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University of Illinois-Urbana, MFA, Painting, 1967
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BFA, Fine Art, 1965
University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA, Theater, 1963
Professor Emeritus, Lesley College of Art and Design, 2015-present
Professor, Lesley University College of Art and Design, 2014-2015
Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts/Lowell, 2015
Professor, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 1967-2014
Lecturer, Montserrat College of Art, 1991
Lecturer, Northeastern University, 1988-89
Lecturer, Boston Architectural Center, 1984-89
Instructor, Extension Services, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1966
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1965-67
Co-Founder (with Mary Hart), The Artists’ Working Group, Lowell MA, 2017
Associate Director, member of the Board, Contemporary Arts International, 2013-2014
Producer/Curator, The First Biennial festival of Sound Art and Performance Art, at The Quarry, Acton, MA, 8/7–8, 2013
Board of Advisors, Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz, CA
Freelance Curator (with Ellen Schön), 2006-present)
Founder and Executive Director, The Arts Collaborative Incorporated, a non-profit foundation for the arts, 1984-present
Producer, New England Artists Books Symposium, 1987
Program Director, Metropolitan Artists and Poets, an artist’s collaborative/performance space devoted to experiments in word/image communication, 1984-1986
Co-founder and Director of the Theater of Kinetic Sculpture, 1981-1988
Best in Show, Collage, ALL Gallery, April 30-June 27, 2021
Professor Emeritus appointment, Lesley College of Art and Design, 2015
Honorable Mention, Fitchburg Art Museum, 77th Annual Regional Exhibition, 2012
Research Grant, Lesley University, 2010
Faculty Development Grant, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 2009
Purchase Award for the permanent collection, Danforth Museum of Art, 1994
Bull HN Information Systems Inc., commission of a large-scale permanent installation for the international headquarters, Billerica MA, 1990
Cambridge Arts Council and Sono Arts Celebration grants for “Teahouse Variation #2,” cited as “Best New Work” in South Norwalk CT, 1989
Artistic Merit Award (sculpture), SoNo Arts Celebration, South Norwalk CT, 1988
Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee WI, kinetic sculpture commission, 1987
SoNo Arts Celebration, South Norwalk CT, 1986 and 1987, kinetic sculpture event
First Night Incorporated, Boston MA, commissions for kinetic sculpture in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grants, 1985 and 1986
Charles River Associates, Cambridge MA, kinetic sculpture event, 1985
National Endowment for the Arts/City Arts grant, Boston MA, 1984
Downtown Springfield Marketing Inc., Springfield MA, 1984
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, 1983
Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge MA, 1982 and 1983
Two Honorable Mentions, Summerfest ‘80, Quincy MA
First Merit Purchase Award, Mississippi Art Association, 1968
Springfield Art Association Award, Springfield MA, 1968
Honorable Mention, 17th Quincy Annual, Quincy IL, 1967
Best in Show and Honorable Mention, Festival of the Fine Arts, Lincoln IL, 1966
Amorphophallus, Greenwald Gallery, October 2022
The Vault, Gates Block, Arts League of Lowell, November-December 2020
To Be, To Desire, To Conceive, To Decay, To Die, Gallery Z, Lowell MA, October 2018
The Boston Elevated Railway and Other Vanished Landmarks, Perkins Cove Gallery, Ogunquit Maine, July 2017
Fertitta/Koetsch, VanDernoot Gallery, Lesley University, March 26-April 11, 2015
Geoffrey Koetsch, A Retrospective, exhibition, THE QUARRY, July, 2014
Marran Gallery, Lesley University, IN/BETWEEN, March–April, 2012
ArtSpace Gallery, The Human Condition, 2010
In Between, The Unitarian-Universalist Church of Harvard, Harvard MA, 2009
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, “In-Between,” a collaborative installation with the Singaporean photographer Jeremy Chu, 2004
Firehouse Gallery, Newburyport MA, “A Shadow and a Flash of Lightning,” 2001, [juried]
Main Gallery, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, “Diamond and Lotus,” 1999
Gallery East, The Art Institute of Boston, Structural Meditations, 1989
Gallery 57, The Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge MA, 1984
Honey Sharp Gallery, Geoffrey Koetsch: Photography, Lenox MA, 1981
Civic Center Gallery, Caen, France, 1980
MacIver Reddie Gallery, Boston MA, 1969
The Creative Workshop, Foxboro MA, 1965
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1965
Here We Are, Greenwald Gallery, 2023
Considering the 3rd Dimension, ALL Gallery, July 1-August 28, 2022
Collage, Art League of Lowell Gallery, April 30-June 27, 2021
My Favorite Place, Arts League of Lowell, March 5-April 25, 2021
Naked, ALL Gallery, January-February, 2018
Gates Block Showcase, ALL Gallery, Lowell MA, April–May, 2017
Patterns, ALL Gallery, Lowell MA, January-February 2017
Form to Figure, All Gallery, Lowell MA, June-July 2016
Elements IV, All Gallery, Lowell MA, March-April 2016, Juried
Sculpture Walk IV, Sculpture Par at Old Frog Pond Farm, September 2015
The Preparation, performance at The First Biennial Festival of Sound Art and Performance Art, at The Quarry, Contemporary Arts International, September 7–8 2013
Sculpture Walk III, Sculpture Park at Old Frog Pond, Harvard MA, 2012
Sex at the X, Gallery X, New Bedford MA, 2012
77th Annual Regional Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, 2012 [Juried]
Body Language, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA. 2010
Cast/Carve/Cut/Construct, 700 Beacon Gallery, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 2009
About Face, Gallery X, New Bedford MA, 2009
MINDmatters, Laconia Gallery, Boston MA, 2008
War, Madness and Delusion, Andover-Newton Theological School, 2008, [juried]
The Vessel as Metaphor, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA, February-March 2007
Made in Harvard, Hapgood Library, Harvard MA, 2007
The Nude International, Lexington art League, Lexington KY. 2007, [juried]
Alternative Photography, Soho Photo, New York, NY, 2006, [juried]
Westmoreland Art Nationals, Youngwood PA, 2006, [juried]
Fitchburg Art Museum Juried Regional Exhibition, May 2005 and 2006
“Being-time” an installation at the Art Institute of Boston, May 2004
Faculty Biennial, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 2003
Sun Works: Contemporary Alternative Photography, Art Institute at Lesley University, 2002
A Question of Faith, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, October 2001, [juried]
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, May 2000, [juried]
Somakatoligon Exhibition, Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Boston MA, 1998
Boston International Art Fair, Boston MA, 1998
Federal Reserve Bank Gallery, Art Institute of Boston Faculty Show, 1997
San Diego Art Institute 40th International, San Diego CA, 1994
New England Photographers ‘94, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA, 1994
Brush Gallery, Artist’s Books, Lowell MA, 1991
Newton Public Library, Newton MA, 1990
Florida State University, Visual Satire: Artist’s Books, Tallahasee FL, 1988
Massachusetts Transportation Building Gallery, Retrospective: The Theater of Kinetic Sculpture (World Sculpture racing), Boston MA, 1988
Westport Art Association, Westport CT, 1988
Grant Street Gallery, Denver CO, 1988
Gallery of The Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, The Theater of Kinetic Sculpture (World Sculpture Racing), Milwaukee WI, 1987
Artists Books Symposium & Book Show, Mass College of Art, 1987
“Artists Books USA,” Traveling Exhibition, New Delhi, India, 1987
Kingston Street Gallery, Boston MA, 1986
“International Bookworks,” Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1986
Boston Architectural Center, Boston MA, 1986
Grove Street Gallery, “The Theater of Kinetic Sculpture (World Sculpture Racing) Worcester MA, 1985
Walt Kuhn Gallery, Kinetic Sculpture, York ME, 1985
Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston MA, 1985
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield MA, 1984
Prudential Center, Boston MA, 1984
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, 1983
Boston City Hall, Boston MA, 1982
Institute of Contemporary Art at Logan Airport, Boston MA, 1982
Foto Gallery, New York NY, 1981
Director’s Choice, Image Gallery, Sarasota FL, 1980
Summerfest ‘80, Quincy MA, 1980
The Gallery Limited, Champagne IL, 1968
Krannert Art Museum, Urbana IL, 1968
Springfield Annual, Springfield MA, 1968
Newport 59th Annual, Newport RI, 1968
National Drawing Annual, Butler Institute of American Art, Akron OH, 1968
Mississippi Art Association National, 1968
National Print and Drawing Show, De Kalb IL, 1966
17th Quincy Annual, Quincy IL, 1966
Festival of the Fine Arts, Lincoln IL, 1966
Society of the Four Arts National Annual, Miami FL, 1966
Beloit and Vicinity Annual, Beloit WI, 1966
32nd Wisconsin Salon, Madison WI, 1966
Gail Mitchum Gallery of Sculpture, Milwaukee WI, 1965
Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors Annual, Milwaukee WI, 1965
Bradley Galleries, Milwaukee WI, 1965
The Burning, Performance at Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard MA, 11/22/2020
Between The Day and the Night, performer, audio-visual poem by Gregory Kowalski:
The Wire Factory, Lowell Ma. 2/23-24
The Cannery, Penobscot ME 6/22-23, 2019
Fort Point Gallery, Boston, 9/28-29, 2019
The Sprinkler Factory, Worcester, MA, 10/12-13/2019
The Preparation, performance at The Biennial Festival of Sound Art and Performance Art, at The Quarry, Contemporary Arts International, September 7–8 2013
The Preparation, performed at Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard MA, 10/13/2014
Rub a Dub Dub, performed at Mobius, Boston Ma, 5/13/2013
Milwaukee Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI, 1987
SoNo Arts Celebration Inc., sponsor, South Norwalk CT, 1986,1987,1988
Charles River Associates, sponsor, Harvard Square, Cambridge MA, 1985
City of Worcester, sponsor, downtown Worcester MA, 1985
Cambridge Arts Council, sponsor, Cambridge River Festival, Annually 1982-86
Downtown Springfield Marketing Inc, sponsor, Springfield MA, 1984
Fitchburg Art Museum, sponsor, Fitchburg MA, 1982
World Sculpture Racing Society, sponsor, World Trade Center, New York NY, 1982
WSRS, sponsor, Karlsue Art Park, Kassel Germany, 1982
WSRS, sponsor, The Rathausplatz, Hamburg Germany, 1982
Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, sponsor, Faneuil Hall, Boston MA, 1982
The Beautiful Brain, online magazine interview with Noah Hutton, April 2010
Prime Time Wisconsin, a segment on kinetic sculpture syndicated by PBS, 1988
Pete Christensen Show, WMSF-FM, Milwaukee WI, 1987
Scott Kuiper Show, WFMR-FM, Milwaukee WI, 1987
Let’s Talk Milwaukee, WYMS-FM, Milwaukee WI, 1987
Fairfield Exchange, Channel 12, Norwalk CT, 1986
Infermental III, International Art Magazine on Videocassette, Budapest, 1985
Newswatch 40 Special Report, WGGB-TV, Springfield MA, 1982 and 1983
Sunday Open House, WCVB-TV, Boston MA, 1983
Evening Magazine, WBZ-TV, Boston MA, 1983
You Gotta Have Arts, WBZ-TV, Boston MA, 1982
The Good Day Show, WCVB-TV, Boston MA, 1982
Five All Night Live, WCVB-TV, Boston MA, 1982
The Boston Globe, 7/16/2014,The Boston Globe, 9/6/2013, The Acton Beacon, 10/10 2013, The Harvard Press, 9/20/2013, The Concord Journal, 2/11/2010, The Harvard Post, 4/9/2010, The Boston Globe, 6/08, The Harvard Post 5/08, Art In America, 6/08, Newburyport Daily News, 2/8/01, Boston Globe 10/7/99, Art New England 12/87, The Boston Edge, The Boston Globe 10/11/84 and 9/18/88, Boston Phoenix, Boston Tab 7/26/88, The Cambridge Chronicle, The Cambridge Express, Fairfield [CT] Advocate 7/21/86, Fitchburg-Leominster Sentinel and Enterprise, The Milwaukee Journal 5/31/87, The Milwaukee Sentinel 6/25/87 and 6/26/87, New England Magazine, Springfield [MA] Daily News, Springfield Morning Union, Sculpture Magazine 11/88, Springfield Transcript-Telegram, Springfield Daily Republican, Views, the Magazine of the Photographic Resource Center, Spring 1988, Worcester Telegram, Worcester Magazine, Berkshire Eagle 9/4/81
In-Between, exhibition catalog, Marran Gallery, Lesley University, 2012
Artists and the Mind in the 21st Century, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, September 14, 2011
Koetsch and Chu: IN/BETWEEN, UU World, Unitarian Universalist Association, Summer 2010
The Human Condition, exhibition catalog, ArtSpace Gallery, 2010
MINDmatters: Artists and the Mind in the 21st Century, exhibition catalog, Laconia Gallery, 2008
Cast, Carve, Cut, Construct, exhibition catalog, writer and editor, Lesley University, 2008
To Jizo, Who Looks After the Children Who Suffer, published in Christopher James The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, 2002
Arts columnist for “The Paris Metro,” Paris France, 1975-76
Screening of The Preparation, sponsored by The Performance Lab at The Hearing Room in Lowell, April 15, 2017
Cosmic Babble: Is the Spiritual in Art “Oh so Seventies?” Lecture sponsored by the Artists’ Working Group, ALL Gallery, February 22, 2017
Lecture: The Theater of Kinetic Sculpture, MIT Science Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
Presenter, Lesley University Symposium A Community of Scholars, March 29, 2012
Gallery Talk, the Human Condition, ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard MA, 2/26/2010
How Artists Think: Two Case Studies, A Community of Scholars, Lesley University, 2010
Panelist, Contemporary Art and the Plight of the Public, The Art Institute of Boston, 2009
Moderator, Where Did it Come From, How did it Get There: Case Studies in the Creative Process, Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, 3/31/2009
Gallery Talk, MINDmatters, Laconia Gallery, 2008
Panelist, Symposium, Bread and Roses, in conjunction with the exhibition War Madness and Delusion, Andover Newton Theological School, March 2008
Gallery Talk, The Vessel as Metaphor, The Nave Gallery, Somerville MA, 2007
Presentation to the Board of Trustees of Lesley University, 2007
Conference presenter, Professional Conference of the Institute for Mind, Body, and Spirituality at Lesley University, May 2000
The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, gallery talks in conjunction with the “Diamond And Lotus” Exhibition, 1999
Conference presenter, “Art and Mind Physics” Federal Reserve Bank Auditorium, 19 88
The Industrial Design Society of America-Boston Chapter: “Kinetic Sculpture,” 1987
The MAAPSpace, Boston: “Copier Art, Book Assembling, and the New Urban Literati” 1984
The Art Institute of Boston: “Early American Advertising Art,” 1982; “The Art of Joseph Beuys,” 1983; “Kasimir Malevich and Suprematist Art Theory”
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: “The World Sculpture Racing Society: A Theater of Kinetic Sculpture,” 1982
Boston Athenaeum
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham MA
Bull HN Information Systems Inc., Billerica MA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
Franklin Furnace Archives, New York NY
National Institute of Design, Abmedabad, India
Fine Arts Academy, New Delhi, India
Canadian National Postal Museum