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David Colosi was born in Fairport, NY. After starting his education in Fisheries and Wildlife, underperforming in both Chemistry and Zoology and finally misidentifying lobster sperm through a microscope, he decided to shift to a macro lens. He turned to the funnels of Art and Literature, practice and theory, and received a BA from SUNY Plattsburgh (1989), an MFA from CalArts (1991) and an MA from NYU (2006). After finishing graduate school in 1992 he fled from Los Angeles and moved to Valdez, Alaska for three months to process Salmon, then to Tokyo for two years to improve his English and finally settled in Brooklyn where he has continued to experiment with Three-Dimensional Literature since 1994. He became a dual national with Italy in 2023. His work has been featured in France at Musee des Morlaix and FRAC Bretagne; in NYC at Pioneer Works, Open Source, Cueto Project and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; in Brussels at Galerie Catherine Bastide; in Switzerland in Art Statements at Art Basel; in Los Angeles at Council St., and Highways Performance Space Gallery; and Tokyo at the Proto Theater. He has been an artist-in-residence in New York at Pioneer Works, BRIC Arts Media and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center on Governors Island; in Florida at the Fountainhead Residency and Atlantic Center for the Arts; and in France at Le Centre Du Monde in Belle-Ile-en-mer. He is the author of the novel Miss Pumpernickel Bread; the essay Towards a Three-Dimensional Literature, Part 1; a collection of poems, Laughing Blood; the exhibition documents Imaginary Numbers and Other Calculated Fictions and The Life and Thoughts of a Retired Apostrophe and an epistolary memoir Letters to Poly. His short fiction has appeared in The Wisconsin Review, The Offbeat (Short Fiction Contest finalist 2018), Permafrost, Intercourse, and Konch. His poetry is included in the anthologies, The Power of the Feminine I and From Totems to Hip Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002; the journals Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Poetry Prize finalist 2017) and The Los Angeles Times. In 2009 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. And he hosts the podcast The Napping Wizard Sessions.
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