Marcus Coates
BiographyBorn 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
FORTHCOMING
Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care, Serpentine Gallery, London
Implicit Sound,ESPAI 13/Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain (October - September)
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial (October)
Late at Tate Britain, (performance), London, (Friday 4 June , 18.00 - 22.00)
2010
Psychopomp Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, in conjunction with Daiwa Foundation Art Prize
2009
Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle, Switzerland
Marcus Coates and Martin von Hasselberg, New Orleans Museum of Art
Follow the Voice, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, UK
Performance A Ritual For Elephant and Castle Coronet Theatre London
Marcus Coates, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Trying To Cope With Things That Aren't Human, Air-Space Gallery, Stoke on Trent
The Plover's Wing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2008
Performance, Pastoral Spirit, Wallspace, All Hallows Church, London
Performance, Report, Channel 9 TV, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Performance, This Wild Melody, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Performance, Spirit Caravan, Hayward Gallery, London
2007
Performance, A Heligoland for Souls - Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gallery,London
Performance, HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Exhibition, Cycle Parking and Prostitution, Rekord Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Solo Screening, Dawn Chorus, Venice Biennale, Italy
Exhibition, Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Performance, Dawn Chorus, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Exhibition, Dawn Chorus, Picture This, Bristol, UK
Exhibition, Dawn Chorus, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Performance, 100 Ways to Change the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Performance, Pub Shaman, The Event, The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham, UK
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
Exhibition, Journey to the Lower World, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK
2003
Exhibition, Unbecoming, The Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
2001
Performance, Chiffchaff, Compton Verney, The Bandstand, Leamington Spa and Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
FORTHCOMING
Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (28 October 2010)
FIAC Art Fair, Paris, with Workplace Gallery (21 - 24 October 2010)
From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & Modern (August - September) curated by Ben Judd
Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall (23 - 25 July 2010)
Kartause Ittingen, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland (20 June 2010)
Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto (18 June - 12 September 2010)
2010
The Perfect Exhibition, Heidelberger Kunstverein (22 May - 22 August 2010)
17th Biennale of Sydney. THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age (12 May - 1 August 2010)
Grand National - Art from Britain, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway (9 May - 3 October 2010)
Artist's Body, Coreana Museum, Seoul, South Korea (06 May - 30 June 2010)
2009
All Creatures Great and Small, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Exposition of Mythology - Electronic Technology, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Korea.
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, Japan House, London
A Duck for Mr. Darwin, Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Shaman Performance at Coronet Theatre, London
Group Exhibition at Bloomberg Space, London, UK
ALTERMODERN Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
Trying To Cope With Things That Aren't Human (Part one) David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA
LIVING TOGETHER, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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, Middlesborugh
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
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
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
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
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize
2008
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Artist Award
Reviews
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
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
Bibliography
2009
Marcus Coates, CMD Magazine, May 2009
Marcus Coates, Exit Express, May 2009
Marcus Coates, Modern Painters, May 2009
Marcus Coates, Esquire Magazine, April 2009
Marcus Coates, The Jewish Chronicle, March 2009
Marcus Coates, Building Design, February 2009
Marcus Coates, Inside Art, February 2009
Marcus Coates, The Art Newspaper, February 2009
Marcus Coates, Les Inrockuptibles, February 2009
Marcus Coates, The Observer, February 2009
Marcus Coates, Art Forum, February 2009
Marcus Coates, Art Observed, February 2009
Marcus Coates, The Daily Telegraphy, February 2009
Marcus Coates, The Times, February 2009
Marcus Coates, The Sunday Telegraph, February 2009
Marcus Coates, Arte Focus, February 2009
2007
Marcus Coates, Frieze, July
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
2005
Marcus Coates, he Guardian, September 2005
2002
My Life as a Dog, Dazed & Confused, Magazine: May
Solo Publications
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
2009
Alter-Modern Tate Triennial, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing
2008
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, exhibition catalogue, Barbican, Merrel
Laughing in a Foreign Language, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Publishing
2007
Waterlog, Journeys Around an Exhibition, Published by Video & Film Umbrella
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
Montreal, Canada
2006
Grizedale in Tokyo, Japan Liverpool Bieniale, Stavanger, Norway up in the Air, Liverpool, UK
2002
Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed,, UK 2002
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