Education 1993-4 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, class of Bernd Becher (postgraduate fellowship) 1992 California Institute of the Arts, Department of Photography, M.F.A. 1986 Harvard University, A.B., Visual and Environmental Studies Solo Exhibitions and Two-Person Exhibitions 2016 Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Chemical Pictures, ACME., Los Angeles, CA Photographs and Chemical Pictures, Franz Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany 2015 Coal Seam redux, kunstwerden, Essen, Germany Coal Seam, Bergwerk Prosper-Haniel, NADA Art Fair, New York, NY (curated solo booth/ACME) 2014 ACME, Los Angeles Safetyville (selection), ACME, Los Angeles 2013 Double Helix (with Amy Russell), Jose Druidus-Biada Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA Josh Peters & Miles Coolidge, Huge, Los Angeles 2011 ACME, Los Angeles 2008 Street Furniture, ACME, Los Angeles 2007 Wall of Death, Casey Kaplan, NY 2006 ACME, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Drawbridges, Galerie Ilka Brie, Bordeaux, France 2004 Mound Postcard Posters, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico Drawbridges, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria 2003 Drawbridges, ACME, Los Angeles, CA Drawbridges, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Observatory Circle, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany Traffic, ACME, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS ACME, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Mattawa, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY Central Valley, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France 1998 Central Valley, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY Central Valley, ACME, Los Angeles, CA James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Moundbuilders’ Golf Course, ACME, Los Angeles, CA 1996 Elevator Pictures, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY Garage Pictures, ACME., Santa Monica, CA Garage Pictures, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY Safetyville, ACME., Santa Monica, CA 1994 Elevator Pictures, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Hollywood, CA 1992 In Its Place, Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia CA Group Exhibitions 2018 Forsaken Utopias: Photographs from the OCMA Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum, Santa Ana, CA Selected Affinities, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Kunst und Kohle.Schwarz, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany Uncanny Valley, Vinvin Gallery, Vienna, Austria 2017 First Annual SoCal Teachers’ Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography By the River, ACME., Los Angeles 2016 Things Themselves, Vernon Gardens, Vernon, CA (curated by Zully Adler) Passages, ACME, Los Angeles Some Lifestyle Options, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Jan Tumlir) 2015 Reconstructions; Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2014 20 Years of ACME, ACME, Los Angeles Road Trip: Photography of the American West from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Musée des Beaux-Artes de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France American Scene Photography, NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2013 Symbolic Landscape, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA Landscape into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2012 Making Sense, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2011 WP9, Night Gallery, Los Angeles 2010 Reflection: 15 Years, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY Der Rote Bulli, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Germany [catalogue] 2009 Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 2008 Lure, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France Los Angeles Now, Las Vegas Art Museum 2007 Sweet Bird of Youth, World Class Boxing, Miami, FL Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC Art in America Now, Shanghai Museum of Art, China Eloi: Stumbling Towards Paradise, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA Imaging + Imagining California, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Now Is the Winter, Projekt Fabrika, Moscow, Russia Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 2006 First the Artist Defines Meaning, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Modern Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Studio City, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Studio City, Pascali & Sprovieri, London, England Artists of a Class, Dunster House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2005 The Party, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY 2004 H2O, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA 31+ flavors, Antai Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Zeme-Krajina/Land-Landschaft, rkouske kultirni forum, Prague 2003 ACME @ Inman, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue) Sightseeing: Austrian Triennial of Photography, Graz, Austria (catalogue) Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, & Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida (catalogue) Conversations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles incidence urbaine, Galerie Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg Miles Coolidge, Kevin Hanley, Darcy Huebler, & Aaron Morse, ACME, Los Angeles Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, NYC (online) 2002 Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New York,, NY (catalogue) Majestic Sprawl, Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, CA Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny, MCA, Chicago, Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida (catalogue) Global Address, USC Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A., CA Faculty Exhibition, University Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, CA Strolling Through an Ancient Shrine and Garden, co-curated by Chip Tom and ACME., ACME., Los Angeles, CA 2001 The Wedding Show, Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Nederlands Foto Insituut, Rotterdam (catalogue) not a theme show, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Phigment, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark OUTLOOK earth scaped, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2000 Flight Patterns, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) Made In California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A., CA (catalogue) Beyond Boundaries: California Contemporary Photography, University Art Museum, CSLUB, Long Beach, CA (Traveled to the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA and the Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA) escape space, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany (catalogue) Unapocalyptic: The Future That Never Was, USC Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA SUPERMODEL, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA 1999 C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Grants 1999, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Photography: An Expanded View-Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain Tomorrow Forever-Photography as Ruin, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria (catalogue) Sliding Scale, SECCA, South Carolina 1998 L.A. or Lilliput?, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalogue) Thinking Aloud, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK Jeff Burton, Miles Coolidge, Annika von Hausswolf, Jonathan Monk, Karen Yasinsky, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY pop surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue) Urban Landscapes; Miles Coolidge, Marin Kasimir, Katja Liebman, Steven Pippin, Victoria Miro, London, UK LA On Paper 2; Fantastic Matter of Fact, Galerie Krinsinger, Vienna, Austria (Co-curated by 3 Day Weekend) The Campaign Against Living Miserably, Royal College of Art, London, UK Sightings, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (catalogue) Picturing Modernity:Selections from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA June/July, Casey Kaplan, New York 1997 Stills, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (publication) Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta, GA Rena Bransten, San Francisco, CA Elsewhere, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Transport, Post, Los Angeles, CA Angel Hair, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany The Big Picture: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY World Speak Dumb, Karyn Lovegrove, Melbourne, Australia Defamiliar, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA 1996 The Lie of the Land, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara Location, Location, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Skin Deep, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA Left of Center: New Art from L.A., 10 in 1 Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 Hollywood Boulevard Is Sinking, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles Redevelopment, Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA Late Photography, Food House, Santa Monica, CA 1994 Rundgang Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany 1993 LACPS Members’ Exhibition, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA (curated by Ann Goldstein) Selected Bibliography 2018 Shaw, Michael. "Selected Affinities", Visual Art Source, wwwvisualartsource.com, August, 2018 2017 Köhler, Myrta. "Miles Coolidge: Coal Seam redux", afterimage, Vol. 44 no. 5, 2017 Meagher, Patrick. "Miles Coolidge: Coal Seam Redux at Peter Blum", Art Observed, February 3, 2017 Wolkoff, Julia. "Lookout; Miles Coolidge at Peter Blum", Art in America [online], January 20, 2017 Riley, Charles A. "ART REVIEW: Miles Coolidge Melds Art and Science in Coal Seam redux", HamptonsArtHub, January 10, 2017 2016 Miller, Nicolas J., “Things Themselves at Vernon Gardens”, Miller, Nicolas J., Contemporary Art Review.la, October 5, 2016 2015 Schwendener, Martha. “Review: Metropolitan Museum Looks at Photos That May Last”, New York Times, December 31, 2015 2014 Tumlir, Jan. "Angel of History, or Canary in the Coal Mine", X-TRA, Fall 2014 Knight, Christopher. "Miles Coolidge Digs for Meaning", Los Angeles Times, January 31, 2014 Harcourt, Glenn. "Miles Coolidge at ACME./Los Angeles”, March 2014 (illustration) Hudson, Suzanne. "From Landscape to Lacan; On 'The Symbolic Landscape: Pictures Beyond the Picturesque'", Texte Zur Kunst, March 2014 2011 Knight, Christopher. "Monuments to a Modern Blueprint", Los Angeles Times, June 10 2011(illustration) 2010 Storm, Brian. "Familie Becher", Kraut: Magazin Für Angewandte Kultur, pp. 18-19, Issue #1 2009 Coolidge, Miles. "Response to Abstracting Photography", Words Without Pictures, pp. 320-323, Alex Klein, ed., Museum Associates/LACMA, Los Angeles, 2009 2008 Knight, Christopher. "A Surprising Slant on Street Trash", Los Angeles Times, January 25 2008 2007 Valdez, Sarah. "Miles Coolidge at Casey Kaplan", Art in America, October 2007 Shier, Reid (ed.), Been Up So Long it Looks Like Down to Me [Exhibition Catalogue], Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C. (color illustrations) Kung, Samuel (ed.), Art In America Now [Exhibition Catalogue], Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (color illustration) Coggins, David. "Miles Coolidge", Time Out New York, February 8-14, 2007, Issue 593, p.76 Chernisheva, Veronika. "Contemporary Art is Gradually Becoming Apolitical", Nezavisimaya Gazeta [The Independent Newspaper, Moscow], June 1, 2007. Lindberg, Anna. "Winter Depression," Utro, Moscow, June 6, 2007. 2006 Schmidt, Collette M., "Zuert vermisst der Künstler den Raum", Der Standard, Wien, 11. Juli 2006 Titz, Walter. "Idyll und Bittere Fallstudie", Kleine Zeitung, Wien, 7 August 2006 O’Reilly, Sally, “Studio City,” Frieze, Issue 100, June-July, 2006. Sumpter, Helen. "Studio City", Time Out (London), March 29- April 5, 2006 2005 [editorial:staff]. “An Uplift in Downtime”, Newsday, August 28, 2005 2004 Coetzee, Mark. Not Afraid: The Rubell Family Collection, Phaidon (color illustrations) Cotton, Charlotte. Contemporary Art Photography , Thames & Hudson (color illustration) Collins, Tom. "Edifice Complex", Albaquerque Journal, January 16 (illustrations) Lubbke-Tidow, Maren. "Dead End: Miles Coolidge", Camera Austria, June, 2004 (color illustration) Randall, Teri Thomson. "Mounds of Time", Pasatiempo [Santa Fe, NM], Jan. 30-Feb. 5, (color illustrations) 2003 Dennison, Lisa, Spector, Nancy, Young, Joan. Moving Pictures (catalogue; color illustrations) Dennison, Lisa, Spector, Nancy, Young, Joan. Imagenes En Movimiento (catalogue supplement, color illustrations) McGinty, Miko. Imperfect Innocence (catalogue; color illustrations) Fenz, Werner. SIGHTSEEING, Graz, Austria (catalogue; color illustrations) Coolidge, Miles "Hauptplatz Graz", Kleine Zeitung [Graz, Austria], Monday, January 20 (artwork for publication) Beshty, Walead. "Notes on the Subject Without Qualities", Afterall #8 Knight, Christopher, "Stopped in the Face of Progress", Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2003 (illustration) Wilson, Michael. "Reviews. Miles Coolidge: Drawbridges", Contemporary, Issue 49 (color illustration) Cassidy, Keith. "Airport Landscapes", Miami Herald, March 19 Colombo, Paola. "sight.seeing", tema celeste [Italy], January Titz, Walter. "Andere Wege durch die Kulturhaupstadt", VIA (Austria), #1 (color illustration) Sver, Heimo. "Ansichten von Stadt- und Kunstorpern", Die Steirische (Graz, Austria), January 25 (color illustration) 2002 Kertess, Klaus. Photography Transformed; The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection, Abrams, (color illustration) Martin, Victoria. “’Global Address’ at USC Fisher Gallery”, Artweek, April Steinman, Eric. "Think Globally, Art Locally", Los Angeles Downtown News, March 18 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Out of Place (catalogue; color illustrations) 2001 Rottner, Nadja. "Miles Coolidge", Camera Austria, 76 (critical survey, color illustrations) Seelig, Thomas (ed.). Trade (catalogue: color illustrations) Lapp, Karl-Iversen. "Und alles endet im Mull", Zurichsee Zeitung, July 3 Colpitt, Frances. "Miles Coolidge at Acme", Art in America, October Rehm, Emma. "Not a Theme Show", The Tartan [Pittsburgh], August 27 Thomas, Mary. "No theme, nothing routine", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30 Winn, Alice. "Mind Over Matter", A & E; Pittsburgh City Paper, August 1- 8 Kern, Kristine. "Kritisk Kunst", Politiken (Denmark), March 31 Kern, Kristine. "New Settlements", Nordic Art Review, vol. III, no. 3-4/01 Misfeldt, Af Mai. "Nye mader at bebo verden", Berlingske Tidende, April 10 News: Copenhagen. "New Settlements @ the Nikolaj", Flash Art, May-June, 2001 (illustration) Laird, Tessa. "Flight Patterns", LIKE, Art Magazine (New Zealand), No. 14, Autumn Hilger, Stephen. "L.A. Confidential", artnet magazine (on line), 4/30 2000 Emerson, Stephanie (ed.). Flight Patterns (catalogue; color illustrations) Friends of Photography, beyond boundaries (catalogue; color illustration) Ursula Blickle Stiftung, escape_space (catalogue; color illustrations) Gavlak, Sarah. "Miles Coolidge, 'Mattawa'", Time Out, New York, October 5-12 Coolidge, Miles (photographs) & Beachy, Stephen (text). "Leaving Trains", Nest, Summer Rottner, Nadja. "Miles Coolidge", NY ARTS, September Guerrin, Michel. "La photographie déplace le fiction", Le Monde, March 26 Pagel, David. "'Flight Patterns'" Ventures Far", Los Angeles Times, November 23 (illustration) Myers, Holly. "Horizons", LA Weekly, Dec. 22-28 Exley, Roy. "Distant Landscapes", contemporary visual arts, issue 27 (illustration) Johnson, Ken. "Art Guide: Miles Coolidge", New York Times, September 29 Bonnetti, David. "Dark views of battered landscape in L.A. show", San Francisco Examiner, November 16 Muchnic, Suzanne. "She's Trying to Reorient L.A.'s Compass", Los Angeles Times; Calender, November 12 [staff], "Pacific Rim Artists", American Minority Review, Fall 2000 Barroero, Samantha "Miles Coolidge at Jennifer Flay Gallery", NART Webzine, September 11 1999 ZOO, Purple House Ltd., London, England, issue 1, March CAA foundation, Themes Out of School (catalogue; color illustration) Aigner, Karl (ed.), Tomorrow For Ever, (catalogue; color illustrations) Molesworth, Helen. "Nowheresville", Frieze, January/February (critical survey, color illustrations) Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990’s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue; illustration) Butler, Connie. "West of Everything", Parkett, no. 57 Koop, Stuart. “World Speak Dumb”, Art & Text, August-October Hennessey, Deborah. “Art Lover’s Lost Highway”, Broadsheet, Vol. 26, No.2 McGovern, Thomas. "Riding the Beast", afterimage, July/August Newhall, Edith. "Preview: Art/Photography", New York, September 14 Patterson, Tom. "Micro to Macro", Winston-Salem Journal, Feb. 21 Knight, Christopher. "Publicly Funded Art Rises to the Challenge", Los Angeles Times, June 4 Boxer, Sara. "The Guggenheim Sounds the Alarm", New York Times, March 19 Gronert, Stefan. Grosse Illusionen,, Kunstmuseum Bonn p.16 (illustration) 1998 Institute of Contemporary Art, Sightings: New Photographic Art, London, England. (catalogue) Darling, Michael. L.A. or Lilliput? (catalogue; color illustration) Aldrich Museum of Art, pop surrealism (catalogue: color illustration) Haines, Gordon. "Miles Coolidge", Art Issues, November/December (illustration) Smith, Roberta. "Miles Coolidge", The New York Times, September 18 Pagel, David. "The Long View", The Los Angeles Times, September 11 Todd-Raque, Susan. "Tableaux: Ten Contemporary Photographers", Art Papers, March-April Currah, Mark. "'Campaign Against Living Miserably", Time Out [London], May 13 Fogle, Douglas. "Stills", Camera Austria, no. 62/63 Updike, Robin. "Beyond Pretty Scenery", Seattle Times, January 15 Baltin, Brian. "Small Is Psychedelic", LA Weekly, Nov. 27- Dec. 3 Doove, Edith. "Personlijkheid zonder mensen", De Staandard (Antwerp, Belgium), April 1 Holthof, Marc. "onwezenlijk", Weekend knack, (Brussels, Belgium) March 25 Vuegen, Christine. "Onthullende fotos", De Huisarts (Belgium), March 18 Wilson, William. "'Lilliput': Small Art in the Big City of L.A.", Los Angeles Times, Dec. Wilson, William. "Sweating the Small Stuff", Los Angeles Times (O.C. edition), Dec. (illustration) 1997 Magnan, Kathleen. “Space Probes”, World Art, May (critical survey, color (illustrations) Kim, Soo Jin. “Some Models”, X-Tra, Spring Solin, Alison Lee. "The Lie of the Land", The Independent [Santa Barbara], January 9 (illustration) Shearing, Graham. "Exhibit takes viewers 'Elsewhere'", Tribune-Review [Pittsburgh], Oct. 17 Miller, Donald. "Models create another reality", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct. 17 Hennessey, Deborah. "Art Lover's Lost Highway", Broadsheet, vol. 26, no. 2 1996 Coolidge, Miles. "Central Valley,” Art & Design #51: Art and the Home, London, England, November (artwork for publication) Shales, Ezra, “Miles Coolidge at Casey Kaplan”, Review, December 1 Cash, Stephanie. “Miles Coolidge at Casey M. Kaplan”, Art in America, October Darling, Michael. “Miles Coolidge.”Art Issues, March/April Wilk, Deborah. “Reviews: Left of Center.”New Art Examiner, March Aletti, Vince. “Deep House.” Village Voice, March 19 Camper, Fred. “Seeing is Deceiving.”Chicago Reader, February 9 Auerbach, Lisa. “Safety in Pictures.”Los Angeles Reader, January 19 [staff], "La-La Land", The New Yorker, Feb. 17 Connelly, John. "Miles Coolidge", THINGREVIEWS, February 29 Servetar, Stuart. "Galleries Downtown", New York Press, February 21-27 Zoon, Cees. "New York", de Volkskrant [Amsterdam], March 1 Stein, Lisa "Ten In One Gallery", Chicago's New City, February 18 Young, Peter. "Parking Structuralism", Buzz Weekly, Sept.13-Sept. 19 Scarborough, James. "New Art From Los Angeles", artpress, April 1988 The Affordable Housing Challenge (with Ann Gelbspan), Boston Society of Architects, Boston MA Collections: Institutional: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Whitney Museum, New York, NY Baltimore Museum of Art Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico Los Angeles County Museum of Art Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Franz Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany