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Troy Coulterman hails from Guelph, Ontario. Coulterman crafts three-dimensional human figures in seductive colours, with exaggerated features and forms that are directly influenced from graphic novels. Absurd, abstract forms engulf, drip and extrude from the figures he creates. These forms that surround or become part of the figures are visual metaphors of absurd anomalies and emotional states the characters he creates are experiencing. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and he has had solo exhibitions in Toronto, Portland, San Diego, and Regina.
“Inspired by artists who made their mark in the comic book scene, including Daniel Clowes and Jamie Hewlett, Coulterman’s resin figures are like graphic novel characters in 3-D. They appear in bizarre situations, with exaggerated emotions dripping from their faces. Coulterman says that it was his intention to “translate” certain elements of comic book art-the thick line work, the sometimes unnatural colours-into sculpture…Coulterman breaths life into figures that seem larger than they are.”
“It always starts with the figure and the figure is always in some way interacting with these absurd forms,” Coulterman explains. His initial ideas aren’t always concrete. There’s an emotion he wants to convey or an instance-“a single moment that might be more difficult to describe verbally”-that he wants to visualize. “These abstract, absurd forms that interact with the figurative pieces, they’re in a way visual metaphors to describe the psyche of the figures, the emotional moments in the figures,” he says.”
Liz Ohanesian, Hi Fructose Magazine Volume 27, 2013
Education
2012 MFA , Sculpture, University of Regina, Saskatchewan
2006 BFA, Studio/Fine Art focus in Sculpture, York University, Toronto ON
Forthcoming Exhibitions
2019 Solo Show, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Group Show, Antler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2015 Solo Show, Hellion Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2015 Solo Show, Arch Enemy Arts. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. USA
2014 Digital Handshake, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2013 Tangible Absurdities, Subtext Gallery, San Diego, California, USA
2013 Everyday Anomalies, Hellion Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2012 MFA Exhibition, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2010 Artscape Wychwood Barns Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Suggestivism, Spoke Art, New York, New York, USA
2017 Saturnalia, Slate Gallery. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2016 Cluster Group Show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2016 Suggestivism, Spoke Art, San Francisco, California, USA
2016 Group Show, Knew Conscious, Denver, Colorado, USA
2016 Group Show, Thinkspace Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2016 Solo, Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2015 Gumbo, Thinkspace Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2015 20 Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2015 Thinkspace 10 Year Anniversary Show, Thinkspace, Los Angeles, California, USA
2015 The Zealot’s Elixir curated by Doubleparlour, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco , California, USA
2014 47th Annual Winter Show, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2014 AQUA Art Miami 2014, through Thinkspace Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
2014 SCOPE: International Contemporary Art Show, through Thinkspace Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
2014 Toronto International Art Fair 2014, Slate Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2014 LAX/SFO, Thinkspace exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, California, USA
2014 Corrective Course, Marcas Contemporary, Costa Mesa, California, USA
2014 Tragedy Plus Time, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2014 4th Annual Tiny Trifecta Group Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2014 Reverse Engineered Pt. 2, Antler Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2014 Reverse Engineered, Hellion Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2013 Clutter Gallery, Beacon, New York, USA
2013 Comic Readers Group Show, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2013 Saturnalia, Slate Gallery. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2013 3rd Annual Tiny Trifecta Group Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2013 Group Show, Slate Gallery. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2013 Dreams From the Gutter, Tae Contemporary Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2012 From There to Here, Artful Dodger, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2012 FACE IT!, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2012 Heartlines, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011 Construct, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
2011 III, Fifth Parallel, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2010 SSC presents New Members, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2010 SSC presents 11th Juried Emerging Sculptors Exhibition, Canadian Sculpture Centre
2007 FARAGO, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 SSC presents 11th Juried Graduating Sculpture Student Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 Akasa, Zacks Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 Your Mom, Zacks Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Awards/Grants/Scholarships
2014 Short-Listed, The Mayor’s Arts and Business Award, Regina, Saskatchewan
2013 Short-Listed nominee, Lieutenant Governor’s Emerging Artist Award, Saskatchewan
2013 Saskatchewan Arts Board Independent Emerging Artist Grant
2012 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Graduate Scholarship
2011 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Graduate Teaching Assistantship
2010 Abraham & Malka Green Award, Emerging Sculptors Exhibition
2010 Mr. Ronald O. Dunlop and Mrs. Annie Dunlop Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Visual Arts, University of Regina
2009 Emerging Artists Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2006 MST Bronze Ltd Award, SSC presents 11th Juried Graduating Sculpture Student Exhibition
2006 Laya Liberman Memorial Scholarship, York University
2005-6 Lou Odette Sculpture Award, York University
Gallery Representation
Slate Fine Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Collections
Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection.
Many other private collections worldwide.*
Selected Press, Articles and Interviews
2012 Everyday Anomalies by Troy Coulterman, Jane Kenoyer, Hi Fructose Website (hifructose.com), October 25, 2012
2013 Liz Ohanesian, Troy Coulterman, Hi Fructose Magazine Volume 27, p. 51-57, Richmond, CA. USA.
2013 CarneMag (carnemag.com/), Issue 23, August 2013
2013 Surreal Sculptures by Troy Coulterman, Juxtapoz Website (juxtapoz.com), May 27, 2013
2013 Glen Leavitt, Troy Coutlerman, Georgie Magazine Issue 13, November 2013, p. 23-28, Edmonton, Alberta.