Selected Press

The Art of Truth
Ruby Roth, Laika Magazine, February 20, 2021 Sue Coe's Animal Rights Art Compels You To Look: How the sociopolitical artist confronts injustice through her powerful printmaking and... Read more
Casting a Critical Eye, From the Slaughterhouse to the White House
Hilarie M. Sheets, The New York Times, October 21, 2020 The artist Sue Coe proudly labels her own work propaganda, whether she’s taking on factory farming or current events. ... Read more
SUE COE: Graphic Resistance at MOMA PS1 June 3-September 9, 2018
Ann McCoy, Brooklyn Rail, June 5, 2018 In 1986, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, as it was then known, held the first solo museum exhibition of Sue Coe’s... Read more
In the Midst of an Epidemic: An artist chronicles the time when AIDS was a death sentence
Yale Medicine, January 1, 2017 “People who didn’t live through this can’t appreciate how hopeless it was,” said Susan Wheeler, curator of prints and drawings... Read more
Sue Coe's Inferno
Susan Gill, ARTnews, October 1, 1987 Read more

Sue Coe takes on Donald Trump in Final Galerie St. Etienne Show
David D'Arcy, The Art Newspaper, October 8, 2020
Why Vote? To Protect Those Who Cannot
Sue Coe, The Art Newspaper, October 8, 2020
PROJECT: SUE COE
Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Artforum , October 1, 2020
An Orwell-inspired Billboard Project Considers the State of US Politics
Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic, September 28, 2020

Message Art
Sarah Blair, AOI (Association of Illustrators), November 1, 2002
Art <> Activism: An Interview with Sue Coe
Elin Slavick, MediaReader Quarterly, Issue #4, May 1, 2001
Making It: Staying True to a Unique Vision of Art
Susan Vaughn, Los Angeles Times , April 1, 2001
Exhibition Review: The Tragedy of War
Grace Glueck, The New York Times, December 29, 2000

Dead-End Kids: Gerhard Richter's political masterpiece and a review of the exhibition "Open Ends" at MOMA, Fall 2000
Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, December 11, 2000
Conversation: Sue Coe
Cameron Woo, The Bark, #12, Autumn 2000, September 1, 2000
Trio of Exhibits Rich in Anguish Over Injustices
James Auer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 26, 2000
Every Picture Tells a Story: The Images of Sue Coe
Staff writer, Juxtapoz, July 1, 1999

The Coagula Interview: Sue Coe
Dianne Lawrence, Coagula Art Journal, May 1, 1999
174th Annual Exhibition: Review
Ken Johnson, The New York Times, April 23, 1999
Review of The Pit
Julie Caniglia, newyork.sidewalk.com, March 30, 1999
The Modern's Trendy Windfall
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, October 7, 1997

The Coe War
M.D. Carnegie, City Paper, Washington DC, April 29, 1994
Drawing Political Fire
Peter Plagens, Newsweek , March 28, 1994
Capitalizing on Capitalism
Hank Burchard, The Washington Post, March 25, 1994
Painting Herself Into a Corner: Sue Coe is 'Hot.' Does That Make Her a Hypocrite?
Martha Sherrill, The Washington Post, March 19, 1994

Art: Sue Coe
Paul Richard, The Washington Post, March 19, 1994
Specimen Days: Scenes from an Epidemic (at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX)
Robert Massa and Sue Coe, The Village Voice, February 22, 1994
With Sue Coe's Art You Get the Message -- Clearly
John Dorsey, The Baltimore Sun, March 26, 1993
Sue Coe Dispenses the Strong Medicine of Polemical Art
John Dorsey, The Baltimore Sun, March 21, 1993

Arts: To Defy, Reveal–and Heal
Cindy Nemser, Ms., November 1, 1992
Slaughter of the Soul
Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, August 4, 1991
Porkopolis: The Nightmare Vision of Sue Coe
Susan Geer, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 1991
Sue Coe: More Than Just PC
Michael Welzenbach, The Washington Post, Saturday , June 8, 1991

This Little Piggie Went to Market
Elliott Negin, City Paper, Washington DC , February 16, 1990
Sue Coe at Galerie St. Etienne Exhibition Review
Lois Nesbitt, Artforum, January 1, 1990
The Coldest Cut: Sue Coe's Porkopolis
Brooks Adams, Art in America, January 1, 1990
Art Review: 'Secrets' Looks at Freedom Through the Rosenberg Case
Kristine McKenna, LA Times, December 29, 1989

Through the Eyes of an Artist: Sue Coe's Images of the Pittston Coal Miners
Sue Coe, People's Daily World, December 14, 1989
Art: Sue Coe Exhibition Review, Porkopolis–Animals & Industry
New Yorker Staff Writers, The New Yorker , October 16, 1989
Art Review: Sue Coe's Porkopolis – Animals and Industry
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, October 13, 1989
Sacred Pigs
Elizabeth Hess, The Village Voice, October 10, 1989

Sue Coe and the Art of Abuse
Susan Tallman, Arts Magazine, April 1, 1989
Sue Coe: Police State
Araminta Morris, Women Artists Slide Library Journal, Issue 28, April 1, 1989
Sue Coe: Rebel With Many Causes
Marly Cornell, The Animals' Agenda, February 1, 1989
Unknown Secrets
Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir, Guardian, October 5, 1988

Renewed Fervor Over the Rosenbergs
Leo Seligsohn, New York Newsday, September 30, 1988
Presumed Guilty
Elizabeth Hess, The Village Voice, September 27, 1988
Exhibit Mirrors Society's Failures
Tracey Jollay, The Ohio State Lantern, January 2, 1988
Sue Coe: Anderson Gallery
Ray Kass, Artforum , June 20, 1987

Film Review: Painted Landscapes of the Times
The Village Voice, June 16, 1987
The Dictates of Conscience
Maria Porges, Artweek, May 1, 1987
The Dictates of Conscience: An Interview with Sue Coe
Mark Scala, New Art Examiner, April 1, 1987
Class Conscious
Elizabeth Hess, The Village Voice, November 25, 1986

Sue Coe - Malcolm X'
Michael Brenson, The New York Times, November 14, 1986
Art: Social Messages, Boldly Told
Phyllis Braff, New York Times, October 12, 1986
Sue Coe Interview
John Yau, Flash Art, May/June 1986, May 1, 1986
The Art Institute of Chicago's 75th American Exhibition
Michael Segard and James Yood, New Art Examiner, May 1, 1986

Sue Coe
Mary Ann Christie, Art & Auction, May 1, 1986
Sue Coe: P.P.O.W. Exhibition Review
Nancy Princenthal, ARTnews , September 1, 1985
Sue Coe: PPOW Exhibition Review
Donald Kuspit, Artforum, September 1, 1985
Sue Coe: Portraits of Pain
Marguerite Feitlowitz, Prism Magazine, August 1, 1985

Sue Coe
The Village Voice, June 4, 1985
Sue Coe
Staff writer, New York Magazine, May 20, 1985
Dark Ages
Lucy R. Lippard, The Village Voice, May 14, 1985
Art: Sue Coe
Levin, The Village Voice, May 7, 1985

Sue Coe, PPOW Exhibition Review
Glenn O'Brien, Artforum, January 2, 1984
Raw Magazine: Inner Necessity vs. The Getting of Yolks
Staff, LA Reader, December 16, 1983
Artists Worth Watching: Sue Coe
Valerie F. Brooks, MD, September 1, 1983
Dark Visions: The Art of Sue Coe
Louise Kollenbaum, Mother Jones, August 1, 1983

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