“Coleman Collins’ work considers the shifting landscape of image and representation of place, exploring the ways in which physical sites of social, political, and cultural confluence are understood and experienced on-site, on-screen, and beyond.” –juror Aurora Tang, Independent Curator / Program Officer, PST ART

“Coleman Collins work engages questions of global Black consciousness and diaspora. His practice also examines the circulation of capital and people, the architectural spaces shaped by the histories of slavery and plantation economies, and the politics of representation. Collins is deeply invested in the tensions between the physical and the virtual, his recent explorations with 3D imaging and digital forms probe how technology mediates identity and historical memory.” –juror Idurre Alonso, Head of Modern and Contemporary Collections, Getty Research Institute

Coleman Collins (b. 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work explores notions of diaspora in relation to technological methods of transmission, translation, copying, and reiteration. His most recent projects examine the connections between things-in-the-world and their digital approximations, paying particular attention to the ways in which real and virtual spaces are socially produced.

Recent exhibitions and screenings of his work have taken place at e-flux, New York; Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles; Herald Street, London; the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Soldes, Los Angeles; the Palestine Festival of Literature, Jerusalem/Ramallah; Larder, Los Angeles; Hesse Flatow, New York; and Brief Histories, New York. He has received support from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.