Malika Cosme  b.1968, Puerto Rico. Lives in the East Village, N.Y.

 

Self taught at The New York Public Library

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

2016       Under One Sky, Dianxi Science and Technology University, Licang, China.

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2015       Map of the New Art, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy.

 

2013       24th Annual Juried Show. Viridian Gallery, NYC. Curated by Elisabeth Sussman from The Whitney Museum of American Art.

 

2012       Voces y Visiones: Gran Caribe. Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Museo del Barrio, New York. 

 

2012       Curate NYC. A Citywide Juried Exhibition of New York Contemporary Artists. Rush Art Gallery, New York.

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2011       22nd Annual Juried Show, Viridian Gallery, NYC. Curated by Elisabeth Sussman from The Whitney Museum of American Art.

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2011       Pulsion, The Body as an object of Desire in Photography, curated by Rolando J. Carmona. Museo de Arte Acarigua.     

               Araure,Venezuela.

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2010       Borimix, Curated by Miguel Trelles. Clemente Soto Velez, New York.

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2008       It’s Not Easy, Curated by Herb Tam and Lauren Rosati. Social Environmental Asthetics, Exit Art, New York.

 

2006       Art Collective, Galería Fernando Zubillaga, Caracas, Venezuela.

 

2005       NONE OF THE ABOVE, Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists, curated by Silvia Karman Cubiña, Deborah Cullen and    

               Steve Holmes, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico.

 

2004       NONE OF THE ABOVE, Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists, curated by Silvia Karman Cubiña, Deborah Cullen and

               Steve Holmes, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut.

 

2003       Momentos, Latin American Photography Collective, Pace University, N.Y.

 

2002       Here is New York, A Democracy of Photographs, Curated by Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan and Charles

               Traub. Berlin, Stuttgard,  Zurich, Dublin, Dresden, Dusseldorf, London, Tokyo, Paris, U.S.A. 

 

2001       Malika (solo) Recent Works, curated by Fernando Zubillaga, One Front Gallery, New York.

 

2000       Selected Files, curated by Deborah Cullen and Yasmín Ramírez. El  Museo del Barrio, New York.

 

1999       Malika (solo) Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela.

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1998       Steve’s Room, Viridian Artists Gallery, New York.

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1998       Artificial Time, (solo) Curated by Xavier Morales, Maurizio Galante. Paris, France.

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1995       WKOPAY, Malika with Bob Flanagan, Curated by Hannas Sigurõsson, Mokka Gallery, Reykjavik, Icelan

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2016       VIVO - Museo en Evolución, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico,pp.231

 

2014       Caribbean: Together Apart,Contemporary Artists from(part of)the Caribbean, Luciano Benetton, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado pp 84-85

 

2012       Voces y Visiones: Gran Caribe, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado pp. 4 (ill.)

 

2005       Silvia Karman Cubiña, Deborah Cullen and Steve Holmes. “NONE OF THE ABOVE, Contemporary work by Puerto Rican    

               Artists”, exhibition catalogue, Real Art Ways, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, 2004-2005, pp. 70-73, ISBN 980-374-002-4

               Mercedes Trelles Hernández. “Ninguna de las anteriores”, Revista Domingo, El Nuevo Día, March 20, pp. 8-9

               Carmen M. Trelles, “Un Arte Diferente”, Primera Hora, January. 22, pp. 49 (ill.)

 

2004       Klaus Ottman. “None of the Above”, Art US, September issue. 

               Manuel Álvarez Lezama. “None of the Above: diversiones y provocaciones”, Diálogo, febrero-marzo, pp. 22 (ill.)

 

2002       Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan and Charles Traub. “HERE IS NEW YORK, A Democracy of  Photographs”,    

               pp. 475 (ill.), ISB 3-908247-66-7

 

2000       Deborah Cullen and Jasmin Ramírez. “THE SELECTED FILES”, exhibition catalogue, El Museo del Barrio,  pp. 22,

               ISBN 1-882454-10-3

               Ralph Ortega. “ An Artist’s Journey From Aguas Buenas to Museum Mile”, Daily News,  June 7, pp.8

               Listings Editor. El Museo del Barrio, Art Notes, #270

               Listings Editor. Time Out New York, The S-Files, pp. 64 (ill.)

1999       Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, “MALIKA”, exhibition catalogue, Sala Mendoza,    ISBN980-374-002-04

               Manuel Lebón. “Realidad y emoción en una instantánea”, El Universal Caracas, pp. 4-8 (ill.)

               Paul Necio. “Fotografía a contracorriente”, Noticias de Arte, # 267, pp.46 (ill.)

 

1995       PKA. “ Malika og Bob Flanagan á Mokka” Iceland News, April 2, pp.17 (ill.)  Eirikur Porláakson. “Hulin syning”, Iceland News

               Listings Editor. “Supermasokistic synir a Mokka”, Iceland News, February 20, pp. 18 (ill.)

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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2004       Holland Cotter. “None of the Above. Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists”, The New York Times Art in Review, June 4,    

               pp. E31