Paul Kos (American, b. December 23, 1942) is a conceptual artist and one of the founders of the Bay Area Conceptual Art movement in California. In the late 1960s and 70s, this area was already known for cultural change and political activism. It was a natural consequence that revolutionary art and ideas would develop right there. The Bay Area was a motherland of new forms of video, performance and installation art. Paul Kos (together with his contemporaries Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman) was one of the first artists to incorporate video, sound and interactivity into his sculptural installations. Kos is drawn to the integrity of materials, and in finding a place where material, play, chance and meaning can magically come together. For Kos, manipulation and participation are fundamental to art.