Born 1964 in Lake Zurich, IL.   Studied at Illinois State University from 1983 to 1984, and at The American Academy of Art in Chicago from 1985 to 1986.   At age 23 moved to rural Wisconsin and began full-time painting. He had his first one-man exhibition at age 24 at the Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, Illinois.

Best of Show   Sun Prairie Art Fair                       2005

Best Artist        Mt. Horeb Art Fair                         2005

Best of Show    Green Lake Art Fair                     2005

Best of Show   Waunakee Art Fair                        2005

Purchase Award     Marshfield Art Fair                  2006

Second Place-Painting  Stone Arches Festival of the Arts

(Minneapolis MN)                                                   2006

People's Choice Award   Monona (WI) Art Fair      2006

Merit Award      Green Lake Art Fair                      2006

Merit Award      Artstreet Green Bay                      2006

Best of Show    Oconomowoc Festival of the Arts  2006

First Place/Painting  Wo Zha Wa Days Art Fair   

(Wisconsin Dells WI)                                              2006

People's Choice Award Hidden River Festival of the Arts

(Brookfield WI)                                                       2006

People's Choice Award Hidden River Festival of the Arts

(Brookfield WI)                                                       2007

First Place-Watercolor Winnebagoland Art Fair     2007

Invitational Award  Art Fair on the Square, Madison 2008

Best of Show-Painting Art Fair on the Square, Madison 2008

     Paintings are in the collections of:

          Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, Chicago, IL

          Dean Foods, Chicago, IL

          Zurich Kemper, Chicago, IL

          McDonald's Corporation, Oakbrook, IL

          American Family Insurance World Headquarters, Madison, WI

          Northwest Mutual Insurance World Headquarters, Milwaukee, WI

          Michigan Bell, Detroit, MI

          Dunnegan Museum of Art, Bolivar, MO

          Riverside Museum, Baton Rouge, LA

          Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI

          Bradley-Pettit Collection, Milwaukee, WI

          Ahmanson Collection, Irvine, CA

      Exhibitions include:

          2006 "Madison: People Places & Events" Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, Madison, WI

          2004 "Chicago Images" Frederick Baker Gallery, Chicago IL

          2004 "Beyond City Limits: Rural Views of the Midwest," Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI

               2004 Exhibit at Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, WI

          2003 Still Life Exhibit, Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

          2001 "Reflections of the Heartland" Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

          2001 "Disappearing Landscape" 16 Patton Gallery, Asheville, NC

          2001 "Paintings of the American Landscape" Howard Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA

              2000 Group Exhibit, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

             1999 Landscape Exhibit, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

          1996 "Deep Shades of Winter" one-man exhibit, Tory Folliard Gallery

          1995 One-man exhibit, Lands' End Corporate Headquarters,  Dodgeville, WI

          1994 Group exhibit, Hollis Taggart Gallery, Washington, D.C.

          1994 "Realism '94" The Fletcher Gallery, Sante Fe, NM

          1993 Chicago International Art Exhibition, Samuel Stein Fine Arts, Chicago, IL

          1991 "American Realist Paintings & Drawings from the Phil Desind Collection" University of Florida, Gainesville & the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

          1988 "Steven Robert Kozar: Solo Exhibit", Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

          1987 "Watercolor USA" Springfield, Art Museum, Springfield, MO

          1986 "Aqueous '86" Frankfort, KY

      Articles about his art have appeared in:

           Midwest Living Magazine

           Watercolor '88 (an American Artist publication)

           U.S. Art Magazine

           Wisconsin Trails Magazine (Kozar's painting was used on the cover in 2002-the first time for any artist.)

           The Artists Magazine

            Informart Magazine

      Accomplishments:

           Kozar was chosen to create the artwork for the "Governor's Awards in Support of the Arts" established by the Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts in 2002

           His painting "Farmland Morning in Dane County" was reproduced on the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission annual poster, as well as the cover of the 2003 calendar.

            Kozar was chosen to be a Featured Artist on Portal Wisconsin.Org

            Kozar's prints were chosen to be featured on the Guild.com website, as well as in the Guild catalog.

            Kozar's paintings have been exhibited along side most of the artists he admired as an art student, including Midwestern artists Harold Gregor, James Winn, Keith Jacobshagen and James Butler. He has also exhibited with many of today's contemporary masters, such as Andrew Wyeth, Gary Ernest Smith, Ralph Goings, John Stuart Ingle, Burt Silverman, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Peter Sculthorpe and Nelson Shanks.

            Kozar's artwork has been featured in the book, "Lit by the Sun - The Art and Artists of the Hotel Pattee"; as well as, "An American Landscape Collection-Views from the Heartland," and most recently in the book "Splash 8-Watercolor Discoveries."

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