'In her laconic sculpture and video installations, Marion Coutts mythologizes the mundane.
With the insouciance and economy of a professional magician, she makes the one-dimensional
multidimensional and transforms stale habit into compelling ritual.'
James Hall, Artforum
selected solo exhibitions
2008 |
Wellcome Collection, London |
2007 |
New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire |
2005 |
Tablet, London |
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge |
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2004 |
2 Princelet Street, London |
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham |
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2003 |
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge |
firstsite, Colchester |
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2002 |
Chisenhale Gallery, London |
2001 |
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth |
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool |
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2000 |
Yorkshire Sculpture Park |
selected group exhibitions
2009 |
Drawing 2009, The Drawing Room |
2007 |
Artfutures, Bloomberg Space |
Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room |
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Art Basle |
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2006 |
Responding to Rome: Estorick Collection, London |
All for Show, Nexus, Philadelphia |
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Ball of Fame, ex-Vitra Design Museum, Berlin |
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2005 |
To be continued . . . Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland |
RCA Secret 2005 |
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Artfutures, Bloomberg Space |
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Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London |
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Staged, Danielle Arnaud, London |
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Spoilt Rotten, Oriel Davies, Wales |
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All for Show, Studio 205, Chicago, touring US |
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2004 |
See it…Read it… Works from the Arts Council Collection, Drogheda Arts Centre, Ireland |
Front, Front, London |
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Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable |
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2003 |
The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle |
2002 |
Fair Play, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham |
Games People Play, Storey Gallery, Lancaster |
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2001 |
Vito Acconci/Troubleshooting, Arnolfini, Bristol |
Fair Play, Danielle Arnaud, London |
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Cinematexas, Austin, Texas |
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Images, Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto, Canada, |
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Broadcast, Clissold Park, London |
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2000 |
Viatico, Galerie Ek, Frankfurt |
Dodorama, Dodorama, Rotterdam |
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Laboratory, firstsite, Colchester |
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New Work, The Mappin, Sheffield |
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Without Day, City Art Centre, Edinburgh |
fellowships/ awards/ commissions
2005-08 |
Reading Columns, permanent public artworks, Artists in the City, Reading |
2003-04 |
Kettle’s Yard Fellowship, St John’s College, University of Cambridge |
Everglade, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella |
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2003 |
Goldsmiths College, Research Award |
2002 |
No Evil Star, Hancock Museum, Newcastle, commissioned by Locus + |
Woo Foundation Award |
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Momart Fellowship, Tate Liverpool |
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2000 |
London Arts Board Award |
1999 |
Rome Scholarship, British School at Rome |
1995 |
British Council Montréal, Professional Exchange Grant |
1994 |
The Pollock-Krasner Award |
1989-90 |
British Council Scholarship, State School for the Arts, Wroclaw, Poland |
study
Edinburgh College of Art, BA Fine Art, 1982-1986
teaching
Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, London
Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts, London
Research Fellow, Norwich School of Art and Design 2007-2009
Senior Visiting lecturer, Norwich School of Art and Design, 2004-05
Visiting lectures: Central St Martins | University of Newcastle (2004) | Cambridge University History of Art Graduate Centre
Royal Academy Schools | Norwich School of Art |
Middlesex School of Art (2003) |
Hull School of Art | University of Leeds (2001)
selected screenings
Miss China Beauty Room, Paris | Cafe Gallery, London | Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam | Studio 1:1, London | Lump Gallery, North Carolina
Studio 207, Chicago | Fahrenheit,
Kansas City | Soap Factory, Minneapolis | Physics Room, Christchurch NZ | KX, Hamburg | Dodorama, Rotterdam
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels | Tate Liverpool
public talks/ conferences
Wellcome Collection, Twenty Six Things explored (2008) | New Art Gallery Walsall, Artists in Residence (2007)
Tate Modern, The Teaching Imperative (2006) |
Helsinki Kunsthalle, To be continued… (2005) | Angel Row, Nottingham (2004)
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge | firstsite, Colchester, (2003) | Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth |
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool | Tate Liverpool (2001)
collections
Arts Council England, Financial Services Authority, Wellcome Collection, Contemporary Art Society, private collections
publications
2009 |
Project Biennale, anthology of artists, writers, postgraduate curating students |
2006 |
Responding to Rome, British Artists in Rome 1995-2005
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2005 |
To be continued….British Council/ Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, essays by Ian Hunt, Brett Rogers, Mika Elo, David Campany |
2003 |
Marion Coutts, Kettle’s Yard, essay by Elizabeth Fisher |
2004 |
Whitstable Biennale: Material, essays by Christine Gist, Steven Bode, Antonio GuzmanISBN 0-954889-0-7 |
2003 |
Marion Coutts, Film and Video Umbrella/ firstsite, |
2001 |
No Evil Star, CD rom, Locus+
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Vito Acconci/Troubleshooting, Arnolfini, Bristol, essay by Catsou Roberts |
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2000 |
Marion Coutts, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, essay by Tom Lubbock
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