joyce Kozloff: Exterior and Interior Cartographies, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2006). Kozloff's work has been included in countless important group exhibitions, including WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, National Museum of Women in the Arts, MoMA P.S.1, and the Vancouver Art Gallery (2006); and Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (2010). Most recently, Kozloff’s work has been included in the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art’s The Map as Art (2013), and will be included in Jersey Women Now: Contemporary Visions, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, NJ and in Women Choose Women (Again), Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, both opening in 2014. 

Kozloff has served on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture from 1998 to 2012. She was on the Department of Art Advisory Board at Carnegie Mellon University from 1992-1998, the Board of Directors of the College Art Association from 1985-1989, and the Advisory Board of the Public Art Fund from 1984-1986. She was awarded the Jules Guerin Fellowship/Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Italy in 1999-2000.