RESUME

EDUCATION

California Institute of the Arts, MFA 1991 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting 1988

GRANTS + RESIDENCIES  

2011 Atlantic Center for the Arts (Residency Fellowship Joan Mitchell Foundation)
1996 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 "Addicted to the Anxiety of Not Knowing," RDFA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006 "Michael Coughlan," 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005 "We Have (Had) the Technology," Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)

2000 Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999 "Telephone," Sara Meltzers On View, New York, NY

1998 "Telephone," Works On Paper, Los Angeles, CA

1997 Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

1994 TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993 Bliss, Pasadena, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS

2023

“Songs About UFOs” Idolwild Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022

“On View 18 - Works from the Stalke Collection” Stalke Gallery, Kirke Sonnerup, DK

2021

“Funhouse” RDFA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Fummer Sun” RDFA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020

“Foamcorp Inaugural” Foamcorp Gallery (online)

2019

“Postcards from the Edge” Benefit Exhibit, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY

“2 Day" Exhibit, LSH Colab, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Artstamp Edition Produced with Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, DK

"Silverlake Conservatory Benefit Auction," Los Angeles, CA

2017

"On View 10," Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, DK

2016

"Flashback + Friends," Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, DK

"TRI (...ed) - Revisiting TRI Gallery," Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2014

"Art Stamp Edition," Stalke Galleri, DK "Dime Bag," The End Is Near, Brooklyn, NY curated by Jordin Isip

2010

"Santa Monica Museum of Art Auction," Santa Monica, CA 2009

"Congrats, No Regrets, " Stalke Up North, Copenhagen, DK

"Decomplexion, " Silvershed, New York, NY curated by Miles Coolidge

"Incognito," SMMOA Auction, Santa Monica, CA

2008

"Five Americans," Skovbo Kunstfoening, Borup, Denmark

2007

"Stalke Up North," Group Exhibition including Dove Bradshaw, William Anastasi, Stalke Up North, Gilleleje, Denmark

"Group Drawing Show," The Fallout Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

"Fresh," MOCA Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2006

"Benjamin Butler, Michael Coughlan, Dietmar Lutz, Ian Patrick, Neil Rumming," Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005

"Works on Paper Show," Future Prospects Gallery, Quezon City, Republic of the Phillipines

"Fresh," MOCA Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2004

"Four Color Pen Show," General Store, Milwaukee, WI, Locust Projects Miami, FL

"Tar Pit Tales," 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003

"Mama's Boy," White Columns, New York NY

"Drip City, " Mandarin Gallery, L.A., CA

2002

"Painting and Illustration," Luckman Gallery, Cal- State L.A., curated by Adam Ross

"Group Exhibit," Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

"Panorama," The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY

"Dime Bag," group show curated by Jordan Isip and Rodger Stevens New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

2001

"Coughlan, Reeder, Ruth, Weatherford," Chicago Project Room, LA, CA curated by Laura Owens

"Cross Cuts," Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Art Institute, L.A., CA

"LA/NY Benefit Exhibit," Yamagata Studio, Malibu, CA

2000

"All Things Everything True," CRG Gallery, New York, NY curated by Jessica Bronson

"The Manchurian Candidate," 30 Paris House, London, England

"On Paper," Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Auction, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)

1998

"L.A. or Lilliput?," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog)

"Flaming June," Works On Paper Inc., Los Angeles, CA

"Local Heroes," Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA

"Wings of Desire," San Francisco Art Institute, McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"Three Day Weekend at Wahlverwandtschaften," Appenzell, Switzerland

1997

"Quartzose," Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark

"The Eagle Rock Show," Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, LA, CA

"Group Exhibition," Pace Gallery, Greene St., New York, NY

"Ten Los Angeles Artists," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA