Rate My Professor Kasper Kovitz

Kasper Kovitz, born in 1968 in Vienna, Austria, serves as Associate Professor of Art at Scripps College. He earned his MFA with Distinction from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, in 1995. Prior to his current position, Kovitz held faculty roles at the American University of Beirut in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History, including Assistant Professor from 2012 to 2015, during which he headed the Studio Arts Program and served as Technical Director for AUB Galleries, and Visiting Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2012. At Scripps College, he teaches foundational courses such as ART 105: Introduction to Drawing and ART 101: Introduction to Painting.

Kovitz's academic interests lie in studio arts and art theory, with focuses including frontiers, nature, the history of the notion of 'wilderness', conservation, identity, creativity studies, perception, cognitive science, religion, alchemy, art history, literature, and music. His artistic practice employs non-traditional materials like blueberry jam, dirt, and tree sap to examine concepts of borders, violence, and identity. Key solo exhibitions include "Parime" at Galeria T20, Murcia, Spain (2012); solo presentation at ARCO Madrid, Spain (2011); "Newes from America" at Galerie Steinle, Munich, Germany (2007); "valley girls, Another Year In LA" in Los Angeles, U.S.A. (2007); "sunset:delayed" in collaboration with Andrea Lenardin at MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria (2007); and "Come on boys Here’s good water" at Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, U.S.A. (2005). Selected group exhibitions encompass "Body Language" at Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K. (2013); "Traces of Disappearance" at Espace LV, Tokyo, Japan (2014); "The Museum of Abject Sentimentality" at RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2014); and "Vienna for Art's Sake!" at Winter Palace, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria (2014). Among his honors are the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2009), BilbaoArte residency (2010), Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (2004), Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program (2002), International Studio & Curatorial Program (1998 and 2010), MAK/Schindler Scholarship (1996), and Trend Art Spectrum Prize (1994).