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NORBERT H. KOX
Visionary Artist of the Apocalypse
at Apocalypse House
RESUME'
Selected Resume'
Norbert H. Kox has been painting and sculpting for over 50 years, since 1962. His work has received extensive coverage and attention in the Midwest United States since 1989, and both National and International attention since 1996. It has appeared in countless newspaper articles since 1988. Numerous major articles about his work have been published in international art magazines, including Raw Vision and World Art. Kox's work has received major coverage in a number of books.
His 1999 exhibition, To Hell and Back, received national media coverage, and remained in the news for 3.5 months, including many television broadcasts and several radio talk shows. It was also protested by the New York Catholic Defense League, and was picketed by local fanatics.
Kox's works have been in shows and galleries from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States, and in The Bahamas, England, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Australia, India, and South Africa. His paintings range from miniatures, starting at around $500, to large works for $60,000+. Average price range is $10,000 to $20,000. Smaller works in a popular range from $1,200 to $5,000.
Norbert Kox artwork has been represented in the New York Outsider Art Fair for more than fifteen years by various galleries (Ann Nathan, Chicago; Dean Jensen, Milwaukee; Judy Saslow, Chicago; Henry Boxer, London).
The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore is rated as one of the top museums in America. During a span of nine years his works were exhibited in seven out of ten shows at AVAM. They are listed as follows:
Wind in My Hair
May 1996 - May 1997
The End is Near!
Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia
May 1997 - May 1998
Love: Error and Eros
May 16, 1998 - May 30, 1999
We Are Not Alone - Angels and Other Aliens
October 2, 1999 - September 3, 2000
The Art of War and Peace
October 6, 2001- September 1, 2002
High on Life: Transcending Addiction
October 3, 2002- August 31, 2003
HolyH2O: Fluid Universe
October 2, 2004- September 4, 2005
Born 1945
Selected Exhibits, 1996-2013 (earlier dates omitted)
2013-2014 (September 18, 2013 until August 22, 2014), Celebrating 25 Years of Raw Vision (group invitational) The Museum Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
2013, Calvinia Art Exhibition (group show) Dorpshuis (Deon & Adene Vlok), Calvinia, Northern Cape, South Africa.
2013, End-Time Biblical Paintings (solo) Volle Evangelie Kerk, Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa.
2013, 4th Annual Santa Muerte (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2013, Wild West (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2013, BEYOND THE SACRED MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL, Sacred Machine’s Third Anniversary Event (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2013, Arise, 6th Annual, Norbert H. Kox and James Pinder Art Exhibition (two-person show) Ministry Of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2013, LALUZAPALOOZA: EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCHEN SYNC, Year XXVII of the Greatest Group Show on Earth (juried) La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013, Thirteen (An Exhibition About Superstitions; group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2013, Norbert H. Kox and Joseph Kurhajec (two-person show) Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg
2013, HEY! MODERN ART & POP CULTURE / PART II (group invitational) The Museum Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France
2012, This is the End My Friend: Visions of Post Apocalyptic Worlds (group invitational) Crossman Gallery, UW-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
2012, How to Read a Book: an artists' books reading room (group invitational) Lawton Art Gallery, UW-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI
2012, Babylon 2012 (collaborative works of Norbert H. Kox and William Thomas Thompson) Lawton Art Gallery, UWGB, Green Bay, WI
2012, 68th Art Annual (juried) Neville Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin
2012, Treadwell Stagecoach Run Arts Festival, Anna Sea Studio, Freer Hollow Road, Walton, New York
2012, HEAVEN and HELL (group invitational) The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art and the Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
2012, LALUZAPALOOZA: EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCHEN SYNC, Vol. XV, Year XXVI of the Greatest Group Show on Earth (juried) La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012, Beyond the Sacred (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, Arizona
2012, Manifesting Spirit: 5th Annual, Norbert H. Kox and James Pinder Art Exhibition (two-person show) Ministry Of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2012, High Time (group) Galerie TOXIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2012, Art Paris (Galerie TOXIC) Grand Palais, Paris, France
2012, Santa Muerte (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2011-2012, Divine (simultaneous solo exhibitions) paintings by Norbert H. Kox and Cathey Miller, Webb Gallery, Waxahatchie, Texas
2011, Adventures, Reflections and Ambushes (group invitational) Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny in the Swiss Alps, Martigny, Switzerland, Curated by Balthazar Lovay
2011, LA LUZ DE JESUS 25 (invitational, biggest group show in the history of the gallery, published in a full-color book). La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles
2011, Daniel Martin Diaz and Norbert H. Kox (two-person exhibit) Galerie TOXIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2011, Mystery Inside (group) Galerie TOXIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2011, Art Paris (Galerie TOXIC) Grand Palais, Paris, France
2011, Beyond the Sacred (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, Arizona
2011, Santa Muerte (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2011, Holy Spirit Manifesting: 4th Annual Norbert Kox and James Pinder Art Exhibit (two-person show) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2010, Premier Opening (three-person exhibit: Norbert H. Kox, Anna Sea, Rich Cahill) The End Is Near Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010, Subtleties of Character (group invitational) WWA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010, The Power of Positive Thinking Through God (solo exhibit) Queen's Secondary, Haldwani, India
2010, Milagros (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2010, Santa Muerte (group invitational) Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson, AZ
2010, Everything But The Kitschen Sync (annual group show, vol. 13) LaLuz de Jesus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010, Brussels Art Fair (Galerie TOXIC) Brussels, Belgium
2010, Issues of Life and Death: 3rd Annual Norbert Kox and James Pinder Art Exhibit (two-person show) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2010, Outsider Art Fair, 7 West 34th Street, New York, New York
2009, Last Chance Apocalypse (solo exhibit) Galerie TOXIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2009, Art Paris (Galerie TOXIC) Grand Palais, Paris, France
2009, Everything But The Kitschen Sync (group show) LaLuz de Jesus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009, Battling in the Spirit and the Portal of Heaven: 2nd Annual Norbert Kox and James Pinder Art Exhibit (two-person show) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2009, Outsider Art Fair, 7 West 34th Street, New York, New York
2008-2009, Enigma, Galerie TOXIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2008, Ete 08, Galerie TOXIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2008, Trapped, Galerie TOXIC, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Jan-Mar)
2008, Eloquent Obsessions, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond (Greater London) England
2008, Sacred Pastures (three-person exhibit; Cathy Ward, Eric Wright, Norbert H. Kox) Chamber of Pop Culture, London, England
2008, 64th Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
2008, Miracles of the Spirit, Cultural Arts Center, Whitewater, WI
2008, Everything But The Kitschen Sync (group show) LaLuz de Jesus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008, 34th Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
2008, Full Armor: Norbert Kox and James Pinder Art Exhibit (two-person show) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2008, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2007-2008, New Dimensions (two-person exhibit; David P.Klein, Norbert H. Kox) Kavarna, Green Bay, WI
2007, 63rd Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
2007, Crossing the Strait (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2007, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2006-2008, Internal Guidance Systems: A New Vanguard in Visionary Art (traveling show) Curated by Anne Grgich and Colin Rhodes to tour US and Canada:
Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR May 2006
N4th Gallery Albuquerque, NM June 2006
Outsiders and Others, Minneapolis, MI Fall 2006
Tag Gallery, Nashville TN. February 2007
Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008
Track 16, Santa, Monica, CA 2008
Gallery Horse Cow, Sacramento, CA
Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC
AOT Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
2006, Everything But The Kitschen Sync (group show) LaLuz de Jesus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006, Divine System of Spontaneous Regeneration (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2006, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2005, Diabolique: Images of the Devil in Contemporary Art (Fred Stonehouse, Don Ed Hardy, H. , William Thomas Thompson and others) Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2005, Elohim: The Apoclyptic Time Machine (two-person exhibit; Norbert H. Kox, William Thomas Thompson) Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
2005, Opening the Portal (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2005, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2004-2005, HolyH2O: Fluid Universe, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2004, 60th Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
2004, The Art of Assemblage: Objects and Inspiration, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI
2004, The World of Anne Grgich and Norbert Kox (two-person exhibit) Cobalt Design, Marietta, GA
2004, Everything But The Kitschen Sync (group show) LaLuz de Jesus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004, Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud (solo exhibit) America Oh Yes Gallery, Washington, DC
2004, Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2004, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2003-2005, Fantastic And Visionary Art (traveling show) Curated by Damian Michaels and Alan Sisley for tour in Australia:
Ipswitch Regional Gallery, Ipswich/Brisbane, Queensland, 14 June - 3 August 2003
Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, New South Wales, 13 August to 14 September 2003
Manning Regional Gallery, Manning, New South Wales, March 18 to April 18 2004
Riddoch Regional Gallery, South Australia, 30 April to 27 June 2004
Ballarat Regional Gallery Victoria, July 2004
TBC Parramatta Heritage Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, December 17 to January 30 2005
2003, Wisconsin Outsiders (featuring William J. Blackmon, Norbert H. Kox, Mary L. Nohl, Simon Sparrow, Carter Todd and Eugene Von Bruenchenhein) Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
2003, Mixer, Webb Art Gallery, Waxahachie, TX
2003, 59th Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
2003, Unquiet Voices, Chamber of Pop Culture, London, England
2003, Delight of the Scribe (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2003, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2002-2003, High on Life, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2002-2003, Outside Masters (three-person exhibit; Anne Grgich, William Thomas Thompson, Norbert H. Kox) TAG Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
2002, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2002, Raw Vision Show, Town Hall, Watford Herts, London, England
2001-2002, The Art of War and Peace, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2001, Private Worlds, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond (Greater London) England
2001, 57th Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
2001, Deep Waters: Glory and Shame (solo exhibit) LaLuz de Jesus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001, Deep Waters: Glory and Shame (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2001, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
2001, Fantastic Art, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, New South Wales, Australia
2000-2001, The End is a New Beginning (four-person exhibit; Mr. Imagination, Lonnie B. Holley, Charlie Lucas, Norbert H. Kox) Zoellner Arts Center Gallery, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
2000, 56th Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
2000, Wisconsin Classic (three-person exhibit: Fred Stonehouse, Dennis Nechvatl, Norbert H. Kox) Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
2000, Visions, Reflections and Projections (solo exhibit) Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000, In the Midst of the Sea (solo exhibit) Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2000, Sea of Truth: Norbert Kox Paintings (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2000, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
1999-2000, We Are Not Alone Angels and Other Aliens, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
1999, To Hell and Back (solo exhibit) Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
1999, 55th Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
1999, Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors, Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
1999, Apocalyptic Visual Parables (solo exhibit) LaLuz de Jesus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999, Bimini, Is There Not A Lie: Apocalyptic Visual Parables (solo exhibit) Ministry of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
1999, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
1999, The 9th Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1998-1999, Love: Error and Eros, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
1998, Apocalypse of a Ravaged Society (Two-person exhibit; Norbert H. Kox and Lori Jae Reich) Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, WI
1998, Here in Babylon (solo exhibit) Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1998, 54th Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
1998, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
1997-1998, The End is Near, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
1997, 53rd Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
1997, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
1996-1997, Wind in My Hair, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
1996, 39th Annual Beloit and Vicinity Exhibition, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
1996, 52nd Art Annual, Neville Museum, Green Bay, WI
1996, Augeries of the Next Apocalypse (solo exhibit) Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1996, Outsider Art Fair, Puck Building, New York, New York
Film Appearances
2000, The Two Witnesses documentary (a segment of the controversial series Disinformation The Interviews) filmed in Douglas, AZ, September, 2000, aired on BBC Television January, 2001. Richard Metzger questions Norbert H. Kox about his challenging artwork.
A partial clip can be viewed here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezCVENFuS0
2004, American Outsiders: The Legendary Norbert Kox, Pulse Communications (Motion Picture Producers). Documentary based on the life and art of Norbert Kox, who went from being an infamous 1960's outlaw biker to a world renowned apocalyptic artist. Filmed and edited by Gregory De Tennis and Susan Stauber.
2010, AT THE END OF THE WORLD, video by British film maker Jan Bednarz. Filmed in Bimini, Bahamas, Includes appearances of Ashley B. Saunders, Piccolo Pete and other native Biminites. Special appearance of Norbert Kox as Ernest Hemingway in the fight scenes.
See film here: http://inmyrighthand.homestead.com/BiminiVideosFight.html
Galleries representing Norbert Kox
Selected Awards
In 1999 Kox was recognized as one of The 100 Most Interesting People of The 20th Century in Northeastern Wisconsin. (Green Bay Press-Gazaette, Friday December 31, 1999. Special Millennium Edition, THE COLLECTABLES OF THE CENTURY.)
In 2009, Norbert Kox was recognized by the Bahamian Government Ministry of Tourism and awarded with an official Certificate of Appreciation for his promotion of Bimini through his art.
Kox received the 2012 Wisconsin Visual Artist Lifetime Achievement Award to join notable past recipients like Frank Loyd Wright.
Museum Collections
La Maison Rouge. Paris, France
American Visionary Art Museum. Baltimore, MD
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art. Chicago, IL
Neville Museum. Green Bay, WI
