MILES COOLIDGE
Associate Professor (MFA 1993, California Institute of
the Arts), teaches in photography. He received a postgraduate DAAD
fellowship for one year of study with Bernd Becher at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He has taught photography and studio art at
Otis College of Art, UCLA, USC and the California Institute of the
Arts.

Coolidge’s artwork includes the photographic series' Garage Pictures,
Elevator Pictures, Safetyville, Central Valley, Moundbuilders, Golf
Course, Mattawa, and the photographic installation Observatory Circle.
His current work includes two projects structured around the
superabundance of water in South Florida, Drawbridges (a photographic
series), and Instead of a Bridge (a permanently installed
site-specific installation in the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood
International Airport). Among the group exhibitions he has
participated in are Elsewhere (Carnegie Museum of Art), Stills (Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis), Defamiliar (Regen Projects, Los Angeles),
Sightings (ICA London), The Campaign Against Living Miserably (Royal
College of Art, London, UK), L.A. or Lilliput (Long Beach Museum of
Art), Tomorrow Forever-Photography as Ruin, (Kunsthalle Krems, Krems,
Austria), Made In California 1900-2000, (Los Angeles County Museum of
Art), Flight Patterns, (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), New
Settlements, (Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark),
Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Faculty Exhibition,
(University Art Gallery, UCI, Irvine, CA). Critical surveys of his
work can be found in Camera Austria, 76/2001 ("Miles Coolidge", by
Nadja Rottner), and Frieze, January/February 1999 ("Nowheresville", by
Helen Molesworth).

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