Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth (; born January 31, 1945) is an American conceptual artist, who lives in New York and Venice, after having resided in various cities in Europe, including London, Ghent, and Rome.

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Kosuth had an American mother and a Hungarian father from an old noble family.

(A relative, Lajos Kossuth, led Hungary’s struggle for independence from Austria during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.)

Joseph Kosuth attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. In 1963 Kosuth enrolled at the Cleveland Institute of Art on a scholarship. He spent the following year in Paris and traveled throughout Europe and North Africa. He moved to New York in 1965 and attended the School of Visual Arts there until 1967. From 1971 he studied anthropology and philosophy with Stanley Diamond and Bob Scholte at the New School for Social Research, New York.

At the School of Visual Arts he made a significant impact while technically a student, influencing fellow students as well as more traditional teachers.