David Colosi - bio

David Colosi was born in Fairport, NY in 1967. He received a BA from SUNY Plattsburgh (1989), an MFA from CalArts (1991) and an MA from NYU (2006) all in art and literary practice and theory. After finishing graduate school in 1992 he left Los Angeles and moved to Valdez, Alaska for three months, then to Tokyo for two years, and finally settled in Brooklyn where he has lived and run his studio since 1994. Colosi’s large-scale installations and performances have been featured in solo exhibitions in New York at the NYU Broadway Windows (2011), Cueto Project (2010-2009) and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2008); in Brussels at Galerie Catherine Bastide (2007); in Switzerland in Art Statements at Art Basel (2005); and in Los Angeles at Highways Performance Space Gallery (1992). His work has been featured in group exhibitions in New York at ABC No Rio and Cueto Projects (2011); Miami in Art Positions at Art Basel Miami Beach (2004); in Tokyo in the Floating Gallery (1994); and in various national and international art fairs including Frieze, FIAC, Brussels Art Fair, the Dallas Art Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary and others. His drawings have been featured in exhibitions in New York at Jeff Bailey Gallery (2003) and in Miami at the Dorsch Gallery (2002). He has participated in interdisciplinary collaborations in Japan with the performance group DAM at the Proto Theater, Tokyo, (1992) and with the Kamepao Project Team in Shizouka (1999). His work has been praised and reproduced in the Village Voice, The Art Newspaper, and various other publications. His poetry has been published by Left Hand Books as Laughing Blood: Selected Poems, 1987-2003 and anthologized in From Totems To Hip Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, edited and selected by Ishmael Reed. He has read and performed his writing in NYC at the Bowery Poetry Club, KGB Bar, Tonic, and Greene Naftali Gallery; in Florida in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts; and in Los Angeles at Highways and Beyond Baroque. Cueto Project produced his exhibition catalog, Imaginary Numbers And Other Calculated Fictions, which documents his first solo exhibition in New York, and he has several self-published books documenting various projects. His first theoretical work, On Becoming An Ass: Jimmy Raskin’s Poetics of the Misfire, is forthcoming from Sequence Press, a publishing imprint of Miguel Abreu Gallery, NYC. He has been an artist-in-residence in Florida at the Fountainhead Residency (2009) and Atlantic Center for the Arts (2002); in Belle Ile France at Le Centre Du Monde (2010); and in New York he was an artist-in-residence on Governors Island in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center in Building 110 (2010-2011). In 2009 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. The Center for Three-Dimensional Literature (http://www.3dlit.org), which he founded in 2006, acts as both an archive for his projects as well as laboratory for defining “Three-Dimensional Literature” – the term he uses to describe his cross-disciplinary work.

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