Peter Coffin Biography

Selected solo shows include: Long Shadows, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen (2019); Terry Riley with Gyan Riley performing to Untitled (Shepard-Risset Glissando with Color) by Peter Coffin (performance), Getty Center, Los Angeles (2016); Fjord bank glyphs quiz vext Cwm, Herald St, London (2015); Living, Red Bull Music Studios, New York (2014); Peter Coffin: Here & There, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2013); TRANSMISSION LA, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012); The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2009); The Curve Gallery at The Barbican, London (2009); The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2009); Yellow Outline, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg (2008); ÉTATS/Grow Your Own, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007).

Recent group exhibitions include: WAR II, MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK (2015–2016); Sigmund Freud and the Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus, Vienna (2014); Unendlicher Spass/Infinte Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2014); Image and Illusion, Singapore Art Museum (2014); Sound Spill, curated by Thom O'Nions and Richard Sides, Zabludowicz Collection, New York (2013); Superusurpedsupper, curated by Jugedamos, Nomas Foundation, Rome (2013); The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, curated by Mark Leckey, Hayward Touring: The Blue Coat, Liverpool; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (2013); New Skin for the Old Ceremony, film screening, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); Yokohama Triennale, curated by Akiko Miki (2011); Filling the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010).

Curatorial projects include: Untitled (Musée National d'art Moderne–Centre Pompidou) an exhibition of artworks from the permanent collection, Paris (2010); Untitled (Tate Britain) an exhibition of artworks from the Tate Britain permanent collection, London (2008).

Text courtesy Herald St.