Artist, Musician, Curator, and Founder of Naturalist Gallery

Gavin Coates is an American multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, music, curation, photography, filmmaking, and digital media. He is the founder of Naturalist Gallery, an international online contemporary art gallery, and the creator of the independent music project 99 Coats. His work is characterized by long-form creative development, producing interconnected bodies of work across multiple disciplines rather than focusing on individual projects in isolation.

Over several years, Coates has exhibited artwork internationally, founded an online gallery serving artists worldwide, and quietly built an extensive catalog of original music before beginning public promotion. His projects explore recurring themes including perception, memory, nature, transformation, time, and the relationship between individual experience and larger systems.

Gavin Coates approaches art as an interconnected practice rather than a collection of separate careers. Instead of viewing painting, music, writing, photography, and curating as unrelated disciplines, he treats each as another way of investigating the same questions.

His creative philosophy centers on building substantial bodies of work over long periods of time. Rather than pursuing short-term visibility, his projects are designed to accumulate into larger systems in which individual works reference, reinforce, and expand one another.

This philosophy has shaped every major project he has undertaken, from exhibiting paintings internationally to founding Naturalist Gallery and developing the music project 99 Coats.