Christopher Cozier
I Find Myself Wandering/Wondering
David Krut Projects, New York is pleased to announce Christopher Cozier’s exhibition I Find Myself Wandering/Wondering. The exhibition presents a body of works on paper spanning 25 years, commencing with an image created on a visit to South Africa in 1999.
Christopher Cozier is a Trinidad-based visual artist, curator and writer working in various mediums including drawing, printmaking, installation and video. Recognized as a leading Caribbean artist, his works are currently on exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, with MoMA having acquired more than 260 of his Tropical Night Series (2006-2014) of individual notebook drawings reflecting a visual narrative of his own travels and lived experience in post-independence Trinidad. Works such as Tropical Night (2007) and Cozier’s participation in the project Infinite Islands at the Brooklyn Museum have been pivotal in framing the Caribbean experience within a global context.
Cozier’s connection with South Africa began with a visit in 1999 during the first decade of the country’s post-apartheid era. He collaborated with The Caversham Press creating imagery which heralded the beginnings of his Tropical Night Series. Cozier’s collaboration with David Krut Workshop in Johannesburg commenced in 2011, when he created a series of linocuts and monotypes titled All That Talk. In the same year while in New York, he produced a series of 8 small screenprints titled All That’s Left with Luther Davis at Axelle Fine Arts in Brooklyn. In January 2013, he presented his first solo exhibition at our New York project space titled In Development.
Our 2024 exhibition titled I Find Myself Wandering/Wondering allows us to reunite with Cozier, whose work continues to explore the representation of national narratives while emphasizing the current political reality of Trinidad. His art focuses on creating discourse regarding local issues post-independence and the ripple effect of colonialism throughout the Anglophone Caribbean.
The exhibition will present the artists early editioned print works, including the artist book I Find Myself Wandering, earlier drawings, and recent drawings relating to his participation in Prospect 6 in New Orleans.
Maintaining Balance, 2000
Screenprint (righthand image- linocut printed onto acetate then screen printed)
Edition of 60
28 x 39.3 in (71.2 x 100 cm)
$ 5 000 Unframed
$ 5 500 Framed
Tropical Night, Seeing and Listening, Voice and Reaching Out, 2000
$ 15 000 Unframed
$ 16 600 Framed
All That’s Left, 2011
Screenprint
Edition of 30
9 x 7 in (22.85 x 17.75 cm)
$ 2 500 Unframed
Singles: $ 400 Unframed ea
After All That Talk 2, 2011
Linocut
Edition of 12
30 x 22 in (76 x 56 cm)
$ 2 500 Unframed
$ 2 750 Framed
Moments of Exchange Studies, 2012
Ink on paper
6 x 8 in (15.25 x 20.30 cm)
$ 2 500 Framed
Moments of Exchange Studies, 2012
Ink on paper
6 x 8 in (15.25 x 20.30 cm)
$ 1 500 Framed
Moments of Exchange Studies, 2012
Ink on paper
6 x 8 in (15.25 x 20.30 cm)
$ 1 500 Framed
Moments of Exchange Studies, 2012
Ink on paper
6 x 8 in (15.25 x 20.30 cm)
SOLD
Moments of Exchange Studies, 2012
Ink on paper
6 x 8 in (15.25 x 20.30 cm)
$ 1 500 Framed
I Find Myself Wandering, 2000
Silkscreen artist book
Edition of 30
13 x 7.8 inch (33 x 20 cm)
$ 950
Christopher Cozier is a mixed- media artist who lives and works in Trinidad. His drawings, videos, and installations investigate how Caribbean historical and contemporary experiences can inform our understanding of the wider world. He is co-founder and co-director of Alice Yard, an art collective based in Port of Spain which that organiszes art exhibitions, runs a residency programme, and hosts performances, film screenings, dialogues, and lectures. He is a Prince Claus Award laureate (2013), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee (2004), a previous Rauschenberg Foundation artist in residence (2016), and most recently a recipient of the Jorge M. Pérez prize (2023).
Key group exhibitions include Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture (Wadsworth Atheneum, 1995), Infinite Island: Caribbean Contemporary Art (Brooklyn Museum, 2007), Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic (Tate Liverpool, 2010), Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, 2017), The Sea Is History (Historisk Museum, Oslo, 2019), Experiences of Oil (Stavanger Art Museum, 2022), Fragments of Epic Memory (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2021), Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s to Today (MCA Chicago, 2022), and Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica (Art Institute of Chicago, 2024). Cozier has also exhibited at the 5th and 7th Havana biennials (1994/2000), was an artist in residence in the 10th Berlin Biennial (2018), exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial (2019), the 11th Liverpool Biennial (2021), and Prospect 6 (2024). With Alice Yard, he participated in Documenta 15 (2022). Active as an art critic since the 1990s, he was a member of the editorial collective of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism from 1998 to 2010 and was an editorial adviser to BOMB Magazine for their its Americas issues in 2003, 2004, and 2005.
Curator of multiple exhibitions, Cozier has served as curatorial adviser for SITE Santa Fe (2014) and as a member of the selection panels for About Change in Latin American in the Caribbean (World Bank, 2010) and the Kingston Biennial (2017). He was co-curator of Paramaribo Span: Contemporary Art in Suriname (2010) and, with Tatiana Flores, of Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions (Art Museum of the Americas, 2010). His work is in the collections of MCA Chicago, the Stavanger Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In October 2011, artists Christopher Cozier and Luis Jacobs were invited into the Substation studio space to work on projects and interact with the students and wider art community at the Wits School of Arts on East Campus. Cozier was also invited to make an edition of prints at David Krut Workshop at Arts on Main during his occupation of the studio space. He created a series of monotypes and linocuts, called After All That Talk, featuring an antiquated table cleaner that Cozier inherited after his great aunt passed away.
Zine, 2020 (Reprint)
Folded Size: 11.75 x 8.5 in (29.8 x 21.6 cm)
Spread Size: 11.75 x 17 in (29.8 x 43.2 cm)
$ 300
Zine, 2020
Folded Size: 21.5 x 16 in (54.6 x 40.6 cm)
Spread Size: 21.5 x 32 in (54.6 x 81.3 cm)
$ 500
Drawing from The Arrest, 2014
Pen & Ink
19.1 x 14.1 in (48.5 x 35.8 cm)
$ 5 000 Unframed
Home/ Portal, 2017
Silkscreen
Edition of 10
27.4 x 35.3 in (69.6 89.7 cm)
$ 5 000 Unframed
