JAMES COLEMAN
b. 1941, IrelandJames Coleman was born in 1941 in Ballaghaderren, Ireland. He currently lives and works in Dublin and Paris.
James Coleman studied at the National College of Art and Design and University College, Dublin, as well as Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan. Coleman represented Ireland at the 1973 Paris Biennale and has participated in Documenta IX (1992), X (1997), XI (2002), and XII (2007). He received both the Kurt-Schwitters Prize, Hannover, Germany and the Kunstpreis München in 2002, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2006. Important solo exhibitions have been held at the Museo Reina Sofia (2012), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2009), the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1999), and the Centre George Pompidou, Paris (1996). 1941, Ballaghaderren, Ireland. Lives and works in Dublin and Paris.)
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery
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