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 in 2004 and is a Prince Claus Award laureate, 2013.
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 (2010), TATE Liverpool, Entanglements at the Broad Museum, Michigan 2015. Relational Undercurrents at MOLAA. L.A. (2017) and The Sea is History, Historisk museum, Oslo, 2019.
Cozier participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial, 2018, exhibited in the 14th Sharjah Biennial in 2019, the 11th Liverpool Biennial in 2021 and Experiences of Oil at the Stavanger Museum, Más Allá, el Mar Canta, The Times Art Centre, Berlin, 2021, Fragments of Epic Memory, AGO, Toronto, Forecast Forms at the MCA, Chicago 2022 and Unraveling The ( under – ) Development Complex, Savvy, Berlin 2023.
The artist is in Prospect 6 (2024) and Project Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica at the Art Institute of Chicago (2024). His works were recently acquired for the collection of the MCA in Chicago and MoMA, NY.