Jo Coupe

Biography

Born 1975  Stoke-on Trent, UK

2003-2005    MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College
1994-1998    BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University


Solo Exhibitions

2009
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Fade Away and Radiate, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
2006
Give and Take. Firstsite, Colchester
Electroasis.  Station, Bristol
    

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire
101 Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Zoo Art Fair (with Workplace Gallery). London
An Archaeology,  Project space 176, London
Dusseldorf Contemporary (with Workplace Gallery). Dusseldorf, Germany
Pulse Art Fair (with Workplace Gallery). New York, USA
2006
Repatriating the Ark  (with Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art). Museum of Garden History, London
Blue Star, Red Wedge, Glasgow International, Glasgow
You shall know our Velocity. BALTIC, Gateshead
2005
Emergency2 Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Art Caucasus Tblisi, Georgia
Everything Must Go Workplace, Gateshead
MA Show Goldsmiths College, London
Mobile Fortescue Gallery, London
There is no more butter Station, Bristol
2004
Yesvember House Gallery, London
Revenge of Romance Temporary Contemporary, London                                                                                                                    Postgraduate Diploma show Goldsmiths College, London
2003   
Art 2003 (with Workplace Gallery), Business Design Centre, London
2002
Hothouse Semi-permanent work, first shown at Grizedale Live, Cumbria
2000
Stuffed Hancock Natural History Museum, Newcastle.
Small Battles Mackie Mayor building, Manchester    
Engaged  Site-specific work in toilets, Newcastle
Pattern Transfer (Collaboration with Tanya Axford) Waygood Gallery, Newcastle
1999
Lead by the nose Part of VANE, Newcastle
Study and Stay Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
Great Dutch Painting Installation as part of the exhibition, City Art Gallery, Leeds.
Field Day Site-specific works in a field, Northumberland.
VANE Export Exhibition of artists from the north-east of England, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
Assimilate  Design Works, Gateshead

Collections

Private Collections UK and international

Commissions

2009
Semi-permanent commission for Rio Tinto Alcan, Newcastle upon Tyne
2002
Uprooted Permanent commission for Inland Revenue, Newcastle upon Tyne
Hothouse Semi-permanent commission for Grizedale Forest, Cumbria
2001
Fruitbody temporary commission for Locus , Newcastle upon Tyne

Awards and Residencies

2008
Bacon Prize, 101 Tokyo, Japan
Artist in Residence, Alcan Aluminium Plc
Artist in Residence, Fermynwoods Country Park, Northamptonshire
2002
Artist in Residence, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria.
Chrisi Bailey Award for education in creative photography, Arts Council of England.
1998
Study and Stay Graduate Bursary, Northern Arts.

Publications

2008
Tatton Park Biennial, Parabola, London, UK (exhibition catalogue)
2007
An Archaeology, Project Space 176, London, UK (exhibition catalogue)
2006
Give and Take, Firstsite Papers, Colchester, UK (exhibition catalogue)
Repatriating the Ark, Parabola, London, UK (exhibition catalogue)
2002
camp, Grizedale books, Cumbria, UK
2000
Engaged, Chew and Show, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (exhibition catalogue)

Reviews/Articles

Art Papers, Jan/Feb 2007, Give and Take by David Gleeson
The Scotsman, 2/5/06, Blue Star Red Wedge by Susan Mansfield
Guardian, 1/2/06, You shall know our Velocity by Alfred Hickling
Times, 14/1/06, You shall know our Velocity by Michael Glover
Dazed and Confused, Febuary 2006, Northern Lights by Nick Hackworth
Concept for Living, January 2006 by Brett Tudor
Axis Dialogue, Issue 1, Emergency2 by Gordon Dalton
Stuffed, Richard Jevonns, North Guide, 11,2001
Vane Export, Lars O'Ericsson, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 04,1999