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Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts (B.F.A.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA (M.S.Visual Studies)
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2010 Site and Sight: Paintings — Ellen Kozak, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
2009 Hudson River Trilogy: Ellen Kozak, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2008,2005 Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2004, 2001 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2001 The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
2001, 1999 Art Resources Transfer Inc., New York, NY
1998 President's Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1996

Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1994 Carolyn J. Roy Gallery, New York, NY
1992 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1986

Jay Gallery, New York, NY

Van Buren, Brazelton, Cutting Gallery, Cambridge, MA

1985

Gallery Amelia, Tokyo, Japan

1983

Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

   
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2010 Contemporary Art and Praxis, Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, curated by Thom Collins
2010 The Nature of it All, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2009 Different at Every Turn: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY (traveling exhibition, catalog)
2008 What’s in a Face, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY  (curated by Susan Mastrangelo and David Fratkin)
2007 The New Hudson River School, Riverstone Arts, Haverstraw, NY (curated by Bill Hochhausen)
Cowgirls2, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
2005 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2004 Luminous Landscape: Edges of Objectivity, Poughkeepsie Art Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003

Abstraction + 4, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
Art a Century Apart: 1903 and 2003, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson Mississippi
The Workshop Portfolios, Galeria Espacio Abierto, Havana, Cuba

2002 Reversal: Relief Igtaglio, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2001

Collectors’ Series 2001, Vero Beach Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Artists' Proof, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Members Gallery Exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

2000 Hot Art - Summer 2000, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Location, Kendal Art and Design, Hudson, NY
1997 Art Resources Transfer Inc., New York, NY
1996 Gallery Artists, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
1994

Hudson Valley Landscape & Still Life, Lorraine Kessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Faculty Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Women in Watercolor, Boston Public Library, Wiggen Gallery, Boston, MA

1993

A-Z,0-9, E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York, NY
A Small Salon, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Dreaming the Landscape: Four New York Artists, Chassie Post Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1992

Land, Trenkman Gallery, New York, NY
September Invitational, Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY
Abstract, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington , Massachusetts
Artists' Relief Portfolio for the Homeless, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
The Poetic Impulse, Kathryn Sermas Gallery, New York, NY (curated by David Hornung)
Painters of the Depicted Unknown, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (curated by Rick Klauber)

1991

PressWork: The Art of Women Printmakers, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, & Evehjem Museum, traveling exhibition. (Catalog)
Indiana Collects: The Steven G. Conant Collection, curated by Martha Donovan Opdahl, William Weston Clarke Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. (Catalog)
A Salute To Boston: Recent Acquisitions, Boston Public Library, Wiggin Gallery, Boston, MA

1989 Lines of Vision, curated by Dr. Judy Collischan, Hillwood Gallery, C.W. Post College and Blum Helman, New York, NY, traveling exhibition (book published)
1988 The Painterly Print, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY
1985 A Summer Selection, Castelli Uptown, New York, NY
1983 1983 National, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomia, Japan
1981 Centervideo, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany & American Center for Artists and Students, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1978 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1977 Works for the Landscape, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
   
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Dore Ashton, Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes: Notations on a Landscape, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1996 (forward to limited edition)

Tree of Names and A River, Ellen Kozak and  Geoffrey O’Brien, Dieu Donné Papermill, NY 2005 (forward to limited edition)
Ellen J. Keiter, Hudson River Trilogy: Ellen Kozak, The Katonah Museum of Art, Exhibition Brochure, 2009
Richard Huntington, At the Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Another Side of Ellen Kozak The Buffalo News, October 2002
Ken Johnson, Holiday Realities, The New York Times,  January 4, 2002
Katherine Gass, Ellen Kozak Paintings, Reflections on a River, Art New England, April/May 2002
Georgette Gouveia, Monet-like Reflections of the Hudson River, The Journal News, November 9, 2001
Leslie Gaglia , Hudson River Museum Mounts Three Shows Inspired by its Namesake, The Riverdale Press,  October 18, 2001
Proof In Print: A Community of Printmaking Studios, Boston Public Library, 2001
George Melrod, Art & Antiques, January 1996
The New Yorker, Valerie Steiker, February 28, , 1994
Robert Edelman, Art in America, June 1994
Eleanor Heartney & Trudy Victoria Hansen Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, 1991 (catalog)
Lesa Mason, Indiana Collects: The Steven G. Conant Collection, William Weston Clarke Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1991 (catalog)
Judy Collischan, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hills Press, Inc., 1989
Christine Temin, The Narrated Earth, The Boston Globe, 1987
Nancy Stapin, Exploring Feminine Identity, The Boston Herald, 1987
Christine Temin, Disparate Styles in a Joint Exhibit, The Boston Globe, 1986
Nancy Stapin, Two Views of Oppression: The Heroic & the Imprisoned, The Boston Herald, 1986
Eugene Narrett, Ellen Kozak and Grant Drumheller, ,Art New England, 1986
Jacqueline Brody, New Editions,  The Print Collector's Newsletter, 1985
WGBH Channel 2 TV, Artist's Showcase,  Boston, 1980 (screening of video work)
   
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2004 George Sugarman Foundation Artists' Grant
2004,2000 Pratt Institute, Faculty Development Grant
1996      New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' New Works Fiscal Sponsorship Program
1990,1986       Yaddo Colony, Residency
1988 Blue Mountain Center, Residency
1983 Japan Victor Corporation, Tokyo, Artists' Grant
1979 Sloan Foundation, Grant
1978 Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA, Artists' Grant
   
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1993 - present Adjunct Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1998 - present Art New England, Massachusetts College of Art Summer Program, Bennington, Vermont
1996

Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1991 - 1995 Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1993 Lecturer, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1988 - 1993 Studio Instructor of Drawing and Painting, Art Center, 92nd Street Y, NYC, NY
1982 - 1984 Lecturer, Seian Art University, Kyoto, Japan
1979 - 1980 Research Affiliate, M.I.T, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA
1979 - 1980 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Department of Art, Boston, MA
   
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (library collection)      

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

Brooklyn Museum of Art , Brooklyn, New York, NY    

Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA

Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Japan

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA  
Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA           
Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, CT
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Trinity College, Watkinson Library, Hartford, CT
Bucknell University, Bertrand Library, Lewisburg, PA
Dean Witter Renolds Inc., Boston, MA
Lang Communications, New York, NY
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