Peter Coffin (artist)

Peter Coffin (born 1972, Berkeley, California, United States) is an artist based in New York City.

Continuing this investigation, Coffin drew inspiration from Carl Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies,[7] to create a full-scale UFO[8] modeled after popular representations and documented sightings, and initially flew it over the Baltic Sea in 2008 while a team of sociologists interviewed witnesses.

Coffin's work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[12] Washington D.C. (2012); the Center d'art Contemporarian,[13] Ivry (2010); The Barbican,[14] London (2009); City Hall Park,[15] New York City (2009); the Aspen Art Museum[16] (2009); the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art,[17] San Francisco (2009); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg[18] (2008); Palais de Tokyo,[19] Paris (2007); and le Confort Moderne,[20] Poitier (2007).

In 2005, Coffin published a Music for Plants compilation album with contributions from Arto Lindsay, Sun Burned Hand of the Man, Ariel Pink, Jutta Koether, Alan Licht & Tom Verlaine, David Grubbs, LoVid, Anthony Burdin, Liam Gillick, Z's Christian Marclay, and No Neck Blues Band among others.

[65] Recent projects include the curatorial platform SMMoCA (Sugarmill Museum of Contemporary Art)[66] and Another Alphabet.