Professor Paul Coldwell
Born London 1952
Professor in Fine Art University of the Arts London
Education
1971-72 Canterbury College of Art, Foundation Studies
1972 -75 Bristol Polytechnic, BA Hons. Fine Art
1975 -77 Slade School of Art, Higher Diploma
Current Position.
2001- ongoing Professor Fine Art, University of the Arts London, based at Chelsea College of Art.
2006-09 Visiting Professor University of Northampton
2010 Visiting Professor Chinese University Hong Kong
2011 Guest Artist Art Institute of Chicago
2016 Visiting Scholar STAMPS, University of Michigan
2017 Visiting Fellow Edith Cowan University, Perth
2019 Visiting Fellow Indiana University
Peer Esteem
Editorial Board - Print Quarterly
Advisory Board - Art in Print
Guest Editor, NMC Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, Winter 2008 V.04 n.02
Judging Panel for IMPRINT 2011, Kulisiewicz International Graphic Arts Triennial, Warsaw, Poland
Selector for Bite-Mall Galleries 2011
Commission from The Swiss Graphic Society 2018
Judge for 10th Polish Print Triennial Katowice 2018
Principle Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2020 Temporarily Accessioned: Freud’s Coat and other works.
Front Room Gallery- The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury
2019 Picturing the Invisible-The house from below The Sir John Soane Museum, London
2017 Small Traces-Gallery 25 Edith Cowan University, Perth
Temporarily Accessioned Freud Museum London
2016 Small Journeys- Long & Ryle, London
2015 Material Things Gallery II University of Bradford
2014 Charms & other anxious objects Freud Museum, London
Printed Matter. Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand
2013 A Layered Practice-Graphic Works 1993-2012 Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent- Canterbury- Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich
Re-Imagining Scott. Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge
2008 I called while you were out The house-Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
Graphic work. An-Dan-Te Gallery, Korea.
2007 Kafka’s Doll and other works Eagle Gallery. London
2005 Selected Prints 1992-2005 The Gallery University of Northampton
Solo Show Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
2002 Case Studies London Print Studio, London
Queens Gallery, New Delhi, India
Galerie 88, Calcutta
1999 By this I mean… Arthouse, Dublin
New Graphic Work Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
1998 With the Melting of the Snows Eagle Gallery, London
1996 Freud’s Coat Freud Museum London
1994 New Sculptures & Prints Economist Building, London
1993 New Work Eagle Gallery, London
1989 Graphic Work 1985-89 British Council Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Recent group exhibitions include
2020 Hida Takayama International Contemporary Woodblock-Prints Triennale 2020
International Triennial of Contemporary Prints, Liège.
False Memory Rugby Art Gallery & Museum
2019 Haugesund International Festival of Relief Printing, Norway
Freud’s Flight to England IPU, Berlin
The Size of Thoughts. White Conduit Projects, Islington
The Printed Line- Arts Council Touring Exhibition
RA Summer Show. Royal Academy
2018 ReConciliations. Art & Reconciliation Museum of History Sarajevo
International Print Triennial, Krakow
2017 Light/Matter: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, 1954–2017 Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana
2016 International Print Triennial Krakow-Falun
Global Matrix IV Purdue University USA
Setting Memory-Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna
8th Douro Biennial 2016
Jisong Lee + Paul Coldwell Gallery 487 Seoul
Conjunctively Evolving - Masters of Contemporary Art in China and Britain, Shang hai Yun contemporary art center
The unstable image SASA Gallery, University of South Australia
2015 Statements SNAP3 Rheine
Split Bienniale, Croatia
Scope Cheng Art Gallery, Beijing
International Printmaking, Changsha, China
2014 Impress-Printmaking expanded in contemporary Art Courtauld Gallery, London
Against Nature, Camberwell College of Arts.
Current , AAU Cannery Galleries San Francisco
3rd Graphic Triennial , Warsaw Poland
Cartographies; Mapping Intersections & Counterpoints. Zayed University
Gallery Abu Dhabi UAE
2013 Catalyst: Contemporary Art and WarIWM North, 12 Oct 2013 – 23 February 2014
Royal Academy Summer Show. RA London
The Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries London
In.print.out. Kunstlerhaus, Vienna.
2012 Awagami & Print Expression 2012- Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo
Digital Aesthetics PRI Gallery, Preston
Kith & Kin II National Glass Centre Sunderland
The mechanical hand- Kings Place London
Viewfinder. Avenue Gallery, Northampton University
Global Matrix III Robert L. Ringel Gallery and the Stewart Center Gallery. Purdue University
Awarded a majot prize at Lux Center for the Arts in Nabraska - Relief Print
Work in Public Collections include
Arthur Andersen
Arts Council of England
Birmingham City Museums
British Museum
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge Imperial War Museum
Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of the Book, Holland
New York Public Library
Purdue University, USA
St. Thomas' Hospital, London
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Tate Gallery
The History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
University of Michigan
Victoria and Albert Museum
Yale Centre for British Art
Exhibitions Curated
2014 The Artists Folio Cartwright Hall, Bradford
2006 Morandi’s Legacy;Influences on British Art Estorick Collection London &
Abbot Hall, Cumbria
2004 Beyond the Digital Surface Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
2002 Digital Responses V&A Museum London
1999 Computers & Printmaking Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery