MARCUS COATES
Selected Works
Video
Press
- Guardian, 2016(pdf)
- The Telegraph, 2016(pdf)
- Art Monthly, 2015(pdf)
- TimeOut, 2015(pdf)
- AnOther Magazine, 2014(pdf)
- The Guardian, 2013(pdf)
- Aesthetica, 2012(pdf)
- The Telegraph, 2010(pdf)
| Born 1968 in London, lives and works in London | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES | |
| 2019 | Near-Life Experience, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| 2018 | The Last of Its Kind, Workplace Gallery, London, UK |
| Ask the Birds, event, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK | |
| The Sounds of Others, Innsbruck Biennale, Austria | |
| 2017 | Functional Improvisation, Performance,Marcus Coates and Terry Day, William Morris Gallery, London, UK |
| Ask the Wood, Performance event, South London Botanical Society/Feral Practice, London, UK | |
| Marcus Coates: Sound Reasoning, Mining Institute, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK | |
| 2016 | You Might As Well Ask A Crow, Workplace Gallery, UK |
| Questioning the Dead Performance, Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol, UK | |
| Arrivals/Departures – Nature Calendar, Utrecht Centraal Train Station, NL | |
| Arrivals/Departures, 16 performances across 12 months, Utrecht, NL | |
| 2015 | Marcus Coates, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Station to Station, The Barbican Centre, London, UK | |
| Marcus Coates, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK | |
| Dawn Chorus, Fabrica, Brighton, UK | |
| 2014 | The Sounds of Others: A Biophonic Line, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK |
| Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant and Castle, Workplace Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2013 | Unconcious Reasoning Winner of the Bank of America Merill Lynch |
| Create London Artist Commission, Barbican, London, UK | |
| Anchorhold – Meetings with Marcus Coates, Hai arts, Island of Hailuoto, Finalnd | |
| Create London, Artist Commission, Barbican, London, UK | |
| 185x49x29cm. Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK | |
| Follow the Voice, City in the City, Canary Wharf Screen, Art on the Underground, London, UK | |
| 2012 | Proxy, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| Marcus Coates, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK | |
| Dawn Chorus, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, UK | |
| Follow The Voice, Canary Wharf, Screen, London, UK | |
| Vision Quest: a ritual for Elephant & Castle, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London, UK | |
| Stories from the Lower World, Alberta, Canada | |
| 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 |
| The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2010 | Implicit Sound, ESPAI 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
| Questions & Answers, Kate MacGarry, London, UK | |
| Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall (performance), UK | |
| Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK | |
| 2009 | Marcus Coates, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo (in conjunction with Daiwa Foundation Art Prize), Japan |
| Marcus Coates, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (performance), Japan | |
| Follow the Voice, Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury, UK | |
| Vision Quest (with Chrome Hoof) (performance), Coronet Theatre, London, UK | |
| Marcus Coates, NOMA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA | |
| Marcus Coates, Kunsthalle Zurich – Parallel Space (exhibition and performance), Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Marcus Coates, Newlyn Art Gallery, UK | |
| The Plover’s Wing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK | |
| 2008 | This Wild Melody (performance), Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK |
| Spirit Caravan (performance), Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Pastoral Spirit (performance), Wallspace, All Hallows Church, London, UK | |
| Human Report (TV Broadcast), Channel 9 TV, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | |
| 2007 | Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK |
| Dawn Chorus (screening), 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy | |
| Dawn Chorus, Picture This, Bristol and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK | |
| Cycle Parking and Prostitution, Rekord Gallery, Oslo, Norway | |
| A Heligoland for Souls (performance), Experiment Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK | |
| HaPazura (exhibition and performance), Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel | |
| Dawn Chorus (performance), Arnolfini, Bristol, UK | |
| 100 Ways to Change the World (performance), Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Pub Shaman – The Event (performance), The Lamp Tavern, Birmingham, UK | |
| Solo screening, Artes Mundi, Cardiff, UK | |
| 2006 | Kamikuchi (performance), Grizedale Arts, Ikebukuru, Tokyo, Japan |
| Performance, Grizedale Arts, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan | |
| The Mouth of God (performance), Grizedale Arts, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial 06, UK | |
| Solo Screening – in Conversation with Mark Wallinger, ICA, London, UK | |
| 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 |
| 2003 | Unbecoming, The Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK |
| 2001 | Chiffchaff (performance), Compton Verney, The Bandstand, Leamington Spa and Herbert Gallery and Museum, Coventry, UK |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Animalesque, BALTIC centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK |
| 24:7: A Wake-up call for our non-stop world, Somerset House, London, UK | |
| 2018 | Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany |
| GOOD GRIEF, CHARLIE BROWN!, Somerset House, London, UK | |
| The Land We Live In, The Land We Left Behind, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK | |
| 2017 | FIFTEEN, Kate MacGarry, London, UK |
| We are not Alone, British Council Collection, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | |
| As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Republic of Ireland | |
| Animal Mirror, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA | |
| Modern Visionaries, Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK | |
| I Want I Want, Arts Council Collection, Birmingham City Gallery and Museum, UK | |
| 2016 | THIS IS A VOICE, Wellcome Collection, London, UK |
| Making Nature, Wellcome Collection, London, UK | |
| A Fair Land, Grizedale Arts at IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland | |
| 2015 | Beastly, Photomuseum Winterthur, Basel, Switzerland |
| British Council Touring Exhibition, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan | |
| Station to Station, Curated by Doug Aitken, Barbican, London, UK | |
| Ape Culture, HKW, Berlin | |
| Diamonds always come in small packages, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland | |
| Terrapolis, Frecnh School at Athens, Athens, Greece | |
| 2014 | Disappearing Nature, 8 Duke Street, St James’, London, UK |
| Ghost Nature, Gallery 300, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA | |
| 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 |
| New acquisitions at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK | |
| From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & Modern, London, UK | |
| Adaptation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada | |
| The Perfect Exhibition, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany | |
| The Beauty of Distance – Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, 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, London, UK | |
| Lisson Presents 2, Lisson Gallery, London, UK | |
| Trying To Cope with Things that aren’t Human, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, USA | |
| Living Together, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain | |
| Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| A Duck for Mr. Darwin, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK | |
| Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany | |
| ART futures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK | |
| The Animal Gaze, Centre for Contemporary Art and The Natural World, Exeter, UK | |
| 2008 | Tomorrow the Future, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK |
| Manifesta 7 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy | |
| Videozone – Israeli Video Art Biennial, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel | |
| All My Favourite Singers Couldn’t Sing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK | |
| Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Hamsterwheel, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden | |
| Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK | |
| Harry Smith Anthology Remixed, CCA, Glasgow, UK | |
| 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, Canada | |
| Goggle på jorden, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany | |
| Grounded (Now Hear This), AV Festival, Middlesborugh, UK | |
| A Lower World, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada | |
| 2007 | HaPazura, Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon, Israel |
| Persona Non Grata, One in the Other, London, UK | |
| Micro-Narratives, 48th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia | |
| Hamsterwheel, 52nd Venice Biennale, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy | |
| Dark Mirror, Netherlands Institute for Media Arts – Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK | |
| Extend your Neck, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK | |
| Metteurs en Scène, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK | |
| 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, UK | |
| 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, Liverpool, UK | |
| Radio Shaman, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway | |
| Action, FRAC-Provence-Alpes-Cote-D’Azur, Marseille, France | |
| Where the Wild Things Are, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK | |
| The Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averoff-Tositsas Foundation, Metsovo, Greece | |
| Forsbacka Bruk Art Project, Forsbacka, Sweden | |
| God is a Gallery, Gallery Galuzin, Oslo, Norway | |
| 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, UK | |
| Human Nature, Pump House Gallery, London, UK | |
| Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK | |
| 2004 | Shrinking Cities, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany |
| Disguise, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK | |
| The Bigger Picture, BBC Outdoor Public Screen, Manchester, UK | |
| Simulation Summit, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada | |
| Only a Game, Impressions Gallery, York, UK | |
| 2003 | Panic Picturesque, CCA, Glasgow, UK |
| The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle, 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), GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy | |
| Videorom, MACRO, Museo d’ Arte Contemporenea, Rome, Gian Carlo Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy | |
| Flock, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK | |
| Local Birds, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, UK | |
| 2001 | Videorom, 1st Bienal de Valencia, Spain |
| Dawn Chorus, Channel 4, UK | |
| OX1, Oscillations and Vibrations, Performance and Sound Festival, Oxford, UK | |
| A Public Auction of Private Works, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridge, UK | |
| 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, UK |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1990-93 | Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Art |
| 1987–90 | BA Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art and Design |
| AWARDS | |
| 2009 | Daiwa Foundation Art Prize |
| 2008 | Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists |
| SOLO PUBLICATIONS | |
| 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 |
| GROUP PUBLICATIONS | |
| 2009 | Bourriaud, Nicolas, Altermodern – Tate Triennial (exhibition catalogue), Tate Publishing |
| Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin | |
| 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 |
| Manacorda, Francesco; Yee, Lydia; McCarthy, Tom; Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art (exhibition catalogue), Barbican/ Merrel | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Disguise (exhibition catalogue), Manchester City Galleries | |
| 2003 | Further up in the Air (exhibition catalogue), published by Further A Field |
| The Space Between Us (exhibition catalogue), Vane Productions Ltd. | |
| Here and Now, Photo North | |
| 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 |
| SELECTED PRESS | |
| 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 |
| Clark, Nick, “Battle of Trafalgar:Contemporary artists submit proposals for Fourth Plinth,” The Independent, 24th September | |
| 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 |
| “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 |
| Collings, Matthew, “Getting to the Heart of God’s Bottom,” Modern Painters, 14th May | |
| Coates, Marcus, “At One with Nature,” Esquire Magazine, April, 170-172 | |
| 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 | |
| Coghlan, Niamh, “The End of Postmodernism:Tate Triennial,” Aesthetica Magazine, March, 32-37 | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Building Design, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Inside Art, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” The Art Newspaper, February | |
| “Altermodern:Tate Triennial 2009,” ArtRabbit, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Time Out London, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Les Inrockuptibles, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” The Observer, February, 4 | |
| Helfand, Glen, “Trying to cope with things that aren’t human (Part One),” ArtForum, February | |
| “Go See:Tate Triennial ‘Altermodern’ at the Tate Modern, London, through April 26, 2009,” Art Observed, 6 February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Metro, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Culture, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” The Daily Telegraph, February | |
| Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, “Altermodern:Tate Triennial 2009 at Tate Britain,” The Times, 3rd February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” The Sunday Telegraph, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Arte Focus, February | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Art2Back.com, January | |
| 2008 | “Becoming Animal,” Garageland Magazine, 56 |
| “Marcus Coates,” Studio Magazine, Israel | |
| 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 |
| Miano, Sarah Emily, “The Traveller,” The Guardian, 2nd February | |
| Aloi, Giovanni, “In Conversation with Marcus Coates,” Deleuzian, Antennae, Issue 4, Winter, 31-34 | |
| “Marcus Coates,” Time Out, 26th June | |
| Focus: Marcus Coates, Jonathan Griffin, frieze, Issue 108, June – August | |
| Sherwin, Skye, “The Sublime and the Ridiculous,” ArtReview | |
| Groskop, Viv, “Chirps with everything,” The Guardian, 25th January | |
| 2006 | “British Art Show 6,” Sunday Herald, 2nd October |
| Dickson, Malcolm, “Journey to the Lower World,” Map, Issue 5 | |
| Mulholland, Neil, “British Art Show 6,” Flash Art, Vol XXXIX No. 246, January – February | |
| 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 |
| Searle, Adrian, “State of the Art,” The Guardian, 27th September | |
| James, Sarah, “British Art Show 6,” Art Monthly, 11th May | |
| McLaren, Duncan, “British Art Show 6,” Map, Issue 4 | |
| 2004 | Geldard, Rebecca, “Journey to the Lower World,” Time Out, 5 – 12 May |
| “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 |
| Sherwin, Skye, “My Life as a Dog,” Dazed & Confused, May, 60 | |
| RESIDENCIES | |
| 2006 | Grizedale in Tokyo, Japan |
| Liverpool Biennial, Stavanger, Norway | |
| 2003 | Further up in the Air, Liverpool, UK |
| 2002 | Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed, UK |
| Wysing Arts, Cambridgeshire, UK | |
| 2001 | Allenheads Centre for Contemporary Art, Allenheads, Northumberland, UK |
| 1999 | Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK |
| 1993 | Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland |
Exhibitions
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