Background
Coates was born in 1968 in London, United Kingdom.
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He graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 1990 and completed his Master of Arts at the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1993.
Career
In 2013 Coates was a shortlisted for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square artwork (2015/16). His proposal for the fourth plinth commission is to cast and install a replica of the "Eagle Rock" at Brimham Rocks in Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
He is recognised for his performances and installations that employ shamanistic rituals and contrast natural and manmade processes. Some of his work has focused on housing in Elephant and Castle, South London, including a film (Vision Quest – a Ritual for Elephant & Castle) and an on-stage trance in 2009.
Coates has exhibited extensively internationally since 1999 including Altermodern, the Tate Triennial and Kunsthalle Zurich in 2009 and "Super 8" at the Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro and "Galápagos" at the Centro de Arte Moderna in Lisbon, Portugal in 2013.
2013 "Anchorhold – Meetings with Marcus Coates", Hai arts, Island of Hailuoto, Finland
2013 "Follow the Voice, City in the City", Canary Wharf Screen, Art on the Underground, London. 2012 "Proxy", Kate MacGarry, London, United Kingdom
2012 "Marcus Coates", Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, United Kingdom
2012 "Dawn Chorus", Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, United Kingdom
2012 "Follow The Voice", Canary Warf, Screen, London, United Kingdom
2012 "Vision Quest: a ritual for Elephant & Castle", Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London
2012 "Stories from the Lower World", South Alberta Art Gallery, Canada
2012 "Eva International Biennial of Visual Art", Limerick City, Ireland
2011 "Skills Exchange: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care, a project for the Process Room at the Serpentine Gallery", London
2011 "The Trip", Serpentine Gallery, London
2010 "Implicit Sound", ESPAI 13, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
2010 "Questions & Answers", Kate MacGarry, London
2010 Portuguese Eliot Festival, Cornwall (performance)
2010 "Psychopomp", Milton Keynes Gallery
2009 Altermodern, Tate Britain, London
2009 "Marcus Coates", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (performance)
2009 "Marcus Coates", Kunsthalle Zurich – Parallel Space (exhibition and performance)
2009 "The Plover"s Wing", Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
2008 "Marcus Coates", NOMA New Orleans Museum of Art
2008 "Marcus Coates", Kunsthalle Zurich – Parallel Space (exhibition and performance.
