Exhibitions
January 13, 2015 to May 20, 2015
Yale University Art Galleries
“Side Show” presents more than 70 works by 29 artists — including Diane Arbus, Otto Dix, John Waters, and Riva Lehrer — ranging from the mid-18th century to the present. The show includes original sideshow banners, props, promotional cards, photographs, historical ephemera, and works of art inspired by circus and carnival culture from the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), Yale Medical School Library, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the International Center of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and private collections."
September 13, 2014 to October 4, 2014
Copro Gallery Curated by Monte Beauchamp, the exhibition featured Coleman as well as other frequent BLAB! contributors.
January 25, 2013 to August 23, 2013
Halle Saint Pierre, Paris Joe is represented by 11 paintings in the show including his masterwork, Doorway to Joe.
September 18, 2013 to August 22, 2014
Halle Saint Pierre, Paris A celebration of the groundbreaking magazine Raw Vision, now in its 25th year of publication. The show features several of Joe's paintings and some rarely seen early work. More about the show HERE.
October 29, 2010 to March 27, 2011
The Jewish Museum, New York City.
Traveled to The Skirball Center, Los Angeles, CA, April – September 4, 2011
The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco CA, October 2, 2011 – January 16, 2012
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, February 11, 2012 – May 13, 2012
January 25, 2012 to April 29, 2012
The National Academy Museum New York, NY Featuring works by over 100 artists and architects, the Annual reveals the cross-generational dialogue occurring in the art world by juxtaposing contemporary masters with emerging and mid-career artists, showcasing Academicians and invited artists and architects. Joe Coleman's painting Mary Bell is in the exhibition and the catalog. http://www.nationalacademy.org/art-museum/exhibitions/
November 11, 2012 to January 20, 2013
KW Institute, Berlin Germany
“Alone in the space with the art, one-on-one with a work that was made for the single individual, in a direct and inescapable interaction — intimate and confrontational.”
Visitors entered a room in total darkness. A bright light shines on a man sitting at a table and painting toy soldiers. The table is covered with a brutal battle scene.
Joe is portrayed by several actors of different genders and ethnicities.
October 28, 2010 to December 22, 2010
Dickinson Gallery
New York
Centering around a full-length self-portrait, the artist’s largest and most ambitious painting to date, AUTO-PORTRAIT is an exhibition of new work which provides a fascinating insight into the life of this artist. Depicting himself almost life-size, this portrait is set against the usual tapestry of minuscule portraits and scenes from the artist’s life, presenting the viewer with captivating insights into the enigmatic artist at its center.
A fully illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition.
January 30, 2009 to April 26, 2009
Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany.
Included Coleman’s “Portrait of Charles Manson”, “As You Look Into the Eye of the Cyclops..” and “American Venus”.
April 16, 2009 to August 1, 2009
Bass Museum, Miami
Coleman’s work is displayed alongside works by Nicole Eisenman, Byron Kim, Thomas Struth and others inspired by the Renassiance.
“Joe Coleman’s Portrait of Carlos Gesualdo is perhaps the artist’s most explicitly conceited painting to echo the structure of medieval forms of narrative imagery, since here Coleman portrays the medieval composer-murderer within a structure meant to suggest manuscript illumination, altarpiece or stained glass window. Coleman’s legendary obsession with violence, the grotesque, death, and pathos, influenced by a range of artists from Bosch and Breughel to Goya, is noted by a selection of Goya’s etchings from the Disasters of War.”
https://www.bassmuseum.org/art/endless-renaissance/