Michael Coughlan
BORN 1966, Pittsburgh, PA Lives and works in Los Angeles EDUCATION Rhode Island School of Design, BFA 1988 California Institute of the Arts, MFA 1991 GRANTS 1996 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1994 TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Bliss, Pasadena, CA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1996 "True.Bliss.," LACE, Hollywood, CA "Los Angeles Visits," Three Day Weekend, P-House, Tokyo, Japan "Available Space," Gallery A, Santa Monica, CA LACE Auction, LACE, Hollywood, CA "Fancy Pants," Fred Segal, Los Angeles, CA Venice Art Walk Auction, Benefit for Venice Family Clinic, Venice, CA 1995 "Greatist Hits," TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Smells Like Vinyl," Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY "Luciano Perna," Bennet Roberts Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica Museum of Art Auction, Santa Monica, CA Venice Art Walk Auction, Venice Family Clinic Benefit, Venice, CA "Oblique," Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Gramercy International Art Fair, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, CA "Doug Hammett's Second Annual Christmas Tree Show," TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Thanks," Three Day Weekend, 758 E. 14th St., Los Angeles, CA "Object of Metaphor," Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA "Summer 1994," TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Dave's Not Here," Three Day Weekend, 758 E. 14th St., Los Angeles, CA 1993 "Salad Days," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Malfunction," Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Michael Coughlan, Barbara Gallucci," TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1992 "FAR BAZAAR," with Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant and Kent Young, Old Federal Building, Los Angeles, CA "FIAR International Prize: Art Under Thirty," traveling group exhibition (organized by Marc Selwyn), Rome, Milan, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles (catalog) 1991 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA BIBLIOGRAPHY 1992 Selwyn, Marc, "FIAR International Prize: Art Under Thirty," catalog 1993 Wilson, William, "Local Tradition Alive in FIAR Exhibit," Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1993 Kandel, Susan, "Oblique Send Ups," Los Angeles Times, June 3, 1993 1994 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 1995 Stallings, Tyler, Art Issues, Jan./Feb. 1995 Auerbach, Lisa Anne, Artforum, Jan. 1995 1996 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 back to Michael Coughlan