Coe Lapossy

Coe Lapossy (b. 1980, Medina, OH) earned their M.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2013. In 2006, they earned their B.F.A. in Studio Art, Painting from Kent State University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Memphis as Assistant Professor, Coe served as a Lecturer at University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2017-19. In addition, they designed an Advanced Studio Seminar: Who Am I To Feel So Free? for the Five College Consortium. Coe has also been a visiting critic at Smith College, Rhodes College, and Bennington College. They have created site-specific works for Elsewhere Living Museum, Flansburg Architects Artist in Residency Program, The Boston Center for Arts, Terrain partnered with CNL Projects in Chicago, and ICOSA Collective Gallery in Austin, Texas. They have also exhibited at Museum of Fine Art, Boston, the Howard Art Project, Lesley University, the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA), and Penn State University. Coe has been awarded residences at the Provincetown C-Scape Dune Shack Artist Residency and Elsewhere Artist Residency in Greensboro, NC. In 2019 they served as a CAA Conference Panel Chair on the topic of, The Practice and the Other Practice: The Relationship Between Making Art and Teaching. Coe also curates and writes for Tailgate Projects, a mobile gallery.