Darren Coffield

Darren Coffield was born in London in 1969. He studied at Goldsmiths College, Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London where he received his Bachelors in 1993 in Fine Arts. In the early nineties Coffield worked with Joshua Compston on the formation of Factual Nonsense - the centre of the emerging YBA scene. He has exhibited widely with many leading artists including Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Patrick Caulfield and Gilbert and George at venues ranging from the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House to Galerie Planet, France. Coffield's work can be found in Art collections around the world. In 2003 his controversial portrait of Ivan Massow, former chairman of the ICA in full fox hunting costume was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Coffield lives and works in London.

Education

1989 - 1993 BA in Fine Art (hons), Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
1988 - 1989 Camberwell School of Art, London, UK
1987 Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Selected Exhibitions

2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham
2008 Plein air, Maximilian Voloshin Museum, Koktebel, Crimea
2008 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008, Jerwood Space, London
2008 Insurgent Works, Ghetto Gallery, Split, Croatia
2008 The Famous, the Infamous & the Really Quite Good, Decima Gallery, London
2008 Conditions Humaines, De Queeste Art, Abele, Belgium
2007 I Love Peckham Shop Windows, Peckham, London
2007 Far from Eden, Hotel de Ville, Hondschoote, France
2007 Far from Eden, Vinkemkerk, Beauvoorde, Belgium
2007 Château Planet, Galerie Planet, Magnac Laval, France
2007 Artists vs Celebrity, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
2006 Drugaddict Show, Guy Hilton Gallery, London
2006 Château Planet, Galerie Planet, Magnac Laval, France
2005 Artists' Pictionary, The Agency Contemporary Gallery, London
2004 Board Meeting, Fake London Genius, Savile Row, London
2003 BP Portrait Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2003 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2003 Artists of the Colony Room Club, Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, London
2000 Artists Room, The Westbourne Hotel, London
2000 Less Filth, More Fury, Soho House, London
1999 Richard Dadd's 30th Birthday Party, Bedlam Performance Art, A.S.C, Rosebery Avenue, London
1999 Banality Begins at Home, Performance Bar Art, Colony Room Club, Soho, London
1999 The I.C.A presents... A.S.C, Rosebery Avenue, London
1999 Ainsworth Unearthed, Performance/Public reading, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
1999 Well Hung, London
1998 The Colony Room Club 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London
1998 Terminal Beach, G, London
1998 Whitechapel Open Studios, London
1997 Whitechapel Open Studios, London
1996 Displaced A.S.C., London
1995 Factual Nonsense, London
1994 Factual Nonsense, London
1993 Factual Nonsense, London
1992 A Guide For The Perplexed, Factual Nonsense, London
1992 Abstractions From a Domestic Suburb Scene, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
1992 Empty Gestures, Diorama, London
1991 One Man Down, The Pearson Gallery, UCL, London
1991 The Courtauld Institute Loan Collection, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Bibliography

Graphic illustrations of personal and political themes, Tribune, October 3, 2008
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008, Exhibition catalogue, September 2008
The Colony - A Documentary Preview, Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (DVD), BFI, August 2008
Darren Coffield Slikar Pobunjenik (Insurgent Artist), Jutarnji List (Croatian National Newspaper), August 2, 2008
Verduta, Exhibition catalogue, April 2008
Radio Peckham, April 7, 2008
Let's not carp about Ivan, Evening Standard, September 24, 2007
Art make-over for Peckham, BBC News, Transmission: August 6, 2007 (TV)
Vervan Loind' Eden, Exhibition catalogue, July 2007
Channel 4 Dispatches, Transmission: July 2007 (TV)
Out of the picture, East London Advertiser, May 3, 2007
The Shoreditch Map, February 2007, issue 91
Artist and a right Charlie, Evening Standard, December 8, 2006
'Gorgeous George' brush with destiny, East London Advertiser, November 16, 2006
'Gorgeous George' sits pretty with Blair and Bush, The Guardian GT Magazine, November 8, 2006
Portrait of 'George' (Galloway), Free at Last TV, July 2006 (TV)
Emel Magazine, May 2006, page 97
IDEA, 2005 (catalogue)
Fake London Genius // Board Meeting, 2004 (catalogue)
Brian Sewell, Canvas, brush, paint..., Evening Standard, June 20, 2003
Bunny Smedley, ART: Still very much alive, thanks, Electric Review, June 25, 2003
Metro, June 16, 2003
BP Portrait Award 2003, National Portrait Gallery (catalogue)
Large Magazine, June 2003
Caroline Roux, Aspects of me, The Guardian Magazine, April 26, 2003
Large Magazine, March 2003
No Fun Without U, Author: Jeremy Cooper, 2000 (book)
Catherine Milner, What pushed Joshua Compston over the edge?, Tatler Magazine, July 2000
Death of a Curator, Illuminations Production, BBC2, November 1999 (TV)
Silk and Metal-Morphoses, Evening Standard, March 29, 1999
Artists of the Colony Room Club, 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1998 (catalogue)