Peter Coffin (artist)

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.

Photo documentation of Peter Coffin's outdoor cloud installation.

Peter Coffin is currently collaborating with Al Jaffee inspired by his undergraduate personal encounter with the modern dance choreographer Twyla Tharp.[1] He is the nephew of artist Robert Smithson who introduced Coffin to the study of plant consciousness before Smithson died July 20, 1973 when Coffin was just a year old.[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

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

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

Here and There (2013), Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., U.S.
Peter Coffin (2013), The National Exemplar, New York City, U.S.
The Prelapsarian (2012), Carl Kostyál Gallery, London, United Kingdom
All Robots Welcome (2010), Social Grease Gallery, Liechtenstein[5]
Don't Knock If You Wouldn't Enter (2009), Al Abarr gallery, Dubai, UAE.[6]
Model of the Universe (e.g. sweet harmonica solo, e.g. the idea of the sun, e.g. Frisbee dog catch in mid air, e.g. brightly colored gem stomes, e.g. the desire for a tropical drink, e.g. dance sweat) (2007), Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France[7]
Tree Pants (2007), The Horticultural Society of New York, Peter Coffin & Djordje Ozbolt, Herald St. London, United Kingdom
The Idea of the Sun (2007), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France.[8]
Limousine Code (2005), Living Room D Lyx Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
Hello Headspace (2005), Gallery Fonti, Naples, Italy
The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer (2005), Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, U.S.[9]
Collection (or, How I Spent a Year) (2004), MoMA, New York City, U.S.
Turn on the Lights (2004), South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
It Chooses You (2004), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City, U.S.
Natural Habits (2004), The Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.
When Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Long Island City, New York City, U.S.

Galleries

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

Permanent works

Works by the artist can be seen at:

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
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).
MoMA, New York, NY [10]
Storm King Art Center New Windsor, NY [11]

Audio work

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]

gollark: How did com.com break that? People typing in just "com"? Wouldn't that just resolve to the top level domain?

gollark: I was looking at getting one of those when replacing my bad free .tk domain (there's nothing really wrong with the TLD beyond the registrar being kind of bad, but their free plan allows my use of it to be randomly cancelled and the DNS service is kind of awful), but I just got osmarks.net instead.

gollark: Anyway, while I don't think any 3-letter .com domains still exist, it turns out you *can* get a lot of [3-character jumble].[2-letter country code for some weird place] domains rather cheaply still.

gollark: According to this random internet website™ com.com is also mildly important because people may accidentally type it a lot.

gollark: I agree, I just never make mistakes.

References

"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-09. Retrieved 2008-02-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-01-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"New work by artist peter coffin". 2009-02-03.
Peter Coffion biography
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2020-05-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Peter Coffin Artfacts.
Le Confort Moderne Artfacts
Champion Fine Art, "The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer", May 2005
"The Collection | MoMA".
"Light & Landscape - Peter Coffin".
http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/greater_new_york.html WPS1 Art Radio (Accessed 2008-12-04)
http://greenmuseum.org/c/alch_gard/peter_coffin.html Green Museum Website. (Accessed 2008-12-04)

External links

Peter Coffin Studio, artist page
Saatchi-Gallery, artist page
Peter Coffin at Artfacts

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[1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-09. Retrieved 2008-02-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2010-01-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "New work by artist peter coffin". 2009-02-03.

[4] Peter Coffion biography

[6] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2020-05-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[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] ttp://www.wps1.org/include/shows/greater_new_york.html WPS1 Art Radio (Accessed 2008-12-04)

[13] ttp://greenmuseum.org/c/alch_gard/peter_coffin.html Green Museum Website. (Accessed 2008-12-04)