Peter Coffin (artist)

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Peter Coffin (born 1963, Berkeley, California US) is an artist based in New York City. Coffin received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Davis in 1995, subsequently attending Carnegie Mellon University and receiving an MFA in 2000. His work is exhibited internationally and features in several permanent collections. Peter Coffin is currently collaborating with Al Jaffee inspired by his undergraduate personal encounter with the modern dance choreographer Twyla Tharp.^[1]

Contents 1 Select exhibitions 2 Galleries 3 Permanent works 4 External links 4.1 Represented by galleries 4.2 Exhibitions at galleries and museums 4.3 Pictures 5 References

[edit] Select exhibitions

Coffin has exhibited his art solo internationally in museums and galleries including, among others:

• Beating About the Bush, (2004) South London Gallery, London, UK
• Collection (or, How I Spent a Year), (2004) MoMA, New York
• Hello Headspace (2005), Gallery Fonti, Naples, Italy
• The Idea of the Sun (2007), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France.^[2]
• It Chooses You (2004), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
• Natural Habitat (2004), The Paine Art Center, Osh Kosh, Wisconsin
• New Work (2005), Living Room D Lyx Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
• Peter Coffin (2007), Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France^[3]
• Tree Pants (2007), Herald Street, London
• When Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Long Island City, New York

[edit] Galleries

Coffin is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami and Paris and by Herald Street in London.

[edit] Permanent works

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Works by the artist can be seen at:

• Dia:Beacon, New York
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
• The Wanås Foundation sculpture park, Skåne, Sweden:
  • Untitled (Tree Pants); jeans tailored to trees in the park (collaboration with Levi Strauss & Co).

[edit] External links

[edit] Represented by galleries

• Andrew Kreps Gallery, artist page
• Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, artist page
• Herald Street, artist page
• Saatchi-Gallery, artist page

[edit] Exhibitions at galleries and museums

• P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
• Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
• The Wanås Foundation – Out- and indoor art venue in the south of Sweden

[edit] Pictures

• Pictures of Untitled (Tree Pants) at The Wanås Foundation
• Pictures of many works at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
• Peter Coffin at Artfacts.

[edit] References