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| Born 1964 |
| Lives and works in New York City and teaches at Columbia University |
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| 1997 |
Hunter College, New York, NY — M.F.A. |
| 1986 |
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. — History
and Literature, cum laude, B.A. |
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| 2008 |
New Works: Diana Cooper, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
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| 2007 |
"Beyond the Line: The Art of Diana Cooper", Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
Diana Cooper, Postmasters Gallery,
New York, NY |
| 2005 |
“Swarm,” Postmasters Gallery,
New York
“Mechanical Cloud”, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
“My Eye Travels,” Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 |
The Drawing Room (with Hew Locke), London |
| 2003 |
Galerie Staub (g*fzk!), Zurich
Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London |
| 2002 |
"Hidden Tracks Sabotage the Random," Postmasters
Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
The Bradford-Renick Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth
University,
Richmond, VA, curated by Jean Crutchfield (brochure) |
| 2000 |
Hales Gallery, London
Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris |
| 1999 |
"The Best Part of the Song and It's Too
Short, " Postmasters Gallery New York, NY |
| 1998 |
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 |
Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Ah! space Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2008 |
"Capricious and Mercurial Systems," A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL |
| 2007 |
"Holiday Reading," Number 35, New York, NY. Curated by Ron Keyson |
| 2006 |
“Process & Promise,” 92nd
Street Y Art Center, New York
“Speed,” Staubkohler Gallery Zurich
Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions,
The Whitney Museum of Art
at Altria, New York, NY |
| 2005 |
Off the Wall,” curated by Tracy Adler,
The Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College,
New York (catalogue)
“I am 5,” Parker Box, Brooklyn, NY
“
Hew Locke and Diana Cooper”, Chapter, Cardiff, UK, May-July (catalogue)
“
Plan D”, Viscondes de Balsemao, Porto
“
Plan D”, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
“
Plan D”, Modelniland, Sligo
“
Ebb and Flow”, Three Colts Gallery, London
“
The Continuous Mark”, The New York Studio School, NY |
| 2004 |
“Objectif Lune”, Ecole Regionale
des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen
“
Obstractivists”, Hales gallery, London
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Open House,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
“
Global World/Private Universe,” Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, curated
by Konrad Bitterli, St. Gallen, Switzerland (catalogue)
“
Four Rooms: Erwan Ballan, Diana Cooper, Flavio Favelli and Jim Lambie,” Museo
Il Filatoio, Caralio, Italy (catalogue)
“
5 Large Drawings: Diana Cooper, Russell Crotty, Jason Rogens, Nick Taggert and
Terry Winters,”
Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2003 |
“Lines, Signs and Codes,” Galerie
Anne de Villepoix, Paris
“Ready-made Color,” Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest
“
Phillip Allen, Diana Cooper and Paul McDevitt,” Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
"Sharjah Biennial," Sharjah Museum of Art, United Arab Emirates (catalogue)
"Frozen Architecture," Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University,
WV |
| 2002 |
"Art Povera American Style; Funk, Play,
Poetry and Labor," Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland,
OH, curated
by Julie Langsam (catalogue)
"Bricolage," Rudolph Projects, Houston, Texas
"Networks and Systems: Installations by Jeanne Silverthorne and Diana Cooper," Atrium
Gallery, Storrs, CT,
curated by Saul Ostrow
"Sprawl," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, curated by Sue
Spaid
"I-Beam," Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
"
Working the Grid," The Grossman Art Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
"
By Hand," Hales Gallery, London
"
New Prints 2002," International Print Center New York, New York, NY
"Second Sight," Hunter College/ Time Square Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) |
| 2001 |
"Vivid," The Richard Salmon Gallery,
London, traveling in 2002: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center,
Coventry, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
"Chain Reaction," Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA,
traveling to Tang Museum,
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, curated by Ian Berry (catalogue)
"More or Less Painting,", Art Gallery at Stamford, CT, traveling to
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,
Atrium Gallery, curated by Saul Ostrow
"Brooklyn!" Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, FL, curated by
Dominique Nahas
and Michael Rush
"Un/Ruled,", Exhibit A, New York, NY, curated by Mercedes Vicente
"CArts and rafts," Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Art, London,
England
"Accumulations," Kent University Art Gallery, Kent, OH
"Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence" (New York Foundation for the Arts),
Sotheby's,
New York, NY, curated by William Stover
"Bondo: from Process to Picture: Diana Cooper, Lydia Dona and James Hyde,"
I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
"ClenchClutchFlinch, " Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery, New York, NY,
"Passing Through," The Shaqab College of Design Arts, Doha, Qatar
"Painting / Not Painting," White Columns, New York, NY
"Personal Abstractions: Lee Bontecou, Diana Cooper and Gay Outlaw," Sculpture
Center
New York, NY, curated by Mary Ceruti
"Kinds of Drawing," Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
"New Prints 2001," International Print Center New York, New York, NY |
| 2000 |
"The Living End," The Boulder Museum
of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, curated by Ingrid Schaffner
"Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
"Re-drawing the Line,” Art in General, New York, NY, curated by Monica
Amor (catalogue)
"Drawing Spaces," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Susan
Harris
"New York University Faculty Show," 80 Washington Square East Gallery,
New York University,
New York, NY
"No Rhyme or...," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
"Microwave ll," 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY
"Greater New York," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City,
NY
"Painting Function: Making It Real," Spaces, Cleveland, OH, curated
by Saul Ostrow
"New Work: Abstract Painting," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The 30th Anniversary Show," White Columns, New York, NY |
| 1999 |
"Shout Outs," Rice University Art
Gallery, Houston, TX (catalogue)
"Free Coke," Greene Naftali, New York, NY
"Xmas" (Department of Public Appearances), Kent Gallery, New York,
NY
"The Video Lounge Series," The Knitting Factory, New York, NY |
| 1998 |
The Edinburgh International Art Festival,
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Robert Shiffler Foundation, Greenville, OH
"Exploiting the Abstract,", Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY, curated
by Shirley Kaneda
"The Benefit Show," The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York,
NY
"Usefool," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 |
"Stirring Space: Site Installations at
the Brooklyn Brewery," Brooklyn, NY
"Drawing," Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"On the Wall", TIAA CREF, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Chaiken
"Alumni Show 1997", New York Studio School, New York, NY, curated Dore
Ashton
"Summer of Love," Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY
"The Art Exchange Show" (Fotouhi Cramer Gallery), New York, NY |
| 1996 |
“The Love Show”, Ah! space Gallery,
New York, NY |
| 1995 |
"Scrolling New York," Gallery 128,
New York, NY, travelling in 1996 to Gallery Kawafume,
Tokyo
Kampo Culture Center, New York, NY
Milton Weill Gallery, 92nd St Y, New York, NY |
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| 2007 |
Steven Litt, "The Amazing Brilliance of the Doodles of Diana Cooper," The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
October 14
Dan Tranberg, "New York Artist's Big Installation Derive from Smaller Parts," September 28, 2007
"Featured Artist: Diana Cooper," Diacritics, volume 35, number 1, Spring 2005 (published 2007)
"Goings on About Town: Burgeoning Geometries," The
New Yorker, February 2-5
Andrea
K. Scott, “Burgeoning Geometries,” The
New York Times, January 5
“ Highlights:
Constructed Abstractions,” The Architect’s
Newspaper,
Diary issue 18_06, January |
| 2006 |
David Grosz, "Unfinished Business," The
New York Sun, December 7, 2006 |
| 2005 |
“Off the Wall,” Modern
Painters,
December/January
Rex Weil, “Diana Cooper,” Art News, October
Sari Carel, “Critic’s Picks: Off the Wall”, Artforum.com,
September-October
Grace Glueck, “Off the Wall,” New York Times, September 30
Marisa Kula, “Diana
Cooper - Profile,” Surface Magazine #
54, Summer
Amoreen Armetta, “Art Fragments from the Big Apple: Diana Cooper”, Flash
Art , May-June
Roger
White, “Diana Cooper”, The Brooklyn Rail, April
Nicholas Lamia, “Diana Cooper”, ArtCritical.com
Lori Waxman, “Critic’s Picks: Diana Cooper”, Artforum.com,
March
Merrily Kerr, “Diana Cooper”, Time Out, March 31
Christotopher Knight, “Random acts as part of the plan – Diana
Cooper,” Los Angeles Times, January 21 |
| 2004 |
2004 Jerry Saltz, “Borough Hall,” The
Village Voice, May 5.
David Cohen, “Open House: Working in Brooklyn,” The
New York Sun, NY |
| 2003 |
Oliver Kielmayer, “Complex Systems:
Diana Cooper,” Kunstbulletin (Switzerland),S 28/29 October
Anna Schindler, “On-Line Critic’s Pick: Diana Cooper,” ArtForum,
September-October
Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, “Kunst-Flanerie. Mit System,“ Neue
Zürcher Zeitung, September, 10, S.52
Anaïd Demir et Philippe Régnier, “L’Actualite de L’Art
Contemporain,” Le Journal Des Arts, Aug-Sept
Isabelle Teuwsen,“Die Besten Kunst: Labyrinthe,“ Schweizer
Illustrierte,
October 6, S. 103
Jongmin Kim, “Diana Cooper: Urban Arcadia,” FL (Korea), April
Paul Hedge, “The Big Draw,” Contemporary, May
Shirley Kaneda and Saul Ostrow, "Artist’s
Choice: Diana Cooper," BOMB,
Spring
Saul Ostrow, "Arte Povera American Style: Funk, Play, Poetry and Labor," NY
Arts, January |
| 2002 |
Julie
Caniglia, "Diana Cooper," ArtForum,
December
Judith Mansour, "Bring in the Funk," Cleveland Magazine, December
Nancy
Princenthal, "Diana Cooper," Art in America, November
Steven Litt, "Serious Whimsy: Artists Transform the Mundane into Dazzling
Doodles and Webs,"
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, November 8
Amy Bracken Sparks, "Melange, American Style," Northern Ohio
Live Magazine,
November 2002
“Goings On About Town: Diana
Cooper," The
New Yorker, September 23
Ken Johnson, "I-Beam," Art Guide, New York Times, June 12
Amanda Church, "I-Beam," Flash Art, September/October
Holland Cotter, "Second Sight," New York Times, March 22.
Douglas Max Utter, "Accumulations," New Art Examiner, March-April
David Ryan, "Thinking in the Abstract," Contemporary, February
Morgan Falconer, "Diana Cooper:
Parapaint with Pom-Poms," ArtReview(UK), December/January
Martin Herbert, "Vivid," Time Out (UK/ London), January 6-16
John Russell Taylor, "Vivid," The Times (UK), January |
| 2001 |
Dinah Ryan, "Diana Cooper," Art
Papers, November/December
Ken Johnson, "ClenchClutchFlinch," Art Guide, The New York Times, June
15
Ken Johnson, "Painting/Not Painting," Art Guide, The New York Times,
April 13
Tiziana Conti, "Female Abstractionists," Tema Celeste, March/April
"Working Proof: Diana Cooper," Art on Paper, March/April
Grace Glueck, "Personal Abstractions," The New York Times, February
16
"Off the Wall," Style Weekly (VA), January 16
Roy Proctor, "New VCU Gallery; Diana Cooper," Richmond Times-Dispatch,
January 28
"Goings on About Town: Personal Abstractions," The New Yorker, January
29 |
| 2000 |
David
Gleeson, "Diana Cooper," Time
Out (UK)), November 15-22
Regina Von Planta, "Chaos with System: Diana Cooper," Frankfurter
Allgemeine
Zeitung, November 18
Ken Johnson, "Re-Drawing the Line," Art Guide, The New York
Times,
October 13
Noah Chasin, "Biennial 2000/ Greater New York," Springerin (Austria),
July-September
Pamela Lawton, "No Rhyme or...," The New York Times on
the Web, July
1-29
Jonathan Goodman, "Greater New York," Contemporary Visual Arts, July-August
Frantiska and Tim Gilman-Seveik, "New York's Mega-Shows," Flash
Art,
May/June
“Objects of Desire,” Smock, Fall-Winter, Issue No. 2
Michael Loderstedt, "Painting Function: Making it Real," Dialogue,
May/June
Robert Raczka, "Painting Function: Making it Real," New Art
Examiner,
June
Holland Cotter, "New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways," The
New
York Times, March 6
"P.S 1/ MOMA Greater New York," NY Arts, March
Rachel Urkowitz, "Diana Cooper," Artext, February-April
David Bonetti, "Driven to Dynamic Abstraction," Gallery Watch, San
Francisco Examiner, January 28
Manami Fujimori, "Very New Art 2000," BT (Japan), January
Meghan Dailey, "Diana Cooper," Review, Art Forum, December
Kim Levin, "The Short List; Voice Choice," The Village Voice, December
21 |
| 1999 |
"Goings
on About Town: Diana Cooper," The
New Yorker, October 4
Tim Griffin, "Diana
Cooper," Time Out, September 30-October 7
Kim Levin, "The Short List;
Voice Choice," The Village
Voice, September
15-21
Roberta
Smith, "Diana Cooper," Review, The New York Times, September
17
Manami Fujimori, "Diana Cooper," Geijutsu Shincho (Japan), 1999
Kim Levin, "Voice Choice," The Village Voice,
February 23-9 |
| 1998 |
Tim Griffin, Art in America, "Diana Cooper," November
Bennett Simpson, "Digit et al.," Artbyte, August-September
Holland Cotter, "A Tour Through Chelsea, The New Center of Gravity," The New York Times, May 15
Peter
Schjeldahl, "Thanks for Painting," The Village Voice, March 17
Ken
Johnson, "Diana Cooper," Review, The New York Times, March 13
Manami Fujimori, "Diana Cooper," BT (Japan), April
Jerry Saltz, "Diana Cooper," Time Out, March 12-17
Kim Levin, "The Short
List; Voice Choice," The Village Voice, March
J. Bowyer Bell, "Diana Cooper, Anissa Mack and Perry Hoberman," Review,
March 1
Ezra Shales, "Sample Sale," Review, March 1
Rachel Urkowitz, "Editors' Profile: Diana Cooper and Anissa Mack," Citysearch,
February/March |
| 1997 |
Roberta
Smith, "Diana Cooper," Review, The New York Times, February 14
Jennifer Dalton, "Diana Cooper," Review, February |
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| 2008 |
Beyond the Line: The Art of Diana Cooper. Text by Margo Crutchfield and Interview by Barbara Pollock. MOCA Cleveland OH. (Available from MOCA Cleveland and Amazon.com).
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| 2005 |
The
Drawing Book. 2006. Text by Kate Macfarlane and Katherine Stout. Black
Dog Publishers UK (Available
at Amazon.com) |
| 2004 |
St. Gallen, Switzerland. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
Global World/Private Universe. 2003
London, UK. The Drawing Room. Following the Line Of Cut: Diana Cooper and Hew
Locke, 2004. Text by Jon Wood.
Caraglio, IItaly. Museo Il Filatoio. Four Rooms: Erwan Ballan, Diana Cooper,
Flavio Favelli and Jim Lambie, 2004 |
| 2003 |
United Arab Emirates, 2003 Sharjah Biennial
, Sharjah Museum of Art, 2003 |
| 2001 |
New York, New York. Paul Rodgers. Clench,
Clutch, Fiinch. 2001. Text by Dominique Nahas
Richmond, Virginia. The Bradford-Renick Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Diana Cooper,
2001. Interview by Jean Crutchfield. |
| 2000 |
Cleveland, Ohio. Spaces. Painting Function:
Making it Real, 2000. Text by Saul Ostrow.
Praca Carlos Alberto, Portugal. VIscondes De Balsemao. Plan D, 2000. Text by
Sherman Sam.
New York, New York. Art in General. Re-drawing the Line, 2000. Text by Noah Chasin. |
| 1999 |
Williamstown, MA. Chain Reaction, Williams
College Museum of Art, Williams College. |
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| 2007-2008 |
Public Art Commission. New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Polshek Partnership Architects |
| 2004-2005 |
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program,
NY |
| 2003-2004 |
The Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome |
| 2003 |
Artist-in-Resident, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon
School of Art, London |
| 2000 |
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Artist's Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts |
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