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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

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 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 (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 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

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

Lu Yang has been included in this year’s Apollo 40 Under 40 list, the eighth edition of the project and the first to focus on the theme of Art & Tech. It comes at a time when new technologies are transforming how art is made and experienced at an unprecedented pace – with artists playing …continue reading

We are thrilled to share the news that JD Reforma has been included as one of 25 artists exhibiting as part of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial. Titled Free/State the presentation will be curated by Sebastian Goldspink at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Reforma will be making ambitious new work for the show. More information can …continue reading

Nick Modrzewski recently spoke with COMA director Sotiris Sotiriou about his current exhibition with the gallery, The Plaintiff’s Third Face. In the conversation the two unpack the presentation and its roots in medieval history, absurdism and the theatricality of the legal system. Sotiris Sotiriou: Your exhibition text states “to exist in the legal system, a …continue reading

Shan Turner-Carroll will build upon previous works to create an experimental new body of work, showing at COMA from 15 October 2021. The exhibition is supported by a grant provided by Art Incubator. Art Incubator was established by collectors and philanthropists Teresa and Andre Biet as an initiative to provide a financial grant and mentorships to two or …continue reading