Christopher Cozier

Christopher Cozier Taking Note . Working Drawings (2000-2012) . Selected works .
August 2019
That Tree

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012} Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60”

12:30

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012} Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60”

Suspended (Clavadistas)

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012} Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60”

Development from Notebook (Study from Terra Stories)

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012}
Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60”

Suspended

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012}
Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60”

Biscuit and Milk Drama

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012} Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60”

Dem Trees

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012} 
Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60” .

“My work aims to transform conventional readings of where I am from – or about what I am supposed to be concerned. How do my experiences coming from a place like the Caribbean, and now, moving through others, shape how I see the world?

Investigating the relationship between the contemporary and historical conditions, I often enlist mundane everyday objects, along the way, seeking to transform them into signs/vocabularies to generate dialogues across geographies, histories and contemporary experiences. From my on-going personal notebook drawings – making notes or taking note – I develop public actions trying to figure diverse ways of making and conveying work or of creating an experience or an awareness.” 

– Christopher Cozier

All Eyes on Deck​

Christopher Cozier
2003 .
From the exhibition-
Taking Note: WORKING DRAWINGS {2000-2012} Mixed Media on Paper .
59 x 60”

Terra Stories Study 

Christopher Cozier
2002
Graphite, Ink and Blood on Paper
11.5 x 8.75” .

Christopher Cozier

Christopher Cozier is an artist, living and working in Trinidad and a co-director of Alice Yard, a collective, which will be participating in Documenta 15. 
He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004 and is a Prince Claus Award laureate, 2013.
Through his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded staged actions, Cozier investigates how Caribbean historical and current experiences can inform understandings of the wider contemporary world.
Exhibitions include the 5th & 7th Havana Biennials, Infinite Island, The Brooklyn Museum, (2007) Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic (2010), TATE Liverpool,   Entanglements at the Broad Museum, Michigan 2015. Relational Undercurrents at MOLAA. L.A. (2017) and The Sea is History, Historiskmuseum, Oslo, 2019. Cozier participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial, 2018, exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial in 2019 ,  the 11th Liverpool Biennial in 2021, Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia, 2020 and currently in Más Allá, el Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings) at the Times Art Center, Berlin, as well as Fragments of Epic Memory at the AGO ( Art Gallery of  Ontario) and Experiences of Oil at the Stavanger Museum, Norway.