Christopher Cozier
b. 1959, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
lives in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Christopher Cozier ( b.1959, Port of Spain ) is an artist living and working in Trinidad and a co-director of Alice Yard, a space for creative experimentation, which participated in documenta 15. He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004, was a Prince Claus Award laureate in 2013, and recieved the Pérez Prize in 2023. From his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded and 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", TATE Liverpool (2010); "Entanglements at the Broad Museum", Michigan (2015); "Relational Undercurrents", MOLAA. L.A. (2017); and "The Sea Is History", Historiskmuseum, Oslo (2019). Cozier exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial in 2019 and the 11th Liverpool Biennial in 2021 and participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial in 2018. His work was included in "Experiences of Oil" at the Stavanger Museum; "Más Allá, el Mar Canta", The Times Art Centre, Berlin; "Fragments of Epic Memory", AGO, Toronto; "Forecast Forms", MCA, Chicago; and "Unraveling The (Under-) Development Complex", Savvy, Berlin.
Photo: Jason Audain
