JENNIFER COATES
b. Surrey, England
Jennifer Coates is an artist working in Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA. She will have a solo presentation at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami with High Noon Gallery in December of 2022. Her work will be featured in “And So Did Pleasure Take the Hand of Sorrow and They Wandered Through the Land of Joy” a group show centered around the drawings of Marsden Hartley, opening October 2022 at the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, ME. Recent solo shows include Para Pastoral at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Lesser Gods of Lakewood PA at High Noon Gallery, NYC; and Pagan Forest, West Chester University. Recent group shows include Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NYC, Post Pop Landscapes at Acquavella Galleries in NYC and Palm Beach, FL, curated by Todd Bradway. She is the 2021 recipient of the John Koch Art Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2021 NYFA Award in painting, a 2019 Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency (2018-2019). Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, the Huffington Post, Smithsonian Journeys, and Two Coats of Paint, among other publications.
RESUME
EDUCATION
2001 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
1995 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and University of Pennsylvania, PA
ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Untitled Miami 2022, High Hoon, Miami FL (upcoming)
"Para Pastoral," Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY
2021 Lesser Gods of Lakewood, PA, High Noon, New York, NY
Covid Metamorphoses, High Noon and George Gallery, New York, NY
Pagan Forest, Knauer Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
2020 Toxic Halo, High Noon, New York, NY
2018 Electric Mayhem, Jennifer Coates (w. Caroline Chandler), Crush Curatorial, New York, NY
Correspondences, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY
2017 All U Can Eat, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
Phrogz, Jennifer Coates (w. David Humphrey), Fiendish Plots, Lincoln, NE
2016 Carb Load, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer Coates (w. David Humphrey) at Front Gallery, Houston, TX
2015 Jennifer Coates (w. David Humphrey) at Arts & Leisure, New York, NY
2014 Jennifer Coates (w. Tom Burckhardt) at Valentine Gallery, Queens, NY
2008 Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York, NY
2006 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2004 Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 "Psychedelic Landscape," Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY (upcoming)
"Unnatural Nature," Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY and Palm Beach, FL
"Preternatural," Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2021 Further In Summer Than the Birds, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Painting the Narrative, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Magic Garden, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY
2020 Animal Crossing, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Winter Picnic, SFA Projects, New York, NY
A La Carte, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2019 American Earthquake, Vacation Gallery, New York, NY
Chew, Opalka Gallery at Sage College, Albany, NY
Off the Menu, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Plastic Garden, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
Off the Menu, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Dance with Me, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
Sense of Place, 1Gap Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Quirk, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
New York, Just Like I Pictured It, Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Rainbow of Chaos, St. Charles Projects, Baltimore, MD
20x16 Biennial, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Summer of Love, Freight & Volume, New York, NY
Sense of Place, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sour Milk, 73 Orchard Place, Greenwich, CT
2017 The Secret Life of Plants, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
Music Seen, LABSpace, Hillsdale, NY
Summer Invitational, David Schweitzer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Cake Hole, Mrs. Gallery, Queens, NY
Abandoned Luncheonette, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 They're Made Out of Meat, Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Secret Life of Plants, co-curated with Nick Lawrence at Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY
2016 The Swerve, co-curated with Lauren Adams at Ortega Y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Tossed, co-organized with Rachel Schmidhofer at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY
2013 Of-fence, De-fence, Ursa Major Arts, Great Barrington, MA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2021 John Koch Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
NYFA Award in Painting
2019 Civitella Ranieri Foundation
2018-2019 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program
2015-2016 Stewart/MacMillan Endowed Chair in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
2008-2009 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
1996 Vermont Studio Center
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 David Brody "Mystery Cult: Jennifer Coates in a Brush with Mythology." Artsatl, March 2022
James J.A Mercer, "Jennifer Coates and the Landscape's Afterglow." Two Coats of Paint, January 2022
2021 Seph Rodney. ""Jennifer Coates Communes with the Gods of Nighttime Revelry" Hyperallergic, December 2021
Interview with Paul Whiting, Two Coats of Paint, June 2021
2020 Interview with Etty Yaniv, Artspiel, April, 2020
Interview with Stephen Ellis, Bomb Magazine, January 2020
2019 Chew: Food As Muse, Albany Times Union, November 20, 2019
Artists Magazine, Food Issue, September, 2019
2018 Millree Hughes, “Free Festival,” Culture Catch, June 2018
Interview with Elena Sisto, Art Critical, April, 2018
Tom McGlynn, "Jennifer Coates: Correspondences," The Brooklyn Rail, April, 2018
Sharon Butler, "Jennifer Coates: Lullabies for Difficult Times," Two Coats of Paint, April 2018
One Piece, "Spring Trees by Jennifer Coates," Bomb Magazine, April 2018
2017 Catherine Haggarty, The Secret Life of Plants, Curator, July, 2017
William Eckhardt Kohler, "All U Can Eat, Jennifer Coates at Freight and Volume," Huffington Post, March, 2017
Chris Bors, Jennifer Coates' Sweet and Savory Fare, Artist as Critic, April, 2017
Sharon Butler, "A Brief History of Food in Art," Smithsonian Magazine, January 2017
2016 Sharon Butler, "The Swerve: When Wrong Goes Right," Two Coats of Paint, February, 2016
Pencil in the Studio, by Maria Calandra
2015 K. Sundberg, "Two Shows Explore the Origin and Influence of Painter Marsden Hartley," artsy.net
Melissa Stern, "7 Contemporary Takes on Marsden Hartley," Hyperallergic, February 20, 2015
2014 Sharon Butler, "Food and Beverage Art," Two Coats of Paint, July, 2014
2011 Roberta Smith, Art in Review, "Vivid: Currents in Female Painting," New York Times, January 20, 2011
2008 Elliot Green, "Jennifer Coates," ArtNews, November, 2008
Chris Bors, "Jennifer Coates in New York," Artinfo.com, September, 2008
Sharon Mesmer
2007 Paddy Johnson, Art F City
Lost at E Minor
2006 Kienle, Jensen, "Fantasy, Melancholy and Angst, NY Arts Magazine, July, 2006
2004 Survey of Contemporary Painters, Flash Art Magazine, September 2004
Joyce Korotkin, "Jennifer Coates and Rick Levinson," M - The New York Art World, December 2004
Amanda Church, "Colored Pencil," Art on Paper, Summer 2004
Benjamin Genocchio, "A Backup Plan with Refined Results," New York Times, May 30, 2004