Born in Ballaghaderreen, Ireland, 1941

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2002 Kurt Schwitters Preis der Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 James Coleman - RHA Gallagher Gallery - Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
James Coleman, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin
James Coleman, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2008 James Coleman: Background, 1991-94, Irish museum of Modern Art – IMMA, Dublin
James Coleman, Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
2007 James Coleman, Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
2006 James Coleman, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
I N I T I A L S by James Coleman, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2005 James Coleman – Part 2: Premiere of a New Work, MNAC – Museum do Chiado, Lisbon
2004 James Coleman, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2002 James Coleman. Drei Filmarbeiten, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Kurt-Schwitters-Preis der Niedersachsischen Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum
Hannover, Hannover
James Coleman, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich
2001 James Coleman – Charon (MIT Project), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
2000 Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
James Coleman – Lapsus Exposure (Falsche Belichtung) 1993, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich
Wiener Secession, Vienna
1997 Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
An Installation by James Coleman, Stedelijk Van Abbe Musuem, Eindhaven  
1996 Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
1995 Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland  
1994 Dia Center for the Arts, New York, New York
1991 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Lisson Gallery, London
1990 Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp  
1989 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands  
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1986 Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
1985  Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, Ireland  
1983 Auditorio da Arquitectura, Esbal, Lisbon, Portugal
Teatro Estudio Citac, Coimbra, Portugal  
1982 Ignotium per Ignotius (a work for theater), De Lantaren, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Shaffy Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Concordia Theater, Enschede, The Netherlands; De Toneelschuur, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Witte Theater, Ijmuiden, The Netherlands  
1981 Franklin Furnace, New York, New York Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Silence, Dublin Contemporary, Ireland
Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland
2010 29° Bienal de São Paulo – Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo Entr’acte – Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2009 La Force de l'Art 02 - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
2007 On History, Curated by Gloria Moure, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Madrid, Spain
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
A Theatre Without Theatre”, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona What does the jellyfish want?”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
A Theatre Without Theatre”, Bernardo Museum – Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
MACBA Im Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
9e Biennale de Lyon 2007, La Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
2006 The 80’s: A Topology of Sense, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
MACBA Collection, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Eldorado, Musée d'Art Moderne de Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Why Pictures Now: Fotografie, Film, Video heute at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Collection of Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Museum of ContemporaryArt (MOT), Tokyo.
A Short History of Performance - Part IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2005 Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 80s, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
States of the Image: Instants and Intervals, Lisboa Photo, Belem Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
The West as Metaphor, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Slide Show, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Be what you want but stay where you are, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Die Regierung: Paradiesische Handlungsräume, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
On Reflection, Modern Irish Art from the 1960’s to the 1990’s, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Slide Show, CAC – Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2004 How Do We Want to Be Governes? (Figure and Ground), Miami Art Center, Miami
Contre-Images, Carre d’Art – Musee d’Art Contemporain de Nimes, Nimes
Biennale of Sydney 2004, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2003 Partners, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
The Squared Circle, Walker Art center, Minneapolis
Zona People 1974-1985 Non Profit Art Space – Firenze, Mamco – Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
2002 Leonardo da Vinci – Dessins et Manuscrits, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Documents 11, Documenta, Kassel
2001 Expanded Cinema: Rotterdam Film Festival, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art- IMMA, Dublin
2000 Somewhere Near Vada, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London, England
Beauté in Fabula, Palais des Papes d'Avignon, Avignon, France
Seeing Time, ZKM – Museum fur Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
1999 Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
So Faraway So Close, Encore Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Geschichten des Augenblicks: An Exhibition on Narration and Slowness, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
1997 4e Biennale de Lyon, La Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
1996 Art and Film since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art at the Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
L'informe: mode d'emploi (Formless: A User's Guide), Musée National d'Art Moderne- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Portraits, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
1995 Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California 
Public Information, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
L'Effet Cinema: Art Contemporain et Cinema, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
1994  Seoul Biennial, Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 
Muybridge, Viola, Hill, Paolini and Coleman, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
1993  Aanwinsten/Acquisitions 1989-1993, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1992  Documenta 9, Kassel
The Ancient Landscape, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
1991  The Projected Image, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Places with a Past, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
Inheritance and Transformation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1990  Irish Art, The European Dimension, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
First Tyne International: A New Necessity, Newcastle, England
Culture and Commentary, an Eighties Perspective, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Le Diaphane, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
Ligne de Mire, Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
1989  Theatergarden Bestiarium, P.S. 1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York; Casino des Exposicións del Teatro Lope de Vega, Seville, Spain; Entrepôt-Galerie du Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
A Photo Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
1988  ROSC '88, Guiness Hop Store, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland  
1987  The Analytical Theater, New Art from Britain (organized by Independent Curators Inc.), Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; University Art Museum, Long Beach, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Lisson Gallery, London
From the Europe of Old, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986  Install-Video-Slide, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
The Mirror and the Lamp, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
In De Maalstroom, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Dark/Light, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario  
1982  Reading Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
Tape Slide, Brisley to Coleman, Six Artists, Tate Gallery, London, England
Video Roma '82, Rome, Italy  
1981  Hibernian Inscape, The Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland
Videoart, Arte Video in Europeo, 2 Fiera di Arte Video, Locarno Switzerland

COMMISSIONS / PROJECTS

2003 Leonardo da Vinci – Dessins et Manuscrits, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

AUSTRIA MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna, Austria
BELGIUM S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium
FRANCE FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque , France
Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris , France
FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen , France
GERMANY Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
IRELAND Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin, Ireland (Republic)
LUXEMBOURG MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
PORTUGAL Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão , Portugal
SPAIN Fundación La Caixa - CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
SWITZERLAND Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
UNITED KINGDOM Tate Britain, London, England
USA MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA , USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA , USA