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Biographical Information
Born in Tamworth (Staffordshire), and educated at the Royal College of Art
in London, Sue Coe emigrated to the United States in 1972. Settling in
New
York City, she initially pursued a career as an illustrator for such publications
as the New York Times and Time Magazine. Finding her editorial
assignments too constraining, howver, she soon began doing extended series
of larger paintings and drawings on subjects of her own choosing. She became
something of a "star" of the East Village scene in the early 1980s,
with works depicting such notorious current events as Bernard Goetz's
subway
shooting and the rape of a women on a pooltable in a New Bedford, MA, bar.
(The latter painting is now in the permanent collection of the Museum
of Modern
Art.) Coe's first book-length series, How to Commit Suicide in South Africa
(1983), was used as an anti-apartheid organizing tool on college campuses
nationwide. She has since published illustrated books on Malcolm X (X,
1986), the meat industry (Dead Meat, 1996) and related animal rights
subjects (Pit's Letter, 2000).
Chronology
| 1951 |
Born, Tamworth, England |
| 1970-73 |
Student, Royal College of Art, London |
| 1972 |
Emigrates to U.S. & settles in New York; begins
career as illustrator, publishing her first work in The NY Times |
| 1983 |
Completes "South Africa" Series |
| 1986 |
Completes "Malcolm X" Series |
| 1987-96 |
"Porkopolis (Animals & Industry)" Series |
| 1999 |
Completes "Pit" Series |
| 2000 |
The "War" Series |
| 2002 |
The "Ghost Sheep" Series |
| 2003 |
The "Weapons of Mass Destruction" Series |
| 2004 |
The "Fowl Plague" Series |
| 2004 |
The "Bully" Series |
| 2005 |
The "Run" Series |
| 2006 |
The "Hurricane" Series |
Solo Exhibitions
| 1979 |
All Over Manhattan, Thumb Gallery, London |
| 1983 |
Sue Coe, P.P.O.W. Gallery, NY |
| 1986 |
X: The Malcolm X Series, Phyllis Kind Gallery,
Chicago; Partisan Gallery, Toronto; P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY |
| 1986 |
Police State, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA;
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Portland Art Museum, OR; Wesleyan Gallery,
Middletown, CT; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Ohio State University,
San Francisco Art Institute |
| 1989 |
Police State (European Tour) , Museum of Modern
Art, Oxford, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland;
Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, England |
| 1989-93 |
Porkopolis: Animals and Industry, Galerie St.
Etienne, NY; Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC; Joan Whitney Payson Gallery
of Art, Portland ME; Indiana University of Fine Arts, Bloomington; University
of Missouri, St. Louis; Washington State University, Pullman; Miami Dade
Community College; Georgia State University, Atlanta; Santa Monica Museum
of Art, CA; Mead Art Museum, Amherst MA |
| 1993 |
Sue Coe, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore |
| 1994 |
Sue Coe, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington DC |
| 1997-99 |
Heal of the Boot: Prints by Sue Coe, Arizona
State University, Tempe; University of Illinois, Normal; Guilford College
of Art, Guilford NC; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; University of Illinois, Augustana
IL |
| 1999 |
Sue Coe: The Pit, Galerie St. Etienne, NY;
Lewis and Clark University, Portland, OR; William Benton Museum of Art,
Storrs, CT |
| 2000 |
The Tragedy of War, Galerie St. Etienne, NY |
| 2001-02 |
One Hand Washes the Other, Colgate University,
Hamilton, NY; Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego,
NY |
| 2004 |
Sue Coe, The Tragedy of War: A Print Cycle,
Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis, OR |
| 2004 |
Sue Coe, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005 |
Sue Coe's Sheep of Fools, Galerie St. Etienne,
NY |
| 2005 |
We All Fall Down: The AIDs Series, Cyrus
M. Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN |
| 2006 |
Sue Coe: Selections from Sheep of Fools,
Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO |
| 2007 |
Sue Coe: Graphic Witness, Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Portland, OR |
| 2007 |
Sue Coe Cycles, Smokebrush Gallery and
Foundation for the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO |
| 2008 |
Elephants We Must Never Forget: New Paintings
by Sue Coe,
Galerie St. Etienne, NY |
Group Exhibitions
| 1977 |
Portraits, American
Institute of Graphic Arts, NY |
| 1978 |
European Illustrators,
Georges Pompidou Center, Paris |
| 1980 |
People's Art, United
Nations, NY |
| 1986 |
Malcolm X Center for
Black Survival, El Bohio Gallery, NY |
| 1986 |
75th American Exhibition,
Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1987 |
The New Avant Garde,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1988 |
The Mandela Freedom Concert,
Wembley Stadium, London |
| 1988 |
Committed to Print,
The Museum of Modern Art, NY |
| 1991 |
Artists of Conscience:
16 Years of Social and Political Commentary, Alternative Museum, NY |
| 1992 |
In Good Conscience: The
Radical Tradition in 20th-Century American Illustration, Katonah Museum,
Katonah, NY; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College; Montgomery Museum of Fine Art,
Alabama |
| 1992 |
Darkness Visible,
The Drawing Center, NY |
| 1993 |
Women's Art, Women's
Lives, Women's Issue, The Tweed Gallery, NY |
| 1997 |
Art on the Edge,
The Museum of Modern Art, NY |
| 1998 |
Taboo: Repression and
Revolt in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, NY |
| 2000 |
Open Ends, The
Museum of Modern Art, NY |
| 2002 |
Workers of the World:
Modern Images of Labor, Galerie St. Etienne, NY |
| 2004 |
Animals & Us: The
Animal in Contemporary Art, Galerie St. Etienne, NY |
| 2004 |
New American Story Art,
Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 |
Democracy in America,
The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Art, ASU Art Museum, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2005-2007 |
The Downtown Show: The
New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
| 2006-2007 |
LitGraphic: The Art
of the Graphic Novel, Norman Rockwell Museum,
Stockbridge, MA |
| 2008 |
Make Art / Stop AIDS ,
Fowler Museum at UCLA,
Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 |
Blab!,
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art,
Manhattan, KS |
| 2008 |
Refusing to Look Away!
Bearing Witness to Violence,
Art & Design Gallery at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO |
Literature
| 1983 |
Sue Coe and Holly Metz:
How to Commit Suicide in South Africa |
| 1985 |
Sue Coe: Paintings and
Drawings |
| 1986 |
Sue Coe: X (The Life
and Times of Malcolm X) |
| 1987 |
Sue Coe and Donald Kuspit:
Police State |
| 1993 |
Sue Coe: "Liverpool's
Children," in The New Yorker |
| 1994 |
Sue Coe: "The Sweatshop,
1994," in The New Yorker |
| 1996 |
Sue Coe and Alexander Cockburn:
Dead Meat |
| 2000 |
Sue Coe: Pit's
Letter |
| 2004 |
Sue Coe and Judith Brody: Bully:
Master of the Global Merry-Go-Round |
| 2005 |
Sue Coe: Sheep of
Fools...A Song Cycle for Five Voices |
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