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'''Tim Rollins''' (1955 – December 26, 2017) was an American artist who together with the art collaborative K.O.S. formed the art-group Tim Rollins and K.O.S (Kids of Survival).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tim-rollins-champion-collaboration-evangelist-art-education-died-62-1188836|title=Artist Tim Rollins, a Champion of Collaboration and a Powerful Evangelist for Art Education, Has Died at 62|date=2017-12-27|website=artnet News|access-date=30 December 2017}}</ref><ref>[https://hyperallergic.com/419070/artist-tim-rollins-obituary Tim Robbins obituary], Hyperallergic.com; accessed 30 December 2017.</ref>
[[File:Tim Rollins.jpg|240px|thumb|Tim Rollins]]
'''Tim Rollins''' (June 10, 1955 – December 22, 2017)<ref name="obit">{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/12/tim-rollins-obituary |title=Tim Rollins obituary |date=2018-01-12 |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=14 January 2018}}</ref> was an American artist who together with the art collaborative K.O.S. formed the art-group Tim Rollins and K.O.S (Kids of Survival).<ref name="art">{{cite web |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tim-rollins-champion-collaboration-evangelist-art-education-died-62-1188836 |title=Artist Tim Rollins, a Champion of Collaboration and a Powerful Evangelist for Art Education, Has Died at 62 |date=2017-12-27 |website=Artnet News |access-date=30 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="hyper">[https://hyperallergic.com/419070/artist-tim-rollins-obituary Tim Rollins obituary], Hyperallergic.com; accessed 30 December 2017.</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Rollins studied [[fine art]] at the [[University of Maine]] and earned a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]] from the [[School of Visual Arts]] in New York (1975–77). After graduate studies in [[art education]] and [[philosophy]] at [[New York University]] (1977 and 1979), Rollins began teaching art for middle school students in a [[South Bronx]] public school.<ref>Falconer, Morgan, [[Grove Art Online]], [[Oxford University Press]], 2009</ref> In 1984, he launched the "Art and Knowledge Workshop" in the Bronx together with a group of at-risk students who called themselves K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).<ref>http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/tim-rollins-and-kos</ref>
Timothy William Rollins was born on June 10, 1955, in [[Pittsfield, Maine]].<ref name="art"/> He was a day student at the [[Maine Central Institute]] before studying [[fine art]] at the [[University of Maine]].<ref name="art"/> He then earned a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]] from the [[School of Visual Arts]] in New York (1975–77).<ref name="art"/> After graduate studies in [[art education]] and [[philosophy]] at [[New York University]] (1977 and 1979),<ref name="art"/> Rollins began teaching art for middle school students in a [[South Bronx]] public school.<ref>Falconer, Morgan, [[Grove Art Online]], [[Oxford University Press]], 2009</ref> In 1984, he launched the "Art and Knowledge Workshop" in the Bronx together with a group of at-risk students who called themselves K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).<ref name="kos">{{cite web |url=http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/tim-rollins-and-kos |title=Tim Rollins and K.O.S. - Xavier Hufkens |website=Xavierhufkens.com |access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref>


Since the founding of the Art & Knowledge Workshop in 1982, Tim Rollins & K.O.S. have produced allegorical paintings, sculptures and drawings by mining the vast wealth of printed matter - from the popular to the arcane, from the minor to the canonical, from legal documents to comic books (areas in no way mutually exclusive in Rollins & K.O.S.'s view) - which are themselves understood as political allegories.<ref>Myoda, Paul, Tim Rollins and K.O.S. at Mary Boone Gallery, ''Frieze Magazine'', May 1995.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed, if any --></ref>
Since the founding of the Art & Knowledge Workshop in 1982, Tim Rollins & K.O.S. have produced allegorical paintings, sculptures and drawings by mining the vast wealth of printed matter - from the popular to the arcane, from the minor to the canonical, from legal documents to comic books (areas in no way mutually exclusive in Rollins & K.O.S.'s view) - which are themselves understood as political allegories.<ref>Myoda, Paul, "Tim Rollins and K.O.S. at Mary Boone Gallery", ''Frieze Magazine'', May 1995.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed, if any --></ref>


Rollins died in December 2017, aged 62.<ref name="obit"/> The current members of K.O.S. at that time included Angel Abreu (b. 1974), Jorge Abreu (b. 1979), Robert Branch (b. 1977), [[Ala Ebtekar]] (b. 1978), Ricardo Nelson Savinon (b. 1971) and Noe Sosa (b. 1992).<ref name="obit"/>
The group has exhibited worldwide having participated in two [[Whitney Biennial]]s (1985, 1991), [[Documenta]] (1987), the [[Venice Biennale]] (1988), the [[Carnegie International]] (1988) and in solo exhibitions at the [[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis, MN (1988); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (1988); [[Dia Art Foundation]], New York, NY (1989); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (1990); [[Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)|Museum für Gegenwärtskunst]] Basel, Switzerland (1990); [http://www.moca.org/museum/imagerotator.php?exid=284&id=463 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles] (1990); and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1992).{{cn|date=December 2017}}


== Exhibitions ==
Their work can be seen in public collections including the [http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:19238&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 Museum of Modern Art, NY], the
The group has exhibited worldwide, having participated in two [[Whitney Biennial]]s (1985, 1991), [[Documenta]] (1987), the [[Venice Biennale]] (1988), the [[Carnegie International]] (1988) and in solo exhibitions at the [[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis, Minnesota (1988); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (1988); [[Dia Art Foundation]], New York, New York (1989); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1990); [[Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)|Museum für Gegenwärtskunst]] Basel, Switzerland (1990); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (1990);<ref name="moca">{{cite web |url= http://www.moca.org/museum/imagerotator.php?exid=284&id=463 |title=Exhibitions • MOCA |website=The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref> and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1992).<ref name="obit"/>
[http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=&objNumber=&objNumberExact=true&artists=Tim+Rollins&withImage=true&collection_search_advanced=GO Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden], the [http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_has_images=1&coll_keywords=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&submit=Search&coll_classification=Drawings&coll_artist=Rollins Museum of Fine Arts, Boston] and the [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2778&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=worklist Tate Gallery, London].


== Permanent collections ==
In February 2009, a retrospective survey of the groups' work opened at [http://tang.skidmore.edu/4/exhibitions/doc/2588 The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery] at Skidmore College.{{cn|date=December 2017}}
Their work can be seen in public collections including the [[Museum of Modern Art|Museum of Modern Art, New York]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:19238&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 |title=The Collection - MoMA |website=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref> the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=&objNumber=&objNumberExact=true&artists=Tim+Rollins&withImage=true&collection_search_advanced=GO |title=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |access-date=2009-04-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604201950/http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=&objNumber=&objNumberExact=true&artists=Tim+Rollins&withImage=true&collection_search_advanced=GO |archive-date=2011-06-04}}</ref> the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_has_images=1&coll_keywords=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&submit=Search&coll_classification=Drawings&coll_artist=Rollins |title=Collections &#124; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415130843/http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_has_images=1&coll_keywords=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&submit=Search&coll_classification=Drawings&coll_artist=Rollins |archive-date=15 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Pérez Art Museum Miami]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amerika the Stoker • Pérez Art Museum Miami |url=https://www.pamm.org/en/artwork/2018.011 |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=Pérez Art Museum Miami |language=en-US}}</ref> and the [[Tate|Tate Gallery]], London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2778&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=worklist |title=Tim Rollins born 1955 |website=Tate.org.uk |access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref>


In February 2009, a retrospective survey of the group's work opened at The [[The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery|Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum]] and Art Gallery at [[Skidmore College]].<ref name="skid">{{cite web |url=http://tang.skidmore.edu/4/exhibitions/doc/2588 |title=Login - Tang Museum |website=Tang Museum |access-date=31 December 2017}}</ref>
The current members of K.O.S., and at the time of Rollins' death at age 62 in December 2017, include:
*Angel Abreu (born 1974)
*Jorge Abreu (born 1979)
*Robert Branch (born 1977)
*Ala Ebtekar (born 1978)
*Ricardo Nelson Savinon (born 1971)
*Noe Sosa (born 1992)
*Logan Swedick (born 1995)


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.artnews.com/2017/12/27/tim-rollins-artist-activist-thrived-collaborated-dies/ ArtNews obituary, Tim Rollins Artist]
*[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:19238&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 Museum of Modern Art, NY]
*[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:19238&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 Museum of Modern Art, NY]
*[http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/tim-rollins-and-kos/ Lehmann Maupin Gallery]
*[http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/tim-rollins-and-kos/ Lehmann Maupin Gallery]
*[http://www.presenhuber.com/en/artists/ROLLINS_TIM/works/overview.html [[Galerie Eva Presenhuber]]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071107101435/http://www.presenhuber.com/en/artists/ROLLINS_TIM/works/overview.html]
*[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2778&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=worklist Tate Gallery, London]
*[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2778&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=worklist Tate Gallery, London]
*[http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=&objNumber=&objNumberExact=true&artists=Tim+Rollins&withImage=true&collection_search_advanced=GO Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]
*[http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=&objNumber=&objNumberExact=true&artists=Tim+Rollins&withImage=true&collection_search_advanced=GO Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]
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Tim Rollins

Tim Rollins (June 10, 1955 – December 22, 2017)[1] was an American artist who together with the art collaborative K.O.S. formed the art-group Tim Rollins and K.O.S (Kids of Survival).[2][3]

Biography

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Timothy William Rollins was born on June 10, 1955, in Pittsfield, Maine.[2] He was a day student at the Maine Central Institute before studying fine art at the University of Maine.[2] He then earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York (1975–77).[2] After graduate studies in art education and philosophy at New York University (1977 and 1979),[2] Rollins began teaching art for middle school students in a South Bronx public school.[4] In 1984, he launched the "Art and Knowledge Workshop" in the Bronx together with a group of at-risk students who called themselves K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).[5]

Since the founding of the Art & Knowledge Workshop in 1982, Tim Rollins & K.O.S. have produced allegorical paintings, sculptures and drawings by mining the vast wealth of printed matter - from the popular to the arcane, from the minor to the canonical, from legal documents to comic books (areas in no way mutually exclusive in Rollins & K.O.S.'s view) - which are themselves understood as political allegories.[6]

Rollins died in December 2017, aged 62.[1] The current members of K.O.S. at that time included Angel Abreu (b. 1974), Jorge Abreu (b. 1979), Robert Branch (b. 1977), Ala Ebtekar (b. 1978), Ricardo Nelson Savinon (b. 1971) and Noe Sosa (b. 1992).[1]

Exhibitions

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The group has exhibited worldwide, having participated in two Whitney Biennials (1985, 1991), Documenta (1987), the Venice Biennale (1988), the Carnegie International (1988) and in solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1988); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (1988); Dia Art Foundation, New York, New York (1989); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (1990); Museum für Gegenwärtskunst Basel, Switzerland (1990); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (1990);[7] and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1992).[1]

Permanent collections

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Their work can be seen in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York,[8] the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[9] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[10] the Pérez Art Museum Miami,[11] and the Tate Gallery, London.[12]

In February 2009, a retrospective survey of the group's work opened at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Tim Rollins obituary". The Guardian. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Artist Tim Rollins, a Champion of Collaboration and a Powerful Evangelist for Art Education, Has Died at 62". Artnet News. 2017-12-27. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  3. ^ Tim Rollins obituary, Hyperallergic.com; accessed 30 December 2017.
  4. ^ Falconer, Morgan, Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2009
  5. ^ "Tim Rollins and K.O.S. - Xavier Hufkens". Xavierhufkens.com. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  6. ^ Myoda, Paul, "Tim Rollins and K.O.S. at Mary Boone Gallery", Frieze Magazine, May 1995.
  7. ^ "Exhibitions • MOCA". The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  8. ^ "The Collection - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
  10. ^ "Collections | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Archived from the original on 15 April 2013.
  11. ^ "Amerika the Stoker • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  12. ^ "Tim Rollins born 1955". Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  13. ^ "Login - Tang Museum". Tang Museum. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
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