“I Felt the Lightning Right Next to Me” Lu Yang was recently featured on Artnet with the interview by Hili Perlson that dives into recent work, perspectives on identity, the use and functions of avatars and how a harrowing flight experience led to a breakthrough digital artwork. To read the article click here.
JD Reforma – AGNSW Acquisition
JD Reforma’s ‘I want to believe’ has recently been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. ‘I want to believe’ is a work about faith and hope that creates a direct, physical relationship between the domestic and the cosmic. It consists of a filmed performance that took place on the rooftop of the …continue reading
Jack Lanagan Dunbar – Artist Representation
COMA is pleased to announce the representation of Sydney-based artist Jack Lanagan Dunbar. Since 2019, the artist has held two solo exhibitions with COMA and recently presented a new suite of work at the Melbourne Art Fair 2022 with the gallery. Jack Lanagan Dunbar’s (b. 1988) work spans many disciplines from photography through printing, sculpture, …continue reading
Lu Yang – Venice Biennale
Lu Yang is currently presenting his latest video work, titled ‘Doku The Self’, debuting at the Venice Biennale 2022 ‘The Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Doku The Self is Lu Yang’s first narrative film along in the ongoing Doku series. As the digital avatar of the artist, Doku was born prior to the …continue reading
Mark Thomas Gibson – 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
Mark Thomas Gibson was recently announced as a recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. The artist’s grant was endowed by the actor Robert De Niro. Thomas Gibson creates figurative artworks that mull over various facets of the Black experience in the U.S., including violence brought on by the Ku Klux Klan and monuments with racist …continue reading
Nick Modrzewski – Artist Representation
COMA is pleased to announce the representation of Melbourne-based artist Nick Modrzewski. The artist presented his first solo exhibition with COMA in 2021, and will be exhibiting new work with Watch This Space, Alice Springs, the La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, and Contour 556, Canberra. Modrzewski will have his second solo exhibition with COMA in …continue reading
Lu Yang – Kunstpalais Erlangen
Lu Yang is currently showing in his first European institutional solo with the Kunstpalais Erlangen. The exhibition False Awakening draws from global gaming culture not only in aethetic terms. Visitors are invited to slip into selected roles from Lu Yang’s repertoire and explore his digital world. In May and June, a series of lectures titled Just Thinkers and …continue reading
Fabian Ramirez – Frieze Magazine
Fabian Ramirez (b. 1994, Mexico City, Mexico) was recently included in Frieze Magazine’s Five Up-and-Coming Painters to Keep a Close Eye On. The young Mexican artist Fabian Ramírez paints dreamscapes: ghost images of vegetation, domestics interiors and other environs, concealed in a barrage of expressive colourful brushstrokes, creating kaleidoscopic abstractions that only hint towards a …continue reading
Shan Turner-Carroll – Bundanon
Shan Turner-Carroll is currently included in the inaugural show at the new Bundanon, an institution on the South Coast of NSW. The exhibition, From impulse to action, centres on Arthur Boyd’s drawings in ink, both brightly coloured and monochrome, as the starting point for 12 new commissions by Australian contemporary artists working in a diverse range …continue reading
Lu Yang – Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year” 2022
COMA is pleased to share the news that Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang is Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2022. The artist will be showing his first major solo exhibition in Germany at Deutsche Bank’s PalaisPopulaire in Berlin in the fall of 2022. “Lu Yang represents a young generation in Asian art for whom it …continue reading
