Derek Coté

As a frustrated architect, explorer and aspiring short filmmaker, Derek Coté received his MFA (sculpture + extended media) from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA (sculpture and photography with a minor in art history) from Western Washington University. He has had screenings and exhibitions nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Anchorage Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, South Bend Museum of Art, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Houston Center for Photography, Exit Art, AC Institute and Roebling Hall in New York City, Marmara University in Istanbul, Marc DePuechredon Gallery in Basel, Kunsthaus Rhenania in Cologne, Artwave Radio in Athens, Greece, Arthouse Film Festival in Hong Kong and the Open Art FIlm Festival in Dusseldorf, Germany. In addition, Coté has received a professional artist fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, support grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Pollock Krasner Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Gottlieb Foundation and was a third-stage finalist for a Creative Capital Grant. Coté has been in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency and the Anchorage Museum's Polar Lab.