Biography

Kyle Cottier was born 1993 in Louisville, KY. In 2014 he was awarded a studio at the New York Studio Residency Program in DUMBO and received his BFA in 2015 from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Cottier has shown work extensively in the US at major galleries and museums from the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati to the Dorsky Museum in Newpaltz, NY and is preparing for his first solo exhibition in the Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery at The Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft in Gatlinburg, TN. His work is apart of 21c Museum's collection and has shown at their locations in Oklahoma City, OK, Bentonville, AK, Cincinnati, OH and Louisville, KY. Kyle has been commissioned for work that was featured in the Carter Center's Foundation and live auction in 2019. He has had work published in the Hudson Valley magazine, Chronogram, through Artrepreneur's online publication and in addition was awarded first prize for sculpture in their 2018 competition where he installed work at Lazy Susan Gallery in Manhattan. Kyle currently lives and works in Hudson Valley, NY.

Statement

Kyle Cottier constructs a union of terrestrial and architectural forms to give identity to personal and universal meditations on the interconnectedness of the human experience and natural world. Illumination of the vascular infrastructure shared by trees and the human body is vital to the material foundation of Cottier’s work. In his intimate and instinctual practice he attends the magnificent subtleties of nature within grain, within wood. Through tedium and attention to the innate integrity of wood, the presence of the artist’s hand revealed in the work is guided by places in the universe where geometry and entropy overlap.
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Navigating these spatial dualities shape the landscape for depth and growth of the human experience and our bodies’ relationship to our environment. Similarly, Cottier’s work reverberates such dualisms through the fragmentation of rigid material into billowing dream-inspired forms and patterns intrinsic in nature and wildlife. He further explores mankind’s situational awareness by realizing animal fantasies through a synchronization of psychological and zoological interpretations taken from his introspective practices. Cottier’s work analyzes and attempts to honor the individual’s place in the family of all things, a single point of connection in an infinite entanglement of life.

Exhibitions
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2020
                  Visages Voyages, International Society of Antiquaries Collective
                  BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ

2019
                  Unchanging Window, Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery,                                                      Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN (Solo)

                  Collective Expeditions, International Society of Antiquaries Collective,
                  SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY 

                  If Wishes Were Horses, Queen City 15 Gallery, Poughkepsie, NY 

2018
                  Up Close, Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, NY

                  Time Travelers, Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY 

                  Labor & Materials II, 21c Museum, Bentonville, AK

​2017 
                  Dusklittle, Orange County Arts Council, Newburgh, NY

                  Green Space, Newburgh Open Studios, Newburgh, NY 

                  Dusklit, Seligmann Homestead, Sugarloaf, NY

                  Dia, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY

2016
                  Re-Union, B Minus Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
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                  Labor & Materials I, 21c Museum, Oklahoma, OK

2015
                  Pop Stars, 21c Museum, Cincinnati OH
                  
                  Convocation, The Carnegie, Covington, KY
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                  Intermission Innermission Entermission, Pearlman Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 

2014           
                  Foreign Bodies, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati OH

                  Welcome Back, Chidlaw Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

                  Honorable Mention, New York Studio Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY

Publications

2019
                 Friend of the Artist, Volume 9

2018           
                 Chronogram, December Issue, Hudon Valley, NY
                 
                 Artrepreneur, Art Business Journal, November Issue, New York, NY

                 Roll Magazine, TIME TRAVELERS, June Issue, Hudson Valley, NY