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John Coplans  1920-2003, UK
Rank (2009): 753 – 
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 Most exhibitions in:
Country
USA 35
France 11
Germany 9
Netherlands 8
Spain 7




 Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist Rank
Louise Bourgeois  11 13
Thomas Ruff  29 11
Cindy Sherman  8 10
Wolfgang Tillmans  60 10




 Most exhibitions held at:
Institution
  Andrea Rosen Gallery, USA 9
Art Affairs Gallery Art Affairs Gallery, Netherlands 7
  Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Canada 4
  Galerie Anne de Villepoix, France 3




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John Coplans 
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1920 Born in London, England (UK)

1962 fouding editor of artforum magazine

1965 - 1967 director of the art gallery of the university of california

1967 - 1970 senior curator at the pasadena art museum (a.o. exhibitions `serial imagery´ `roy lichtenstein´ `andy warhol´ `donald judd´ and curator of the first museumexhibitions of james turrel, robert irwin, richard serra)

1978 - 1980 director of the akron art museum (a.o. exhibitions of brancusi´s photography and the first american show of john heartfield´s photomontages)

1980 moves to new york, starts photography

1990 publishes together with jean baudrillard `andy warhol´

1996 publishes collected artcriticism `provocations´


21.8.2003 Died in New York, NY (US)
 
Public exhibitions  102  Please report missing Information



 Solo shows   24

2007
   John Coplans - A Legacy - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin
   Project Room: John Coplans - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

2006
   John Coplans - one-person exhibition - Listasafn Reykjavikur - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik

2005
   John Coplans: Backs and Fingers - Galería Elvira González, Madrid
   John Coplans - One Man Show - Art & Public, Geneva

2004
   John Coplans: Photographs - Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
   John Coplans - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Description  John Coplans - Body Parts - A Self-Portrait - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
   John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   John Coplans - Early Photographs - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY

2001
   John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image  John Coplans - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin

2000
   John Coplans - Galerie Nordenhake - Stockholm, Stockholm

1999
   John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image  John Coplans - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
   John Coplans. Self portraits - Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)

1998
  Art Affairs GalleryPhotowerke - Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 

1997
   John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY

1995
   John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY

1994
   John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   John Coplans - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris

1992
   John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY

1989
   John Coplans - Passages - Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes

1988
   A Body of Work: Photographs by John Coplans - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY


 Group shows   78

2009
Description and image Art Affairs GalleryNew York in Amsterdam - Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 
   Self-Portraits - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY
   The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
Description  Pequeña historia de la fotografía - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Description and image  PhotoDimensional - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
   John Coplans + Amanda Means: Distilled - Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

2008
   Hands - SolwayJones, Los Angeles, CA
   Ein Leben lang / All your life - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
   El don de la vida. En torno al envejecimiento y su representación artística - Centre d’Art la Panera, Lérida
   Pasións Privadas, Visións Públicas - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
   About Us - Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
   Continuum - Collection Frac Basse-Normandie - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô, Saint-Lô
   The Lining of Forgetting: Internal & External Memory in Art - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

2007
   In Focus - The Nude - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
   California Context - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
   Passion Complex - Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa
   Le cinque anime della scultura - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed)
   Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed)
   Stichwort Gegenwart - Zwölf Kapitel der Sammlung Ludwig - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
   Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

2006
Description and image Art Affairs Galleryhidden treasures - various works by gallery artists - Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 
   Photo-Kunst der letzten 40 Jahre in der Graphischen Sammlung - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
   Bernd and Hilla Becher, John Coplans, Yayoi Kusama, Thomas Ruff, Richard Serra and Thomas Struth - André Simoens Gallery, Knokke-Heist
   The Wonderful Fund - Collecting Art for the New Millenium - Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England)
   Mémoires - Œuvres du FRAC Champagne Ardenne - Passages - Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes

2005
   De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman - New Galerie de France, Paris
  Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão -  Fundação Calouste GulbenkianDensidade Relativa / Relative Density - Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 
   Wonderful Fund Collection - Le Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech
Description Art Affairs GallerySummer showing - Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 
   Exposed! - Thirty Years of collecting Photography - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2004
   Portraits/Autoportraits - Photographies - Guy Ledune, Brussels
   In Focus - Themes in Photography - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
   Main - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   John Coplans, Craigie Horsfield, Ingrid Mwangi - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
   Exhibiting Signs of Age - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
   About Corporeality in Editions - Artist Books, Prints, Photography - Galerie Lelong - Zürich, Zurich

2003
Description and image  Process
Encounters in Live Situations / Changing Spaces
 - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
   A body / Ciało - LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
   In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
   Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
   Visions and Revisions - Art on Paper since 1960 - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
   The Affair is over - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   Imperfect Innocence - Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

2002
   Le corps et ses absences - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden
   El lenguaje del cuerpo - Galería Elvira González, Madrid
   John Coplans - Chris Burden - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
   Collection 1 - Fondation pour L'art Contemporain, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex
   Fallen Heroes. Masculinity and Representation - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana
   acquiring taste - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
   Escape from the Vault - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI

2001
   Fresh - Recent Acquisitions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Description and image Art Affairs Gallerythe body’s performance - photography - Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 
Description  Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie - Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden

2000
Description BARTHA CONTEMPORARYGROUP SHOW - BARTHA CONTEMPORARY, London (England) 
Description Art Affairs Gallery"TEN TIMES OVER AND MORE" - anniversary exhibition - Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 
Description Art Affairs Gallerystock from the last century (2) - Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 
   Der anagrammatische Körper - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
   Les Voluptes - - Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul (closed, 2006)
   3rd Gwangju Biennale - Man+Space - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju

1999
Description  Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
   The Hand - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
   The nude in contemporary art - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
   Hello Mr. Soul - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão -  Fundação Calouste GulbenkianLinhas de Sombra - Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 

1998
   Œuvres phares et acquisitions récentes - la collection depuis John Lyman - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   Texture - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   Saptiotemporal - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
   Surrogate: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture and Photography - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
   Group Exhibition - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   Projekte - Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

1997
   The 90s: a family of man? - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg

1996
   Double vie, Double vue - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris

1995
   Album: The photographic collection of Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen Rotterdam - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1994
   Pictures Of The Real World (In Real Time) - Le Consortium, Dijon

1993
   Up With People - Feature Inc, New York City, NY

1989
   Bodies of Experience - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA
   Un'altra obiettivitá - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato

 Dealer Directory  12

Belgium

 André Simoens Gallery, Knokke-Heist

France

 Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

Germany

 Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin

Netherlands

Art Affairs GalleryArt Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam  

Spain

 Galería Elvira González, Madrid
 Espaivisor - Galería Visor, Valencia

Sweden

 Galerie Nordenhake - Stockholm, Stockholm

Switzerland

 Art & Public, Geneva
 Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

USA

 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
 ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA


 Public collections  24   Please report missing Information


Canada

 Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
 National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON

Finland

 Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

France

 FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen
 FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
 FRAC - Lorraine, Metz
 FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
 Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
 FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
 Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
 Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
 FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne

Spain

 Cal Cego - Colleccion de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona
 Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
 CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

Sweden

 Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm

United Kingdom

 Tate Britain, London (England)
 Tate Modern, London (England)

USA

 MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
 The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
 MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
 Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA


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