James Coleman (artist)
James Coleman (* 1941 in Ballaghaderreen , Ireland ) is an Irish conceptual artist . He mainly works with video and slide installations.
James Coleman studied in Dublin at the National College of Art and Design and at University College Dublin . He then spent some time in Paris and London before moving to Milan for around 20 years . Today he lives and works in Dublin again. In June 2006 he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the National University of Ireland , Galway .
He represented Ireland at the 1973 Paris Biennale . At documenta 12 in Kassel 2007, James Coleman showed the film Retake with Evidence with actor Harvey Keitel .
In 2002 Coleman received the Kurt Schwitters Prize for Fine Art from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation .
Important exhibitions
- Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid, 2012
- Irish Museum of Modern Art , Projects Arts Center , Royal Hibernian Academy , Dublin, 2009
- documenta 12 , Kassel, 2007
- Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, 2006
- Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin, 2006
- Biennale of Sydney , Sydney, 2004
- Miami Art Central (MAC), 2004
- Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich, 2002
- Documenta11 , Kassel, 2002
- Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern , London, 2000
- 4th Biennale de Lyon , Lyon, 1997
- documenta X , Kassel, 1997
- DOCUMENTA IX , Kassel, 1992
- Paris Biennale 1973
literature
- George Baker (Ed.): James Coleman , October Files, Cambridge, Mass .: MIT, 2003, ISBN 0-262-52341-8
- Dorothea von Hantelmann : How to Do Things with Art. On the importance of the performativity of art , Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes, 2007, ISBN 978-3-03734-009-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 247 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Coleman, James |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish concept artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ballaghaderreen , Ireland |