Christopher Cozier

Christopher Cozier is an artist and the co-director of Alice Yard, which participated in documenta 15. He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004 and was a laureate of the Prince Claus Award in 2013. Through his notebook drawings and 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 Biennial; Infinite Island, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2007; Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, 2010; Entanglements, MSU Broad Art Museum, Michigan, 2015; Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, MOLAA, Long Beach, 2017; and The Sea is History, Historical Museum, Oslo, 2019. Cozier participated in the public program of Berlin Biennale in 2018, exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial in 2019, the Liverpool Biennial in 2021. As well as in: Experiences of Oil, the Stavanger Art Museum, 2021; Más Allá, el Mar Canta [Beyond, the Sea Sings], Times Art Centre Berlin, 2021; Fragments of Epic Memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2021; Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2022; and Unraveling the (Under-)Development Complex or Towards a Post-(Under-)Development Interdependence , SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2023. In 2024, the artist participated in Prospect.6 and Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, The Art Institute of Chicago. His works were recently acquired for the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Cozier lives in Trinidad.