Born 1968 in London, lives and works in London.

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

2010

Implicit Sound, ESPAI 13, Fundacio Koan Miro, 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 (screenings), Whitechapel Gallery, London
Dawn Chorus (screening), 52nd 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 (screenings), Side Cinema, Newcastle

2004
Journey to the Lower World, Cafe 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

2010

Tokyo Art Meeting Tranformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

new acquisitions at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

From Ritual to Theatre, Ancient & modern, London

Adaptation, Power Plant, Toronto

The Perfect Exhibition, Heidelber 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 fuer 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 realites, Musee d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
Trust in Me, Charles H.Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Goggle pa 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, 48th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
Hamsterwheel, 52nd Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
Dark Mirror, Netherlands Institute for Media Arts - Montevideo, Amsterdam
False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
Extend your Neck, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
Metteurs en Scene, 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, and Gian Carlo Zanutti Gallery, Milan
Flock, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Local Birds, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland, UK

2001
Videorom, 1st 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

Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Art, 1990-93
BA Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art and Design, 1987-90

 

Awards

Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, 2009
Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Artist Award, 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), Tate Publishing, 2009
Tier-Werden, Mensch-Werden, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft fuer 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
1st Bienal de Valencia, (exhibition catalogue), Charta, 2001
BT New Contemporaries (exhibition catalogue), Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, 1993

 

Selected press

2010

Marcus Coates: Usually I Kind of expect people to walk out, and I'm quite open to people calling me acharlatan and laughing. I quite like people not to be so reverential, Mark Sheerin, Criticismism.com, 11/3/2010

Marcus Coates: Psychopomp at Milton Keynes Gallery, Richard Dorment, The Telegraph, 1/2/2010

Marcus Coates jouneys to Milton Keynes Gallery with Psychopomp, Mark Sheerin, Culture24.org.uk, 17/2/2010

2009
Marcus Coates, CMD Magazine, May
Marcus Coates, Exit Express, May
Marcus Coates, Modern Painters
Marcus Coates, Esquire Magazine, April, pp.170-2
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, Guardian Guide, 14 July
The Traveller, Sarah Emily Miano, Guardian, 2 February
Deleuzian, Antennae, Issue 4, Winter
Marcus Coates, Time Out, 26 June
Focus: Marcus Coates, Frieze Magazine, Issue 108, June - August
The Sublime and the Ridiculous, Skye Sherwin, Art Review
Chirps with everything, The Guardian, 25 January

2006
Spotlight: British Art Show 6, Neil Mulholland, Flash Art, Vol XXXIX No. 246, January - February
British Art Show 6, Sunday Herald, 2 October
Journey to the Lower World, Malcolm Dickson, Map, Issue 5
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