KIM COLEMAN
ABOUT
Kim Coleman, (b. Northern Ireland, 1976) is an artist working with stage-lighting, expanded moving-image, live performance, and photography. Her solo and collaborative works have been staged at Nottingham Contemporary, Tate St.Ives, Palais de Tokyo, Tate Britain, The Tom of Finland Foundation, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, The Showroom, The ICA, Frieze Projects for Frieze London, Serpentine Screen, Minneapolis Film Festival, MS Dockville, Block Universe, Glasgow International, Jerwood Visual Arts, The Athens Biennale, and Edinburgh Art Festival. She has taught at numerous art and design institutions including Chelsea College of Art, Reading School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Camberwell School of Art, London College of Fashion, Gray's Aberdeen, and VIA, Aarhus (Denmark).
Kim creates live events and installations that consider affective dynamics within and between bodies. Her moving images and light works are often co-authored, allowing for examination of how hers and other's perspectives are expressed and combine together within individual artworks created by more than one person, such as with co-authors Jenny Hogarth, Cara Tolmie, Susie Green, and Laura Buckley. Kim finds meaning in queering video, lighting, and photographic technologies, employing video cameras or 'intelligent' light fixtures in deviant or non-conforming ways. Her colour photograms and photographs are images made with light in the velvet obscurity of the darkroom. They function to index and expand upon their time-based counterparts. Some depict glass objects - vases, drinking glasses, candle holders, sex toys - which refract and reflect light that passes though them. These objects stand in for the body or bodies and articulate experiences and feelings within and between them. Others are made on location and are used to examine structures and biases at significant cultural sites, most recently gender-based power dynamics and how these relate to the material of light at the Bauhaus.
TEXTS
(2022) What the flame of a candle looks like after the candle has been blown out ~ Inga Fraser on Coleman's cameraless photography
(2021) On Reflection ~ Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth write for AXIS on their moving image commission and their coauthorship
(2021) Mechanics of Love ~Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth interviewed by Rachel Warriner on their new video The Mechanics of Love
(2018) If They be Two ~ Press text for Kim Coleman and Susie Green's coauthored exhibition at Five Years, London
(2010) Staged ~ Publication for Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth's Staged commission for the City of Edinburgh. With text by Francis McKee.
CV/BIO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES, INCLUDING CO-AUTHORED WORKS
++co-authored with Jenny Hogarth / *co-authored with Susie Green/ **co-authored with Cara Tolmie and Zoe Poluch/
***co-authored with Matthew Noel-Tod / +co-authored with Laura Buckley
2021 THE MECHANICS OF LOVE, ONLINE SCREENING EVENT. AXISWEB ONLINE (UK) ++
2019 OHMMG, LIVE PERFORMANCE, FESTIVAL OF THE NOT, CIRCA PROJECTS, NEWCASTLE (UK)
2018 IF THEY BE TWO, FIVE YEARS, LONDON *
2017 APHELION SLIP, BLOCK UNIVERSE PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, LONDON (UK) **
2016 POLARISED, BLOCK 336, LONDON +
2014 WINTER SUN, KINGS CROSS GRANARY SQUARE LONDON (UK)
2013 IF YOU CAN'T SEE MY MIRRORS I CAN'T SEE YOU, CIRCA PROJECTS, NEWCASTLE ++
2011 AN INFUSION OF THE EVENING AIR, GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL, GLASGOW (UK) ++
2010 STAGED, THE CITY OBSERVATORY, EDINBURGH ART FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH ++
2009 GLARE, S1 ARTSPACE, SHEFFIELD ++
2009 ACT NATURAL, PICTURE THIS, BRISTOL ++
2009 PLAYERS, FRIEZE ART FAIR, LONDON ++
2008 BOYLE FAMILY RE-ENACTMENT, ICA, LONDON (UK) ++
2007 ONE MAN SHOW. MASTERS SHOW, CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
2006 TIMEBANK, ASSOCIATES, LONDON ++
2005 DEMONSTRATION, TATE BRITAIN, LONDON (UK) ++
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS
2022 IMMEDIATE ABORTION ACCESS FUND AUCTION, ARTSY. CURATED BY GRANDMA COLLECTIVE (online)
2022 ENTER CHORUS, PANG PROJECTS, LAB ART STUDIO, BARCELONA (ES)
2022 MELTDOWN, RIDLEY PROJECT SPACE, LONDON (UK)
2021 GRACE BEFORE JONES, NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY (UK)
2021 EMPTY ROOMS FULL OF LOVE, FRAC CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE (FR)
2020 HEAVEN AND HELL, TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE, LA (USA)
2020 CLUB GODDESS, KUNSTRAUM, LONDON (UK)
2019 LATE AT TATE, TATE ST IVES (UK)
2019 AUTHENTICITY, VESTOJ FOR LA MANUTENTION, PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS (FR)
2016 HERE IS INFORMATION, MOBILISE, THE SHOWROOM, LONDON (UK) ***
2013 ASSEMBLY, JERWOOD VISUAL ARTS, LONDON (UK)
2013 ABSTRACT MOVEMENT, TALBOT RICE GALLERY, EDINBURGH (UK)
2012 YOUNG LONDON, V22, LONDON (UK)
2012 DETROIT, LUX ASSOCIATE ARTISTS PRESENTATION, LONDON
2012 MY BODY LYING IN THE HEATHER SCREENING AT MK GALLERY, Milton Keynes
2011 EXPERIMENTAL FILM SECTIONS MINNEAPOLIS FILM FESTIVAL
2011 PEEPING TOM KUNSTHALL KAdE, AMERFOORT, NETHERLANDS
2011 YOUNG LONDON, V22, LONDON
2010 OVER AND OVER, THE FORGOTTEN BAR, BERLIN
2010 TOGETHER CATALYST ARTS, BELFAST
2010 USE AND MENTION GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY GALLERY
2009 SMALL MOMENTS OF FANTASTIC THINGS ,ANTJE WACHS, BERLIN
2009 SET IT UP AND GO, APS ARTNEWS PROJECTS, BERLIN
2009 LOOK NO HANDS, CELL PROJET SPACE, LONDON
2009 LITTLE GALLERY ON HOXTON STREET, LIMONCELLO LONDON
2008 MEMBER SHOW, SELECTORS: MICHAEL BRACEWELL + LINDER. STUDIO VOLTAIRE. LDN
2007 YOUNG ATHENIANS 1ST ATHENS, BIENNIAL. ATHENS.
2005 THE EMBASSY AT ZOO ART FAIR
2005 CREATIVE REVIEW PROJECT ROOMS GLASGOW
2005 DO NOT INTERRUPT YOUR ACTIVITIES ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART LONDON
2005 CONQUESTS AND TECHNIQUES, THE SHIP, LONDON
2004 AMARYLLIS SILLYRAMA GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS
2003 SHOW 2, MAGNIFITAT EDINBURGH
2003 PLATFORM, THEY WAYGOOD NEWCASTLE
2003 THE GLOW IN THE DARK ISSUE, MAGNIFITAT, EDINBURGH
2002 SWITCHSPACE AT THE CHATEAU, GLASGOW (UK) *
2002 MAGNIFITAT AND OTHER ROOMS, MAGNIFITAT, EDINBURGH
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND DEVELOPING YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE GRANT (UK)
2021 LUX ARTIST IN RESIDENCE (UK)
2021 AXISWEB - NEW WORK PROJECT GRANT (UK)
2021 ARTIST BURSARY FOR NEW MOVING IMAGE WORK THE ELEPHANT TRUST (UK)
2019 GALLERY RESIDENCY FIVE YEARS GALLERY, LONDON (UK)
2018 PHD STUDENTSHIP ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK)
2017 ARTIST BURSARY FOR NEW MOVING IMAGE WORK THE ELEPHANT TRUST (UK)
2016 ARTIST DEVELOPMENT BURSARY A-N, ARTISTS NEWSLETTER (UK)
2016 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE †† BLOCK 336 LONDON (UK)
2012 ARTIST FELLOW Δ NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND (UK)
2011 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE MSDOCKVILLE FESTIVAL, HAMBURG (GER)
NEW MOVING IMAGE WORK GRANT THE LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
2008 ARTIST BURSARY THE ELEPHANT TRUST (UK)
2008 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. SOUTH WEST SCREEN AND PICTURE THIS (UK)++
2007 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD. FOR BOYLE COLLABORATION, CREATIVE SCOTLAND (UK) ++
MUSIC / DESIGN COLLABORATIONS
2014 OF THE SHADOW. HAT COLLECTION. COLLABORATION WITH NOEL STEWART MILLINERY. LONDON (UK)
2014 US/EU TOUR STAGE SHOW. SET, MOVING IMAGE, LIGHTING AND COSTUME FOR FRANZ FERDINAND (DOMINO RECORDS)
2014 US/EU TOUR STAGE SHOW. VIDEO, LIGHTING AND SET DESIGN FOR DJANGO DJANGO (BECAUSE MUSIC)
2013 UK TOUR LIVE STAGE SHOW. VIDEO LIGHTING AND SET DESIGN FOR FOR VERONICA FALLS (BELLA UNION)
2012 US/EU TOUR LIVE STAGE SHOW. VIDEO, LIGHTING, SET DESIGN FOR DJANGO DJANGO(BECAUSE MUSIC)
2011 MUSIC VIDEO. FOR DJANGO DJANGO'S 'WAVEFORMS' SINGLE (BECUASE MUSIC)
2011 DESIGN AND LIGHTING FOR DJANGO DJANGO'S 'BLACKBOX SESSION', THE ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON
ACTIVIST PROJECTS
2019 BURNING EARTH. MOVING-IMAGE INTERVENTION FOR CLIMATE PROTESTS, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON (UK)=
COLLECTIONS
TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION, LA (US)
FEATURED IN BOOKS
2019 SALON FOR A SPECULATIVE FUTURE, (MA BIBLIOTHEQUE)
2014 YOUNG LONDON (V22)
2009 NEW GENERATION: ARTIST DIRECTORY (PHAIDON)
2009 NOUGHT TO SIXTY AT THE ICA, (ICA)
2006 YOUNG ATHENIANS (ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY)
2005 DO NOT INTERRUPT YOUR ACTIVITIES (ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART)
SELECTED PRESS
2019 Festival of the Not. Adam Pugh, Art Monthly
2010 Interview about 'Staged'. BBC Radio Scotland
2010 Review of Staged. Agnieszka Gratza in The Guardian
2009 Exhibit A-List. Linda Yablonsky, T Magazine, The New York Times
2009 Frieze Projects. Miranda Sawyer, Frieze Art Fair: not deaf to the times, The Observer
2009 Frieze Art Fair. Adrian Searle, Park life for the Frieze art fair, The Guardian magazine
2009 Review of Glare. Jonathan Griffen Frieze magazine online
2008 Review of Nought to Sixty at the ICA. Sally O’Reilly Art Review
2006 Review of Timebank. Sally O’Reilly Art Review
TEACHING
Kim's is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London - London College of Fashion (School of Media and Communication) and at Chelsea College of Art and Design (BA and MA Fine Art). She has also been a visiting artist at Reading School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Camberwell School of Art, London College of Fashion, Gray's Aberdeen, and VIA, Aarhus (Denmark).
EDUCATION
2022 PhD Fine Art Practice, Reading School of Art (UK)
2010 LUX Associate Artists Programs (UK)
2008 MA Fine Art Chelsea College of Art and Design (UK)
2001 BA Fine Art (Tapestry) Edinburgh College of Art (UK)
CONTACT
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