Occupation: Painter, Sculptor Media: All. Born Detroit, Michigan, May 5, 1926.
Education Cass Tech, Detroit. Detroit Soc Arts & Crafts.
Teaching Positions Instr & dept head, Detroit Soc Arts & Crafts, 50-60; instructor spec workshops, Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association, Michigan, 70-79, & 90; artist-in-residence, Inst Allende, San Miguel Allende, Gto, Mexico, formerly; instructor special travel workshops, Costa Rica, 81, Smokey Mountains, 81 & Mexico, 82.
Commissioned Works Sky Series (three paintings), Ford Motor Co, NAAO Bldg, Dearborn, Michigan, 80; The Opera's Not Over (painting), Yaffe Assocs, Southfield, Michigan, 81; Great Ideas of Western Man Series, Container Corp America; Wine labels (five paintings), Muer Corp Restaurants, 89-90; painting, Mona Lizautuers-Les Auteur Restaurant, Royal Oak, Michigan, 90.
Public Works Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; State Michigan Libr, Archives Mus, Lansing; Detroit Institute for the Arts; Iris & Gerald Cantor Collection, Stanford Univ, California; Wayne State Univ, Detroit; Butler Institute of American Art; Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield; and others.
Exhibitions Victims Series, Birmingham Temple, Farmington Hills, Michigan & Meadowbrook Mus Art, Rochester, Michigan; Regional Ann, Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio, 52; Retrospectives, Detroit Institute for the Arts, 64 & Art Gallery Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 77; Lithographs from Mourlot Graphics, Hudson River Mus, New York, 70; Solo Exhibs, Ohio Univ, Athens, 82; America Embassy, Madrid, Spain, 84; Black, White and Bronze, Janice Cherach Gallery of Detroit; Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan, 97; Victims Series, Swords into Plowshares Gallery & Peace Center, Detroit, Michigan, 98; Diversity: Victims and Survivors, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, Univ Michigan, 99; Nat Inst (Mexico) Bellas Artes (traveling), San Miguel Allende, Aguas Calientes & Guanajuato, 91; Distinguished Artist Award and Exhib, Birmingham Temple Ann Arts Show, Farmington, Michigan, 97; Lost Drawings, Early Yrs Exhib, Gallery on Main, Royal Oak, Michigan, 98; CCS Centenial, Detroit. 2006; Detroit Artist Market, Drawings & Lectr, 2007.
Bibliography Wendon Blake (author), Complete Guide to Acrylic Painting, Watson-Guptill; LJ Feinberg (author), cover painting & biog, J America Med Association, 1-26/90; An Inspirational Body of Work, The Fine Art of Blue Cross Blue Shield, Michigan, 2000; Richard Bilitis (author), 100 Select Works from Wayne State Univ Art Collection, 2003; Aimee Ergas (author), To Life: The Art of Richard Kozlow, Jour Jewish Hist Soc Michigan, 2004; More Than Words, The Art of the Illustrated Letter, Princeton Archit Press (in conjunction with Archives America Art), Smithsonian Institution, 2005; Visions of Michigan (describes Michigan Libr & history center & Kozlow's North Woods comn).
Publications Author & illustrator, Of Man's Inhumanity to Man, Lark Press, 65; author, Victims (catalogue), Victims/Holocaust series.
Honors and Awards Founders Soc Award, Michigan Artist Exhib, Detroit Institute for the Arts, 63; Michigan Found Arts Award, 82; Outstanding Achievement Award, Birmingham Temple, 89; Lois & Alvin Spector Found Arts Award.
