Born 1968 in London, lives and works in London |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES |
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2019 |
Near-Life Experience, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
2018 |
The Last of Its Kind, Workplace Gallery, London, UK |
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Ask the Birds, event, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK |
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The Sounds of Others, Innsbruck Biennale, Austria |
2017 |
Functional Improvisation, Performance,Marcus Coates and Terry Day, William Morris Gallery, London, UK |
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Ask the Wood, Performance event, South London Botanical Society/Feral Practice, London, UK |
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Marcus Coates: Sound Reasoning, Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
2016 |
You Might As Well Ask A Crow, Workplace Gallery, UK |
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Questioning the Dead Performance, Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, UK |
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Arrivals/Departures – Nature Calendar, Utrecht Centraal Train Station, NL |
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Arrivals/Departures, 16 performances across 12 months, Utrecht, NL |
2015 |
Marcus Coates, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
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Station to Station, The Barbican Centre, London, UK |
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Marcus Coates, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
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Dawn Chorus, Fabrica, Brighton, UK |
2014 |
The Sounds of Others: A Biophonic Line, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK |
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Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant and Castle, Workplace Gallery, London, UK |
2013 |
Unconcious Reasoning Winner of the Bank of America Merill Lynch |
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Create London Artist Commission, Barbican, London, UK |
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Anchorhold – Meetings with Marcus Coates, Hai arts, Island of Hailuoto, Finalnd |
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Create London, Artist Commission, Barbican, London, UK |
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185x49x29cm. Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
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Follow the Voice, City in the City, Canary Wharf Screen, Art on the Underground, London, UK |
2012 |
Proxy, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
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Marcus Coates, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
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Dawn Chorus, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK |
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Follow The Voice, Canary Wharf, Screen, London, UK |
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Vision Quest: a ritual for Elephant & Castle, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London, UK |
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Stories from the Lower World, Alberta, Canada |
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Eva International
Biennial of Visual Art, Limerick City, Ireland |
2011 |
Skills Exchange: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care, a project for the Process Room at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
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The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
2010 |
Implicit Sound, ESPAI 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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Questions & Answers, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
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Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall (performance), UK |
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Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK |
2009 |
Marcus Coates, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (in conjunction with Daiwa Foundation Art Prize), Japan |
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Marcus Coates, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (performance), Japan |
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Follow the Voice, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, UK |
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Vision Quest (with Chrome Hoof) (performance), Coronet Theatre, London, UK |
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Marcus Coates, NOMA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA |
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Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle Zurich – Parallel Space (exhibition and performance), Zurich, Switzerland |
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Marcus Coates, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK |
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The Plover’s Wing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
2008 |
This Wild Melody (performance), Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK |
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Spirit Caravan (performance), Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
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Pastoral Spirit (performance), Wallspace, All Hallows Church, London, UK |
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Human Report (TV Broadcast), Channel 9 TV, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
2007 |
Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK |
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Dawn Chorus (screening), 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy |
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Dawn Chorus, Picture This, Bristol and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK |
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Cycle Parking and Prostitution, Rekord Gallery, Oslo, Norway |
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A Heligoland for Souls (performance), Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
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HaPazura (exhibition and performance), Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel |
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Dawn Chorus (performance), Arnolfini, Bristol, UK |
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100 Ways to Change the World (performance), Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
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Pub Shaman – The Event (performance), The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham, UK |
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Solo screening, Artes Mundi, Cardiff, UK |
2006 |
Kamikuchi (performance), Grizedale Arts, Ikebukuru, Tokyo, Japan |
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Performance, Grizedale Arts, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan |
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The Mouth of God (performance), Grizedale Arts, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial 06, UK |
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Solo Screening – in Conversation with Mark Wallinger, ICA, London, UK |
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Marcus Coates – Glasgow International, Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK |
2005 |
Marcus Coates’ Films 99-2005 – Solo Screening, Side Cinema, Newcastle, UK |
2004 |
Journey to the Lower World, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK |
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2003 |
Unbecoming, The Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK |
2001 |
Chiffchaff (performance), Compton Verney, The Bandstand, Leamington Spa and Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2020 |
Hippo Campus: Where we Learn, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK |
2019 |
The Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2019 |
Animalesque, BALTIC centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK |
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24:7: A Wake-up call for our non-stop world, Somerset House, London, UK |
2018 |
Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany |
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GOOD GRIEF, CHARLIE BROWN!, Somerset House, London, UK |
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The Land We Live In, The Land We Left Behind, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK |
2017 |
FIFTEEN, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
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We are not Alone, British Council Collection, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
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As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
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Animal Mirror, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA |
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Modern Visionaries, Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
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I Want I Want, Arts Council Collection, Birmingham City Gallery and Museum, UK |
2016 |
THIS IS A VOICE, Wellcome Collection, London, UK |
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Making Nature, Wellcome Collection, London, UK |
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A Fair Land, Grizedale Arts at IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
2015 |
Beastly, Photomuseum Winterthur, Basel, Switzerland |
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British Council Touring Exhibition, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan |
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Station to Station, Curated by Doug Aitken, Barbican, London, UK |
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Ape Culture, HKW, Berlin |
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Diamonds always come in small packages, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland |
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Terrapolis, Frecnh School at Athens, Athens, Greece |
2014 |
Disappearing Nature, 8 Duke Street, St James’, London, UK |
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Ghost Nature, Gallery 300, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA |
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Projections Animaliè, La Box, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges, Bourges, France |
2011 |
Synthetic Ritual, Pitzer Art galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, California, USA |
2010 |
Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan |
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New acquisitions at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
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From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & Modern, London, UK |
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Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada |
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The Perfect Exhibition, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany |
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The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney |
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Artist’s Body, Coreana Museum, Seoul |
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Grand National – Art from Britain, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway |
2009 |
Exposition of Mythology – Electronic Technology, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul |
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Altermodern, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK |
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Lisson Presents 2, Lisson Gallery, London, UK |
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Trying To Cope with Things that aren’t Human, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA |
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Living Together, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
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Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
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A Duck for Mr. Darwin, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK |
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Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany |
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ART futures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK |
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The Animal Gaze, Centre for Contemporary Art and The Natural World, Exeter, UK |
2008 |
Tomorrow the Future, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK |
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Manifesta 7 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy |
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Videozone – Israeli Video Art Biennial, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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All My Favourite Singers Couldn’t Sing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
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Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
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Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden |
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Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK |
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Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, CCA, Glasgow, UK |
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Experimental Marathon, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland |
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Micro-narratives : tentation des petites réalités, Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France |
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Trust in Me, Charles H.Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
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Goggle på jorden, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden |
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The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany |
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Grounded (Now Hear This), AV Festival, Middlesborugh, UK |
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A Lower World, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada |
2007 |
HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel |
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Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London, UK |
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Micro-Narratives, 48th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia |
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Hamsterwheel, 52nd Venice Biennale, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy |
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Dark Mirror, Netherlands Institute for Media Arts – Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
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Extend your Neck, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK |
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Metteurs en Scène, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
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Return of the Seven Samurai, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Nature Revisited, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway |
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Waterlog, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich and The Collection, Lincoln, UK |
2006 |
Emotional Man, CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland |
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The Nature of Misunderstanding, CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland |
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Absent Without Leave, Bucharest Biennial, Romania |
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Seven Samurai, Toge, Japan |
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Sinking Toward Wishy Mountain, The Royal Standard, Liverpool Biennial 06, Liverpool, UK |
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Radio Shaman, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway |
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Action, FRAC-Provence-Alpes-Cote-D’Azur, Marseille, France |
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Where the Wild Things Are, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK |
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The Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece |
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Forsbacka Bruk Art Project, Forsbacka, Sweden |
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God is a Gallery, Gallery Galuzin, Oslo, Norway |
2005 |
British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, and touring the UK |
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Hilchot Shechenim, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel |
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Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 05, Berwick upon Tweed, UK |
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Clerkenwell Film Festival, various venues, London, UK |
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Human Nature, Pump House Gallery, London, UK |
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Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK |
2004 |
Shrinking Cities, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany |
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Disguise, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK |
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The Bigger Picture, BBC Outdoor Public Screen, Manchester, UK |
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Simulation Summit, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada |
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Only a Game, Impressions Gallery, York, UK |
2003 |
Panic Picturesque, CCA, Glasgow, UK |
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The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK |
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Mother Nature, Vilma Gold, London, UK |
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Further Up In the Air, Shiel Park Housing Block, Liverpool, UK |
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Commotion, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK |
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The Space Between Us, Vane, Newcastle, UK |
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Flock, Spacex, Exeter, UK |
2002 |
Out of Season, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK |
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“Here…” (Videorom), GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy |
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Videorom, MACRO, Museo d’ Arte Contemporenea, Rome, Gian Carlo Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy |
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Flock, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK |
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Local Birds, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, UK |
2001 |
Videorom, 1st Bienal de Valencia, Spain |
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Dawn Chorus, Channel 4, UK |
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OX1, Oscillations and Vibrations, Performance and Sound Festival, Oxford, UK |
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A Public Auction of Private Works, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridge, UK |
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GB3CV, Compton Verney, Warwick, UK |
2000 |
The Oriel Mostyn Open, Llandudno, Wales, UK |
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The Grizedale Show, Grizedale, Cumbria, UK |
1999 |
Evidence of Existence, Kunstraum Siegert, Basel, Switzerland |
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Good Crop Bad Crop, Grizedale, Cumbria, UK |
1993 |
BT New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK |
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EDUCATION |
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1990-93 |
Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Art |
1987–90 |
BA Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art and Design |
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AWARDS |
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2009 |
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize |
2008 |
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists |
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SOLO PUBLICATIONS |
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2011 |
Coates, Marcus; Peyton-Jones, Julia; Obrist, Hans Ulrich; Marcus Coates: The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London, Koenig Books |
2007 |
Andrews, Max, Marcus Coates: In Profile, Picture This, Bristol |
2003 |
Wallinger, Mark; Finlay, Alec; Charlesworth, JJ; Journey to the Lower World, Platform Projects |
2002 |
Warr, Tracey, Marcus Coates, Grizedale Books |
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GROUP PUBLICATIONS |
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2009 |
Bourriaud, Nicolas, Altermodern – Tate Triennial (exhibition catalogue), Tate Publishing |
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Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin |
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Pearson, Harry; Arends, Bergit; Hilty, Greg; A Duck for Mr. Darwin Evolutionary Thinking and the Struggle to Exist (exhibition catalogue), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead |
2008 |
Manifesta 7 (exhibition catalogue), Silvana Editoriale |
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Manacorda, Francesco; Yee, Lydia; McCarthy, Tom; Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art (exhibition catalogue), Barbican/ Merrel |
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Kataoka, Mami; Critchley, Simon; Laughing in a Foreign Language (exhibition catalogue), Hayward Publishing |
2007 |
Waterlog, Journeys Around an Exhibition, Video & Film Umbrella |
2006 |
The Scarecrow (exhibition catalogue), The Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece |
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Absent Without Leave – Bucharest Biennial, (exhibition catalogue), META Publishing Bucharest |
2005 |
Farquharson, Alex; Schlieker, Andrea; British Art Show 6 (exhibition catalogue), Cornerhouse Publlications |
2004 |
Neville, Gabie, Furthermore, A Book of Proposals, Cornerhose Publications |
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Disguise (exhibition catalogue), Manchester City Galleries |
2003 |
Further up in the Air (exhibition catalogue), published by Further A Field |
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The Space Between Us (exhibition catalogue), Vane Productions Ltd. |
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Here and Now, Photo North |
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The Human Zoo (exhibition catalogue), Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University |
2001 |
The 1st Valencia Biennial, (exhibition catalogue), Charta |
1993 |
BT New Contemporaries (exhibition catalogue), Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester |
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SELECTED PRESS |
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2015 |
Hall, Duncan, “Marcus Coates: Dawn Chorus”, The Argus, 3rd April |
2014 |
Allsop, Laura, “The Sounds of Others by Marcus Coates”, AnOther Magazine, 18th November |
2013 |
Higgins, Charlotte, “London’s fourth plinth:the artists fighting the latest battle of Trafalgar,” The Guardian, 25th September |
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Clark, Nick, “Battle of Trafalgar:Contemporary artists submit proposals for Fourth Plinth,” The Independent, 24th September |
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Jury, Louise, “Who’ll get the Fourth Plinth thumbs up?,” The Evening Standard, 24th September |
2012 |
Januszczak, Waldemar, “It speaks to our inner geek,” The Sunday Times, 11th March |
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“Marcus Coates,” Portfolio |
2011 |
Luke, Ben, “Travels of the Mind,” Evening Standard, 1st March |
2010 |
Dormant, Richard, “If we could talk to the animals,” The Telegraph, 1st February |
2009 |
Olivares, Rosa, “Tell me a tale,” Exit Express, May |
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Collings, Matthew, “Getting to the Heart of God’s Bottom,” Modern Painters, 14th May |
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Coates, Marcus, “At One with Nature,” Esquire Magazine, April, 170-172 |
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Lightman, Sarah, “Why did a British artist meet an Israeli mayor wearing a stuffed animal? Sarah Lightman posed the question,” The Jewish Chronicle, 27th March, 42 |
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Coghlan, Niamh, “The End of Postmodernism:Tate Triennial,” Aesthetica Magazine, March, 32-37 |
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“Marcus Coates,” Building Design, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” Inside Art, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” The Art Newspaper, February |
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“Altermodern:Tate Triennial 2009,” ArtRabbit, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” Time Out London, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” Les Inrockuptibles, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” The Observer, February, 4 |
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Helfand, Glen, “Trying to cope with things that aren’t human (Part One),” ArtForum, February |
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“Go See:Tate Triennial ‘Altermodern’ at the Tate Modern, London, through April 26, 2009,” Art Observed, 6 February |
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“Marcus Coates,” Metro, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” Culture, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” The Daily Telegraph, February |
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Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, “Altermodern:Tate Triennial 2009 at Tate Britain,” The Times, 3rd February |
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“Marcus Coates,” The Sunday Telegraph, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” Arte Focus, February |
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“Marcus Coates,” Art2Back.com, January |
2008 |
“Becoming Animal,” Garageland Magazine, 56 |
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“Marcus Coates,” Studio Magazine, Israel |
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Rudd, Amy, “All My Favorite Singers Couldn’t Sing,” Metro, 11th September |
2007 |
“Exhibitions, Pick of the week: Whitechapel Art Gallery,” Guardian Guide, 14th July |
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Miano, Sarah Emily, “The Traveller,” The Guardian, 2nd February |
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Aloi, Giovanni, “In Conversation with Marcus Coates,” Deleuzian, Antennae, Issue 4, Winter, 31-34 |
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“Marcus Coates,” Time Out, 26th June |
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Focus: Marcus Coates, Jonathan Griffin, frieze, Issue 108, June – August |
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Sherwin, Skye, “The Sublime and the Ridiculous,” ArtReview |
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Groskop, Viv, “Chirps with everything,” The Guardian, 25th January |
2006 |
“British Art Show 6,” Sunday Herald, 2nd October |
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Dickson, Malcolm, “Journey to the Lower World,” Map, Issue 5 |
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Mulholland, Neil, “British Art Show 6,” Flash Art, Vol XXXIX No. 246, January – February |
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Horsey, Len, “Journey to the Lower World,” Flux, #52, January – February |
2005 |
Field, Marcus, “There’s Antlers in my Pantry,” Independent on Sunday, 2nd October |
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Searle, Adrian, “State of the Art,” The Guardian, 27th September |
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James, Sarah, “British Art Show 6,” Art Monthly, 11th May |
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McLaren, Duncan, “British Art Show 6,” Map, Issue 4 |
2004 |
Geldard, Rebecca, “Journey to the Lower World,” Time Out, 5 – 12 May |
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“Amazing Sight,” Boiler Magazine, Issue 04 We are Animals, 102 – 3 |
2003 |
Usherwood, Paul, “Marcus Coates,” Art Monthly No.267, June, 267 |
2002 |
Clark, Robert, “Marcus Coates,” The Guardian Guide, 29th June – 5th July |
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Sherwin, Skye, “My Life as a Dog,” Dazed & Confused, May, 60 |
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RESIDENCIES |
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2006 |
Grizedale in Tokyo, Japan |
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Liverpool Biennial, Stavanger, Norway |
2003 |
Further up in the Air, Liverpool, UK |
2002 |
Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK |
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Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire, UK |
2001 |
Allenheads Centre for Contemporary Art, Allenheads, Northumberland, UK |
1999 |
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK |
1993 |
Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland |