Joe Coleman is a world-renowned painter, writer and performer who
has exhibited for four decades in major museums throughout the
world including one-man exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in
Paris, the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin,
the Barbican Centre in London, Tilton Gallery and Dickinson Gallery
in New York. He was recently featured in the ground-breaking
"Unrealism" show in Miami presented by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry
Gagosian.
His performance work from the 1980's was some of the most radical
of its time, and can be seen in the films "Mondo New York" (1988)
and "Captured" (2008). The new book on extreme performance, "Avant
Garde from Below: Transgressive Performance from Iggy Pop to Joe
Coleman and G.G. Allin" by Clemens Marschall, explores Coleman's
influence during this pivotal period.
An avid and passionate collector, Coleman's "Odditorium" is a
private museum where sideshow objects, wax figures, crime artifacts
and works of religious devotion live together to form a dark mirror
that reflects the alternative side of the American psyche. His work
has been published in numerous books, prints and records.
Joe Coleman was the subject of an award-winning feature length
documentary, "Rest in Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman" (1997). He
has appeared in acting roles in films such as Asia Argento's
"Scarlet Diva" (2000) and "The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man"
(2015). He lives with his wife Whitney Ward in Brooklyn, New York.
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