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Artists›Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth

1945

PaintingConceptual Art

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Paula Cooper Gallery

2024

About

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Joseph Kosuth creates conceptual installations, neons, and silkscreens that examine language and its relationship to meaning and representation. His signature approach, exemplified in works like One and Three Chairs (1965), stages objects alongside photographs and text to investigate philosophical questions about essence and perception. His work is held by MoMA, the Guggenheim, and the Tate.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate

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Artworks (24)

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Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Global Positions

2000 · Lithograph, offset printed

sheet (each): 18 1/2 x 12 3/8" (47 x 31.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

'Titled Quotation (for L. C.)'

1997 · Screenprint and hot stamping on white wove paper

94 × 68.8 cm (37 1/16 × 27 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

'Titled Quotation (For L.C.)' from The Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio

1997 · Screenprint with hot stamping from a portfolio of four screenprints (one with hot stamping), three etchings (one with aquatint), one offset lithograph, and one lithograph

composition and sheet: 26 7/8 × 37" (68.3 × 94 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled

1996 · photo lithograph

Sheet: 45.6 x 61 cm (17 15/16 x 24 in.); Image: 12.1 x 58.4 cm (4 3/4 x 23 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Language Must Speak for Itself

1991 · Neon tubing, transformers, and wire

4 1/2" x 6' 6 1/2" (11.4 x 199.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled from the series Zero & Not

1990 · Screenprint

Museum of Modern Art

O&A/F! D! (To 1.K. & 6F) #5

1987 · Felt-tip pen on paper

12 × 18" (30.5 × 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Practice 1975

1975 · Series of five photolithographs

Museum of Modern Art

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Paula Cooper Gallery

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Tate

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Group Exhibition Tabula Rasa

2024