About

Born in 1943 in Corpus Christi, Kay Rosen lives in New York and Gary in the United States.

Since the 1970s, the American artist has used language as her main material. At the crossroads of what is said and what is seen, she paints words that she arranges and displays in public and private spaces – on different scales – but often «augmented». From the point of view of lin-guistics, which is the artist’s field of training, her works are on the border between humor and poetry. But there’s nothing gratuitous about her approach, which aims to shake things up and awaken social and political …