Biography
'For me, it takes time to understand or fully grasp, if ever or at all, the choices or the direction my work takes. The process of seeing, feeling and making—of finding my way through things experienced.'
Christopher Cozier ( b.1959, Port of Spain ) is an artist, living and working in Trinidad and a co-director of Alice Yard, which participated in documenta 15. He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2004), is a Prince Claus Award laureate (2013), a Pérez Prize recipient from the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2023) and the Roy Lichtenstein Award (2026).
Through his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded 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, The Broad Museum, Michigan (2015), Relational Undercurrents, MOLAA, L.A. (2017) and The Sea is History, Historiskmuseum, Oslo (2019).
Cozier participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial (2018), exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial (2019), the 11th Liverpool Biennial in (2021), Experiences of Oil, the Stavanger Museum, Más Allá, el Mar Canta, The Times Art Centre, Berlin (2021), Fragments of Epic Memory, AGO, Toronto (2021), Forecast Forms at the MCA, Chicago (2022) and Unraveling The ( under - ) Development Complex, Savvy, Berlin (2023).
The artist participated in Prospect 6 (2024), Project Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica at the Art Institute of Chicago (2024) and the 36th Bienal de Sao Paulo (2025). In 2026, he will be participating in Dancing the Revolution, from Dancehall to Reggaeton at MCA Chicago. His works were recently acquired for the collections of the MCA in Chicago and MoMA, NY.