Petah Coyne is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer. Described as the 'queen of mixed media' in Artforum magazine, she interweaves disparate and unorthodox materials–trees, human hair, scrap metal, silk flowers, religious statuary, and taxidermy–to create sculptures that are both precise in their attention to detail and baroque in their emotional range. Literature, film art history and the depths of an individual's soul are all springboards for Coyne's incessant and unrelenting imagination. In Coyne's hands, materials, like our lived experiences, are endlessly re-purposed and reborn into something new.
Read MoreCoyne's sculptures and photographs have been the subject of more than 30 solo museum exhibitions. Her work resides in numerous permanent museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Finland; and many others. She is the past recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, Anonymous was a Woman, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1953, the artist currently lives in New York City.
Text courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. New York.
