Patrick Coughlin

Patrick Coughlin

    Contact Information

    ptcoughlin@gmail.com

    http://www.patrickcoughlin.com

    Studio

    Philadelphia, PA 19125

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    Artist's Biography

    Patrick Coughlin (born 1981, New York) is an American artist. He has exhibited work in China, Italy, Japan, and throughout the United States. Originally from rural, western New York, Patrick’s research practice is heavily influenced by that community’s relationship to material culture, and labor. Patrick’s studio practice currently resides in Philadelphia Pennsylvania where he is a professor at Saint Josephs University, and The University of the Arts. Prior to moving to Philadelphia Patrick lived and worked in Jingdezhen, the ceramic center of China. As an assistant in the design studio he worked with local craftsmen in the production of ceramic design goods for a global market while also assisting in the management of the Education Center, facilitating international exchange and instruction. He has attended residencies in Tokoname Japan, Rome Italy, and across the United Sates, and has been a visiting lecturer at Ewha Womans University in Seoul South Korea, The University of Montana, and Buffalo State University in the United States.

    Artist's Statement

    Patrick Coughlin’s work examines the ubiquitous, mundane, and inconspicuous aspects of our material culture and the domestic spaces that house it. Our Homes and shared spaces along with the objects that fill them exist in the realm of magical science. Their origins are opaque and byzantine, our most essential tools are incomprehensible in their making, while automation makes the labor we do increasingly unnecessary. Our buildings and tools no longer need human skill. The empty glamour and effortlessness of this modernity has disconnected our psyche from the physical, sensual world. By abstracting structural joinery, furniture, and the body we are asked to see the hidden complexities and humanity in the ubiquitous. Through this contextualization of architecture, domestic objects, and craft sensibilities, Patrick’s work explores the precarious relationships with the natural world and our own self agency.

    Selected Exhibitions

    Solo
    2018
    Parsing Structures, Gallery 224, Philadelphia, PA

    2017
    Residency Exhibition, C.R.E.T.A. Gallery, Rome, Italy

    Patrick Coughlin, Kitchen Table Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

    2016
    Resident Artist Exhibition, Gallery Kyoeigama, Tokoname, Japan

    2015
    Tools of Trade, Napoleon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

    Group
    2017
    CAMD Faculty Exhibition, Kimmel Center for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    2016
    A Good Ex-Cuse, Gandee Gallery, Fabius, NY

    Other Selections, Center for Art and Wood, Philadelphia, PA

    2015
    Salad Days, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

    Graphic Clay, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD

    Earth Elements, P.A.C., Providence, RI

    2014
    Here & There, Gallery 817, Philadelphia, PA

    2013
    Mimesis, Taplin Gallery of Art, Princeton, NJ

    Professional Experience

    2015-Present
    Studio Art MFA Mentor, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    Senior Lecturer in Art, Media, & Design, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    Juror, Arkansas Arts Council, Department of Arkansas Heritage

    2018
    Foreign Expert Visa, TAFA, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China Summer 2018

    2017
    Resident Artist, C.R.E.T.A Rome, Rome, Italy

    Visiting Artist, Buffalo State University, Buffalo, NY

    Visiting Lecturer, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

    2016
    Resident Artist, Kyoeigama Studio, Tokoname, Japan

    Interim Ceramics Area Coordinator, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    2015
    Juror, AMOCA – American Museum of Ceramic Art – Pomona, CA

    2014-present
    Board Member, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Edgecombe, ME

    2014-2016
    President’s Office Gallery Coordinator, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    2013-present
    Adjunct Faculty, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

    2012-2015
    Lecturer in Art, Media, & Design, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

    2011-present
    Instructor, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

    2011
    Education Center Assistant Manager, The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China

    2010
    Design Studio Assistant, The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China

    Education

    2010
    University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    MFA

    2000
    Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
    BFA

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