Marcus Coates
Biography
Born 1968, London, UK
1987-90 BA (Hons) Degree Fine Art, 1st Class, Kent Institute of Art and Design, UK
1990-93 Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2012
Hors Pistes 2012, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
Marcus Coates, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2011
The Trip, The Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Self Portrait as Worcestershire, Movement Gallery, Worcester, UK
2010
Implicit Sound, ESPAI 13/Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, UK
Questions and Answers, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, UK
Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2009
Marcus Coates, Tomio Koyama Gallery (in conjunction with Daiwa Foundation Art Prize), Tokyo, Japan
Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Marcus Coates, and Martin von Hasselberg, New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Marcus Coates, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
Follow the Voice, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, UK
Marcus Coates, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
The Plover's Wing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Performance, A Ritual For Elephant and Castle, Coronet Theatre, London, UK
Performance, Mori Art Museum, Academy Hills, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Performance, Pastoral Spirit, Wallspace, All Hallows Church, London, UK
Performance, Human Report, Channel 9 TV, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Performance, This Wild Melody, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Performance, Spirit Caravan, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2007
Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Cycle Parking and Prostitution, Rekord Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Dawn Chorus, Picture This, Bristol, UK
Dawn Chorus, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Performance, A Heligoland for Souls - Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Performance, HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Performance, Dawn Chorus, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Performance, 100 Ways to Change the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Performance, Pub Shaman, The Event, The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham, UK
Solo Screening, Dawn Chorus, Venice Biennale, Italy
Solo Screening, Artesmundi, Cardiff, UK
2006
Performance, Kamikuchi, Grizedale Arts, Ikebukuru Tokyo, Japan
Performance, The Mouth of God, Grizedale Arts, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial 06, UK
Solo Screening, In Conversation with Mark Wallinger, ICA, London, UK
2005
Solo Screening, Marcus Coates' Films 99-2005, Side Cinema, Newcastle, UK
2004
Journey to the Lower World, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK
2003
Unbecoming, The Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
2001
Performance, Chiffchaff, Compton Verney and Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Synthetic Ritual, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, USA
Double, Double, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
ROTATE, Contemporary Art Society & Shortlist Media, London, UK
Ffilm, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, UK
The Armory Show, New York, USA with Workplace Gallery
2010
Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
FIAC Art Fair, Paris, France with Workplace Gallery
New Aquisitions, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & Modern, curated by Ben Judd
Steps into the Arcane, Kartause Ittingen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland
Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
From Past to Present, Migration, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Decalogue: Films You Can Count on Two Hands, Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA
The Perfect Exhibition, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney Biennale, Australia
Grand National - Art from Britain, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway
Artist's Body, Coreana Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2009
All Creatures Great and Small, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Exposition of Mythology - Electronic Technology, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, Japan House, London, UK
LissonPresents 2, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
A Duck for Mr. Darwin, Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
ALTERMODERN Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
Trying To Cope With Things That Aren't Human (Part one) Air-Space Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK & David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA
LIVING TOGETHER, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Becoming Animal, Becoming Human (Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden), NGBK, Berlin
The Animal Gaze, Centre for Contemporary Art and The Natural World, Exeter, UK
2008
TOMORROW THE FUTURE (curated by Workplace) Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
MANIFESTA 7, Trento, Italy
All My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, CCA, Glasgow
Experimental Marathon, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Micro-narratives: tentation des petites réalités, Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London
Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
Trust in Me, Charles H.Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Goggle på jorden, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany
Grounded (Now Hear This) AV Festival, Middlesbrough
A Lower World, Pleasuredome, Toronto
2007
HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London
Micro-Narratives, October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
Hamsterwheel, Arsenale - Biennale di Venezia 2007, Venice
Dark Mirror, Netherlands Inatitute for Media Arts - Montevideo, Amsterdam
False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Extend your Neck, Café Gallery Projects, London
Metteurs en Scène, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
Return of the Seven Samurai, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Nature Revisited, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
Waterlog, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich & The Collection, Lincoln, UK
2006
Emotional Man, CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Switzerland
The Nature of Misunderstanding, CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Switzerland
AWOL, Bucharest Biennial, Romania
Seven Samurai, Toge, Japan
Sinking Toward Wishy Mountain, The Royal Standard, Liverpool Biennial 06, UK
Radio Shaman, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
Action, FRAC-Provence-Alpes-Cote-D'Azur, Marseille, France
Where the Wild Things Are, DCA, Dundee, UK
The Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece
Marcus Coates, Market Gallery, Glasgow International, UK
Forsbacka Bruk Art Project, Forsbacka, Sweden
God is a Gallery, Gallery Galuzin, Oslo, Norway
2005
British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art & Touring, UK
Hilchot Shechenim, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 05, Berwick upon Tweed, UK Clerkenwell Film Festival, Various Venues, London, UK
Human Nature, Pump House Gallery, Battersea, London, UK
Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2004
Shrinking Cities, Kunstwerke Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Disguise, Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
The Bigger Picture, BBC Outdoor Public Screen, Manchester City Centre, UK
Simulation Summit, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Only a Game, Impressions Gallery, York, UK
2003
Panic Picturesque, CCA, Glasgow, UK
The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, UK
Mother Nature, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Further Up In the Air, Shiel Park Housing Block, Liverpool, UK
Commotion, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
The Space Between Us, Vane, Newcastle, UK
Flock, Spacex, Exeter, UK
2002
Out of Season, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
"Here..." (Videorom), Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy
Videorom, MACRO, Museo Arte Contemporenea, Rome, Gian Carlo Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
Flock, Wysing Arts, Cambs, UK
Local Birds, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, UK
2001
Videorom, Valencia Biennial, Spain
Dawn Chorus, Channel 4, UK
OX1, Oscillations and Vibrations, Performance and Sound Festival, Oxford, UK
A Public Auction of Private Works, Kimbolton Castle, Cambs, UK
GB3CV, Compton Verney, Warks, UK
2000
The Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, Wales, UK
The Grizedale Show, Grizedale, Cumbria, UK
1999
Evidence of Existence, Kunstraum Siegert, Basel
1999
Good Crop Bad Crop, Grizedale, Cumbria, UK
1993
New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
Awards
2009
Winner of the first Daiwa Foundation Art Prize
2008
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Artist Award
Reviews
2010
Interview with Marcus Coates, Criticismism, art blogging from Brighton, March
2009
Marcus Coates, CMD Magazine, May
Marcus Coates, Exit Express, May
Marcus Coates, Modern Painters, May
Marcus Coates, Esquire Magazine, April
Marcus Coates, The Jewish Chronicle, March
Marcus Coates, Building Design, February
Marcus Coates, Inside Art, February
Marcus Coates, The Art Newspaper, February
Marcus Coates, Les Inrockuptibles, February
Marcus Coates, The Observer, February
Marcus Coates, Art Forum, February
Marcus Coates, Art Observed, February
Marcus Coates, The Daily Telegraphy, February
Marcus Coates, The Times, February
Marcus Coates, The Sunday Telegraph, February
Marcus Coates, Arte Focus, February
2007
Marcus Coates, Exhibitions, Pick of the week, Guardian Guide, Whitechapel Art Gallery, July
Marcus Coates, Exhibitions, Pick of the week, Guardian Guide
Whitechapel Art Gallery, July 21
The Traveller, Waterlog, Review, Guardian, 10.2.07, Sarah Emily Miano
Focus, Marcus Coates, Frieze Magazine, Issue 108, June-Aug
The Sublime and the Ridiculous, Art Review, Skye Sherwin
Chirps with everything, The Guardian, Jan 25
2006
British Art Show 6, Flash Art, Neil Mulholland, Vol XXXIX No. 246, Jan-Feb 06
British Art Show 6, Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 2.10.05
Journey to the Lower World, Map, Malcolm Dickson, Issue 5 2006
Journey to the Lower World, Flux, Len Horsey, #52, Jan/Feb 06
2005
There's Antlers in my Pantry, Independent on Sunday, Marcus Field, 2.10.05
State of the Art, The Guardian, Adrian Searle, 27.9.05
British Art Show 6, Art Monthly, Sarah James, no. 291, 11.05
British Art Show 6, Map, Duncan McLaren, Issue 4 2005/6
2003
Marcus Coates, Art Monthly, Paul Usherwood, June No.267
2002
Marcus Coates , The Guardian,The Guide, Robert Clark, Jun 29-Jul 5
My Life as a Dog, Dazed & Confused, Magazine: May
Solo Publications
2011
Marcus Coates - The Trip, Published by Koenig Books and the Serpentine Gallery
2007
Marcus Coates - In Profile, Published by Picture This, Essay by Max Andrews
2005
Journey to the Lower World, Published by Platform Projects Essays by Mark Wallinger, Alec Finlay and JJ Charlesworth
2002
Marcus Coates, Published by Grizedale Books, Designed by Tomato, Essay by Tracey Warr
Group Publications
2010
Between Art and Anthropology, Essay by Victoria Walters, Arndt Schneider+Christopher Wright (ed.), Berg Publishers.
Aquisitions, Gifts & Bequests 2009-10, Contemporary Art Society acquisitions catalogue.
2009
Alter-Modern Tate Triennial, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing
Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK, Berlin
A Duck For Mr. Darwin: Evolutionary thinking and the struggle to exist (ex. cat.), BALTIC, Gateshead
2008
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, exhibition catalogue, Barbican, Merrel
Laughing in a Foreign Language, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Publishing
Sinking Towards Wishy Mountain, Liverpool Biennial, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Norway
The Berwick Gymnasium Fellowships: an archival record, English Heritage and Art Editions North
2007
Waterlog, Journeys Around an Exhibition, Published by Video & Film Umbrella
2006
The Scarecrow (ex. cat.), The Evangelos Averoff-Tositas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece
Absent Without Leave - Bucharest Biennial, (ex. cat.) META Publishing Bucharest
2005
British Art Show 6, with introduction by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, Cornerhouse
2004
Furthermore, A Book of Proposals, Published by Cornerhouse Publications
Amazing Sight, Boiler Magazine: Issue 04 We are Animals
Disguise, exhibition catalogue, Manchester City Galleries
2003
Space Between Us, Vane Productions Ltd.
Here and Now, Photo North
Further up in the Air, exhibition catalogue, Published by Further A Field
The Human Zoo, exhibition catalogue
2001
Marcus Coates, Compton Verney, Essay by Adam Sutherland
The 1st Valencia Biennial, exhibition catalogue, Published by Charta
1993
BT New Contemporaries exhibition catalogue
Residencies
2009
Tokyo Wondersite, Japan
2006
Grizedale in Tokyo, Japan
Liverpool Bieniale, Stavanger, Norway
2003
Further up in the Air, Liverpool, UK
2002
Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire, UK
2001
Allenheads Centre for Contemporary Art, Allenheads, Northumberland, UK
1999
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK
1993
Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland, UK