Joyce Kozloff

Joyce Kozloff was born in Somerville, New Jersey, in 1942. She received a BFA from Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, in 1964 and an MFA from Columbia University, New York, in 1967. Kozloff was a major figure in both the Pattern and Decoration and the feminist art movements of the 1970s. In 1979, she began to focus on public art, increasing the scale of her installations and expanding the accessibility of her art to reach a wider audience. Kozloff has since executed several major commissions in public spaces.

Since the early 1990s, Kozloff has utilized mapping as a device for consolidating her enduring interests in history, culture, and the decorative and popular arts. In 1999-2000, Kozloff was awarded the Jules Guerin Fellowship / Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Italy.

Her work is included in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and dozens of others.