Coleman Collins is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher who explores the ways that gradual, iterative processes can have outsized effects over time. His work often identifies migration patterns, technological developments, and relationships of debt and obligation as the modes through which these processes are enacted.
Recent exhibitions and screenings have taken place at Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles; Soldes, Los Angeles; the Palestine Festival of Literature, Jerusalem/Ramallah; Larder, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; Brief Histories, New York; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. Collins is a 2022 recipient of a Graham Foundation research grant. He has also received support from NYFA and Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation. He received an MFA from UCLA in 2018, and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. In 2019, he participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
mail@colemancollins.info
RECENTLY
« LEVELING » | FEB 23 - APR 6 | EHRLICH STEINBERG | LOS ANGELES, CA
« VIRTUAL VOLUME » | SOLDES | DEC 2 - DEC 30 | LOS ANGELES, CA
« ATAVISM FOR THE FUTURE » | EHRLICH STEINBERG | NOV 10 - DEC 23 | LOS ANGELES, CA
«SOLID PROJECTIONS» | LARDER GALLERY | LOS ANGELES, CA (2023)
«AI ASSEMBLY» | MONTALVO ARTS CENTER | SARATOGA, CA (2023)
«DISTANCING, DETERMINING» | PALFEST | JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH (2023)
«BODY ERRATA » | BRIEF HISTORIES | NEW YORK, NY (2022)
«POST-PERFORMANCE VIDEO» | MUSÉE CARRÉ D’ART | NÎMES, FRANCE (2021/22)
«CYBERNETICS OF THE POOR» | KUNSTHALLE WIEN | WIEN, ÖSTERREICH (2021)
« WET CONCEPTUALISM » | THE OPENING GALLERY | NEW YORK, NY (2023)
«AUGURYTHMS » | HESSE FLATOW | NEW YORK, NY (2022)
«INHERITANCE » | BRIEF HISTORIES | NEW YORK, NY (2022)
«ONEIROCRITICA» | NOTHING SPECIAL | LOS ANGELES, CA (2020)
PRESS
« ‘VIRTUAL VOLUME’ MAKES SPACE A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT» | DOCUMENT JOURNAL | DECEMBER 2023
« ARTIST, WRITER, EDUCATOR» | UC IRVINE | DECEMBER 2023
« SOLID PROJECTIONS» | ARTILLERY MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER 2023
« COLEMAN COLLINS + BRIEF HISTORIES » | BROOKLYN RAIL | MARCH 2023
«WET CONCEPTUALISM» | BROOKLYN RAIL | FEBUARY 2023
«NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S AXE: COLEMAN COLLINS AT BRIEF HISTORIES » | ART IN AMERICA | 2022
«REFLECTIONS ON COLEMAN COLLINS’ BODY ERRATA AT BRIEF HISTORIES, NY » | THIRD TEXT | 2022
«DEVIN KENNY + COLEMAN COLLINS » | OUTLAND | 2021
OLDER WORKS
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND (2018)
LES BARBIERS DE SÉBASTOPOL (2017)
LOST WAX POSITIVE, RED (2019)
WATER ALWAYS FINDS ITS OWN LEVEL (2018)
DISTANCING, DETERMINING (2018)
THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES (2018)
MISE-EN-ABYME (2017)
SELECTED WRITING
DIVE | SIBYL’S MOUTHS | MIT PRESS (2023)
ON ROMANCE IN MARSEILLE | BOMB MAGAZINE (2020)
INTIMACY AT A DISTANCE | NADNOW JOURNAL (2020)
THE DANGER OF WALKING TALL | ESPN (2015)
ON LEAVING UKRAINE | ESPN (2014)