Petah Coyne

American, born 1953

BiographyBorn into a military family in Oklahoma City, Coyne moved frequently as a child until the family settled in the Dayton area. Coyne attended Oakwood High School, University of Dayton, Kent State and the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Following graduation in 1977, she moved to New York. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and has had several solo and group exhibitions.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Coyne’s work is in numerous permanent museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Phoenix Art Museum; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Canada.

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