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BORN
1942 Rock Springs, Wyoming
EDUCATION
1965-67 M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1962-65 B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1961-62 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Brieftauben” , color video. 1987. Viewing Room, House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA.
2022
Art Geneva Art Fair, Solo Booth. “Sound Of Ice Melting “, Geneva Switzerland
Turning the Fork, Anglim/Trimble, San Francisco, California, USA ♥
2018
“Frieze”, Solo Booth, New York, New York
“Kinetic Landscapes,” Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
2016
“Equilibrium: A Paul Kos Survey,” di Rosa, Napa, CA
“Symmetry,” Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“RR,” Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, CA
2012
“Allegories and Metaphors (1968-2012),” Vallois Galerie, Paris, France
“Paul Kos Allegories & Metaphors,” Nyehaus, New York, NY
2011
“Selected Works: 1969-2011,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2009
“Allegories and Metaphors,” Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA, Athens, GA
2008
“Selected Works,” Esso Gallery, New York, New York
“This Is Not a Void,” Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007
“West of the Great Divide,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2003
“Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective,” Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
2001
“Paul Kos / Nam June Paik,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1998
“Sculptural Allegories,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1995
Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994
“Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery,” College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1992
“Paul Kos: Sculpture,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (travels)
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991
“Tintinnabulations,” University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1990
“Paul Kos: Ber Lin,” Laguna Art Museum, Satellite Gallery at South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, California
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988
Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California
University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico
1987
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1986
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California
1982
University of Nevada, Reno
1980
MATRIX, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Site, Inc., 585 Mission Street, San Francisco, California
1979
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1978
Video Free America, San Francisco, California
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
1977
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1976
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
1975
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
1974
“Howard Fried, Paul Kos,” San Jose University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA
M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1973
“Gutierrez-Solana, Glassman, Kos,” (three one-man exhibitions), La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, CA
1972
Reese Palley Gallery, New York, New York
1971
“Fish, Fox, Kos,” de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1969
“Participationkinetics,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
“Freeze-Drived Xmas,” de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Paul Kos, Biennale Son, The Sound of Ice Melting, La Centrale
2023
“Greetings From”. A POSTCARD TWO WEEK VACATION SCULPTURE. Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris France
“Monnaie de Paris. Montezuma’s Revenge , Paris France
What are words worth? MAR MAR MARCH, b&w video. 1972
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. San Francisco, Abstraction, Quid Pro Quo, and Penny Bell.
Anglim/Trimble gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021
“The Paradox of Stillness, Object and Performance”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“The Incorrect Museum: Vignettes From the di Rosa Collection”, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
“A Spirit of Disruption”, San Francisco Art Institute 150th Anniversary Exhibition
2020
“Donner Pass”, Art Kiosk, Lance Fung Collaboratives, Redwood City, CA
“Retour vers le futur”, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
“Still and Yet’, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA *
2019
“Sound Lines in 20th Century Art”, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
“UNSETTLED”, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Reno, USA
“Mother Nature: Elements and Archetypes, Fused Space, San Francisco,CA
“As If”, 1599fdt. San Francisco. CA. Potts Gallery, Alhambra, CA
2018
“Collecting On The Edge”, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan Utah
“10 Year Anniversary Show”, Evergold Projects, San Francisco, CA
2017
“Ways of Seeing,” Foundation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels
“Illegal,” Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Unsettled,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
“Feedback,” Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY
“Air, Wind and Fire,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
“Bitter Creek Sweet Water,” Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
“Mind Over Matter,” BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA
“Zero,” c/o FuturDome, Milan, Italy
2015
“Against Automatism,” Fused Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco,
“Retrospective,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2014
“Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible?,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Karla’s Living Room,” The Battery, San Francisco, CA
“Summer in Black and White,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2013
“California Landscape Into Abstraction,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“All Good Things,” SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA
“Solid Concept VI,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“The Long Conversation,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
“Mono No Aware,” Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St. Kilda, Australia
“The Lunder Collection,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA
“EISKELLER UND HIMMELSLÖ: Ortsbezogene Interventionen, Rekonstruktionen und Erkundungen in Schleswig-Holstein 2012 – 2013,” Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
2012
“Happy Birthday: a celebration of chance and listening, Philip Feldman Gallery
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
“CANY (California/New York),” Nora Fisch Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aries, Argentina
“Temporary Structures,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“SOUND, IMAGE, OBJECT: The Intersection of Art and Music,” University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
“[Invisible] Relic,” Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970,” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
“Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought,” Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2011
“State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA,
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
“Spread – California Conceptualism Then and Now,” SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2010
“Silence, Exile & Cunning,” Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
“Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 – 2000” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2009
“The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1969,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
“MOCA’s First Thirty Years,” MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Conceptual Art from California, Paul Kos and Tony Labat,” Arge Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
2008
“This is Not A Void,” Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo, Brazil
“Eureka,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. San Jose, CA
“Conceptual Art From California,” Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k., Berlin, Germany
“Looking For Mushrooms,” Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
“California Video,” Getty Museum, Los Angeles
15th Anniversary Exhibition,” Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, ST. Louis, MO
“Neighborhood Secrets,” Stavanger, Norway
“Matrix, 30th Birthday Bash,” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California “Projected Image,” Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA
2007
“A Principle of Immortality,” Video from 1970 to the present. Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York
“Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“from_&_to,” Kunst Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
“Pioneers,” CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
“On Ice,” Williams Center Art Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA “Subversive Moves,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2006
“Evidences or This Object of Desire,” In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
“The Three Cities – Berlin: The Apartment,” Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany
“Work Zones: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from SFAI,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005
“Soft Openings,” The Katzen American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
“Solid Concept V,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Marking Time,” LACE Los Angeles, CA
2003
“Sold Concept IV,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2002
“Beyond Preconceptions,” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2001
“Labyrinth Of Pleasure”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
“Double Feature: Paul Kos and Nam June Paik,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2000
“Open House,” Art on Site 1, San Francisco, CA “1:1,” Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
1999
“Line,” Lance Fung Gallery, New York, NY
1998
“PFormative Acts,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Selections from the Weisman Collection, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
1997
“Video Group Show,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“The Art Orchestra: A Sculptors’ Ensemble,” The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
1996
“Blurring the Boundaries Installation Art 1969 – 1996,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
“Generations,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
“Austria SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Show,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Natural Histories,” Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1995
“Facing Eden,” M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1994
“Solid Concept Three,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1993
“In Out of the Cold,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1992
“California Art,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
“John Cage Memorial Exhibition,” Jernigan/Wicker, San Francisco, CA
“Unter Null,” Woh Museum, Barengasse, Zurich, Germany
1991
“After the Apocalypse: A Different Humanism,” SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“Transformations,” Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California
“Unter Null” (Below Zero), Museum Indutriekultur, Nuremberg, Germany
“Gallery II,” (3-person show), Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1990
“Lines of Force,” Bayfront Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Bay Area Media,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Works in Media,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
“In Site, Five Conceptual Artists from the Bay Area”, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
“Public Art, Models and Drawings,” San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Open Channels, Five Year Survey,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
“R/T SF – Colombia,” San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
1989-90
“Awards in the Visual Arts 8” High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1989
“Bay Area Conceptualism: Two Generations,” Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York
“Machinations,” Saint Gervais, Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Geneva, Switzerland
1989
“San Francisco Bay Artists,” Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia; Centro Colombo Americano, Bucaramanga, Columbia; Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia; Museo Arqueologico La Merced, Cali, Colombia; Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia
“Solid Concept,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1988
“Second International Exhibition of Artists of Slovenian Descent,” Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
“3 Videonale,” Bonn, West Germany
“Art of the Madonna,” Old St. Patrick’s Church, Chicago, Illinois
1987
“Landscape Video: The Seventies,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
“Steirischer Herbst ’87,” Graz, Austria
“Object Poems,” Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
“30 From 25,” Sheppard Art Gallery, University of Nevada at Reno
1986
Second Newport Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California
1985
“Video from Vancouver to San Diego,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Reel to Real,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Nature as Metaphor,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
“Spacial Relationships in Video,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Selections from the de Saisset,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
1984
“Artist’s Valentines,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
“Artist Olympics,” Video Gallery, San Francisco, California
“San Francisco Video Festival,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Video and Ritual,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Reel to Real,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
“Bar Video,” Vazac Hall, presented by MO David, Inc., New York, New York
1984
“Video: A Retrospective 1974-1984,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1983
“Art Video,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, France “Performance,” Restaurant Dalmatzi, Bern, Switzerland
1982
“Vision #5 Artists’ Photography,” Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York
“100 Years of California Sculpture,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
“Elegant San Francisco Miniatures,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California; Belca House, Kyoto, Japan; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Video,” American River College, Sacramento, California “Arts Alive,” KVIE Channel 6, Sacramento, California
1981
“California Performance,” Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
“TV in Place,” Korot, Burden, Kos, San Francisco Art Institute
1980
“San Francisco Video Review,” Video Free America, San Francisco, California
“San Francisco Video Festival,” San Francisco, California
“Video Art,” Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France
1979 “Video Roman ’79,” Rome, Italy
“Everson Video Review,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
“Bay Area Contemporary Strengths,” University of California at Santa Barbara
“Space/Time/Sound/1970’s – A Decade in the Bay Area,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1978
“Art Video,” La Mamelle and Cable Channel 25, San Francisco, California
“Video Art,” Southland Cable Networks, Some Serious Business, and the Long Beach Museum of Art
“Americans in Paris,” Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York “Video Art,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Video Art,” Lanchester Polytech, Coventry, England
1977
“A Tight Thirteen Minutes,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
“Paris Biennale,” Paris, France
“Video Art USA,” Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France
1976
“Video Art: An Overview,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Video Art,” Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts
1975
“Video Art,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
“The Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“San Francisco Bay Area Artists’ Work on Video Tape,” And/Or Gallery, Seattle, Washington
“Video Art USA,” Bienal de Sao Paulo, American Pavillion, Brazil (traveled to five Latin-American countries)
“Information Show,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
“Exchange: DFW/SFO,” Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1975, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Landscape Video,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1974
“Contemporanea,” Rome, Italy
“Collector’s Video,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
“Video Group Show,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
“Basel 5, 1974,” Basel, Switzerland
“Trigon,” Vienna, Austria
“Cologne Art Fair,” Cologne, Germany
“Project 74,” Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
“Video Art,” Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA
“South of the Slot,” 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco, California
1973
“Circuit,” Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Cranbrook Art Institute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
“All Night Sculpture,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
“Bienal de Sao Paolo,” Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Video, The New Wave,” WGBH Television, Boston, Massachusetts
“Video Group Show,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
“Art Now,” J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
1972
“San Francisco Performance,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
“Video West One,” Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York “Games,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
“Saint Jude Video Invitational,” de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California
“The Bay Area Roach Clip Show,” San Geronimo, California
“Toys of the Artist,” Walnut Creek Art Center, Walnut Creek, California
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
“MOCA FM,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco and KPFA FM, Berkeley, California
“Video Works,” 112 Greene Street, New York, New York
1970
“Richmond Sculpture Annual,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
“The Eighties,” University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
“Sound; Sculpture As:,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
“Films by Sculptors,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
1970
“Art in the Mind,” Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1969
“Invitational Drawing Exhibit,” California State College, Hayward, California
“Return of Abstract Expressionism,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Kadish Foundation, Paris, France
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, California
Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, Santa Clara, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
GRANTS & AWARDS
2015 Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio, Italy
2005-2007 Eureka Fellowship Program for the Visual Arts
1999-2000 FlintridgeFoundationFellowship
1997 National Endowment for the Arts and FONCA (Fondacion y Organisacion National de Culutra yArtes), Residency in Mexico
1993 National Endowment Fellowship
1990 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 1989 Award in the Visual Arts (AVA)
1987 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Engelhard Award, Boston, Massachusetts
Western States Arts Fellowship
“Open Channels,” Long Beach Museum of Art
1986 National Endowment Media Arts Grant (in conjunction with the Walker Art Center) Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship
1986 Capp Street Project, Residency 1983 Western States Arts Fellowship
1982 National Endowment Fellowship 1976 National Endowment Fellowship 1974 National Endowment Fellowship
COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC ART
2006 2002 1991-2000 1997 1990-1994 1989-1992
2011-2014 First Responder Plaza, Public Safety Building, San Francisco San
2009-2010 Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA
2009-2013 UCSF, Lobby, Cancer Research, San Francisco, CA
2005-2010 Freeport Water Authority, Sacramento, CA
California Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Golden Gate Project, San Francisco Arts Commission. (Cancelled due to lack of funds after preliminary drawings completed.)
Poetry Sculpture Garden, with poet Robert Hass, 199 Fremont, San Francisco, California
Tunnel/Chapel, di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, California, with Isabelle Sorrell
Secretary of State, State Archives Building, Sacramento, with Mandell/Sultan
Passenger-Only Ferry Terminal, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, WA, Cancelled after construction began: Toxic waste discovered.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA 1969-1977
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1978-2008
Dodd Chair, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 2008-09
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Albright, Thomas, “Art,” Rolling Stone, June 24, 1971.
“Art from a Giant Puddle,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 17, 1969.
“Marvels in Steel and Sand,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 1971.
Anderson, Phil, “Chartes Bleu,” High Performance 10, no. 3, 1987: 99-100.
Arms, John, “Agrisculpture,” Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 1969. Arts Magazine 44, No. 8, Summer 1970: 23, 38.
Arts Magazine 47, No. 1, September-October 1972: 58.
Avalanche 1, Fall 1970: 6.
Avalanche 2, Winter 1971: 6.
Avalanche 4, Spring 1972: 4.
Baker, Kenneth, “Art That Comes Across as Disposable,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 28, 1998.
“Exhibitions Evoke Signs of Ruin, Scars of War,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 2008.
“Artists Presaged Social Media,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 2013.
Battcock, Gregory, ed., New Artists Video, New York: Dutton, 1978.
Belloil, Jay, Joel Glassman, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Paul Kos [exhibition catalog], La Jolla, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1973.
Belsito, Peter, “Sympathetic Vibrations,” High Performance 9, no. 2, 1986: 73.
Bonetti, David, “Two decades of MATRIX,” San Francisco Examiner, April 29, 1998.
“With sly wit, Paul Kos rings a bell,” San Francisco Examiner, October 28, 1994: C6-7.
Camhi, Leslie, “Human Comedy: A Bay Area Conceptualist’s Antic, Melancholy Body of Work,” Village Voice, October 1-7, 2003.
Caples, Garrett, “Review: Equilibrium: A Paul Kos Survey,” Art Practical, May 17, 2016.
Chang, Soojin, “Berkeley Art Museum Showcases California’s Conceptual Artists of the 70’s,” The Daily Californian, March 4, 2012.
Christensen, Judith, “Uncomfortable Cadence,” Artweek 21, March 15, 1990: 13-4.
Cotter, Holland, “West Coast Art (Not Laid-Back): A California ‘State of Mind,’ Circa 1970, at Bronx Museum,” New York Times, July 11, 2013.
Cotter, Holland, “Gaze East and Dream, Review ‘The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989,’ New York Times, January 29, 2009.
Desmarais, Charles, “Conceptual Artist Mixes Dada, Dry Wit,” SF Gate, July 19, 2016.
Geer, Suvan, “Review: Paul Kos: Manipulation by Participation,” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1990
Gilmore, Jonathan, Art in America, April 2004.
Golonu, Berin, Artweek, January 2000: 41.
Haber, John, “Us and Them,” Haber’s Art Reviews, 2003.
Jaszi, Jean, “Projects for the Eighties,” Artweek, March 28, 1970: 1, 8.
Jomadiao, Paris, “On Paul Kos,” Conversations at the Edge, November 3, 2016.
Junker, Howard, “Video Installation: Paul Kos and Sculptured Monitor,” Arts Magazine, November 1975: 65-6.
Jux, Virginie, “Conceptual Art According to Kos: A Whole Concept!,” TenTen, July 13, 2015.
Kent, Tom, ‘Paul Kos – Videotapes and Sculptural Residue,” Artweek, November 2, 1974: 5.
Kimmelman, Michael, “Why Faith That’s a Bit Slapstick,” The New York Times, September 12,2003.
Kaufman, Jason Edward. “Hidden Asian influence on US modern masters revealed,” The Art Newspaper, December, 2008.
Kaye, Nick, “Paul Kos,” SiteWorks: San Francisco Performance 1969-85, October 19, 2015.
McCann, Cecile N., “Richmond Sculpture Annual,” Artweek, February 18, 1970: 6.
“Authority and Art (Again),” Artweek, June 26, 1971: 2.
Artweek, February 13, 1971: 2.
McFarland, Mack, “Happy Birthday: a celebration of chance and listening, Philip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2012
Marioni, Tom, “Art/By Jove,” San Francisco Magazine, March 1977: 94-5.
Morris, Gay, Art in America 77, February 1989: 173.
Moss, Stacey, Paul Kos at the Wiegand Gallery [exhibition catalog], Belmont, CA: College of Notre Dame, 1994.
“Museum of Conceptual Art Opens,” Artweek, March 28, 1970: 2.
Oliman, Leah, “Images that Call for Action,” Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2004: E40.
Porges, Maria, “Paul Kos at Gallery Paule Anglim,” Artforum, February 1996: 89.
Reveaux, Tony, ‘Polytechnical Diversity (SFMOMA),” Artweek 21, April 19, 1990: 1.
Richardson, Brenda, “Bay Area Survey: The Myth of Neo-Dada,”Arts Magazine, Summer 1970: 47.
“Bay Area Report”, Arts Magazine 45, No. 8, Summer 1971: 44.
Riddle, Mason, New Art Examiner 15, November 1987: 57.
Schneider, Ira, and Beryle Korot, eds., Video Art, New York: Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich, 1976.
“Sculpture in the Vineyards,” San Francisco Magazine, October 1969.
Simon, Eric, “Expo Solo Show: Paul Kos ‘Kinetic Landscape (s)’,” Actuart by Eric Simon, February 23, 2018.
Smallwood, Lyn, ‘Sculptor in a Haystack,” Seattle Weekly, February 7, 1990: 49.
Soe, Valerie, “Lessons in Seeing,” Artweek, April 25, 1970: 2.
“Sounds Sculpture Event,” Artweek, April 25, 1970: 2.
Tamblyn, Christine, “A Ritual for Bells,” Artweek 17, March 15, 1987.
Tarshis, Jerome, “San Francisco,” Artforum 8, No. 10, June 1970: 91.
“San Francisco,” Artforum 9, Vol. 1, September 1971: 91.
“U.C. Project for the Eighties,” Artweek, March 14, 1970: 3.
Wolf, Steven, “New Balance: The Work of Artist Paul Kos,” The Battery, San Francisco, July 8, 2016.
Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Video and Ritual,” Afterimage 12, February 1985: 19.