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*[[Anonymous Was a Woman]], Artist Grant (2007)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*[[Anonymous Was a Woman]], Artist Grant (2007)
*Art Matters, Inc., Artist Grant (1989)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*Art Matters, Inc., Artist Grant (1989)
*Asian Cultural Council, Japan Fellowship (1992/1993)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*Asian Cultural Council, Japan Fellowship (1992/1993)
*Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Foundation, Sculpture Fellowship (1987)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Foundation, Sculpture Fellowship (1987)
* [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship]] (1989)<ref name=DIA>{{cite web|title=Artist Bio--Petah Coyne|url=http://www.dia.org/exhibitions/artiststake/bios/coyne_bio.html|work=Artists Take on Detroit|publisher=Detroit Institute of Arts|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship]] (1989)<ref name=DIA>{{cite web|title=Artist Bio--Petah Coyne|url=http://www.dia.org/exhibitions/artiststake/bios/coyne_bio.html|work=Artists Take on Detroit|publisher=Detroit Institute of Arts|access-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref>
*National Endowment for the Arts, International Exchange Fellowship (1990)
*Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, New Works Grant (1989)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*National Endowment for the Arts, International Exchange Fellowship, France (1990)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship (1990)
*National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship (1990)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*National Endowment for the Arts, US/Mexico Creative Artists' Residency Grant, International Exchange (1994)
*National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship (1990)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship (1988)
*New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship (1988)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., Artists Grant (1987)
*Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., Artists Grant (1987)<ref name="ABOUT" />
* [[Joan Mitchell Foundation Award]] for Sculpture (1998)
* [[Joan Mitchell]] Foundation Award for Sculpture (1998)<ref name="ABOUT" />
*The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency (1990)
*The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency (1990)<ref name="ABOUT" />
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'''Petah Coyne''' (born 1953) is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=ABOUT|url=https://www.petahcoyne.org/about|website=Petah Coyne|language=en|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral, from incorporating dead fish, mud, sticks, hay, hair, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk flowers, to more recently, velvet, taxidermy, and cast wax statuary.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=Spotlight>{{cite web|title=Artist Spotlight: Petah Coyne–How to Hang 150 Pounds of Wax from the Ceiling|url=http://womeninthearts.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/artist-spotlight-petah-coyne%E2%80%93how-to-hang-150-pounds-of-wax-from-the-ceiling/|work=Broad Strokes: NMWA's Blog for the 21st Century|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref> Coyne's sculptures and photographs have been the subject of more than 30 solo museum exhibitions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.galerielelong.com/artists/petah-coyne|title=Petah Coyne - Artists - Galerie Lelong|website=www.galerielelong.com|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref>
'''Petah Coyne''' (born 1953) is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=ABOUT|url=https://www.petahcoyne.org/about|website=Petah Coyne|language=en|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral, from incorporating dead fish, mud, sticks, hay, hair, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk flowers, to more recently, velvet, taxidermy, and cast wax statuary.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=Spotlight>{{cite web|title=Artist Spotlight: Petah Coyne–How to Hang 150 Pounds of Wax from the Ceiling|url=http://womeninthearts.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/artist-spotlight-petah-coyne%E2%80%93how-to-hang-150-pounds-of-wax-from-the-ceiling/|work=Broad Strokes: NMWA's Blog for the 21st Century|access-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref> Coyne's sculptures and photographs have been the subject of more than 30 solo museum exhibitions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.galerielelong.com/artists/petah-coyne|title=Petah Coyne - Artists - Galerie Lelong|website=www.galerielelong.com|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref>


Her work is in numerous permanent museum collections, including the [[Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], the [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]], the [[Denver Art Museum]], the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]], the [[Smithsonian Institution]], the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], the [[Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art]], [[Kiasma]], in Finland, the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal]], the [[Toledo Museum of Art]], the [[High Museum of Art]], the [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]],<ref>Dobrztbski, Judith H. (October 6, 1998). [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/arts/steadily-weaving-toward-her-goal-petah-coyne-s-art-strategy-has-its-scary.html "Steadily Weaving Toward Her Goal; Petah Coyne's Art Strategy Has Its Scary Moments"]. ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> and the [[Nasher Museum of Art]] at [[Duke University]].<ref>Vogel, Carol (January 20, 2006). [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/arts/design/20voge.html "A Titian Travels to Washington"]. ''New York Times''.</ref><ref name=":0" />
Her work is in numerous permanent museum collections, including the [[Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], the [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]], the [[Denver Art Museum]], the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]], the [[Smithsonian Institution]], the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]], the [[Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art]], [[Kiasma]] in Finland, the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal]], the [[Toledo Museum of Art]], the [[High Museum of Art]], the [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]],<ref>Dobrztbski, Judith H. (October 6, 1998). [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/arts/steadily-weaving-toward-her-goal-petah-coyne-s-art-strategy-has-its-scary.html "Steadily Weaving Toward Her Goal; Petah Coyne's Art Strategy Has Its Scary Moments"]. ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref> and the [[Nasher Museum of Art]] at [[Duke University]].<ref>Vogel, Carol (January 20, 2006). [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/arts/design/20voge.html "A Titian Travels to Washington"]. ''New York Times''.</ref><ref name=":0" />


Select awards given to Petah Coyne include the [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship]], the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, the [[Joan Mitchell Foundation Award|Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculpture Grant]], the Asian Cultural Council Japan Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship, the [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award|Anonymous Was a Woman Artist Grant]], the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Foundation Sculpture Fellowship, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities New Works Grant, and the Art Matters Artist Grant. <ref name=":0" />
Select awards given to Petah Coyne include the [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship]], the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, the [[Joan Mitchell Foundation Award|Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculpture Grant]], the Asian Cultural Council Japan Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship, the [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award|Anonymous Was a Woman Artist Grant]], the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Foundation Sculpture Fellowship, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities New Works Grant, and the Art Matters Artist Grant. <ref name=":0" />


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Coyne was born in [[Oklahoma City|Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]] in 1953<ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book |last1=Phaidon Editors |title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=0714878774 |page=109}}</ref> to a military family that moved frequently before settling in [[Dayton, OH|Dayton, Ohio]].<ref name="NYT">{{cite web|last=Dobrzynski|first=Judith H.|title=Steadily Weaving Toward Her Goal; Petah Coyne's Art Strategy Has Its Scary Moments|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/arts/steadily-weaving-toward-her-goal-petah-coyne-s-art-strategy-has-its-scary.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|work=New York Times|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Spotlight" /> Although Coyne graduated from Oakwood High School, her mother home-schooled her in the summer so she could pass a number of classes early, making it possible for her to attend art classes at the [[University of Dayton]], go to local foundries, create bronze castings, and go on painting expeditions.<ref name=NYT /><ref name=Spotlight /> She attended [[Kent State University]] from 1972-1973 and then the [[Art Academy of Cincinnati]], from which she graduated in 1977.<ref name=National>{{cite web|title=Petah Coyne|url=http://www.nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/petah-coyne|work=National Museum of Women in the Arts|accessdate=June 3, 2013}}</ref>
Coyne was born in [[Oklahoma City|Oklahoma City, Oklahoma]] in 1953<ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book |last1=Phaidon Editors |title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=109}}</ref> to a military family that moved frequently before settling in [[Dayton, OH|Dayton, Ohio]].<ref name="NYT">{{cite web|last=Dobrzynski|first=Judith H.|title=Steadily Weaving Toward Her Goal; Petah Coyne's Art Strategy Has Its Scary Moments|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/arts/steadily-weaving-toward-her-goal-petah-coyne-s-art-strategy-has-its-scary.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|work=New York Times|access-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Spotlight" /> Although Coyne graduated from Oakwood High School, her mother home-schooled her in the summer so she could pass a number of classes early, making it possible for her to attend art classes at the [[University of Dayton]], go to local foundries, create bronze castings, and go on painting expeditions.<ref name=NYT /><ref name=Spotlight /> She attended [[Kent State University]] from 1972-1973 and then the [[Art Academy of Cincinnati]], from which she graduated in 1977.<ref name=National>{{cite web|title=Petah Coyne|url=http://www.nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/petah-coyne|work=National Museum of Women in the Arts|access-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref>
[[File:PCA 766L Shainman Installation 300dpi edit.jpg|thumb|306x306px|"Petah Coyne: Recent Sculpture," 1994]]
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She moved in 1977 with her husband, Lamar Hall, from Ohio to [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]].<ref name="Sheets">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/arts/design/petah-coyne-guerrilla-girls.html|title=An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices|last=Sheets|first=Hilarie M.|date=2018-09-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


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She moved in 1977 with her husband, Lamar Hall, from Ohio to [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]].<ref name="Sheets">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/arts/design/petah-coyne-guerrilla-girls.html|title=An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices|last=Sheets|first=Hilarie M.|date=2018-09-13|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==Career==
==Career==
[[File:Untitled -1458 (Marguerite Duras).jpg|thumb|''Untitled #1458 (Marguerite Duras)'', 2019-2020, [[National Museum of Women in the Arts]], Washington, D.C.]]
Coyne lives and works in New York.<ref>Richards, Judith Olch (ed.) (2004) ''Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York''. ICI. New York.</ref> Recent solo exhibitions include: "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return" at [[Galerie Lelong|Galerie Lelong & Co.]] (2018), "Petah Coyne: A Free Life" at Nunu Fine Art (2016), and "Petah Coyne: Everything that Rises Must Converge" at the [[Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art]] (2010). A list of her solo and group exhibitions can be found on her [https://www.petahcoyne.org/artist-cv resume]. Coyne is represented by Galerie Lelong & Co., in New York, and Nunu Fine Art in Taipei, Taiwan.<ref name=":0" />
Coyne lives and works in New York.<ref>Richards, Judith Olch (ed.) (2004) ''Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York''. ICI. New York.</ref> Recent solo exhibitions include: "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return" at [[Galerie Lelong|Galerie Lelong & Co.]] (2018), "Petah Coyne: A Free Life" at Nunu Fine Art (2016), and "Petah Coyne: Everything that Rises Must Converge" at the [[Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art]] (2010). Coyne is represented by Galerie Lelong & Co., in New York, and Nunu Fine Art in Taipei, Taiwan.<ref name=":0" />


===Recent solo exhibitions===
===Recent solo exhibitions===


==== "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return'',"'' at Galerie Lelong & Co., 2018 ====
==== "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return''"'' at Galerie Lelong & Co., 2018 ====
In 2018 Coyne had her first solo exhibition in New York City in over a decade,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Having Gone I Will Return - Petah Coyne - Exhibitions - Galerie Lelong & Co.|url=https://www.galerielelong.com/exhibitions/petah-coyne2|website=www.galerielelong.com|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> "Petah Coyne: Having Gone, I Will Return," at Galerie Lelong & Co.<ref name="Sheets" /> Enlisting the help of couture seamstresses, Coyne learned techniques to manipulate fabric and create a new monumental work, ''Untitled #1379 (The Doctor's Wife)'', which became the centerpiece of the exhibition.<ref name="Sheets" /> The piece was inspired by the book ''[[The Doctor's Wife (Ariyoshi novel)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', a novel by [[Sawako Ariyoshi]] written in 1966.<ref name="Sheets" />
In 2018 Coyne had her first solo exhibition in New York City in over a decade,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Having Gone I Will Return - Petah Coyne - Exhibitions - Galerie Lelong & Co.|url=https://www.galerielelong.com/exhibitions/petah-coyne2|website=www.galerielelong.com|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref> "Petah Coyne: Having Gone, I Will Return," at Galerie Lelong & Co.<ref name="Sheets" /> Enlisting the help of couture seamstresses, Coyne learned techniques to manipulate fabric and create a new monumental work, ''Untitled #1379 (The Doctor's Wife)'', which became the centerpiece of the exhibition.<ref name="Sheets" /> The piece was inspired by the book ''[[The Doctor's Wife (Ariyoshi novel)|The Doctor's Wife]]'', a novel by [[Sawako Ariyoshi]] written in 1966.<ref name="Sheets" />
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==== "Petah Coyne: A Free Life" at Nunu Fine Art, 2016 ====

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In 2016, Coyne had her first Taiwanese solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art in Taipei.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Godmother of MOMA New York and Contemporary Art in New York Petah Coyne to mount exhibition in Asia; her first in Taiwan|url=https://www.elle.com/tw/life/culture/g25883/petah-coyne-free-life/|date=August 23, 2016|website=ELLE Taiwan}}</ref> "Petah Coyne: A Free Life" featured a collection of dynamic black and white photographs alongside recent sculptures, such as ''Untitled #1424 (Zhang Yimou)'' and ''Untitled #1421 (Ha Jin)'', a large hanging work with blue and white waxed flowers surrounding a steel armature.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=A Deep Desire for Freedom: New York Based Artist Petah Coyne's Latest Solo Show|url=https://www.thenewslens.com/article/48682|date=September 15, 2016|website=The News Lens}}</ref> This exhibition takes its name from [[Ha Jin]]'s 2007 novel, ''A Free Life''. <ref name=":1" />
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==== "Petah Coyne: A Free Life," at Nunu Fine Art, 2016 ====
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==== "Petah Coyne: Everything that Rises Must Converge" at MASS MoCA, 2010 ====
[[File:PCA Untitled -1421 Ha Jin 300dpi.jpg|thumb|''Untitled #1421 (Ha Jin)''. Photograph by Christopher Burke Studio. ]]
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Petah Coyne's 2010 solo exhibition, "Everything That Rises Must Converge," at the MASS MoCA (May 29, 2010)<ref>{{cite web|title=Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge|url=http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=546|publisher=[[MASS MoCA|Mass MoCA]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804114249/http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=546|archive-date=August 4, 2010|access-date=2011-10-13}}</ref> was her largest retrospective exhibition to date and featured large-scale mixed-media sculptures along with [[Gelatin silver print|silver gelatin print]] photographs. The works included in the exhibition range from earlier, more abstract sculptures made from industrial materials, to newer ones made with delicate wax.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge (exhibition brochure)|publisher=MASS MoCA|year=2010|location=North Adams, MA}}</ref> In these newer works, Coyne layers wax-covered materials such as pearls, ribbons and silk flowers into large sculptural forms, often incorporating [[taxidermy|taxidermied]] birds and animals.<ref name="Spotlight" />
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In 2016, Coyne had her first Taiwanese solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art in Taipei.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Godmother of MOMA New York and Contemporary Art in New York Petah Coyne to mount exhibition in Asia; her first in Taiwan|url=https://www.elle.com/tw/life/culture/g25883/petah-coyne-free-life/|last=|first=|date=August 23, 2016|website=ELLE Taiwan|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> "Petah Coyne: A Free Life" featured a collection of dynamic black and white photographs alongside recent sculptures, such as ''Untitled #1424 (Zhang Yimou)'' and ''Untitled #1421 (Ha Jin)'', a large hanging work with blue and white waxed flowers surrounding a steel armature.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=A Deep Desire for Freedom: New York Based Artist Petah Coyne’s Latest Solo Show|url=https://www.thenewslens.com/article/48682|last=|first=|date=September 15, 2016|website=The News Lens|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> This exhibition takes its name from [[Ha Jin]]'s 2007 novel, ''A Free Life''. <ref name=":1" />

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==== "Petah Coyne: Everything that Rises Must Converge," at MASS MoCA, 2010 ====
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Petah Coyne's 2010 solo exhibition, "Everything That Rises Must Converge," at the MASS MoCA (May 29, 2010)<ref>{{cite web|title=Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge|url=http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=546|author=|date=|publisher=[[MASS MoCA|Mass MoCA]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804114249/http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=546|archive-date=August 4, 2010|accessdate=2011-10-13}}</ref> was her largest retrospective exhibition to date and featured large-scale mixed-media sculptures along with [[Gelatin silver print|silver gelatin print]] photographs. The works included in the exhibition range from earlier, more abstract sculptures made from industrial materials, to newer ones made with delicate wax.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge (exhibition brochure)|publisher=MASS MoCA|year=2010|isbn=|location=North Adams, MA|pages=}}</ref> In these newer works, Coyne layers wax-covered materials such as pearls, ribbons and silk flowers into large sculptural forms, often incorporating [[taxidermy|taxidermied]] birds and animals.<ref name="Spotlight" />


Like the wide array of materials used throughout her oeuvre, Coyne derives inspiration from a variety of sources, such as literature, film, world culture, the natural environment, and personal stories.<ref name=":2" /> Her work is described as having a "Baroque sense of decadent refinement,"<ref name=":2" /> imbued with a magical quality that details deeply personal responses to her inspirations, while inviting viewers to consider their own.
Like the wide array of materials used throughout her oeuvre, Coyne derives inspiration from a variety of sources, such as literature, film, world culture, the natural environment, and personal stories.<ref name=":2" /> Her work is described as having a "Baroque sense of decadent refinement,"<ref name=":2" /> imbued with a magical quality that details deeply personal responses to her inspirations, while inviting viewers to consider their own.


This exhibition highlighted not only the diversity of Coyne's work and her innovative use of materials (including black sand, car parts, satin ribbons, trees, silk flowers, and taxidermy), but the relationships between the wide-ranging phases of her practice as it has evolved over time.<ref name=":2" />
This exhibition highlighted not only the diversity of Coyne's work and her innovative use of materials (including black sand, car parts, satin ribbons, trees, silk flowers, and taxidermy), but the relationships between the wide-ranging phases of her practice as it has evolved over time.<ref name=":2" />

===''The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years''===
===''The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years''===
In 2016, Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove debuted their project ''The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years'', at Galerie Lelong in New York, ''Narrative/Collaborative,'' an exhibition of photographic works generated through collaborative practices.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Real Guerrilla Girls, Galerie Lelong, New York|url=http://www.galerielelong.com/attachment/en/57eac8ed87aa2c6e4b7d0574/Press/582f6a32e6aa2c1a362391ca|last=|first=|date=|website=Galerie Lelong & Co|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-02}}</ref> The [[Guerrilla Girls]] are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.<ref name="Sheets"/> The project comprises two portraits of each woman who participated from 1985 through 2000. One photographic portrait depicts the selected member as her "alias," masked and costumed while the second depicts the artist as herself, without a mask, in her studio surrounded by her work. As members pass away and their identities can be safely revealed, both portraits will be exhibited allowing their contributions to be fully acknowledged.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove at Galerie Lelong, New York|url=https://ocula.com/magazine/insights/petah-coyne-and-kathy-grove-at-galerie-lelong-new/|date=2019-03-30|website=ocula.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref>
In 2016, Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove debuted their project ''The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years'', at Galerie Lelong in New York, ''Narrative/Collaborative,'' an exhibition of photographic works generated through collaborative practices.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Real Guerrilla Girls, Galerie Lelong, New York|url=http://www.galerielelong.com/attachment/en/57eac8ed87aa2c6e4b7d0574/Press/582f6a32e6aa2c1a362391ca|website=Galerie Lelong & Co|access-date=2019-12-02}}</ref> The [[Guerrilla Girls]] are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.<ref name="Sheets" /> The project comprises two portraits of each woman who participated from 1985 through 2000. One photographic portrait depicts the selected member as her "alias," masked and costumed while the second depicts the artist as herself, without a mask, in her studio surrounded by her work. As members pass away and their identities can be safely revealed, both portraits will be exhibited allowing their contributions to be fully acknowledged.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove at Galerie Lelong, New York|url=https://ocula.com/magazine/insights/petah-coyne-and-kathy-grove-at-galerie-lelong-new/|date=2019-03-30|website=ocula.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref>


== Quotes about Work ==
== Quotes about Work ==
''Sculpture Magazine'' on "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wei|first=Lilly|date=May 2019|title=Petah Coyne: Galerie Lelong & Co.|url=https://sculpturemagazine.art/petah-coyne/|journal=Sculpture Magazine|volume=38, no. 3|pages=89|via=}}</ref>
''Sculpture Magazine'' on "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return"<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wei|first=Lilly|date=May 2019|title=Petah Coyne: Galerie Lelong & Co.|url=https://sculpturemagazine.art/petah-coyne/|journal=Sculpture Magazine|volume=38|issue=3|pages=89}}</ref>
{{Quote|text="'Having Gone I Will Return' perhaps offered Coyne's version of a memoir, although much of the story is elliptical and cache. Redolent with tenderness, it yokes grief to solace in a perpetual cycle. For Coyne, loss is redeemed by not only love, but also by a furious love of art and art-making that is both acknowledgement of our mortality and its antidote. "|author=Lilly Wei|title=''Sculpture Magazine'' 38, no. 3|source="Petah Coyne: Galerie Lelong & Co."}}
{{Quote|text="'Having Gone I Will Return' perhaps offered Coyne's version of a memoir, although much of the story is elliptical and cache. Redolent with tenderness, it yokes grief to solace in a perpetual cycle. For Coyne, loss is redeemed by not only love, but also by a furious love of art and art-making that is both acknowledgement of our mortality and its antidote. "|author=Lilly Wei|title="Petah Coyne: Galerie Lelong & Co."|source=''Sculpture Magazine'' 38, no. 3}}

[[File:PCA Having Gone I Will Return 2018 Large Gallery Installation N 300dpi.jpg|thumb|289x289px|"Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return" at Galerie Lelong & Co. Photograph by Christopher Burke Studio.]]
ARTnews on "Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Up Now: Petah Coyne|url=https://335ea50f-2f95-4667-8b56-98becc5442ec.filesusr.com/ugd/92b7fc_df05aa66de5c4086a34ff474c090c291.pdf|last=Sheets|first=Hillarie M.|date=November 2010|website=ARTnews}}</ref>
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According to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=121 |title=Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin |publisher=Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art |date= |accessdate=2011-10-13}}</ref>

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Petah Coyne
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Oklahoma City
Education
Known forSculpture and Photography
Awards
  • Anonymous Was a Woman, Artist Grant (2007)
  • Art Matters, Inc., Artist Grant (1989)
  • Asian Cultural Council, Japan Fellowship (1992/1993)
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Foundation, Sculpture Fellowship (1987)
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1989)[1]
  • National Endowment for the Arts, International Exchange Fellowship (1990)
  • National Endowment for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship (1990)
  • National Endowment for the Arts, US/Mexico Creative Artists' Residency Grant, International Exchange (1994)
  • New York Foundation for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship (1988)
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., Artists Grant (1987)
  • Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture (1998)
  • The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Residency (1990)
Websitehttps://www.petahcoyne.org/

Petah Coyne (born 1953) is a contemporary American sculptor and photographer best known for her large and small scale hanging sculptures and floor installations.[2] Working in innovative and disparate materials, her media has ranged from the organic to the ephemeral, from incorporating dead fish, mud, sticks, hay, hair, black sand, specially-formulated and patented wax, satin ribbons, silk flowers, to more recently, velvet, taxidermy, and cast wax statuary.[2][3] Coyne's sculptures and photographs have been the subject of more than 30 solo museum exhibitions.[4]

Her work is in numerous permanent museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma in Finland, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Toledo Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art,[5] and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.[6][2]

Select awards given to Petah Coyne include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculpture Grant, the Asian Cultural Council Japan Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship, the Anonymous Was a Woman Artist Grant, the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Foundation Sculpture Fellowship, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities New Works Grant, and the Art Matters Artist Grant. [2]

Early life and education

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Coyne was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1953[7] to a military family that moved frequently before settling in Dayton, Ohio.[8][3] Although Coyne graduated from Oakwood High School, her mother home-schooled her in the summer so she could pass a number of classes early, making it possible for her to attend art classes at the University of Dayton, go to local foundries, create bronze castings, and go on painting expeditions.[8][3] She attended Kent State University from 1972-1973 and then the Art Academy of Cincinnati, from which she graduated in 1977.[9]

She moved in 1977 with her husband, Lamar Hall, from Ohio to SoHo.[10]

Career

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Untitled #1458 (Marguerite Duras), 2019-2020, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Coyne lives and works in New York.[11] Recent solo exhibitions include: "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return" at Galerie Lelong & Co. (2018), "Petah Coyne: A Free Life" at Nunu Fine Art (2016), and "Petah Coyne: Everything that Rises Must Converge" at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2010). Coyne is represented by Galerie Lelong & Co., in New York, and Nunu Fine Art in Taipei, Taiwan.[2]

Recent solo exhibitions

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"Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return" at Galerie Lelong & Co., 2018

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In 2018 Coyne had her first solo exhibition in New York City in over a decade,[12] "Petah Coyne: Having Gone, I Will Return," at Galerie Lelong & Co.[10] Enlisting the help of couture seamstresses, Coyne learned techniques to manipulate fabric and create a new monumental work, Untitled #1379 (The Doctor's Wife), which became the centerpiece of the exhibition.[10] The piece was inspired by the book The Doctor's Wife, a novel by Sawako Ariyoshi written in 1966.[10]

"Petah Coyne: A Free Life" at Nunu Fine Art, 2016

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In 2016, Coyne had her first Taiwanese solo exhibition at Nunu Fine Art in Taipei.[13] "Petah Coyne: A Free Life" featured a collection of dynamic black and white photographs alongside recent sculptures, such as Untitled #1424 (Zhang Yimou) and Untitled #1421 (Ha Jin), a large hanging work with blue and white waxed flowers surrounding a steel armature.[14] This exhibition takes its name from Ha Jin's 2007 novel, A Free Life. [14]

"Petah Coyne: Everything that Rises Must Converge" at MASS MoCA, 2010

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Petah Coyne's 2010 solo exhibition, "Everything That Rises Must Converge," at the MASS MoCA (May 29, 2010)[15] was her largest retrospective exhibition to date and featured large-scale mixed-media sculptures along with silver gelatin print photographs. The works included in the exhibition range from earlier, more abstract sculptures made from industrial materials, to newer ones made with delicate wax.[16] In these newer works, Coyne layers wax-covered materials such as pearls, ribbons and silk flowers into large sculptural forms, often incorporating taxidermied birds and animals.[3]

Like the wide array of materials used throughout her oeuvre, Coyne derives inspiration from a variety of sources, such as literature, film, world culture, the natural environment, and personal stories.[16] Her work is described as having a "Baroque sense of decadent refinement,"[16] imbued with a magical quality that details deeply personal responses to her inspirations, while inviting viewers to consider their own.

This exhibition highlighted not only the diversity of Coyne's work and her innovative use of materials (including black sand, car parts, satin ribbons, trees, silk flowers, and taxidermy), but the relationships between the wide-ranging phases of her practice as it has evolved over time.[16]

The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years

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In 2016, Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove debuted their project The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years, at Galerie Lelong in New York, Narrative/Collaborative, an exhibition of photographic works generated through collaborative practices.[17] The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.[10] The project comprises two portraits of each woman who participated from 1985 through 2000. One photographic portrait depicts the selected member as her "alias," masked and costumed while the second depicts the artist as herself, without a mask, in her studio surrounded by her work. As members pass away and their identities can be safely revealed, both portraits will be exhibited allowing their contributions to be fully acknowledged.[18]

Quotes about Work

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Sculpture Magazine on "Petah Coyne: Having Gone I Will Return"[19]

"'Having Gone I Will Return' perhaps offered Coyne's version of a memoir, although much of the story is elliptical and cache. Redolent with tenderness, it yokes grief to solace in a perpetual cycle. For Coyne, loss is redeemed by not only love, but also by a furious love of art and art-making that is both acknowledgement of our mortality and its antidote. "

— Lilly Wei, "Petah Coyne: Galerie Lelong & Co.", Sculpture Magazine 38, no. 3

ARTnews on "Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge"[20]

“The centerpiece of this dark, fairy-tale-like milieu is Untitled #1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu), 2009-10, a magnificent apple tree coated in black sand. Perched high on its silhouetted limbs are ten taxidermied peacocks, their heads alert and their plumage sweeping downward. Below them dangle black pheasants, upside down with wings splayed. Have the peacocks vanquished their foes or outlived their partners? Stunning, disturbing, and ambiguous, the piece– like all of Coyne’s sculptures– is pregnant with literary and personal allusions.”

— Hillarie M. Sheets, "Up Now: Petah Coyne", ARTnews

According to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,[21]

"Coyne belongs to a generation of sculptors—many of them women—who came of age in the late 1980s and forever changed the muscular practice of sculpture with their new interest in nature and a penchant for painstaking craftsmanship, domestic references and psychological metaphor."

— Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

See also

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  • Inside the Artist's Studio, Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. (ISBN 978-1616893040)

References

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  1. ^ "Artist Bio--Petah Coyne". Artists Take on Detroit. Detroit Institute of Arts. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e "ABOUT". Petah Coyne. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Artist Spotlight: Petah Coyne–How to Hang 150 Pounds of Wax from the Ceiling". Broad Strokes: NMWA's Blog for the 21st Century. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  4. ^ "Petah Coyne - Artists - Galerie Lelong". www.galerielelong.com. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
  5. ^ Dobrztbski, Judith H. (October 6, 1998). "Steadily Weaving Toward Her Goal; Petah Coyne's Art Strategy Has Its Scary Moments". New York Times.
  6. ^ Vogel, Carol (January 20, 2006). "A Titian Travels to Washington". New York Times.
  7. ^ Phaidon Editors (2019). Great women artists. Phaidon Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0714878775. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  8. ^ a b Dobrzynski, Judith H. "Steadily Weaving Toward Her Goal; Petah Coyne's Art Strategy Has Its Scary Moments". New York Times. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  9. ^ "Petah Coyne". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
  10. ^ a b c d e Sheets, Hilarie M. (September 13, 2018). "An Artist Who Champions and Channels Female Voices". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
  11. ^ Richards, Judith Olch (ed.) (2004) Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York. ICI. New York.
  12. ^ "Having Gone I Will Return - Petah Coyne - Exhibitions - Galerie Lelong & Co". www.galerielelong.com. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  13. ^ "Godmother of MOMA New York and Contemporary Art in New York Petah Coyne to mount exhibition in Asia; her first in Taiwan". ELLE Taiwan. August 23, 2016.
  14. ^ a b "A Deep Desire for Freedom: New York Based Artist Petah Coyne's Latest Solo Show". The News Lens. September 15, 2016.
  15. ^ "Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge". Mass MoCA. Archived from the original on August 4, 2010. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
  16. ^ a b c d Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge (exhibition brochure). North Adams, MA: MASS MoCA. 2010.
  17. ^ "The Real Guerrilla Girls, Galerie Lelong, New York". Galerie Lelong & Co. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
  18. ^ "Petah Coyne and Kathy Grove at Galerie Lelong, New York". ocula.com. March 30, 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
  19. ^ Wei, Lilly (May 2019). "Petah Coyne: Galerie Lelong & Co". Sculpture Magazine. 38 (3): 89.
  20. ^ Sheets, Hillarie M. (November 2010). "Up Now: Petah Coyne" (PDF). ARTnews.
  21. ^ "Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin". Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
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