Peter Coffin
Born 1972, Berkeley, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA
Education
2000
MFA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1995 BS University of California at
Davis, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Peter Coffin, Smithsonian Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington D.C.
Peter Coffin, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
2012 A, E, I, O, U, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
The Prelapsarian, presented by Herald St and Carl Kostyal,12A Saville Row,
London, UK
TRANSMISSION LA, The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
Natural Light, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
2011 Cosmolology + 1, Herald St,
London, UK
2010 The Colors are Bright, Galerie
Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, FR
Qualunque Light, Centre d'art
contemporain d'Ivry - le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine, FR
2009 Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes), City Hall Park, New York, NY
Untitled U.F.O, Open Art Projects, Rio
de Janeiro, BRA
Peter Coffin, The Aspen Art Museum,
Aspen, CO
Peter Coffin, The Curve Gallery, The
Barbican, London, UK
The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, CA
2008 Yellow Outline, Centre
dArt Contemporain, Fribourg, CH
How to Fly a Helicopter, The
Suburban Gallery Chicago, Oak Park, IL
Peter Coffin & Djordje Ozbolt,
Herald St, London, UK
Untitled (U.F.O.), Festiwal
Gwiazd, Gdansk, PL
You are Me, Andrew Kreps Gallery,
New York, NY
Peter Coffin, Michael Benevento
Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
2007 Model of the Universe (e.g. sweet harmonica solo, e.g. the idea of the sun,
e.g.
Dog dog catch in mid air, e.g. brightly colored gem stones, e.g. the
desire for a
tropical drink, e.g. dance sweat) Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL
Around, About Expanded Field, Herald St,
London, UK
Peter Coffin, Galerie Emmanuel
Perrotin, Paris, FR
The Idea of the Sun, Le Confort
Moderne, Poitiers, FR
TATS/Grow Your Own, Palais de
Tokyo, Paris, FR
Tree Pants, New York Horticutural Society
Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Hello Headspace, Galleria
Fonti, Naples, IT
New Work, Living Room D Lyx Gallery, Malm,
SWE
Absinth Drinker, curated by Ali
Subotnick / Lisa Ivorian Gray, The Wrong
Gallery, New York, NY
2004 It Chooses You, Andrew
Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Perfect If On, Andrew Kreps Gallery,
New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2013 The
Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, curated by Mark Leckey,
Hayward
Touring: The
Blue Coat, Liverpool; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; De la
Warr
Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
2012 Model Theories, fordPROJECT, New York, NY
Natural Light, Storm King, New York,
NY
CARA DOMANI, opere dalla collezione Ernesto Esposito (works from Ernesto
Esposito collection), MAMbo, Bologna, IT
Ugly Broke Sober, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
The Still Life of Vernacular Agents, Kraupa-Tuskany Gallery, Berlin, DE
Invisible Maps, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, MX
2011 Yokohama Triennale, curated by
Akiko Miki, JP
Ocanomanie, curated by Mark Dion,
Le Muse Ocanographique, Monaco, MC
The Smithsonian Effect, Utah Museum
of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Wild Sky, Edith-Ru-Haus fr Medienkunst,
curated by Michael Connor,
Oldenburg, DE
Dystopia, the CAPC Muse dArt Contemporain,
Bordeaux, FR
New Age End of the Word, Taxter and
Spengemann, New York, NY
Public Abstraction, Kunstverein, Arnsberg, De
One Dozen Paintings, The Journal
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
New Skin for the Old Ceremony, film
screening, MoMA, New York, NY
New York Minute, Garage Center for
Contemporary Culture, Moscow, RUS
The Art of Narration Changes with Time, Curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio,
Sprueth Magers, Berlin, DE
Members Show 2011, curated by Cerith Wyn Evans, Norwich Outpost Gallery,
Norwich, UK
It Aint Fair 2011: Materialism, OHWOW Gallery, Miam,i FL
Antidote 6, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, FR
La Fabrique sonore, exprience Pommery#9, Pommery, Reims, FR
2010 Filling the Void, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Its all American,
Inaugural exhibition curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Haley Mellin, New
Jersey
Museum of Contemporary Art, NJ
Still/Moving, Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, IL
New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Chapter 1: Ever After, C. Bass International Fine Arts Co. Beacon, NY
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca
Eisenberg, curated by
Matthew Higgs, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, New York, NY
Out of the Box, Emily Harvey
Foundation, New York, NY
Pictures and Statues, Country
Club, Cincinnati, OH
Not Extractions, But Abstractions, Clifton Benevento, New York, NY
36 Dramatic Situations, Louis. V. ESP, New York, NY
Herald St, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, JP
No Barrier Fun, Lisa Cooley, New York City, NY
Enchanted, School of Development, Berlin, DE
kozmik latte, Curated by Suzanne
Egeran, Borusan Music House, Istanbul, TUR
Solace, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
Fax, FAX, curated by Joo Ribas and
co-organized by iCI (Independent Curators
International), Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at
Cortland, Cortland, New York; Burnaby, Canada; Para/Site Art Space, Hong
Kong;
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance,
California
2009 Time Based Art, Portland
Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Altermodern, Tate Triennial, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, Tate Britain,
London, UK
New York Minute, Macro Future, Curated
by Kathy Grayson, Museo Darte
Contemporanea Roma, Rome, IT
Nature Nation, Curated by Raphie Etgar,
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, IL
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Miriam Katzeff, White
Columns New York, NY
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell
Family Collection, Miami, FL
Under construction: cargo manifest,
Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, DE
Evading Customs, Curated by Peter J.
Russo and Lumi Tan,
Brown Gallery London, UK
In the Between, curated by Suzanne
Egeran, Arada, Istanbul, TUR
Unicorns vs. Mermaids, Curated by
Jo Robertson & Byron Coley,I-20 Gallery,
New York, NY
Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?!, Curated by Amy Levin, Oliver Newton, and Nolan
Simon Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
FAX, curated by Joo Ribas and
co-organized by iCI (Independent Curators
International), The Drawing Center, New York; Contemporary
Museum, Baltimore, Maryland;
Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
2008 The possibility of an Island,
Curated by Puba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary
Art (MOCA), Miami, FL
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art,
Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Uncoordinated, Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinatti, OH
Gravity, Coleccin Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM
Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte
Contemporneo, Vitoria Gasteiz, ESP
Manifesta 7, Trento, ITA
Untamed Paradises, MARCO,
Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, ESP
Implant, The Horticultral Society of New
York, USA
The Station, curated by Shamim M.
Momin and Nate Lowman, Miami, FL
Unruly History of the Readymade. The
Sixth Interpretation of the Jumex
Collection, curated by Jessica Morgan, Mexico City, MX
What is My Name? a Project on the Incommunicability of Present Communication.
curated by Lorenzo Bruni, HISK Institute, Ghent, BE
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison,
Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, LA
Constraction, curated by Kathy
Grayson, Deitch Gallery, New York, NY
Art Unlimited, Art Basel Art Fair,
Basel, CH
Legend, Domain of Chamarande, FR
Black Noise, Centre National de
l'Estampe et de l'Art Imprim Maison Levanneur,
Chatou, FR
New York is Dead, Gavin
Brown's Passerby, New York, NY
A New High in Getting Low, John
Connelly Presents, NY;
2007
Learn to
Read, Tate Modern, London, UK
Accords Excentriques: Musiques et Arts Plastiques, B.P.S. 22, Charleroi, BE
Multimetica, Mamco - muse dart
moderne et contemporain, Geneva, CH
Black Noise. A Tribute to Steven Parrino, Mamco - muse dart moderne et
Contemporain, Geneva, CH
Moscow Biennial, Lenin Museum, Moscow,
RUS
Peter Coffin, Adam McEwen, Michael Phelan, Galerie Edward Mitterrand,
Geneva, CH
The Office, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
"L'Amorce ou la Partition des Possibles (Sculptural bootlegs and remixed
artworks)" curated by Davide Balula, L.I.A. Art Center, Grenoble, FR
Ceci n'est pas (This is not), Sara
Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Psychobotany: Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Human/Plant Communication,
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
Out of Art, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt
- Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne, CH
Quotidian, Buia Gallery, New York,
NY
Palisadenparenchym, Danese, New
York, NY
A New High in Getting Low, Art News Projects, Berlin, DE
2006 When Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body - an Exhibition about Sound,
Performance and Sculpture, Migros Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, DE
The Impossible Landscape, University
Gallery, University of Massachusetts
(curated by Mark Godfrey and Jodie Vicenta Jacobson), MA
Untitled (Treepants), Sculpture
Park, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Shape Without Form, Shade
Without Colour, Paralysed Force, Gesture Without
Motion, Galleria
Francesca Kaufmann Gallery, Milan, IT
Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), curate, NYd by Joao Ribas and Becky
Smith, Bellwether Gallery, New York
Strange Powers, curated by Laura
Hoptman and Peter Eleey, Creative Time,
New York, NY
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth,
New York, NY
Kamp K48, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
Bring the War Home, organized
by Drew Heitzler QED Gallery, Los Angeles;
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Coffin, Anne Collier, and Eileen Quinlan, United Artists Ltd, Marfa, Texas
The Aleph, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, LA
Supernova, curated by Judicael Lavrador,
Domaine Pommery, Reims, FR
Draw a Straight Line and Follow It,
curated by Anna Gray CCS Bard College,
New York, NY
Mystic River, curated by Noah
Sheldon, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Insight Out, The Wanas Foundation and
Sculpture Park, Wanas, Swe
Endless Summer, curated by Gyonata
Bonvicini, West London Projects,
London, UK
It is, "what is it?, Andrew Kreps
Gallery, New York, NY
I Love My Scene, curated by Jose Freire
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Happiness, curated by Martin Germann Gagosian
Gallery, Berlin as part of the
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, DE
The Fact, Abstract, curated by
Claire Barliant Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City,
New York, NY
Slow Burn, curated by Jonah Freeman Galerie
Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, CHE
Dynasty, curated by Amy Goldrich,
Christopher Ho, Omar Lopes-Chahoud and Sara
Reisman, Gallery MC, New York, NY
Deaf, from Audible to Visible, Galerie
Frank Elbaz, Paris, FR
2005 Greater New York, P.S.1/MoMA,
Long Island City, New York, NY
Performa Biennial 05, 24-Hour
Incidental, the Swiss Institute, New York and
WFMU radio, New York, NY
Different Wavelengths, Tina Kim
Fine Art, New York, NY
Excitations, Andrew Kreps Gallery,
New York, NY
Fuzzy Logic, curated by Jackie
Passmore Bridgewater Hall Gallery,
Manchester, UK
Threshold, curated by Diana Baldon, Max Wigram
Gallery, London, UK
Desired Constellations, Daniel
Reich Gallery, New York, NY
The Zine UnBound - Kults, Werewolves and
Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
There's a City in My Mind, South First
Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Breaking Ground, curated by Jodie
Vicente Jacobson, Horticultural Society of
New York, NY
The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer,
curated by Craig Kalpakjian, Champion Fine Art,
Los Angeles, CA
Good Titles from Bad Books, curated by
Matthew Brannon, Kevin Bruk Gallery,
Miami
Post Notes, Midway Contemporary Art,
Minneapolis, MI
Lesser New York, a Fia Backstrom production,
New York, NY
Frisbee Exhibition, Official
Project of the Armory VIP Group, New York, NY
On the Beach, curated by Justin Lowe,
Printed Matter, New York, NY
2004 Natural Habitat, The Paine
Art Center, Osh Kosh, WI
Beating About The Bush, South
London Gallery, London, UK
Collection (or, How I Spent a Year), curated by Bob Nickas P.S.1/MoMA, Long
Island City, New York, NY
Boundless, curated by Henry Hughes,
Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, NO and Changdong
National Art Studio, Seoul, KR
Slight of Hand, curated by Emily Wei
and Haan Chau, Lemon Sky Projects,
Miami, FL
We Could have Invited Everyone,
curated by Roger Blackson, Reg Vardy Gallery,
University of Sunderland, UK
Blind Dates, Sculpture Center, Long
Island City, New York, NY
The Liverpool Biennial, Transparent
Eyeball, curated by Duncan Hamilton,
Liverpool, UK
Copy-art, ICA, London, UK
The Yugoslav Biennal of Young Artists, curated by Sinisa Mitrovic, Ana Nikitovic,
Jelena Vesic Konkordija Centre for Contemporary Culture, Vrsac, Belgrade
Open, curated by Rochard Torcia, Arcadia
University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Appendiks Bag Thiemers Magasin, Copenhagen, DE
The Infinite Fill Group
Show, Cori + Jamie Archangel, Foxy
Production,
New York, NY
Definitively Provisional, Appendiks,
Bag Thiemers Magasin, Copenhagen, DE
Cakewalk, Ambrosino Gallery, curated by Jen
Denike Miami, FL
New Party: Markus Amm, Gerard Byrne, Peter Coffin, Dionisis Kavallieratos,
Rodrigo Novaes, The Breeder,
Athens, GR
Works on Paper, Southfirst Gallery,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Art in The Office, curated by
Matt Keegan, Global Consulting Group,
New York, NY
Peter Coffin with Brett Milspaw, Jan Mancuska, Ara Peterson, Elif Uras, Andrew
Kreps Gallery, New York NY
Household Psychedelics, Fia
Backstrm Productions, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Coffin - Lanz - Meagher, 2YK Galerie
at Kunstfabrik, Berlin, DE
2003 Kult 48 Klubhouse, curated by Scott Hug, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show,
Galerie du Jour, Agnes B., Paris, FR
Peter Coffin, Brewster Projects,
Brewster, New York, NY
Definitively Provisional, Whitechapel
Project Space, London, UK
Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel
Reich Presents, New York, NY
Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, Greener
Pastures Contemporary Art,
Toronto, CA
2002 Emerging Artists Fellowship
Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park,
LIC New York, NY
Free Manifesta, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt,
DE
Free Biennial, curated by Sal
Randolph, www.freebiennial.org
2001 B-Hotel, P.S.1/MoMA, Long Island
City, New York, NY
2000 Get Empty, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, The Purnell Center for
the Arts,
Pittsburgh, PA
Interchange: Simultaneity in Action, John Adams Foundation for Art,
Amsterdam, NL
1999 Inside/Outside with Birds, The Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Deep6, Ewart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1998
Group Exhibit, Kunst Seminar Akademie, the Haid, Metzingen, Germany
Watson, the Forbes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1997 Work/Space: Visual Relations Incorporate, Southern Exposure Gallery and
associated corporate sites in the Financial District, San Francisco, CA,
UC Davis and UC Irvine Galleries, College of Fine Arts Association New York
Gallery, University of Rochester Gallery, NY
Performances
Incidental Music, 24-Hour Incidental,
curated by Jordan Wolfson, Swiss Institute- Contemporary Art, Performa 05
Untitled (news),
Blind Dates, Arena, Sculpture Center,
Queens, New York, NY
Inside/Outside with Birds, The Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
Curatorial Projects
2010 Untitled (Musee National dart
Moderne - Centre Pompidou) an exhibition of
artworks from the Musee National dart Moderne - Centre Pompidou
permanent collection, Paris, FR
2009 Untitled (Tate Britain) an
exhibition of artworks from the Tate Britain
permanent collection, London, UK
2008
Untitled (Color Wheel) Various Artists, live musical performances,
Deitch
Projects, New York, UK
2007
Deaf2 From the
Audible to the Visible, Galerie
Frank Elbaz, Paris, FR
TATS (faites-le
vous-mme)/Grow Your Own, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2006
I Didn't Come to this Forest for Food, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
2005
We Could have
Invited Everyone, curated with
Rob Blackson, Andrew Kreps
Gallery,
New York, NY
2004
Music for
Plants, Various Artists, (Music Compilation)
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