James Coleman (Irish artist)

James Coleman, born in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon in 1941, is an Irish installation and video artist associated with slide-tape works: sequences of still images fading one into the other with synchronized sound. Often, social situations are depicted with a precision which, paradoxically, creates a narrative ambiguity.

James Coleman studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and at University College, Dublin and then spent time in Paris and London before moving to Milan, where he stayed for twenty years. He now lives and works in Ireland. He represented Ireland in the 1973 Paris Biennale.

He was conferred with the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa by the National University of Ireland at NUI Galway in June 2006.

Work in collections

• S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
• Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
• Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne
• Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
• Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

External links

• Exhibited at DIA Chelsea
• Irish Museum of Modern Art announces purchase of important works by James Coleman.
• Aosdána biographical note

References

• Paula Murphy (2002), Coleman, James in Brian Lalor (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2