Resume Max Kozloff
Born: June 21, 1933, Chicago
Lives in New York
Education
The University of Chicago (The College),
B.A., 1953; Art History, M.A. 1956-8)
Institute of Design, Chicago, 1953
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1953
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1959-63
Teaching Activities
University of Chicago, Downtown Center, 1958-59
Cooper Union, New York, 1959-60
Washington Square College, New York
University, 1960-61
American Federation of the Arts, Workshop
In Art Criticism, New York, 1965
Queens College, City University of New York, 1968-69
Indiana University, 1970
California Institute of the Arts, Burbank, 1971
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1976
Yale University, 1978
Chicago Art Institute, 1981
Philadelphia College of Art, 1983
University of California, San Diego, 1984
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1985
University of California, Los Angeles, 1988
School of Visual Art, New York, Masters Program
In Photography and Related Media, 1989-2000
Yale University, 2005
Writing Activities
Art Column, The Nation, 1961-68
New York Correspondent, Art International, (Lugano), 1961-64
Associate and Contributing Editor, Artforum, 1963-74
Editorial Position: Executive Editor, Artforum, 1974-76
Contributions to Journals
Commentary, Partisan Review, Encounter, Art News, Art In America, Film Quarterly, Film Culture, Sight and Sound, New York Herald Tribune, Revue des Arts (Paris), Aperture, Artforum, Light/Vision (Australia), Plurale (Mexico), European Photography (Germany), Creative Camera (London), Parkett (Zurich), Closeup, Vogue, American Art, Canadian Art, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Art On Paper, Parnassus Poetry In Review, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Numerous Essays for book monographs, including John Gutmann, LeonLevinstein, Peter Hujar, Larry Fink, Saul Leiter, Philip Perkiss, Jessica Dimmock, Frank Paulin, Charles Traub
Books Published
Jasper Johns, Abrams, 1969
Jasper Johns, Abrams. (new text), 1972
Renderings, Critical Essays on a Century of Modern Art, Simon and Schuster, 1969
Cubism/Futurism, Charterhouse, 1972
Photography and Fascination, Addison House, 1979
The Privileged Eye, University of New Mexico Press, 1987
Duane Michals, Now Becoming Then, Twelvetrees Press, 1991
Lone Visions Crowded Frames, University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Cultivated Impasses Essays on the Waning of the Avant-garde, Marsillio, 2000
New York Capital of Photography, Jewish Museum, New York, and Yale University Press, 2002
New Yorkers as Seen by Magnum Photographers, Photographers, Powerhouse, 2003
The Theatre of the Face Portrait Photography Since 1900, Phaidon,
2007; French Edition: Le Jeu du Visage, Phaidon, 2008
Vermeer, A Study Contrasto, 2010
New York Over the Top, Contrasto, 2013
Saul Leiter Early Black and White, Steidl, 2014
A Carnival of Mimics, powerHouse Books, 2020
Honors, Awards, Grants, Fellowships
Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing (Paris), 1962
Fulbright Fellowship, Paris, 1962-63
Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism, 1965
Ingram-Merril Award for Art Criticism, 1966
Guggenheim Fellowship in the History of Critical Writing, 1968
NEA Grant for Art Criticism, 1973
The Reva and Dave Logan Grant for Writing on Photography, 1983
NEA Grant for Critical Writing, 1984
The International Center of Photography Prize for Excellence in Writing on Photography, 1990
Photographic Resume
One Person Shows of Photography
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, 1977
White Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1978
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, 1979
University Art Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1980
University Art Gallery, Florida State University. Tallahassee, 1980
Holly Solomon Editions, New York, 1981
Jeb Gallery, Providence, 1981
Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, 1981
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1982
Consejo Mexicano de la Fotografia, Mexico City, 1986
Architectural Association, London, 1987
P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, 1993
Centre for Photography as an Art Form, Bombay, 1996
First International Biennal of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, 1999
New York Means Business, Higher Pictures, New York, 2011
New York Over the Top, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, 2013
Max Kozloff: Critic and Photographer, Art Institute of Chicago, 2013
Max Kozloff: The Music of Faces, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
Group Shows
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, 1978
Farbewerke, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich, 1979
Photo Facts and Opinions, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. 1981
Lichtbildnisse, Das Portrat in der Fotografie, Rheinische Landmuseum, Bonn, 1982
Color as Form: A History of color photography, International Museum of Photography, 1982
Four American Artists, Zabriskie Gallery, Paris, 1983
Hecho en Latino America, Casa de las Americas, Havana, 1984
City Lights, Goldsmith College, London, 1987
Mexico Seen Through Foreign Eyes, Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, 1993
Hope, The National Arts Club, New York, 1997
Crossed Purposes (with Joyce Kozloff), The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1999, plus 7 other venues, concluding at the Sidney Mishkin
Gallery, Baruch University, New York, 2000
Carnival in Brooklyn West Indian Labor Day Parade, Brooklyn Public Library, 2002
Proximities, University of Southern Alabama, Mobile, 2002
Brooklyn Photographs, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
The End is Nigh, Higher Pictures, New York, 2007
Brooklyn Photographs, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Photographs Published portfolios
Camera (Zurich), Cover and portfolio, Jan. 1979
Hecho en Latino America, Catalogue of Exhibition, Mexico City, 1982 (portfolio)
American Photographer, March, 1986
Creative Camera, London, April, 1987, portfolio
Artforum, November, 1991--Luna Park, a portfolio
Mexico Seen Through Foreign Eyes, (two images), Norton, 1993
Photographers International, Tapei, February, 1995, portfolio--South India
About Faces Portraits of Jewish Artists, Culture Front, February, 1997
India's Streets, Culture Front, Summer, 1997
PAINTING
ONE PERSON
The Atmospherics of Interruption, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York, 2019