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 Sue Coe
born 1951 Tamworth England; 1970-73 Royal College of Art, London resides USA, 1972-present all images ©copyright Sue Coe |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1979-present | Interviews || Illustrations in print Selected Group Exhibitions 1977-present | ||||||
| 2018 SUE COE: Graphic Resistance at MOMA PS1, June 3-September 9, 2018 | |||||||
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The Ghosts of Our Meat, curated by Stephen F. Eisenman. The Trout Gallery, Dickson College, Carlisle Pa. November 1, 2013-February 8, 2014. 2012
| "Mad as Hell!" New Work (and Some Classics) by Sue Coe, The Galerie St. Etienne, New York, April 17 - July 3, 2012 2009 Sue Coe: Porkopolis -- Animals and Industry, Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago Illinois. January 2-February 20, 2009 2008 Elephants We Must Never Forget, the Galerie St. Etienne, New York. October 14 - December 20, 2008 2006 Sue Coe: The Last 11 Days, charcoal drawings, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC. December 18, 2005-March 19, 2006 2005 Sue Coe: Sheep of Fools The Galerie St. Etienne, New York. September 20-November 5, 2005 2002 Commitment to the Struggle: The Art of Sue Coe, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence RI September 7-October 27, 2002 One Hand Washes the Other: Prints and Drawings, 1985-2001, Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego New York. March 8-April 7, 2002 2000 The Tragedy of War A New Print Cycle by Sue Coe also including works by Max Beckmann, Jacques Callot, Francicso Goya, George Grosz, Otto Dix, Käthe Kollwitz, Oskar Laske and others. Galerie St. Etienne, New York November 16, 2000-January 6, 2001 The Pit and selections from Porkopolis Lewis & Clark College, Portland Oregon, January 20-March 11 catalog 1999 The Pit: The Tragical Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Vivisector Galerie St. Etienne New York March 30 - June 5, 1999 1996 Sue Coe's Ship of Fools, the Galerie St. Etienne, New York Heel of the Boot: Prints by Sue Coe Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1994 Recent work Galerie St. Etienne, New York Non-Fiction Brody's Gallery, Washington DC Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC 1993 Sue Coe Current Events Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD Porkopolis: Sue Coe's Jungle Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst MA 1992 The Road to the White House Galerie St. Etienne, NYC 1991 Sue Coe Retrospective: Political Document of a Decade, Galerie St. Etienne NYC Porkopolis, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA 1990 Documentations: Sue Coe and Paul Marcus, Brody's Gallery, Washington DC (2 person) 1989 Sue Coe: Porkopolis - Animals and Industry Galerie St. Etienne New York and traveling Police State (UK tour): Museum of Modern Art, Oxford [England]; Cornerhouse, Manchester [England]; Orchard Gallery, Derry [Ireland]; Herbe Art Gallery, Canterbury [England] 1988 City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh NC 1987 Police State(American tour): Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA; Knight Gallery, Charlotte NC; Portland Art Museum, OR; Wesleyan University, Middletown CT; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX; Ohio State University, Columbus OH; San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1986 Sue Coe: The Malcolm X Series P.S. 1, Long Island City X (Malcolm X series) Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago Oppression & Expression (Sue Coe) Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans 1983 Sue Coe P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York 1982 Drums of the Night Moira Kelly Fine Art, London; Compass Four Gallery, Edinburgh 1979 All Over Manhattan Thumb Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | 1977-present Selected Solo Exhibitions | 1979-present 2014 | AMERICANA: Corporate Violence, Overview Galleries, Pérez Art Museum, Miami Florida - ongoing. "The works presented in this gallery feature the wounded, fragmented, or 'disappeared' body and address diverse political contexts and events from the past fifty years. In the U.S., these include the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the more recent interrogations at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay; and in Latin America, the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile and the history of guerilla and drug-related violence in Colombia." 2013 The Animals Look Back at Us, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, September 21 - October 20, 2013. I, You, We, Whitney Museum of American Art, April 25 - September 1, 2013. (online interview and video) 2012 Under the Influence: The Comics, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, February 7-May 12, 2012. 2011 Graphic Radicals: 30 Years of World War 3 Illustated, Exit Art See Holland Cotter review, New York Times 1/14/11 2009 animalkind, curated by Tina Yapelli at San Diego State University. Note the slide show for 6 other artists. 2007 Another Voice: Political Illustration from The Progressive, 1981-1999. Curated by Patrick JB Flynn, with essays by Flynn, Steve Heller and Whitney Sherman. "Illustration, as applied through The Progressive, became an independent voice, sympathetic to the content of the article but not subservient to the text. Rather, the writing served to inform the artist in the creation of concepts responsive to a larger plurality of ideas. The interpretive power of illustration provides objective insight, alternative modes of thought and perhaps a little entertainment by way of satire or humor." Since 2001 [see below] this exhibit, now on-line, has travelled to Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore: September 30-November 6, 2004; Memphis College of Art, Tennessee: October 13-November 11, 2005 and The DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette: March 12-April 12, 2007. 2006 Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, May 3-July 10, 2006 More than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints selected from the museum's collection of Broida works. 2004 East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City December 9, 2004 to March 19, 2005. "The roiling, polymorphous East Village art scene of the 1980's is ready for its close-up, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art is on hand with a camera: 'East Village USA', a motley, incomplete but remarkable exhibition squeezed into the museum's temporary headquarters in Chelsea.", Roberta Smith, New York Times 12/10/04 Democracy in America: Political Satire Then and Now, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe September 1-November 11, 2004 "The exhibition takes its title from the book written in 1836 by Alexis de Tocqueville, who drew a picture of this country that is still regarded as remarkably apposite. The exhibition queries whether the words 'democracy' and 'America' mean anything like what they did in the time of Tocqueville, or to us even as recently as three years ago. Of the 61 pieces in the show, 30 are historic, drawn primarily from the permanent collection [including] wonderful examples by Honoré Daumier, William Hogarth, Thomas Nast, and Leopoldo Mendez. Many of the issues that their works address ring familiar in contemporary politics: pompous legislators who make empty promises, elections bought or stolen, intimidation of voters, candidate 'bashing' by opposing politicians. The more things change the more they stay the same." 2002 "Workers of the World: Modern Images of Labor", Galerie St. Etienne, April 2 - June 15, 2002 "In the spirit of Martin", The living legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, January 13, 2002 - July 28, 2002 and traveling -- the first major Smithsonian exhibition of visual arts dedicated to celebrating this American hero - features 120 works by prominent and emerging artists, including folk artists. The exhibition is a visual testament to the enduring power of King's life and work. This exhibition includes work by such artists as Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Gordon Parks, Andy Warhol, Martin Puryear, Norman Rockwell, Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Robert Rauschenberg, Sue Coe, Emanuel Martinez, Faith Ringgold, Charles Alston, Thorton Dial and Ben Shahn. The Culture of Violence, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. February 2 - March 15 and April 2 - May 17, 2002 Opening reception, Friday, February 1, 2002, 5-7 p.m. An exhibition of works by twenty artists who explore the critical topic of violence in the US, including war, terrorism, hate crimes, domestic violence, youth violence and street crimes. The exhibition cuts across class, color and gender. Artists include Mel Chin, David Wojnarowicz, Kristin Oppenheim, Brad McCallum, Leon Golub, Ida Applebroog, Sue Coe, among others. A related symposium and film series will be offered. The exhibition is guest-curated by Donna Harkavy and Helaine Posner. 2001 juror: 21st Annual State Wide Print Competition, Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery, Alma College, Alma Michigan. November 12-December 13, 2001 Political Illustration of the Late Twentieth Century, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. Illustrations culled from the Madison WI based magazine, The Progressive, curated by Patrick JB Flynn and including original work by Melinda Beck, Lawrence Carroll, Sue Coe, Michael Duffy, Carl Dunn, Henrick Drescher, Bob Gale, Brad Holland, Jordin Isip, Frances Jetter, Stephen Kroninger, David McLimans and Jonathon Rosen. October 16-November 30, 2001 2000 The Path of Resistance, part of the exhibition "Open Ends, the final cycle of the MOMA 2000 exhibitions, explores the period from 1960 to the present, an era that has seen unprecedented cross-pollination among traditional and new artistic mediums and the questioning of conventional boundaries. On view throughout the Museum are masterworks by some of the most influential artists of the past forty years..." The Path of Resistance traces forty years of socially critical and politically charged art and film, with a strong emphasis on prints, photographs, and posters. Organized by Joshua Siegel and Susan Kismaric, Museum of Modern Art, New York through January 30, 2001 Political Illustration of the Late Twentieth Century Ground Zero, Madison Wisconsin. Curated by Patrick JB Flynn. 14 artists whose work appeared in The Progressive: Melinda Beck, Steve Brodner, Lawrence Carroll, Sue Coe, Warrington Colescott, Henrik Drescher, Michael Duffy, Carl Dunn, Brad Holland, Jordin Isip, Frances Jetter, Stephen Kroninger, David McLimans, and Dennis Nechvatal. November 5-December 9, 2000 Thirteenth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition University of Wisconsin - Parkside, Kenosha WI, January 16-February 24, 2000 200 years of Folly: The Legacy of Goya's Caprichos Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon MI / Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI December 2, 1999 - February 18, 2000 1999 The Modern Child: Images of Children in Twentieth Century Art Galerie St. Etienne, New York 1998 TABOO: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art Galerie St. Etienne, New York 1997 On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York 1996 Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95 Museum of Modern Art, New York 1995 On the Brink 1900-2000: The Turning of Two Centuries Galerie St. Etienne, New York 1992 The Road to the White House Brody's Gallery, Washington DC -- with Eric Avery, Jim Ann Howard, Steve Murray Darkness Visible The Drawing Center, New York Scandal, Outrage & Censorship: Controversey in Modern Art Galerie St. Etienne, NYC 1991 The Critical Image Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U. of North Carolina, Greensboro NC News as Muse School 33 Art Center, Baltimore MD Moral Imperatives: Art of Social Protest Boise Art Museum Art of the 1980's: Selections from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection-- Duke University Museum of Art Advocacy in Art Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Artists of Conscience: 16 Years of Social and Political Commentary-- Alternative Museum New York City 1990 Painting Divergence University Art Gallery, Las Cruces NM Contemporary Bestiary Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY Word as Image: American Art 1960-90 Milwaukee Art Museum; Oklahoma Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Life Before Art: Images from the Age of AIDS Carlo LaMagna Gallery, New York The Narrative in Art Galerie St. Etienne, New York 1989 Fine Prints Brody's Gallery, Washington DC Art and the Law, American traveling exhibition organized by West Publishing Company 1988 Committed to Print Museum of Modern Art, New York Rosenberg Era Art Project,"Unknown Secrets" -- traveling exhibition and catalog The Mandela Freedom Concert Wembley Stadium, London 1987 The New Avant-Garde Los Angeles County Museum of Art Process & Product Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, New York 1986 75th American Exhibition Art Institute of Chicago Malcolm X Center for Black Survival El Bohio Gallery, NY The Engaged Image Adelphi University Gallery, Long Island New York 1985 57th Between A and D Holly Solomon Gallery, NY East Village Situation '85 Museum of Modern Art, Catanzaro Italy Innocence and Experience Greenville Country Museum of Art, Greenville SC The Political Landscape Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, NJ 1984 Art as Social Conscience Avery Arts Center, Bard College NY New Portraits P.S. 1, Long Island City NY American Drawings Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum and Ranger Kunstmuseum, Denmark Biennale 111 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1983 Hallwalls, Buffalo NY Seibu Gallery, Tokyo 1981 Images of Labor international traveling exhibition 1980 People's Art United Nations Headquarters, New York 1978 European Illustrators Georges Pompidou Center, Paris 1977 Portraits, American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York RELATED LINKS HOW DO I GO VEGAN (why going vegan is easy, and how to do it!) 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