[2] Kozloff received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968[3] and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 1990.
He joined New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1959 to pursue a Ph.D. degree, and was subsequently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for 1962–1963.
In 1964, he left NYU without a degree and began working at Artforum as an associate editor.
In 1965 he received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and in 1966, received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association of America.
Meanwhile in 1976, he became an art photographer, and in the following years held numerous shows and became a photography critic.