Paul Kos

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Paul Kos
Memory Survives Silenced Tongues III
2018
Bronze bell, steel, felt, paper and phosphorescent pigments
8 3/4h x 25w x 22d in
Paul Kos
Conscientious Objector (Mate in one)
2021
Chess board, wood, steel and magnets
25 1/2h x 25 1/4w x 22d in
Paul Kos
Luge and Luge Run
1995
wood flint, woodblock print, wooden dowel
75” x 216” x 53 1/2"/ Dimensions of print: 51-1/2” x 201”
Paul Kos
Attack on the Pawn with a Sling Shot at 8 meters
1992
Pencil on sheet-rock with two lead pellets shot with a sling shot from 8 meters
15" x 15" (framed)
Paul Kos
Pawn
1991
2,500 magnetic chess pieces, steel, wood
118 x 88 x 11 1/2 in.
Paul Kos
I Saw the Light
2007
saw, sheath and light bulb
dimensions variable (saw 10 1/2” x 58”; sheath 54 1/2” x 2” x 3”)
Paul Kos
Internationale Music Box (Spanish)
1992
mixed media
7 1/2" x 11 1/2" x 3 1/4"
Paul Kos
Das Geld II
1998
Emboss, aquatint, 22k gold leaf, red felt on paper
5 1/2" x 5" (paper); 20 3/4” x 20 1/8” (frame)
Paul Kos
Memory Survives Silenced Tongues
1990
mixed media
3' x 7' x 28"
Paul Kos
Up, Down, Strange and Charm I
1978
Chalk, crayon and ink on paper
120” x 36”
Paul Kos
Das Geld IV
1998
Emboss, aquatint, 22k gold leaf, Frontier Press
11 9/16 x 11 3/4 in.
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Born


1942 Rock Springs, Wyoming



Education

1965-67

M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 


1962-65 

B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 


1961-62 

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.



Teaching Experience


2008-09 

Dodd Chair, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia


1978-2008  

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 


1969-1977

University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA



Grants & Awards


2015           

Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio, Italy


2005-2007

 Eureka Fellowship Program for the Visual Arts


1999-2000

 Flintridge Foundation Fellowship


1997

National Endowment for the Arts and FONCA (Fondacion y Organisacion National de Culutra yArtes), Residency in Mexico


1993

National Endowment Fellowship


1990

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship


1989

Award in the Visual Arts (AVA)


1987

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Engelhard Award, Boston, Massachusetts

Western States Arts Fellowship

Open Channels, Long Beach Museum of Art

1986

National Endowment Media Arts Grant (in conjunction with the Walker Art Center) Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship


1986

Capp Street Project, Residency


1983

Western States Arts Fellowship


1982

National Endowment Fellowship


1976

National Endowment Fellowship


1974

National Endowment Fellowship



Selected Solo Exhibitions   


2022

Art Genève, Solo booth D24 Genève, Switzerland – Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

Turning The Fork, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA                      


2018

Frieze, New York, NY.

Kinetic Landscapes, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France

2016

Equilibrium: A Paul Kos Survey, di Rosa, Napa, CA

Symmetry, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

RR, Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA

2012

Allegories and Metaphors (1968-2012), Vallois Galerie, Paris, France

Paul Kos Allegories & Metaphors, Nyehaus, New York, NY

2011

Selected Works: 1969-2011, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2009

Allegories and Metaphors, Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA, Athens, GA 


2008

Selected Works, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

This Is Not a Void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil


2007

West of the Great Divide, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 


2003

Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Paul Kos, Grey Art Gallery NYU, NY, 


2001

Paul Kos / Nam June Paik, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA


1998

Sculptural Allegories, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA  


1995

Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA  Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1994

Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA

1992

Paul Kos: Sculpture, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY (travels)

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA


1991

Tintinnabulations, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA


1990

Paul Kos: Ber Lin, Laguna Art Museum, Satellite Gallery at South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, CA

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA


1988

Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA

University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA


1987

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1986

New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA


1982

University of Nevada, Reno


1980

MATRIX, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley Site, Inc., 585 Mission Street, San Francisco, California


1979

University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley


1978

Video Free America, San Francisco, California Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York

1977

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA


1976

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York

1975

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York


1974

Howard Fried, Paul Kos, San Jose University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA


1973

Gutierrez-Solana, Glassman, Kos, (three one-man exhibitions), La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, CA


1972

Reese Palley Gallery, New York, New York


1971

Fish, Fox, Kos, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, CA Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1969

Participationkinetics, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Freeze-Drived Xmas, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, CA


Selected Group Exhibitions


2022

Ω, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, CA


2021            

The Paradox of Stillness, Object and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes From the di Rosa Collection, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA

A Spirit of Disruption, San Francisco Art Institute 150th Anniversary Exhibition

 

2020             

Donner Pass, Art Kiosk, Lance Fung Collaboratives, Redwood City, CA                   


2019

Mother Nature: Elements and Archetypes, Fused Space, San Francisco,CA                                        

As If, 1599fdt. San Francisco. CA.

Potts Gallery, Alhambra, CA

                  

2018

Collecting On The Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan Utah            

10 Year Anniversary Show, Evergold Projects, San Francisco, CA

2017

Ways of Seeing, Foundation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels

Illegal, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Unsettled, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Feedback, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY

Air, Wind and Fire, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA  

Bitter Creek Sweet Water,  Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, CA

   

 2016

Mind Over Matter, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA

Zero, c/o FuturDome, Milan, Italy

 

 2015

Against Automatism, Fused Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, 

Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 


2014

Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Karla’s Living Room, The Battery, San Francisco, CA

Summer in Black and White, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


2013

California Landscape Into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

All Good Things, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA

Solid Concept VI, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

The Long Conversation, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Mono No Aware, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St. Kilda, Australia

The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA

EISKELLER UND HIMMELSLÖ: Ortsbezogene Interventionen, Rekonstruktionen und Erkundungen in Schleswig-Holstein 2012 – 2013,” SchleswigHolstein, Germany

 

  1. 2012.

Happy Birthday: a celebration of chance and listening, Philip Feldman Gallery 

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 

CANY (California/New York), Nora Fisch Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aries, Argentina 

Temporary Structures, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 

SOUND, IMAGE, OBJECT: The Intersection of Art and Music, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

[Invisible] Relic, Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA


2011

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA,

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

Spread - California Conceptualism Then and Now, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA


2010

Silence, Exile & Cunning, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 – 2000

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 


2009

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1969, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY   

MOCA’s First Thirty Years, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,       

Conceptual Art from California, Paul Kos and Tony Labat, Arge Kunst, Bolzano, Italy


2008  

This is Not A Void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Eureka, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. San Jose, CA

Conceptual Art From California, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlin, Germany

Looking For Mushrooms, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany

California Video, Getty Museum, Los Angeles

15th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, ST. Louis, MO      

Neighborhood Secrets, Stavanger,  Norway

Matrix, 30th Birthday Bash, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Projected Image, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA

2007

A Principle of Immortality, Video from 1970 to the present. Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York

Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

from_&_to, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy

Pioneers, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA

On Ice, Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

Subversive Moves, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID


2006

Evidences or This Object of Desire, In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France

The Three Cities – Berlin: The Apartment, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany

Work Zones: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from SFAI, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2005

Soft Openings, The Katzen American University Museum, Washington, D.C.

Solid Concept V, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Marking Time, LACE Los Angeles, CA

2003      

Sold Concept IV, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 


2002

Beyond Preconceptions, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA


2001

Labyrinth Of Pleasure, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Double Feature: Paul Kos and Nam June Paik, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA


2000 

Open House, Art on Site 1, San Francisco, CA 

1:1, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA 

1999

Line, Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY


1998

PFormative Acts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA  

Selections from the Weisman Collection, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA  


1997

Video Group Show, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY  

The Art Orchestra: A Sculptors’ Ensemble, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA


1996

Blurring the Boundaries Installation Art 1969 – 1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA  

Generations, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Austria SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Show, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Natural Histories, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA


1995

Facing Eden, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA  


1994

Solid Concept Three, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1993

In Out of the Cold, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA


1992

California Art, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado

John Cage Memorial Exhibition, Jernigan/Wicker, San Francisco, CA

Unter Null, Woh Museum, Barengasse, Zurich, Germany


1991

After the Apocalypse:  A Different Humanism, SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Transformations, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California

Unter Null (Below Zero), Museum Indutriekultur, Nuremberg, Germany

Gallery II, (3-person show), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

1990

Lines of Force, Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, California

Bay Area Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Works in Media, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

In Site, Five Conceptual Artists from the Bay Area, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts

Public Art, Models and Drawings, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, California

Open Channels, Five Year Survey, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

R/T SF – Colombia, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California


1989-90

Awards in the Visual Arts 8 High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California;  Henry Gallery, University of  Washington, Seattle, Washington


1989

Bay Area Conceptualism: Two Generations, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York

Machinations, Saint Gervais, Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Geneva, Switzerland

San Francisco Bay Artists, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia

Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia; Centro Colombo Americano, 

Bucaramanga, Columbia; Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia; Museo Arqueologico La Merced, Cali, Colombia; Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia

Solid Concept, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California


1988

Second International Exhibition of Artists of Slovenian Descent, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

3 Videonale, Bonn, West Germany

Art of the Madonna, Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago, Illinois


1987

Landscape Video: The Seventies, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California

Steirischer Herbst '87, Graz, Austria

Object Poems, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

30 From 25, Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada at Reno


1986

Second Newport Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California


1985

Video from Vancouver to San Diego, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Reel to Real, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Nature as Metaphor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

Spacial Relationships in Video, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Selections from the de Saisset, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California


1984

Artist's Valentines, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

Artist Olympics, Video Gallery, San Francisco, California

San Francisco Video Festival," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Video and Ritual, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Reel to Real, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

Bar Video, Vazac Hall, presented by MO David, Inc., New York, New York


1984

Video: A Retrospective 1974-1984, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California


1983

Art Video, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, France

Performance, Restaurant Dalmatzi, Bern, Switzerland


1982

Vision #5 Artists' Photography, Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York

100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California

Elegant San Francisco Miniatures, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California; Belca House, Kyoto, Japan; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Video, American River College, Sacramento, California

Arts Alive, KVIE Channel 6, Sacramento, California


1981

California Performance, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

TV in Place," Korot, Burden, Kos, San Francisco Art Institute


1980

San Francisco Video Review, Video Free America, San Francisco, California

San Francisco Video Festival, San Francisco, California

Video Art, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France 


1979

Video Roman '79, Rome, Italy

Everson Video Review, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley;

Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

Bay Area Contemporary Strengths, University of California at Santa Barbara

Space/Time/Sound/1970's - A Decade in the Bay Area, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California  


1978

Art Video, La Mamelle and Cable Channel 25, San Francisco, California

Video Art, Southland Cable Networks, Some Serious Business, and the Long Beach Museum of Art

Americans in Paris, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

Video Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Video Art, Lanchester Polytech, Coventry, England


1977

A Tight Thirteen Minutes, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California

Paris Biennale, Paris, France

Video Art USA, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France


1976

Video Art: An Overview, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Video Art, Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts


1975

Video Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

San Francisco Bay Area Artists' Work on Video Tape, And/Or Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Video Art USA, Bienal de Sao Paulo, American Pavillion, Brazil (traveled to five Latin-American countries)

Information Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

Exchange: DFW/SFO, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1975, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Landscape Video, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California


1974

Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Collector's Video, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Video Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York

Basel 5, 1974, Basel, Switzerland

Trigon, Vienna, Austria

Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany

Project 74, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany

Video Art, Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA

South of the Slot, 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco, California


1973

Circuit, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Art Institute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

All Night Sculpture, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California

Bienal de Sao Paolo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Video, The New Wave, WGBH Television, Boston, Massachusetts

Video Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York

Art Now, J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.


1972

San Francisco Performance, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

Video West One, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York

Games, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

Saint Jude Video Invitational, de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California

The Bay Area Roach Clip Show, San Geronimo, California

Toys of the Artist, Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, California; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

MOCA FM, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco and KPFA FM, Berkeley, California

Video Works, 112 Greene Street, New York, New York


1970

Richmond Sculpture Annual, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

The Eighties, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Sound; Sculpture As:, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California

Films by Sculptors, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California

1970

Art in the Mind, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

1969

Invitational Drawing Exhibit, California State College, Hayward, California

Return of Abstract Expressionism, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California


Public Collections


Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

Kadish Foundation, Paris, France

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, California

Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California

Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah


Commissions/Public Art

2011-2014 

First Responder Plaza, Public Safety Building, San Francisco, CA

2009-2013 

San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA

2009-2010  

UCSF, Lobby, Cancer Research, San Francisco, CA

2005-2010  

Freeport Water Authority, Sacramento, CA 

2006  

California Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

2002 

Golden Gate Project, San Francisco Arts Commission. (Cancelled due to lack of funds after preliminary drawings completed.)               

1991-2000 

Poetry Sculpture Garden, with poet Robert Hass, 199 Fremont, San Francisco, CA

1997 

Tunnel/Chapel, di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA, with Isabelle Sorrell

1990-1994  

Secretary of State, State Archives Building, Sacramento, CA,  with Mandell/Sultan


1989-1992  

Passenger-Only Ferry Terminal, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, WA, Cancelled after construction began: Toxic waste discovered.


Selected Bibliography

Albright, Thomas, “Art,” Rolling Stone, June 24, 1971.

“Art from a Giant Puddle,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1969.

“Marvels in Steel and Sand,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1971.

Anderson, Phil, “Chartes Bleu,” High Performance 10, no. 3, 1987:  99-100.

Arms, John, “Agrisculpture,” Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 1969.

Arts Magazine 44, No. 8, Summer 1970:  23, 38.

Arts Magazine 47, No. 1, September-October 1972: 58.

Avalanche 1, Fall 1970: 6.

Avalanche 2, Winter 1971: 6. Avalanche 4, Spring 1972: 4.

Baker, Kenneth, “Art That Comes Across as Disposable,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 1998.

“Exhibitions Evoke Signs of Ruin, Scars of War,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 2008.

“Artists Presaged Social Media,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 2013.

Battcock, Gregory, ed., New Artists Video, New York: Dutton, 1978.

Belloil, Jay, Joel Glassman, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Paul Kos [exhibition catalog], La Jolla, CA: 

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1973.

Belsito, Peter, “Sympathetic Vibrations,” High Performance 9, no. 2, 1986: 73.

Bonetti, David, “Two decades of MATRIX,” San Francisco Examiner, April 29, 1998.

“With sly wit, Paul Kos rings a bell,” San Francisco Examiner, October 28, 1994: C6-7.

Camhi, Leslie, “Human Comedy: A Bay Area Conceptualist's Antic, Melancholy Body of 

Work,” Village Voice, October 1-7, 2003.

Caples, Garrett, “Review: Equilibrium: A Paul Kos Survey,” Art Practical, May 17, 2016.

Chang, Soojin, “Berkeley Art Museum Showcases California’s Conceptual Artists of the 70’s,” The Daily Californian, March 4, 2012.

Christensen, Judith, “Uncomfortable Cadence,” Artweek 21, March 15, 1990: 13-4.

Cotter, Holland, “West Coast Art (Not Laid-Back): A California ‘State of Mind,’ Circa 1970, at 

Bronx Museum,” New York Times, July 11, 2013.

Cotter, Holland, “Gaze East and Dream, Review 'The Third Mind: American Artists 

Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989,’ New York Times, January 29, 2009.

Desmarais, Charles, “Conceptual Artist Mixes Dada, Dry Wit,” SF Gate, July 19, 2016.

Geer, Suvan, “Review: Paul Kos: Manipulation by Participation,” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1990 Gilmore, Jonathan, Art in America, April 2004.

Golonu, Berin, Artweek, January 2000: 41.

Haber, John, “Us and Them,” Haber’s Art Reviews, 2003.

Jaszi, Jean, “Projects for the Eighties,” Artweek, March 28, 1970: 1, 8.

Jomadiao, Paris, “On Paul Kos,” Conversations at the Edge, November 3, 2016.

Junker, Howard, “Video Installation: Paul Kos and Sculptured Monitor,” Arts Magazine

November 1975: 65-6.

Jux, Virginie, “Conceptual Art According to Kos: A Whole Concept!,” TenTen, July 13, 2015.

Kent, Tom, ‘Paul Kos – Videotapes and Sculptural Residue,” Artweek, November 2, 1974: 5.

Kimmelman, Michael, “Why Faith That’s a Bit Slapstick,” The New York Times, September 12,2003.

Kaufman, Jason Edward. “Hidden Asian influence on US modern masters revealed,” The Art 

Newspaper, December, 2008.

Kaye, Nick, “Paul Kos,” SiteWorks: San Francisco Performance 1969-85, October 19, 2015. 

McCann, Cecile N., “Richmond Sculpture Annual,” Artweek, February 18, 1970: 6.

“Authority and Art (Again),” Artweek, June 26, 1971: 2.

Artweek, February 13, 1971: 2.

McFarland, Mack, “Happy Birthday: a celebration of chance and listening, Philip Feldman 

Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2012

Marioni, Tom, “Art/By Jove,” San Francisco Magazine, March 1977: 94-5.

Morris, Gay, Art in America 77, February 1989: 173.

Moss, Stacey, Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery [exhibition catalog], Belmont, CA: College of 

Notre Dame, 1994.

“Museum of Conceptual Art Opens,” Artweek, March 28, 1970: 2.

Oliman, Leah, “Images that Call for Action,” Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2004: E40.

Porges, Maria, “Paul Kos at Gallery Paule Anglim,” Artforum, February 1996: 89.

Reveaux, Tony, ‘Polytechnical Diversity (SFMOMA),” Artweek 21, April 19, 1990: 1.

Richardson, Brenda, “Bay Area Survey: The Myth of Neo-Dada,”Arts Magazine, Summer 1970: 47.

“Bay Area Report”, Arts Magazine 45, No. 8, Summer 1971: 44.

Riddle, Mason, New Art Examiner 15, November 1987: 57.

Schneider, Ira, and Beryle Korot, eds., Video Art, New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1976.

“Sculpture in the Vineyards,” San Francisco Magazine, October 1969.

Simon, Eric, “Expo Solo Show: Paul Kos ‘Kinetic Landscape (s)’,” Actuart by Eric Simon,

February 23, 2018.

Smallwood, Lyn, ‘Sculptor in a Haystack,” Seattle Weekly, February 7, 1990: 49.

Soe, Valerie, “Lessons in Seeing,” Artweek, April 25, 1970: 2.

“Sounds Sculpture Event,” Artweek, April 25, 1970: 2.

Tamblyn, Christine, “A Ritual for Bells,” Artweek 17, March 15, 1987.

Tarshis, Jerome, “San Francisco,” Artforum 8, No. 10, June 1970: 91.

“San Francisco,” Artforum 9, Vol. 1, September 1971: 91.

“U.C. Project for the Eighties,” Artweek, March 14, 1970: 3.

Wolf, Steven, “New Balance: The Work of Artist Paul Kos,” The Battery, San Francisco, July 8, 2016. 

Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Video and Ritual,” Afterimage 12, February 1985: 19.