Miles Coolidge — Biography



1963 Born

 

EDUCATION

1994/93    Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992        MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1986        AB, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007        Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2006        ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2005/04    “Drawbridges,” Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France

2004        “Mound Postcard Posters,” Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
“Drawbridges,” Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria

2003        “Drawbridges,” Casey Kaplan, New York; ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2002        “Observatory Circle,” Galerie Capitain, Cologne, Germany
“Traffic,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2001        ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
“The Central Valley,” Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University,
Witchita, Kansas

2000        Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
“Mattawa,” Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

1998    “Central Valley,” Casey Kaplan, New York
“Central Valley,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA
James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Moundbuilders Golf Course,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA

1996    “Elevator Pictures,” Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
“Garage Pictures,” ACME, Santa Monica, CA
“Garage Pictures,” Casey Kaplan, New York
“Safteyville,” ACME, Santa Monica, CA

1994    “Elevator Pictures,” Re: Solution Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Hollywood, CA

1992        “In Its Place,” Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
“Palindromes,” Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(*catalogue)

2007    "From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art," Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me,” Presentation House Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada
"Re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Now is The Winter,” Proekt Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
"ELOI: Stumbling Towards Paradise," curated by Ciara Ennis, University of California Riverside, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA

2006    “First the artist defines meaning,” curated by Reinhard Braun and Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Camera-Austria, Graz, Austria
“Modern Photographs from the Collection XII,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, NY
   “Studio City: Contemporary Photography From Los Angeles,” Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Pescali & Spovieri, London, UK
“Staging Reality,” The West Collection, Oaks, Pennsylvania*

2005        "The Party," Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY

2004        “H2O,” Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
       “31 + Flavors,” Antai Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
       “Zeme-Krajina/Land-Landschaft,” rkouske kultirni forum, Prague, Czech Republic

2003-2004    “ACME @ Inman,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
“Only Skin Deep National Survey Exhibition,” International Center of Photography,
       New York, NY    

2003        “4th Austrian Triennial on Photography,” Graz, Austria *
“Incidence Urbaine,” Galerie Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
"Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain*
“Sightseeing: Austrian Triennial of Photography,” Graz Austria*
“Imperfect Innocence,” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland; Pallm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL*
“Conversations,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Miles Coolidge, Kevin Hanley, Darcy Huebler, & Aaron Morse,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2002    “Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny,” MCA, Chicago; Samuel P. Ham Museum, University of Florida*
“Global Address,” USC Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
“Summer Cinema,” Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY
"Majestic Sprawl: Recent Los Angeles Photography," Pasedena Museum of California Art, Pasedena, CA
“New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Faculty Exhibition,” University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, CA
“LACPS Member’s Exhibition,” curated by Ann Goldstein Santa Monica Museum,
Santa Monica, CA
“Strolling Through an Ancient Shrine and Garden,” ACME, Los Angeles, CA

2001    “The Wedding Show’, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, NY
“Trade,” Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam*
“not a theme show,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
“Phigment,” Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
“New Settlements,” Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
“OUTLOOK, earth scaped,” Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000        “Supermodel,” Mass Moca, North Adams, MA
“Unapocalyptic: The Future That Never Was,” USC Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
“escape-space,” Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany*
“Beyond Boundaries: California Contemporary Photography,” University Art Museum, CSLUB, Long Beach, CA, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts, Santa Barbara, CA
“Made in California 1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
“Flight Patterns,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1999    “C.O.L.A, Individual Artist Grants 1999,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
   Los Angeles, CA
“Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
“City of Los Angeles Individual Artists Grants 1999,” Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
“Tomorrow Forever - Photography as a Ruin,” Kusthalle Krems,
Krems, Austria*
“Sliding Scale,” South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, curated by Ron Platt

1998-99    “Thinking Aloud,” Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England, traveled to:
Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, Camden Arts Center, London, England

1998        “Landscapes,” Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA
   “Picturing Modernity: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” SFMOMA,
San Francisco, CA
“Urban Landscapes,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
“New Ways of Living,” Royal College of Art, London, England
“Sightings,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
“Selections from the Permanent Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
“Jeff Burton, Miles Coolidge, Annika von Hausswolff, Jonathan Monk, Karen Yasinsky,” Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
“LA On Paper 2; Fantastic Matter of Fact,” Galerie Krinsinger, Vienna, Austria
“pop surrealism,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“June/July,” Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
“Thinking Aloud,” Kettles Yard, Cambridge, England
“L.A. or Lilliput?” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1997    “Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990’s," curated by Douglas Fogle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN,
“Elsewhere,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Inside Story,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Defamiliar: Julie Becker, Miles Coolidge, Thomas Demand,” Regen Projects,
Los Angeles, CA
“The Big Picture: Recent Acquisitions in Photography,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, New York
“Angel Hair - EX.LA.,” Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, curated by
Michael Kapinos
“Transport,” Post, Los Angeles, CA
“World Speak Dumb”, Karen Lovegrove, Melbourne, Australia

1996    “The Lie of the Land,” University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
“Location Location,” curated by Marcia Tanner, Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose, San Jose, CA
“Skin Deep,” Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
“Left of Center: New Art from L.A.,” 10 in 1 Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995    “Redevelopment,” Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
“Hollywood Boulevard Is Sinking,” Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
“Late Photography,” Food House, Santa Monica, CA

1994        “Rundgang,” Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

1993        “LACPS Members’ Exhibition,” Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA


PUBLIC PROJECTS

2003    Instead of a Bridge [permanent installation], Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, Fort Lauderdale, FL
       Hauptplatz Graz, Graz, Austria

2002    The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio [billboard], Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, NY


PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Lannan Foundation, Sante Fe, NM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N


FELLOWSHIPS

1998-99    Individual Artist Grant, City of Los Angeles, 1998-9
1993-94    DAAD Annual Grant, Traveling Fellowship, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany


PUBLICATIONS

Mark, Coetzee,  Not Afraid: The Rubell Family Collection, London: Phaidon, 2004.
Cotton, Charlotte, The Photograph as Contemporary Art. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2004.
Dennison, Lisa, Nancy Spector and Joan Young, Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,
   Spain 2003-2004.
Fenz, Werner, Sight.Seeing, 4th Austrian Triennial on Photography, Graz, Austria, 2003
Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny, MCA, Chicago, Samuel P. Ham Museum, University of Florida, 2002
Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, 2001
escape_space, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany, 2000
ZOO, Purple House Ltd., London, England, issue 1, March 1999.
Sightings: New Photographic Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London,
England, 1998.
Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990’s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1997.
“Central Valley,” Art & Design #51: Art and the Home, London, England, November 1996.
The Affordable Housing Challenge (with Ann Gelbspan), Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA 1988.


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