About

Warren Rosser is the William T. Kemper Distinguished Professor of Painting, and Chair of the Painting Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.

His recent solo exhibitions have been Parade: Parallel Tracks at University of Leeds, England, and Jan Weiner Gallery in Kansas City; Repeat Offender at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Counterpoint at Epsten Gallery, Kansas City Jewish Museum; Hybrid View at Albrecht Kemper Museum, St Joseph, Missouri; and AlternateTracking at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska. Previously he has exhibited his work at the Tate Gallery, London, at the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany, the Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy, and at the Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland.

He was born in Wales and moved to the U.S. in 1972. Although trained as a painter, for many years he made sculpture and mixed media constructions. More recently in 1998 he returned to painting. The work he has made from this time to the present, 1998-2004, was the basis of the TO BE CONTINUED…. Exhibition at the S. Dakota Art Museum. He recently opened a new exhibition of paintings Hide and Seek at the William Shearburn Gallery St. Louis and the Jan Weiner Gallery in Kansas City. He will exhibit a new body of work, New Fabric Constructions at the Review Exhibition Space in September 2007

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Exhibitions

2007

Fall Collection Made to Measure | New fabric Constructions. Review Studios Exhibition Space.Kansas City. Catalogue essay Julia Coles - solo

Summer Eyes-Summarize | Group exhibition Jan Weiner Gallery Kansas City

2006

Large Scale Abstraction | Selected paintings from the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Sedalia. Mo

2005

Hide and Seek | New grey paintings, William Shearburn Gallery,St Louis and Jan Weiner Gallery Kansas City- solo

2004

To be continued | Selected paintings from 1998-2004. South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings S.D. Catalogue essay David Caterforis - Solo

2003

Lucy Series | An exhibition of large scale paintings Jan Weiner Gallery at Lula Mac Kansas City – Solo

Recent Release | Nine color lithogragh published by The Lawrence Lithography Workshop

Lawrence Lithography | Prints Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, Ohio

Progressive Proof | Forty Years of Collecting. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Exhibition. Western Michigan University. Michigan

2002

Hibrida Exhibition | An international exhibition exploring art and digital technology. Bradford City Museum and touring the North of England

Parade: Parallel Tracts | An Exhibition of mono-prints and collaborative poems by H.L.Hix, University of Leeds, Leeds, England & The Jan Weiner Kansas City,Missouri – solo

Subluna | Exhibition curated and essay by James Brinsfield, Shaw Associates, Architects, Kansas City

2001

Repeat-Offender | Curated by Shannon Fitzgerald, Forum For Contemporary Art St. Louis, Missouri. Commissioned new Musical Composition from newEar performed at the exhibition - solo

Counterpoint | Epsten Gallery Kansas City Jewish Museum. Overland. Park, Ks. – solo

Three Ring Circus: A Curatorial Spectacle | Organized by Kate Hackman,Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City

Harold F. Daum Collection | Inaugural Exhibition,Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri

Charlotte Street Fund Award | Exhibition Kansas City Artists Coalition. Co-curated by James Martin and Janet Simpson. Kansas City

2000

Hybrid View | New Paintings Curated by Mark Spencer Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St.Joseph, Missouri. Brochure essays by Harvey Hix and Mark Spencer - solo

AlternateTracking | Curated by Dan O’Kane, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska. Catalogue essays by Dan O’Kane and David Moos - solo

Universal Abstraction 2000 | (with Lasker, Usle, Urban, Marcaccio, Milhazes, Burton, Apfelbaum, Dona, Halley and Whitney ) Jan Weiner Gallery Kansas City

1999

Simultaneous Contrast New Paintings | Jan Weiner Gallery Kansas City - solo

Karma | Curated by James Brinsfield and Robin Trafton, Joseph Nease Gallery Kansas City

1996

Dislocated Emblems | Goddard Gallery Stauffacher Center for the Arts, Sedalia, Missouri - solo

1995

Dislocated Emblems | Curated by Daphne Deeds Chief Curator Sheldon Gallery of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Nebraska and Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City. Catalogue essay Daphne Deeds – solo

Vital Heat | (with Dunlap, Frink, Grube, Horvay, Kiland, and Solien) Curated by Jeffrey Freeman, University of S. Dakota, Vermillon. Catalogue essay Jeffrey Freeman

The Language of Abstraction | (Post-war painting from the collection) Curated by David Moos. Wilson Gallery,Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art. Wichita, Kansas

Mental, Visual, Manual | Drawing Exhibition (with Nutt, Hull, Ramirez Cummings, and Winters) University of Wisconsin, Eau Clair

1994

Large Scale Drawings and Sculpture | University of Northern Iowa,Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls Iowa - solo

1992

Re-Membering the Same | An exhibition of large scale drawings Jan Weiner Gallery and Dolphin, Kansas City - solo

Powell, Roeyer, Rosser | Curated by Donald Bartlet Doe, Catalogue Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University (Rosser will exhibit the “Reflexes and Memory” installation)

Missouri Visual Artists Biennial | (with Anderson, Fors, Hilgert,and Leax) Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Kansas City and Gallery Center of Contemporary Arts, University City, St. Louis

1991

Missouri Visual Artists Biennial Traveling Exhibition | Traveled to Kansas City, St. Louis, and Columbia, Missouri

1990

Midlands Invitational 1990: Painting & Sculpture | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha curated by Graham Beal & Janet Faber Catalogue- essay Graham Beal

Chairs | Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute Catalogue-essay Sherry Cromwell Lacy

Wood-Sculptures & Wall Reliefs | Douglas Drake Gallery, New York

1989

Turn and Turn About - Recent Sculptures | Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Catalogue - Essay by Ellen R. Goheen - solo

New Mixed Media Drawings | Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City - solo

Kansas City - Ferguson/Rosser/Slowinski | Ruth Wiseman Gallery, Dallas

1988

Constructed Realities - A Midwest Vision | Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Curated by George Neubert

1986

Painting as Artifact | McCullough/Freeman/Rosser Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City Catalogue - Essay by Patrick White

Four Painters | Little-John Smith Gallery New York

1983

Togu-na: House of Man, House of Words | New encaustic works, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City - solo

1982

Missouri Artists - Works on Paper | Touring Exhibition Sponsored by Mid America Arts Alliance

Squadron Press Prints | at E.G. Gallery, Kansas City

1981

Kansas City | Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1980

Missouri Artists - Works on Paper | Touring Exhibition Organized by Missouri Arts Council Catalogue - Forward by Chris Wallace

1979

Warren Rosser, American Survey 1972-79 | University of Nebraska Art Gallery and Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska Catalogue - Essay by Donald B. Doe - solo

1978

Wax Works | Dobrick Gallery, Chicago - solo

Semaphores | Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City - solo

Semaphore Prints | Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City - solo

Paintings and Sculpture Today | Biennial Contemporary ArtsSociety Indianapolis Museum, Indianapolis Catalogue - Foreword by Robert A Yasin

1977

Rosser/Sajovic/Whitacre | Galleria Del Cavalino, Venice, Italy Curated by Gabriella Cardazzo Catalogue - Foreword by Toby Tadman Cohen (Translated into Italian)

1975

Works from Edinburgh Festival | Reyntien's Trust Gallery Burleighfield, England

Works on Paper | Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago

1974

Mid-America Five Exhibition | Nelson Atkins Museum of Art Gallery Kansas City and St. Louis Art Museum St. Louis Missouri

Prints and Drawings | Osaka University, Osaka Japan

Edinburgh Festival | Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1973

New Work | Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City - solo

1972

Large Paintings | Polytechnic Gallery, School of Art, Leeds, England - solo

Critic's Choice | (Norbet Lynton) City Art Gallery, Leeds, England