Christopher Cozier is an artist, writer, and curator, and is a co-director of Alice Yard, a space for creative experimentation, which participated in documenta fifteen (2022). From his notebook drawings to installations derived from recorded and staged actions, Cozier investigates how Caribbean historical and current experiences can inform understandings of the wider contemporary world. 

Cozier received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1986, and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1988. He was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004, was a Prince Claus Award laureate in 2013, and received the Pérez Prize in 2023. Exhibitions include the 5th & 7th Havana Biennials (1994 & 2000); Infinite Island, Brooklyn Museum, NY (2007); Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, UK (2010); Entanglements, MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI (2015); Relational Undercurrents, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (2017); The Sea Is History, Historisk Museum, Oslo, Norway (2019); and Forecast Forms, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL (2022). Cozier exhibited in the Sharjah Biennial 14 in 2019, the Liverpool Biennial 2021, and participated in the public program of 10th Berlin Biennial in 2018.