Solo Exhibitions, Projects and Performances

2011

Skills Exchange: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care, a project for the Process Room at the Serpentine Gallery, London

2011

Implicit Sound, ESPAI 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

Questions & Answers, Kate MacGarry

Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall (performance)

Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery

2009 

Marcus Coates, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (in conjunction with Daiwa Foundation Art Prize)

Marcus Coates, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (performance)

Follow the Voice, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury. UK

Vision Quest (with Chrome Hoof) (performance), Coronet Theatre, London

Marcus Coates, NOMA New Orleans Museum of Art

Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle Zurich – Parallel Space (exhibition and performance)

Marcus Coates, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK
The Plover's Wing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead

2008

This Wild Melody (performance), Barbican Art Gallery, London
Spirit Caravan (performance), Hayward Gallery, London

Pastoral Spirit (performance), Wallspace, All Hallows Church, London

Human Report (TV Broadcast), Channel 9 TV, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

2007

Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Dawn Chorus (screening), 52^nd Venice Biennale

Dawn Chorus, Picture This, Bristol and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

Cycle Parking and Prostitution, Rekord Gallery, Oslo

A Heligoland for Souls (performance), Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London
HaPazura (exhibition and performance), Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Dawn Chorus (performance), Arnolfini, Bristol

100 Ways to Change the World (performance), Hayward Gallery, London

Pub Shaman - The Event (performance), The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham
Solo screening, Artes Mundi, Cardiff

2006

Kamikuchi (performance), Grizedale Arts, Ikebukuru, Tokyo

Performance, Grizedale Arts, Super Deluxe, Tokyo

The Mouth of God (performance), Grizedale Arts, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial 06,

Solo Screening - in Conversation with Mark Wallinger, ICA, London

Marcus Coates - Glasgow International, Market Gallery, Glasgow

2005

Marcus Coates' Films 99-2005 - Solo Screening, Side Cinema, Newcastle

2004

Journey to the Lower World, Café Gallery Projects, London

2003

Unbecoming, The Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK

2001

Chiffchaff (performance), Compton Verney, The Bandstand, Leamington Spa and Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry

Group Exhibitions

2011

Synthetic Ritual, Pitzer Art galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, California

2010 

Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

New acquisitions at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & Modern, London

Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto

The Perfect Exhibition, Heidelberger Kunstverein

The Beauty of Distance - Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney

Artist’s Body, Coreana Museum, Seoul

Grand National - Art from Britain, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway

2009 

Exposition of Mythology - Electronic Technology, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul

Altermodern, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain

Lisson Presents 2, Lisson Gallery, London

Trying To Cope with Things that aren't Human, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco

Living Together, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
A Duck for Mr. Darwin, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
ART futures, Bloomberg Space, London

The Animal Gaze, Centre for Contemporary Art and The Natural World, Exeter

2008

Tomorrow the Future, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
Manifesta 7 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy

Videozone – Israeli Video Art Biennial, CCA, Tel Aviv
All My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead

Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London

Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London
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
Trust in Me, Charles H.Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Goggle på jorden, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany
Grounded (Now Hear This), AV Festival, Middlesborugh

A Lower World, Pleasure Dome, Toronto

2007

HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel
Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London
Micro-Narratives, 48^th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
Hamsterwheel, 52^nd Venice Biennale, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice
Dark Mirror, Netherlands Institute for Media Arts - Montevideo, Amsterdam
False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
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 and The Collection, Lincoln

2006

Emotional Man, CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
The Nature of Misunderstanding, CACT Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Absent Without Leave, Bucharest Biennial, Romania
Seven Samurai, Toge, Japan
Sinking Toward Wishy Mountain, The Royal Standard, Liverpool Biennial 06
Radio Shaman, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
Action, FRAC-Provence-Alpes-Cote-D'Azur, Marseille, France
Where the Wild Things Are, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
The Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece
Forsbacka Bruk Art Project, Forsbacka, Sweden
God is a Gallery, Gallery Galuzin, Oslo

2005

British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, and touring the 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
Human Nature, Pump House Gallery, London
Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

2004

Shrinking Cities, Kunstwerke, Berlin
Disguise, Manchester City Art Gallery
The Bigger Picture, BBC Outdoor Public Screen, Manchester
Simulation Summit, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Only a Game, Impressions Gallery, York, UK

2003

Panic Picturesque, CCA, Glasgow
The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University
Mother Nature, Vilma Gold, London
Further Up In the Air, Shiel Park Housing Block, Liverpool
Commotion, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
The Space Between Us, Vane, Newcastle
Flock, Spacex, Exeter, UK

2002

Out of Season, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
"Here..." (Videorom), GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Videorom, MACRO, Museo d’ Arte Contemporenea, Rome, Gian Carlo Zanutti Gallery, Milan
Flock, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Local Birds, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, UK

2001

Videorom, 1^st Bienal de Valencia, Spain
Dawn Chorus, Channel 4
OX1, Oscillations and Vibrations, Performance and Sound Festival, Oxford
A Public Auction of Private Works, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridge
GB3CV, Compton Verney, Warwick, UK

2000

The Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, Wales, UK
The Grizedale Show, Grizedale, Cumbria, UK

1999

Evidence of Existence, Kunstraum Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
Good Crop Bad Crop, Grizedale, Cumbria, UK

1993

BT New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester

Education

1990-93 Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Art

1987–90 BA Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art and Design

 

Awards

Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, 2009
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2008

Solo publications

Marcus Coates - In Profile, text by Max Andrews, Picture This, Bristol, 2007
Journey to the Lower World, texts by Mark Wallinger, Alec Finlay and JJ Charlesworth
Platform Projects, 2003

Marcus Coates, text by Tracey Warr, Grizedale Books, 2002
 

Group publications

Altermodern - Tate Triennial (exhibition catalogue), Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Publishing, 2009

Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 2009
A Duck for Mr. Darwin Evolutionary Thinking and the Struggle to Exist (exhibition catalogue), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2009

Manifesta 7 (exhibition catalogue), Silvana Editoriale, 2008

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art (exhibition catalogue), Barbican/ Merrel, 2008
Laughing in a Foreign Language (exhibition catalogue), Hayward Publishing, 2008
Waterlog, Journeys Around an Exhibition, Video & Film Umbrella, 2007

The Scarecrow (exhibition catalogue), The Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece, 2006

Absent Without Leave - Bucharest Biennial, (exhibition catalogue), META Publishing Bucharest, 2006
British Art Show 6 (exhibition catalogue), text by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, Cornerhouse Publlications, 2005
Furthermore, A Book of Proposals, Cornerhose Publications, 2004
Disguise (exhibition catalogue), Manchester City Galleries, 2004
Further up in the Air (exhibition catalogue), published by Further A Field, 2003

The Space Between Us (exhibition catalogue), Vane Productions Ltd., 2003
Here and Now, Photo North, 2003
The Human Zoo (exhibition catalogue), Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, 2003
The 1st Valencia Biennial, (exhibition catalogue), Charta, 2001 
BT New Contemporaries (exhibition catalogue), Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, 1993
Selected press 

2010

Marcus Coates: Psychopomp at Milton Keynes Gallery, Richard Dorment, Telegraph.co.uk, 1 February 2010

2009

Marcus Coates, CMD Magazine, May
Marcus Coates, Exit Express, May
Marcus Coates, Modern Painters
Marcus Coates, Esquire Magazine, April, pp.170 - 172
Marcus Coates, The Jewish Chronicle, March
Marcus Coates, Asthetica Magazine, March
Marcus Coates, Building Design, February
Marcus Coates, Inside Art, February
Marcus Coates, The Art Newspaper, February
Marcus Coates, Art Rabbit, February
Marcus Coates, Time Out London, February
Marcus Coates, Les Inrockuptibles, February
Marcus Coates, The Observer, February, p.4
Marcus Coates, Art Forum, February
Marcus Coates, Art Observed, February
Marcus Coates, Metro, February
Marcus Coates, Culture, February
Marcus Coates, The Daily Telegraphy, February
Marcus Coates, The Times, February
Marcus Coates, The Sunday Telegraph, February
Marcus Coates, Arte Focus, February
Marcus Coates, Art2Back.com, January

2008

Marcus Coates, Garageland magazine
Marcus Coates, Studio Magazine, Israel
2007

Exhibitions, Pick of the week, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Guardian Guide, 14 July
The Traveller, Sarah Emily Miano, The Guardian, 2 February

Deleuzian, Antennae, Issue 4, Winter
Marcus Coates, Time Out, 26 June
Focus: Marcus Coates, Jonathan Griffin, frieze, Issue 108, June - August
The Sublime and the Ridiculous, Skye Sherwin, Art Review
Chirps with everything, Viv Groskop, The Guardian, 25 January
2006

British Art Show 6, Sunday Herald, 2 October

Journey to the Lower World, Malcolm Dickson, Map, Issue 5

British Art Show 6, Neil Mulholland, Flash Art, Vol XXXIX No. 246, January - February
Journey to the Lower World, Len Horsey, Flux, #52, January - February

2005

There's Antlers in my Pantry, Marcus Field, Independent on Sunday, October
State of the Art, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 27 September
British Art Show 6, Sarah James, Art Monthly, 11 May
British Art Show 6, Duncan McLaren, Map, Issue 4

2004

Journey to the Lower World, Rebecca Geldard, Time Out, 5 – 12 May

Amazing Sight, Boiler Magazine, Issue 04 We are Animals, pp. 102 - 3

2003

Marcus Coates, Paul Usherwood, Art Monthly, No.267, June

2002

Marcus Coates, Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 29 June – 5 July
My Life as a Dog, Dazed & Confused, May, p.60       

Residencies

Grizedale in Tokyo, Japan, 2006
Liverpool Biennial, Stavanger, Norway, 2006
Further up in the Air, Liverpool, 2003
Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK, 2002
Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2002
Allenheads Centre for Contemporary Art, Allenheads, Northumberland, UK, 2001
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK, 1999
Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland, 1993