Coleman Collins
IDEA fellow at Stony Brook University’s Future Histories Studio
Areas of Specialization: Debt and deontology, digital and physical inheritance, emerging technologies
M.F.A. UCLA
Email: Coleman.Collins@stonybrook.edu
Office: Staller Center for the Arts #42XX
Web: colemancollins.info
Coleman Collins is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who explores the ways that
gradual, iterative processes can have outsized effects over time. His work often technological
developments and relationships of debt and obligation as the modes through which these
processes are enacted.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include Hesse Flatow, New York; Brief Histories,
New York; Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Nothing Special, Los Angeles;
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; ltd los angeles, Los Angeles; Artspace,
New Haven, and Human Resources Los Angeles. Collins is a 2022 recipient of a Graham
Foundation research grant. He has also received support from NYFA and Cafe Royal Cultural
Foundation. He received an MFA from UCLA in 2018, and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan
School for Painting and Sculpture. In 2019, he participated in the Whitney Museum’s
Independent Study Program. He lives in New York, where he is a fellow at Stony Brook
University’s Future Histories Studio.