Joseph Kosuth

American | 1945

Joseph Kosuth is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1945. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Sean Kelly, New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Spr眉th Magers, London have featured Joseph Kosuth's work in the past.Joseph Kosuth's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 337,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 337,000 USD for Five Words in Yellow Neon, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2008. In the past 12 months, his artworks have averaged 20,352 USD.Joseph Kosuth has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The New York Times in March 2025.

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Titled Quotation (for L.C.) from the portfolio of Leo Castelli鈥檚 90th Birthday ,1997

By Joseph Kosuth

Hamilton Selway Fine Art

Practice (n. 5 sheets), 1975 ,1975

By Joseph Kosuth

Bertolami Fine Arts

One and Eight-A Description

By Joseph Kosuth

Sotheby's New York

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Neon Electrical Light English Glass Letters Yellow Eight - Joseph Kosuth

Neon Electrical Light English Glass Letters Yellow Eight ,1965

By Joseph Kosuth

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North, East, South, West (From Art as Idea as Idea) - Joseph Kosuth

North, East, South, West (From Art as Idea as Idea) ,1967

By Joseph Kosuth

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One and Eight - A description (Violet) - Joseph Kosuth

One and Eight - A description (Violet) ,1965

By Joseph Kosuth

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One and Eight-A Description

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Practice (n. 5 sheets), 1975 - Joseph Kosuth

Practice (n. 5 sheets), 1975 ,1975

By Joseph Kosuth

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Mens agitat molem ,2003

By Joseph Kosuth

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Ex Libris 431 ,1989

By Joseph Kosuth

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Four Titled Abstracts from S.M.S. No. 3 1968 - Joseph Kosuth

Four Titled Abstracts from S.M.S. No. 3 1968 ,1968

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Current Exhibitions

Joseph Kosuth: The Question

Lia Rumma, Naples

Naples | Italy

Apr 10,2025 - Jun 28,2025

The Collection Herbert

Herbert Foundation

Gent | Belgium

Oct 01,2023 - Jul 27,2025

Past Exhibitions

Idea Machines: From the AMA Permanent Collection

Albany Museum of Art

Albany | Georgia | USA

Jan 23,2025 - Apr 26,2025

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Articles

Nature is Interpretable: the Art of Alexandra Kuhn

黑料不打烊 23/04/2025

Alexandra Kuhn explores time, decay, and life through bioart installations using organic materials like leaves, flowers, and living plants

The New York Times 27/03/2025

A deconstructed retrospective for the pioneer of Conceptual art shows off both the exhilarating highs and the sterile dead-ends of making ideas into artworks.

Apollo 26/02/2025

This retrospective show at Spr眉th Magers in Mayfair takes in the span of Kosuth鈥檚 distinctive brand of linguistically oriented conceptualism over the last six decades.

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鈥� .. Kosuth's oeuvre is based on the visualization of the word, and he is known for his use of neon... 鈥�
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Galleri Brandstrup

鈥� ..One of the founders of Conceptual art, Joseph Kosuth is best known for his pioneering text-based works... 鈥�
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The Jewish Museum

鈥� ..Beckett鈥檚 project as an artist was in one important way parallel to that of Kosuth: both practices manifest a concern with meaning... 鈥�
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Australian Center for Contemporary Art

鈥� ..Since the mid-1960鈥檚, Kosuth鈥檚 work has focused on the connections between words and things, between languageand representation... 鈥�
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Musée du Louvre

鈥� ..Kosuth create installations with texts, often monumental in size, usually comprised of quotations from different sources: literature, philosophy, anthropology, among others... 鈥�
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Musée du Louvre