Education 

M.I.T., Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Cambridge, MA (M. S. Vis. S.)

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts (B.F.A.)


Solo Exhibitions


2024

River-Rising, Ellen Kozak and Scott D. Miller, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY

2021

Vigil: New Paintings, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY

2018

riverthatflowsbothways, 4-channel video installation, 

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2016

Periodical: New Paintings, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY

2012

Ellen Kozak – Glow: Recent Paintings, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT

2010

Site / Sight: Paintings, Argazzi Art, Ellen Kozak – Lakeville, CT

2009

Hudson River Trilogy: Ellen Kozak, The Katonah Museum of Art, 

Katonah, NY 

2004 

Paintings, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Paintings, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

2002

Paintings, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2001

∙ Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

∙ Art Resources Transfer Inc., New York, NY

∙ Paintings, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, 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

∙ Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomia, Japan

1983

Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan


Selected Group Exhibitions


2024

∙ River Flow/Artists Connect, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

February 3, 2024 - May 12, 2024 

2023

∙ Think About Water: RIVERS, curated by Fredericka Foster, 

The Garrison Institute, Garrison, New York.  

2021

∙ Mohawk Hudson Regional, Opalka Gallery, Russel Sage College, Albany, NY

∙ The Subject is the Line, curated by Donna Moylan, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY

∙ All the Pieces Matter, Curated by Leslie Roberts, Studio Archive Project, Brooklyn, NY 

∙ Landscape Re-imagined, curated by Cynthia Carlson & 

Jean Feinberg, Claverack Free Public Library, Claverack, NY

2020

∙ 11 Women of Spirit: Mini-Frieze Art Fair, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY

2019

∙ Turbulence, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, curated by Odelette Cho, NY, NY

2018

∙ State of Emergency, Nina Felshin & Lenore Malen curators, 

onsite projection, The Illuminator, NYC

2017

∙ Walks with Artists: The Hudson Valley and Beyond,works from the permanent collection, The Hudson River Museum curated by Laura Vookles and Ted Barrow, Yonkers, NY

∙ Site/Sight, Suzanne Caporael, Martha Diamond, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Sharon Horvath, Ellen Kozak and Joyce Robins, curated by Ellen Kozak, catalog with essay by Carter Ratcliff, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY

∙ Undercurrents: The River as Metaphor, curated by Livia Strauss, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, NY

∙ State of Emergency, curated by Nina Felshin and Lenore Malen, The Illuminator, NYC, NY

∙ La nuit de l’instant, Festival of international experimental works in film, video and the still image, Marseille, France

∙ RiverWoman: Nancy Cohen, Fritz Horstman, Ellen Kozak & Kathleen Vance, Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016

∙ Heliotrope, Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

∙ Through the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

∙ Vanishing Point, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2015

∙ Prix Moulin à Nef, VCCA Anniversary Exhibition, La Chapelle Sainte Catherine, Auvillar, France

∙ Shifting Ecologies, curated by Marianne Van Lent, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY

∙ Small Works, Baruch College, New York City, curated by Richard Timperio

∙ Nation II: Circling the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014

∙ Le Show des Amis, Show Room Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY

∙ Nation II: At the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

∙ Shifting Ecologies, curated by Marianne Van Lent, The Painting Center, NY

∙ Artists of the Mohawk – Hudson Region, Albany Institute of History and Art, curated by Stephen Westfall

2013

∙ ICE, Athens Cultural Center, curated by Carrie Feder, Athens, NY

∙ Stone Canoe, Curated by Amy Cheng, Community Art Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2011

Strata of Memory: Kevin Kelly + Ellen Kozak, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT

2010

∙ The Nature of it All, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT

∙ Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, curated by Charles Desmarais, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY

∙ Contemporary Art and Praxis, curated by Thomas Collins, 

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY

∙ Small Works Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY

2009

∙ Different at Every Turn: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (traveling exhibition, catalog)

2008

What’s in a Face, Salena Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

2007

∙ The New Hudson River School, Riverstone Arts, Haverstraw, NY

∙ 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

∙ Holiday Realities, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY

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

∙ Art Resources Transfer Inc., New York, NY

∙ Location: a Survey of Hudson Valley Artists, Kendal Art and Design, Hudson, NY

1998

 Absolut, David McKee Gallery, New York, NY

1997

∙ Art Resources Transfer Inc., New York, NY

∙ Invitational, Kendal Art and Design, Hudson, NY

1996

Gallery Artists, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

1994

∙ Landscape Paintings, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

∙ 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, curated by David Hornung, Kathryn Sermas Gallery, New York, NY

∙ Painters of the Depicted Unknown, Procter Art Center, 

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

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

1990

∙ The Figure Now, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY

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)

∙ Retrogarde ‘89, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, NY

1989

∙ Contemporary Self Portraits, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

1988

∙ The Painterly Print, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY

1987

∙ Figurative Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY

1986

∙ Invitational, van Stratten Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985

∙ A Summer Selection, Castelli Uptown, New York, NY

1984

∙ Invitational, Jay Gallery, New York, NY

∙ “Fast Forward-Women in Film and Video,” Screening of Boston 

area Video Artists, WBZ-TV, Alston, MA

1983

∙ 1983 National, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomia, Japan

1982

∙ Boston Symphony Hall Gallery, Boston, MA

1981

∙ Centervideo, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 

Germany & American Center for Artists and Students, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

∙ WGBH TV New Television Workshop, produced by 

Susan Dowling, broadcast of “Waiting”, 10”

1980

∙ “Four Evenings of Performance: Ellen Kozak & Victor Young,” 

Helen Shlien Gallery, Boston

1978

∙ Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

1977

∙ Works for the Landscape, Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA


Essays/Limited Editions


Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes: Notations on a Landscape, limited edition artists’ book with poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell, foreword by Dore Ashton, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1996


Tree of Names and A River, limited edition with poetry by Geoffrey O’Brien, Dieu Donné Papermill, 2005


Contemporary Video Art in Japan by Ellen Kozak, Media Arts Volume 1, Number 7, Autumn 1984


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Stapin, Nancy. “Two Views of Oppression: The Heroic & 

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Fellowships and Grants


2019, 2012

Prix Résidence Moulin à Nef, VCCA / Auvillar, France


2013, 2005, 2000

Pratt Institute, Faculty Development Grant


2004

George Sugarman Foundation Artists’ 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


Appointments and Activities


2018 – present
Board of Directors, Riverkeeper Inc.


1993 – 2016
Adjunct Professor, CCE, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY


1998 – present
Art New England, Massachusetts College of Art, Bennington, VT


1996
Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL


1993
Lecturer, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University, 

Princeton, NJ


1991 – 1995
Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY


1988 – 1993
Studio Instructor of Drawing and Painting, Art Center, 

92nd Street, NY


1982 – 1984
Lecturer, Seian Art University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan


1980 – 1982
Artist in Residence, Dept. of Visual & Performing Arts, Mass. 

College of Art, Boston, MA


1979 – 1981
CAVS Fellow, M.I.T, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, 

Cambridge, MA


1979 – 1980
Assistant Professor, film and video, University of Massachusetts, Department of Art, Boston, MA


Permanent Collections


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

National Museum of Women in the Arts, 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