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Peter Coffin (artist)

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Photo documentation of Peter Coffin's outdoor cloud installation.

Peter Coffin (born 1972, Berkeley, California, United States) is an artist based in New York City. Coffin's work is exhibited internationally and featured in several prominent collections.[1]

Peter Coffin collaborated with cartoonist Al Jaffee on a project inspired by Coffin's undergraduate personal encounter with the modern dance choreographer Twyla Tharp.[2] In 2010, Coffin developed a library cataloguing system for the Library of the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City utilizing the colors cast on the library's shelves by the natural light passing through the library's Tiffany Stained Glass windows.[3]

Education

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Coffin received a BS and BA from the University of California, Davis in 1995 and MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000.[4]

Select exhibitions

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Coffin has showed in over 25 solo exhibitions both internationally and domestically. Installations include:

Galleries

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Coffin is represented by Herald Street in London and Haydon Boss in San Francisco. Coffin also recently exhibited at Venus Over Manhattan in New York with the solo exhibition A.E.I.O.U.

Permanent works

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Works by the artist can be seen at:

Audio work

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In 2005, Coffin released the Music for Plants compilation album with tracks from forty artists including Ara Peterson, Ariel Pink, Arto Lindsay, Sun Burned Hand of the Man, Jutta Koether, Alan Licht & Tom Verlaine, LoVid, Christian Marclay, Dearraindrop, and Mice Parade.[12][13]

References

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  1. ^ "Acting To Pretend, Preteding To Act: Peter Coffin — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. February 1, 2009.
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-09. Retrieved 2008-02-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "New work by artist peter coffin". 2009-02-03.
  4. ^ "Peter Coffion biography".
  5. ^ Haacke, Hans (1982). "On Social Grease". Art Journal. 42 (2): 137–143. doi:10.1080/00043249.1982.10792777. JSTOR 776545.
  6. ^ "Alabbarart.com". Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  7. ^ Peter Coffin Artfacts.
  8. ^ Le Confort Moderne Artfacts
  9. ^ Champion Fine Art, "The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer", May 2005
  10. ^ "The Collection | MoMA".
  11. ^ "Light & Landscape - Peter Coffin".
  12. ^ "Greater New York 2005". wps1.org. MoMA PS1. Archived from the original on 2007-07-01. Retrieved 2024-02-18. Music for Plants: Peter Coffin's Record Release Party
  13. ^ "Peter Coffin, Perfect If On , 2002". Greenmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
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