Peter Coffin (born 1972,

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) is an artist based in

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. Coffin's work is exhibited internationally and featured in several prominent collections. Peter Coffin is currently collaborating with

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inspired by his undergraduate personal encounter with the modern dance choreographer

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. 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

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Education

Coffin received a BS and BA from the University of California, Davis in 1995 and MFA from

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in 2000.

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

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, 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,

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*''Don't Knock If You Wouldn't Enter'' (2009), Al Abarr gallery,

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, UAE. *''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,

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, France *''Tree Pants'' (2007)
The Horticultural Society of New York
Herald St.

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, United Kingdom *''The Idea of the Sun'' (2007), Le Confort Moderne,

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, France. *''Limousine Code'' (2005), Living Room D Lyx Gallery,

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, Sweden *''Hello Headspace'' (2005), Gallery Fonti,

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, Italy *'' The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer'' (2005), Champion Fine Art,

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, U.S. *''Collection (or, How I Spent a Year)'' (2004),

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, U.S. *''Turn on the Lights'' (2004),

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, United Kingdom *''It Chooses You'' (2004), Andrew Kreps Gallery,

, U.S. *''Natural Habits'' (2004), The Paine Art Center,

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, U.S. *''When Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body'' Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich,

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, U.S.

Galleries

Coffin is represented b
Herald Street
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in

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. Peter Coffin also recently exhibited a
Venus Over Manhattan
in New York with the solo exhibitio
A.E.I.O.U.

Permanent works

Works by the artist can be seen at: *

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, Aspen, CO *

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, Detroit, MI * The Wanås Foundation sculpture park, Skåne, Sweden: ** ''Untitled (Tree Pants)''; jeans tailored to trees in the park (collaboration with

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). *

, New York, NY *

Storm King Art Center Storm King Art Center, commonly referred to as Storm King and named after its proximity to Storm King Mountain, is an open-air museum located in New Windsor, New York. It contains what is perhaps the largest collection of contemporary outdo ...

New Windsor, NY

Audio work

In 2005, Coffin released the ''Music for Plants'' compilation album with tracks from forty artists including

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, Sun Burned Hand of the Man, Jutta Koether, Alan Licht & Tom Verlaine, LoVid,

Christian Marclay Christian Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality. Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records ...

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, and

Mice Parade Mice Parade is an American shoegaze band from New York City, led by percussionist Adam Pierce. ''Mice Parade'' is an anagram of Pierce's name. Biography Adam Pierce started Mice Parade as a solo project while he also played in groups including ...

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References

External links

Peter Coffin Studio
artist page

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