Peter Coffin (born 1972) is an American multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City. Coffin's work is exhibited internationally and featured in several prominent collections.
Peter Coffin (born 1972) is an American multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City. Coffin's work is exhibited internationally and featured in several prominent collections.
Coffin was born in Berkeley, California. In 1995, he graduated from the University of California Davis, where he received a B.A. and B.S. In Davis, Coffin studied under Conrad Atkinson and Lynn Hershman Leeson and connected with California Funk artist Robert Arneson and conceptual artist Stephen J. Kaltenbach. He received an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. Following his graduate studies, Coffin moved to New York to assist artists Sarah Sze and Joseph Kosuth.
Peter Coffin’s diverse practice encompasses sculpture, installation, video, curatorial projects, sound and two-dimensional art. His art explores conceptual points of view that invite new perspectives and engender inquiry. Art critic Robert Smith describes “his penchant for a provocative generosity that fuses aspects of the work of John Cage, Michael Asher and James Lee Byars with strategies akin to those of the Pied Piper.” [1] Playful ideation is the hallmark of Coffin’s artwork, utilizing as points of entry culture, science, language, representation, color and light to examine meaning and apperception. As French critic and curator Nicolas Bourriard notes, Coffin’s art “explores the accepted and expected reality with the imagination that constitutes the concrete source of art today.” [2] Touchstones for Coffin’s art include Idea Art and California Funk Art. Writer Melissa Gronlund notes, “Coffin’s lo-fi and DIY aesthetic suggests his awareness of the absurdity of his constant demand that inert, nonsignifying subjects be rendered loquacious…In his cheerfully appropriated spiritualism, anything is potentially meaningful; at the same time, what is said appears unintelligible.” [3]
Coffin’s work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, [4] Washington D.C. (2012); the Center d'art Contemporarian, [5] Ivry (2010); The Barbican, [6] London (2009); City Hall Park, [7] New York City (2009),; the Aspen Art Museum [8] (2009); the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, [9] San Francisco (2009); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg [10] (2008); Palais de Tokyo, [11] Paris (2007); the Horticultural Society of New York [12] (2007); and le Confort Moderne, [13] Poitier (2007). In 2013 Peter Coffin organized a performance of his own artwork at the Getty Museum Los Angeles in collaboration with musician Terry Riley and his son Gyan Riley (2013). [14]
Coffin has had solo gallery exhibitions with National Exemplar, [15] NY; Baldwin Gallery, [16] Aspen; Venus Over Manhattan, [17] NY; Gallery Fonti, [18] Naples, Italy; Carl Kostyál Gallery, [19] London; Herald St, [20] London; Half Gallery, NY; Bill Brady Gallery, Miami/Kansas City; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, [21] Paris; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Michael Benevento Gallery, [22] Los Angeles, CA; and Perrotin Gallery, [23] Paris.
Peter Coffin’s art had been exhibited in museum exhibitions internationally including the Singapore Art Museum [24] Schirn Kunsthalle, [25] Frankfurt; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, [26] San Francisco (All 2014); The Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, [27] Los Angeles, CA; Storm King Art Center, [28] New Windsor, NY, (Both 2012); Boston Museum of Fine Arts, [29] Boston, MA; Yokohama Museum of Art, [30] Yokohama, Japan, Musée d'Art Contemporain, [31] Bordeaux, France; Le Musée Océanographique, [32] Villa Paloma in Monaco (All 2011); Israel Museum, Jerusalem, [33] Israel; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, [34] New York, NY (Both 2010), Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma (2009); Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, Museum on the Seam, [35] Jerusalem, Tate Britain, [36] London, UK (All 2009), Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Barbican Art Gallery, [37] London, UK; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Colección Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Art Contemporáneo, Spain (All 2008); Tate Modern, [38] London, England; Lenin Museum, [39] Moscow, Russia; le Confort Moderne, Poitier, France; Musée d´art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (All 2007); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, [40] Zürich, Switzerland; Wanås Sculpture Park, Skåne, Sweden (Both 2006); PS1/MoMA, [41] [42] [43] NY, (2005, 2004 & 2001); South London Gallery, London, UK (2004).
Work by the artist is represented in permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, [44] New York, NY; Storm King Art Center, [45] New Windsor, NY; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; [46] the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, the Israel Museum, [47] Jerusalem; the French National Arts Council Collection; [48] the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Hessel Museum of Art, [49] Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; the Berkeley Art Museum, [50] the University of California at Berkeley, California; the de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; [51] the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Haute-Vienne – Rochechouart, [52] France; the Yokohama Museum of Art, [53] Japan; and the Museo Jumex, [54] Mexico City.
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