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EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

Current / Upcoming Exhibitions

“Just the Way We Are," (a collection presentation), Weserburg, Museum of Art, Bremen, Germany, opens February, 2026, curated by Ingo Clauss and Janneke de Vries

“John Cage and Kay Rosen,” Krakow Witkin Gallery, March 21 - May 9, 2026

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, “Refection,” commission in honor of the museum’s fifteenth anniversary, spring, 2026

“KAY ROSEN,” Inaugural Poor Farm Biennale, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy, opens May, 2026, curated by Michelle Grabner

Current Publications & Editions

RECENT QUESTIONS, December 2025, A book of poetry by Geoffrey Young

A Work Will Be Shown: Artists’ Invitations and Announcements 1960-2025, Edited by Maurizio Nannucci, Viaindustriale Publishing, Zona Archives in collaboration with COLLI Publishing Platform, 2025, Florence, Italy

Anonymous Was a Woman: The First Twenty-five Years, 2025, published by The Grey Art Museum, New York University and Himmer Publishers

Why Art Matters: The Bearable Lightness of Being, by Heidi Zuckerman, 2024, Orange County Museum of Art

Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art, Phaidon Press, 2024, edited by Simon Hunegs; Introduction by Evan Moffitt; Kay Rosen essay by Paul Carey-Kent

Hello We Were Talking About Hudson, Edited by Steve Lafreniere, Soberscove Press, Chicago, 2024

Recent Exhibitions

“Over My Head: Encounters with Conceptual Art in a Fly Over City, 1984-2015,” September 18 - October 11, 2025, produced by Abby Pucker, curated by Gareth Kaye and Iris Colburn, 400 N. Peoria, Chicago

“How’s My Painting,” Paintings from the Falckenburg Collection, March 1 - September 7, 2025, Hamburg, Germany 

“Type,” Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, May 19 - June 28, 2025, curated by Adam Carr

“A Rose Is,” FLAG Foundation,  February 27 through June 21, curated by Jon Rider

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Kay Rosen currently works with Sikkema Malloy Jenkins (New York City), Krakow Witkin Gallery (Boston), and Michele Didier (Paris)