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
2010, Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)
2010 Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
2010, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, (Daiwa Foundation Art Prize winner)
2009, Follow the Voice, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, UK
2009, Performance A Ritual For Elephant and Castle Coronet Theatre London
2009, Marcus Coates, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2009, The Plover's Wing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2008, Performance, Pastoral Spirit, Wallspace, All Hallows Church, London
2008, Performance, Report, Channel 9 TV, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
2008, Performance, This Wild Melody, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2008, Performance, Spirit Caravan, Hayward Gallery, London
2007, Performance, A Heligoland for Souls - Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London
2007, Performance, HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2007, Exhibition, Cycle Parking and Prostitution, Rekord Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2007, Solo Screening, Dawn Chorus, Venice Biennale, Italy
2007, Exhibition, Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2007, Performance, Dawn Chorus, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2007, Exhibition, Dawn Chorus, Picture This, Bristol, UK
2007, Exhibition, Dawn Chorus, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2007, Performance, 100 Ways to Change the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2007, Performance, Pub Shaman, The Event, The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham, UK
2007, Solo Screening, Artesmundi, Cardiff, UK
2006, Performance, Kamikuchi, Grizedale Arts, Ikebukuru Tokyo, Japan
2006, Performance, The Mouth of God, Grizedale Arts, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial 06, UK
2006, 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
2010, The Beauty of Distance - Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Sidney Biennial (forthcoming)
2009, All Creatures Great And Small, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2009, Exposition of Mythology - Electronic Technology, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Korea.
2009, Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, Japan House, London
2009, 'A Duck for Mr. Darwin', Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2009 Shaman Performance at Coronet Theatre, London
2009, Group Exhibition at Bloomberg Space, London, UK
2009, 'ALTERMODERN Tate Triennial', Tate Britain, London
2009, 'Trying To Cope With Things That Aren't Human (Part one)' David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA
2009, 'LIVING TOGETHER', Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2009, 'The Animal Gaze', Centre for Contemporary Art and The Natural World, Exeter, UK
2008, 'TOMORROW THE FUTURE' (curated by Workplace) Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
2008, 'MANIFESTA7', Trento, Italy
2008, 'All My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing' ,Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2008, Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, CCA, Glasgow
2008, Experimental Marathon, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
2008, Micro-narratives : tentation des petites réalités, Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
2008, 'Laughing in a Foreign Language', Hayward Gallery, London
2008, Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
2008, Trust in Me, Charles H.Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008, Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London
2008, Goggle på jorden, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
2008, The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany
2008, Grounded (Now Hear This) AV Festival, Middlesborugh
2007, HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2007, Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London
2007, Micro-Narratives, October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2007, Hamsterwheel, Arsenale - Biennale di Venezia 2007, Venice
2007, Dark Mirror, Netherlands Inatitute for Media Arts - Montevideo, Amsterdam
2007, False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2007, Extend your Neck, Café Gallery Projects, London
2007, Metteurs en Scène, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2007, Return of the Seven Samurai, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007, Nature Revisited, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2007, Waterlog, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich & The Collection, Lincoln, UK
2006, Emotional Man, CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Switzerland
2006, The Nature of Misunderstanding, CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Switzerland
2006, AWOL, Bucharest Biennial, Romania
2006, Seven Samurai, Toge, Japan
2006, Sinking Toward Wishy Mountain, The Royal Standard, Liverpool Biennial 06, UK
2006, Radio Shaman, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
2006, Action, FRAC-Provence-Alpes-Cote-D'Azur, Marseille, France
2006, Where the Wild Things Are, DCA, Dundee, UK
2006, The Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece
2006, Marcus Coates, Market Gallery, Glasgow International, UK
2006, Forsbacka Bruk Art Project, Forsbacka, Sweden
2006, God is a Gallery, Gallery Galuzin, Oslo, Norway
2005/6, British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art & Touring, UK
2005, Hilchot Shechenim, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2005, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 05, Berwick upon Tweed, UK
2005, Clerkenwell Film Festival, Various Venues, London, UK
2005, Human Nature, Pump House Gallery, Battersea, London, UK
2005, Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2004, Shrinking Cities, Kunstwerke Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004, Disguise , Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
2004, The Bigger Picture, BBC Outdoor Public Screen, Manchester City Centre, UK
2004, Simulation Summit, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
2004, Only a Game, Impressions Gallery, York, UK
2003, Panic Picturesque, CCA, Glasgow, UK
2003, The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, UK
2003, Mother Nature, Vilma Gold, London, UK
2003, Further Up In the Air, Shiel Park Housing Block, Liverpool, UK
2003, Commotion, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
2003, The Space Between Us, Vane, Newcastle , UK
2003, Flock, Spacex, Exeter, UK
2002, Out of Season, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2002, "Here..." (Videorom), Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy
2002, Videorom, MACRO, Museo Arte Contemporenea, Rome, Gian Carlo Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
2002, Flock, Wysing Arts, Cambs, UK
2002, Local Birds, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, UK
2001, Videorom, Valencia Biennial, Spain
2001, Dawn Chorus, Channel 4, UK
2001, OX1, Oscillations and Vibrations, Performance and Sound Festival, Oxford, UK
2001, A Public Auction of Private Works, Kimbolton Castle, Cambs, UK
2001, GB3CV , Compton Verney, Warks, UK
2000, The Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, Wales, UK
2000, 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
2010, Marcus Coates: Psychpomp at Milton Keynes Gallery
Telegraph, 01.02.10, Richard Dorment
2007, Marcus Coates, Exhibitions, Pick of the week, Guardian Guide
Whitechapel Art Gallery July 14
2007, Marcus Coates, Exhibitions, Pick of the week, Guardian Guide
Whitechapel Art Gallery July 21
2007, 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 06t
2006, British Art Show 6 Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 2.10.05
2006, Journey to the Lower World Map, Malcolm Dickson, Issue 5 2006
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
2005, State of the Art The Guardian, Adrian Searle, 27.9.05
2005, British Art Show 6 Art Monthly, Sarah James, no. 291, 11.05
2005, British Art Show 6 Map, Duncan McLaren, Issue 4 2005/6
2004, Journey to the Lower World Time Out, Rebecca Geldard, May 5-12
2003, Marcus Coates Art Monthly, Paul Usherwood, June No.267
2002, Marcus Coates The Guardian,The Guide, Robert Clark, Jun 29-Jul 5
Features
2009, Marcus Coates CMD Magazine, May 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Exit Express, May 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Modern Painters, May 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Esquire Magazine, April 2009, p.170 - 172
2009, Marcus Coates The Jewish Chronicle, March 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Asthetica Magazine, March 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Building Design, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Inside Art, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates The Art Newspaper, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Art Rabbit, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Tim Out London, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Les Inrockuptibles, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates The Observer, February 2009, p.4
2009, Marcus Coates Art Forum, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Art Observed, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Metro, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Culture, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates The Daily Telegraphy, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates The Times, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates The Sunday Telegraph, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Arte Focus, February 2009
2009, Marcus Coates Art2Back.com, January 2009
2008, Marcus Coates Garageland magazine
2008, Marcus Coates Studio Magazine, Israel
2007, Deleuzian www.antennae.org.uk Antennae Issue 4 Winter 2007,
2007, Marcus Coates Time Out, London, Tue Jun 26
2007, Focus, Marcus Coates Frieze Magazine, Issue 108, Jun-Aug
2007, The Sublime and the Ridiculous Art Review, Skye Sherwin
2007, Chirps with everything The Guardian, Jan 25
2002, My Life as a Dog Dazed & Confused, Magazine: May, p60
Solo Publications
2007, Marcus Coates - In Profile Published by Picture This, Essay by Max Andrews
ISBN 978-0-9539872-9-0
2005, Journey to the Lower World Published by Platform Projects Essays by Mark Wallinger, Alec Finlay and JJ Charlesworth,
ISBN 0 9546831 6 1
2002, Marcus Coates Published by Grizedale Books, Designed by Tomato, Essay by Tracey Warr, ISBN 0 95254550 6 3
Group Publications
2009, Alter-Modern Tate Triennial, exhibition catalogue, Tate Publishing ISBN 978-1-85737-817-0
2008, Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, exhibition catalogue, Barbican, Merrel
2008, Laughing in a Foreign Language, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Publishing
2007, Waterlog, Journeys Around an Exhibition, Published by Video & Film Umbrella ISBN 978-1-904270-24-9
2005, British Art Show 6, with introduction by curators Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, Cornerhouse Publlications
2004, Furthermore, A Book of Proposals, Published by Cornerhose Publications,
ISBN 0-9545778-1-7
2004, Amazing Sight Boiler Magazine: Issue 04 We are Animals, p102-3
2004, Disguise exhibition catalogue, Manchester City Galleries, ISBN 0 90167 365 X
2003, Space Between Us Vane Productions Ltd.
2003, Here and Now Photo North
2003, Further up in the Air exhibition catalogue, Published by Further A Field, ISBN 0-9545778-0-9
2003, The Human Zoo exhibition catalogue, ISBN 0-7017-0157-9
2001, Marcus Coates Compton Verney, Essay by Adam Sutherland
2001, The 1st Valencia Biennial exhibition catalogue, Published by Charta,
ISBN 88 8158 336 4
1993, BT New Contemporaries e exhibition catalogue,
Residencies
2009, Montreal Canada (forthcoming)
2006, Grizedale in Tokyo, Japan
2006, Liverpool Bieniale, Stavanger, Norway
2003, Further 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