Tim Rollins studied fine art at the University of Maine and earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York (1975–7). After graduate studies in art education and philosophy at New York University (1977 and 1979), Rollins began teaching art for middle school students in a South Bronx public school.[1] In 1984, he launched the "Art and Knowledge Workshop" in the Bronx together with a group of at-risk students who called themselves K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).
Since the founding of the Art & Knowledge Workshop in 1982, Tim Rollins & K.O.S. have produced allegorical paintings, sculptures and drawings by mining the vast wealth of printed matter - from the popular to the arcane, from the minor to the canonical, from legal documents to comic books (areas in no way mutually exclusive in Rollins & K.O.S.’s view) - which are themselves understood as political allegories.[2]
The group has exhibited worldwide having participated in two Whitney Biennials (1985, 1991), Documenta (1987), the Venice Biennale (1988), the Carnegie International (1988) and in solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (1988); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (1988); Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY (1989); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (1990); Museum für Gegenwärtskunst Basel, Switzerland (1990); Museum of Contemporary Art, LA (1990); and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1992). Their work can be seen in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Gallery, London. In February 2009, a retrospective survey of the groups' work opened at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rollins_and_K.O.S.
◇ Tim Rollins and K.O.S - Google 検索
http://j.mp/1hPfyAB
◇ キッズ・サバイバル / 生き残る子供たちの〈アートプロジェクト〉 - 動く出版社 フィルムアート社
http://filmart.co.jp/books/composite_art/2006-9-12tue-54/
◇ Future Communities:Tim Rollins and K.O.S
【ティム・ロリンズ アンド キッズオブサバイバル】
美術の教師であったティム・ロリンズがニューヨークのサウスブロンクスに住む環境的に様々な問題を抱える子供達と始めた「芸術と知識のワークショップ」。その活動から、子供達はK.O.S「キッズ・オブ・サバイバル」という名のアーティスト集団へと成長していった。彼等の独特の活動は、ニコラス・ペリーのリポート「キッズ・サバイバル」に紹介されており、また映画化もされたのだが、その感動的な展開と作品群のすばらしさには「社会（子供）に対してアートに何が出来るのか」という命題に対しての一つの答えとして存在する。
