Was born in Wyoming. He received a BFA and an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Arts Institute. He was part of the founders of West Coast conceptual art with Tom Marioni, Terry Fox, Howard Fried and Bonnie Sherk. Paul Kos has been featured in numerous one person shows in United States and in France and groups shows around the world. In 2003, “Everything Matters:Paul Kos, a Retrospective” was organized by Connie Lewallen and BAM/PFA and travelled to the Grey Art gallery, New York University, San Diego Museum and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Cincinnati. A publication accompanied the exhibition. In 2016, di Rosa Art Preserve exhibited Equilibrium, a survey of his work from 1968 to 2016. Paul Kos has received 5 NEAs, a Tiffany, a Guggenheim, a Rockefeller, a Flintridge, a Eureka, and an AVA award. His work is in the collections of various museums and foundations, including the Guggenheim museum, MOMA New York, The Whitney Museum, SFMOMA, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Louis Vuitton Foundation and the Kadist Foundation in Paris. Paul Kos has also produced numerous public Art works throughout the state of California. He taught for 7 years at the University of Santa Clara, CA, then 30 years at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 2008/09 he held the Dodd Chair at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is represented by Anglim / Trimble Gallery in San Francisco and by Galerie George-Phillipe and Nathalie Vallois in Paris, France.