Michael Coughlan
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1991 California Institute of the Arts, MFA, Valencia, CA
1988 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting
Grants and Residencies
2011 Atlantic Center for the Arts, Residency and Joan Mitchell Residency Grant, New Smyrna Beach, FL
1996 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Council St. Projects, Los Angeles, CA - “Atavistic Impulses b/w Tales of the Unheimlich”
2022 RDFA, Los Angeles, CA - “Addicted to the Anxiety of Not Knowing”
2006 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Michael Coughlan”
2005 Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark - “We Have (Had) the Technology”
2000 Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark - “Michael Coughlan”
1999 Sara Meltzer’s On View, New York, NY - “Telephone” w/ Jory Felice
1998 Works On Paper, Los Angeles, CA - “Telephone” w/ Jory Felice
1997 Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA - “Michael Coughlan”
1994 TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Michael Coughlan”
1993 Bliss, Pasadena, CA - “Oblique Objects”
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark - “On View 24 - Works from the Stalke Collection”
2023 Idolwild Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Songs About UFOs”
2022 Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark - “On View 18 - Works from the Stalke Collection”
2021 RDFA, Los Angeles, CA - “Fummer Sun”
RDFA, Los Angeles, CA - “Fun House”
2020 Foamcorp Gallery (online) - “Foamcorp Inaugural”
2017 Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark - “On View 10 - Works from the Stalke Collection”
2016 Wilding Cran Gallery, LA, CA - “TRI(...ed) – Revisiting TRI Gallery”
Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark - “Flashback and Guests”
2014 The End is Near, Brooklyn, NY - “Dime Bag 4”
2012 Santa Monica Museum of Art Auction, CA - “Incognito”
2009 Stalke Up North, Copenhagen, DK - “Congrats, No Regrets”
Silvershed, New York, NY curated by Miles Coolidge - “Decomplexion”
2008 Skovbo Kunstfoening, Borup, Denmark - “Five Americans,”
2007 Stalke Up North, Gilleleje, Denmark - “Stalke Up North”
The Fallout Gallery, Las Vegas, NV - “Group Drawing Show”
MOCA Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA - “Fresh”
2006 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Benjamin Butler,
Michael Coughlan, Dietmar Lutz, Ian Patrick, Neil Rumming”
2005 Future Prospects Gallery, Republic of the Phillipines -“Works on Paper”
MOCA Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA - “Fresh”
2004 General Store, Milwaukee, WI - “Four Color Pen Show”
Locust Projects, Miami, FL - “Four Color Pen Show”
4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Tar Pit Tales”
2003 White Columns, New York, NY - “Mama’s Boy”
Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Drip City”
2002 Luckman Gallery, Cal-State LA, Los Angeles, CA - “Painting and Illustration” curated by Adam Ross
Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark - “Group Exhibit”
The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY - “Panorama”
New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA - “Dime Bag,” curated by Jordin Isip
2001 Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles, CA - “Coughlan, Reeder, Ruth, Weatherford,”
curated by Laura Owens
Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA - “Cross Cuts”
Yamagata Studio, Malibu, CA - “LA/NY Benefit Exhibit”
2000 CRG Gallery, New York, NY - “All Things Everything True” curated by Jessica Bronson
1999 30 Paris House, London, England - “The Manchurian Candidate”
Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark - “On Paper”
LACE, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) - “Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Auction”
1998 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog) - “LA or Lilliput?”
Works On Paper Inc., Los Angeles, CA - “Flaming June”
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA - “Local Heroes”
San Francisco Art Institute, McBean Gallery, CA - “Wings of Desire”
Appenzell, Switzerland - “Three Day Weekend at Wahlverwandtschaften”
1997 Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark - “Quartzose”
Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA - “The Eagle Rock Show”
Pace Gallery, Greene St., New York, NY - “Group Exhibition”
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA - “Ten Los Angeles Artists”
1996 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) - “True.Bliss.”
P-House, Tokyo, Japan - “Three Day Weekend - Los Angeles Visits”
Gallery A, Santa Monica, CA - “Available Space”
Fred Segal, Los Angeles, CA - “Fancy Pants”
1995 TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Greatest Hits”
Roger Merrians Gallery, New York, NY - “Smells Like Vinyl”
Bennet Roberts Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA - “Luciano Perna”
Fred Segal, Los Angeles, CA - “Fancy Pants”
Santa Monica Museum of Art Auction, CA
Roger Merrians Gallery, New York, NY - “Oblique”
1994 TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Doug Hammett’s Second Annual Christmas Tree Show”
Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA - “Thanks”
Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA - “Object of Metaphor”
TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Summer 1994”
Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA - “Dave’s Not Here”
1993 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Salad Days”
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Malfunction”
TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - “Michael Coughlan, Barbara Gallucci”
1993 Old Federal Building, Los Angeles, CA - “FAR BAZAAR”
Paris, London, Rome, Milan, Los Angeles - “F.I.A.R. International Prize: Art Under Thirty”, Traveling Group Exhibition organized by Mark Selwyn
Selected Bibliography
Davis, Genie, “Funhouse – New Gallery, Lively Group Show,” Art and Cake (online), Nov. 23, 2021
Brooks, Amra, “Must see Art,” LA Weekly, Aug. 4-10, 2006, p.54
Tumlir, Jan, “Figures of Fun”, Exhibition Catalog for Michael Coughlan We Have (Had) The Technology, Stalke Galleri, June 2004, p.8-11
Ise, Claudine, “Coughlan, Reeder, Ruth, Weatherford,” Tema Celeste, Sept-Oct., 2001, p.86
Pagel, David, “Down to Earth and Eye-Catching,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 16, 2001
Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week, Cross-Cuts,” LA Weekly, Nov. 2-8, 2001, p.132
Anton, Saul, “Michael Coughlan and Jory Felice, Telephone,” Time Out, New York, Jan. 6-13, 2000, p.65
“Telephone,” The New Yorker, Jan 10, 2000, p.16
Lunenfeld, Peter, Snap to Grid, A Users Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Cultures, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, London, England 2000
Darling, Michael, “Michael Coughlan and Jory Felice’s ‘Telephone’ at Works on Paper,” L.A. Weekly, Dec. 18-24, 1998, p.43
Wilson, William, “‘Lilliput’: Small Art in the Big City of LA,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 24, 1998,
p. F-10
Baltin, Brian, “Small is Psychedelic,” L.A. Weekly, Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 1998
Darling, Michael, “L.A. or Lilliput?,” L.A. or Lilliput? catalog, Long Beach Museum of Art, Oct. 1998, p.6
Webster, Mary, “Wings of Desire and Mark Bradford at the San Francisco Art Institute,” Artweek, April 1998, p.19
Helfand, Glen, “Wings of Desire/Floss,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, Feb. 20-27, 1998
Baker, Kenneth, “LA Trained Artists Shown at Art Institute,” San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 19,1998, E-4
Kandel, Susan, “Making a Fashion Statement of Subtlety in ‘Fancy Pants’,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 7, 1996, F-11
Joyce, Julie, “Neutral Grounds/Fertile Territory: A History of Bliss,” True. Bliss. catalog, 1996
Stallings, Tyler, “Michael Coughlan,” Art Issues, Jan./Feb. 1995, p.38
Auerbach, Lisa Anne, “Michael Coughlan, TRI Gallery” Artforum, Jan. 1995, p.92
Kandel, Susan, “Jokester,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1994, P- F-13
Knight, Christopher, “The Highs Were High the Lows Were Low,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 25, 1994, Calendar, p.70
Kandel, Susan, “Oblique Send Ups,” Los Angeles Times, June 3, 1993
Wilson, William, “Local Tradition Alive in FIAR Exhibit,” Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1992
Selwyn, Marc, FIAR International Prize: Art Under Thirty, catalog, 1992