Exhibitions

Sideshow

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."

Many special events, lectures and performances, including opening lectures by Ricky and Jay and performances by "American Horror Story: Freak Show" actor Mat Fraser.

Ninth Annual BLAB show

September 13, 2014 to October 4, 2014

Copro Gallery Curated by Monte Beauchamp, the exhibition featured Coleman as well as other frequent BLAB! contributors.

Raw Vision: 25 Years of Art Brut

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.

Hey! Modern Art & Pop Culture Part II: Halle Saint Pierre

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.

One on One

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.

The Annual Exhibition

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/

Houdini: Art and Magic

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

Joe Coleman - Auto-Portrait

October 28, 2010 to December 22, 2010

Centering around an almost-life-size full-length self-portrait, AUTO-PORTRAIT is an exhibition of new work which provides a fascinating insight into the life of this artist. Around this large-scale composition will be a series of small, religious icons. Painting on 'found' folding dyptichs and tryptichs, Coleman has produced a group of family portraits, self portraits, and highly personal subjects, with the intensity of religious icons.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

http://www.simondickinson.com/

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Joe Coleman: AutoPortrait

October 28, 2010 to December 22, 2010

NEW YORK—Dickinson is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based painter Joe Coleman.

The Artist:
Coleman’s portraits create complete biographies by surrounding their subjects with interweavings of minuscule images and explanatory text. Artist and viewer embark on exploratory excavations of the subject’s life through the painting. Coleman’s jewel-box approach means that one experiences the paintings afresh at each viewing, uncovering ever more details and nuances that were previously undetected. An admirer of Northern artists such as Bosch, Brueghel and Grunewald, Coleman employs the same attention to detail and delicate sense of scale, utilizing dual and single haired brushes in conjunction with magnifying lenses to create his refined masterpieces. Like those artists, Coleman also displays a propensity for the gruesome and grisly and often attempts to both dissect and glorify the terrible in many of his paintings, unmasking with brutal honesty the truth of human nature.

The Exhibition:
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.

Around this large-scale composition will be a series of small, religious icons. Painting on 'found' folding dyptichs and tryptichs, coleman has produced a group of family portraits, self portraits, and highly personal subjects, with the intensity of religious icons. The devotional format not only gives each picture a sense of veneration, but also references Coleman's long-professed obsession with early renaissance painting.

Auto-biography has long been the focus of Joe Coleman's painting, and this new body of work represents the artist's most personal and intimate group of paintings to date. None of the works in the show have been previously exhibited or published.

A fully illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition.

The Endless Renaissance

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/