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Tony Cokes

b. 1956, Richmond, Virginia, USA · American · Based in Providence, RI, USA

  • Goddard College
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Video
  • Sound Art
  • Text Installation

Tony Cokes creates text-based videos that combine music with quotations from journalism, theory, speeches and popular culture. Bright fields of color and familiar songs carry language about race, war, policing, capitalism and media representation.

Video; text; sound

Gallery Representation

DOCUMENTATION

EXHIBITION IMAGES via Contemporary Art Library ↗

Major Works

  • 1988Black Celebration
  • 1990The Blood of the Thing
  • 1997Pop Manifestos
  • 2009–11Evil.16 (Torture.Musik)
  • 2019The Queen Is Dead... Fragment 1
  • 2015Face Value
  • 2019The Morrissey Problem
  • 2020Some Munich Moments
  • 2020Of Lies and Liars Study 01
  • 2020Ad Vice

Museums & Public Collections

Interviews & Writing

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