Miles Coolidge

Geboren 1963 in Montreal. Ausbildung an der Harvard University, A. B. 1986, Visual and Environmental Studies am California Institute of the Arts, Department of Photography, M.F.A. 1992 und an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Klasse von Bernd Becher, Postgraduate fellowship, 1993-94. Lebt in Los Angeles.

Born in 1963 in Montreal. Studied at Harvard University, A. B. 1986, Visual and Environmental Studies at California Institute of the Arts, Department of Photography, M.F.A. 1992 and at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, class of Bernd Becher, postgraduate fellowship, 1993-94. Lives in Los Angeles.

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Einzelausstellungen / Solo Exhibitions 2002 Observatory Circle, Galerie Capitain, Köln; Traffic, ACME, Los Angeles; 2001 Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; ACME, Los Angeles; 2000 Mattawa, Casey Kaplan, New York; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris; 1998 Central Valley, Casey Kaplan, New York, ACME, Los Angeles; James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels; Moundbuilder's Golf Course, ACME, Los Angeles; 1996 Elevator Pictures, Casey Kaplan, New York; Garage Pictures, ACME, Santa Monica, Casey Kaplan, New York; Safetyville, ACME, Santa Monica; 1994 Elevator Pictures, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Hollywood; 1992 In Its Place, Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA;

Ausstellungsbeteiligungen / Group Exhibitions 2002 Majestic Sprawl, Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena; Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny, MCA, Chicago, Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida (K/c); Global Address, USC Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; 2001 The Wedding Show, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York; Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Schweiz, Fotoinstituut, Rotterdam, (K/c); not a theme show, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh; Phigment, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA; New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, København; 2000 Flight Patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Made In California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Beyond Boundaries: California Contemporary Photography, University Art Museum, CSLUB, Long Beach, CA, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, Friends of Photography, San Francisco; escape space, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, (K/c); Unapocalyptic: The Future That Never Was, USC Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; SUPERMODEL, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; 1999 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Grants 1999, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Photography: An Expanded View – Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Tomorrow Forever – Photography as Ruin, Kunsthalle Krems, (K/c); Sliding Scale, SECCA, South Carolina; 1998 L.A. or Lilliput?, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; Thinking Aloud, Kettles Yard, Cambridge; Jeff Burton, Miles Coolidge, Annika von Hausswolf, Jonathan Monk, Karen Yasinsky, Casey Kaplan, New York; pop surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Urban Landscapes. Miles Coolidge, Marin Kasimir, Katja Liebman, Steven Pippin, Victoria Miro, London; LA On Paper 2. Fantastic Matter of Fact, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien (Co-curated by 3 Day Weekend); The Campaign Against Living Miserably, Royal College of Art, London; Sightings, Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Picturing Modernity: Selections from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco; Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle; June/July, Casey Kaplan, New York; 1997 Stills, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta; Rena Bransten, San Francisco; Elsewhere, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Transport, Post, Los Angeles; Angel Hair, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig; The Big Picture: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; World Speak Dumb, Karyn Lovegrove, Melbourne; Defamiliar, Regen Projects, Los Angeles; 1996 The Lie of the Land, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara; Location, Location, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Skin Deep, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles; Left of Center: New Art from L.A., 10 in 1 Gallery, Chicago; 1995 Hollywood Boulevard Is Sinking, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles; Redevelopment, Victoria Room, San Francisco; Late Photography, Food House, Santa Monica; 1994 Rundgang, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; 1993 LACPS Members’ Exhibition, Santa Monica Museum (curated by Ann Goldstein);

Öffentliche Projekte / Public Projects 2002 The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio [Billboard], Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York;

Stipendien / Grants 1998/99 Individual Artist Grant, City of Los Angeles; 1993/94 DAAD Annual Grant (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst);

Bibliografie / Bibliography Victoria Martin, ’Global Address’ at USC Fisher Gallery, in: Artweek, April 2002; Frances Colpitt, Miles Coolidge at ACME, in: Art in America, October 2001; Nadja Rottner, Miles Coolidge, in: Camera Austria, 76/2001; Nadja Rottner, Miles Coolidge, in: NY ARTS, September 2000; Sarah Gavlak, Miles Coolidge, ‘Mattawa’, in: Time Out, New York, October 5-12 2000; Hellen Molesworth, Nowheresville, in: frieze, January/Febuary 1999; Gordon Haines, Miles Coolidge, in: Art Issues, November/December 1998; Susan Todd-Raque, Tableaux: Ten Contemporary Photographers, in: Art Papers, March-April 1998; Stuart Koop, World Speak Dumb, in: Art & Text, August-October 1997; Deborah Hennessey, Art Lover’s Lost Highway, in: Broadsheet, Vol. 26, No.2, 1997; Kathleen Magnan, Space Probes, in: World Art, May 1997; Soo-Jin Kim, Some Models, in: X-Tra, Spring 1997; Miles Coolidge, Central Valley, in: Art & Design nr. 51: Art and the Home; Ezra Shales, Miles Coolidge at Casey Kaplan, Review, December 1., 1996; Stephanie Cash, Miles Coolidge at Casey M. Kaplan, in: Art in America, October 1996; Michael Darling, Miles Coolidge, Art Issues, March/April 1996; Deborah Wilk, Reviews: Left of Center, New Art Examiner, March 1996; The Affordable Housing Challenge (with Ann Gelbspan), Boston Society of Architects, Boston MA 1988;

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*Abkürzungen / abbreviations: K/c: Katalog / catalogue ed.: editor eds.: editors