DIANA COOPER

Born in 1964 Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

1997 Hunter College, New York, NY - M.F.A. 1990 New York Studio School, New York, NY- Certificate of Fine Arts 1986 Harvard College, Cambridge, MA - B.A.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY 2001 The Bradford-Renick Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University Gallery, Richmond,VA 2000 Hales Gallery, London Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris 1999 "The Best Part of the Song and It¹s Too Short," Postmasters Gallery, New York,NY 1998 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY 1997 Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia Ah! space Gallery, New York,NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002 "Bricolage," Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX "Art Povera American Style; Funk, Play, Poetry and Labor," Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH "Networks and Systems: Installations by Jeanne Silverthorne and Diana Cooper, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT "I-Beam," Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY "Working the Grid," Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA "New Prints 2002," International Print Center, New York "Sprawl," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH "Second Sight," Hunter College/Times Square Gallery New York "By Hand," Hales Galler, London 2001 "Vivid," Richard Salmon Gallery, London, traveling in 2002: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England "Brooklyn!" Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL "Accumulations," Kent University Art Gallery, Kent, OH "Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence," (New York Foundation for the Arts), Sotheby¹s, New York, NY "ClenchClutchFlinch," curated by Dominique Nahas, Paul Rogers/9W Gallery, New York, NY "Personal Abstractions:Lee Bontecou,Diana Cooper and Gay Outlaw," Sculpture Center, New York,NY 2001 "Chain Reaction,"Williams College Museum of Art,Williamstown,MA traveling to Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY "Un/Ruled," Exhibit A, New York, NY "More or Less Painting," Art Gallery at Stamford, CT, Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT "Painting/Not Painting," White Columns,New York,NY, "Bondo: From Process to Picture - Diana Cooper, Lydia Dona and James Hyde," I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL CArts and rafts," Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Art, London, England "Passing Through," The Shaqab College of Design Arts, Doha, Quatar "Kinds of Drawing," Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA "New Prints 2001," International Print Center, New York, NY 2000 "Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC "The Living End,"The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,Boulder,CO "Re-drawing the Line," Art in General,New York,NY "Microwave 11," 123 Watts Gallery, New York,NY "New York University Faculty Show," Washington Square East Gallery, NYU,New York,NY "no rhyme or...."¹ Postmasters Gallery,New York,NY "Drawing Spaces," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago,IL "Greater New York," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,New York,NY "Painting Function: Making it Real," Spaces, Cleveland,OH "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 "Xmas," (Department of Public Appearances), Kent Gallery, New York Œ¹Free Coke", Greene Naftali Gallery, New York,NY "The Video Lounge Series," The Knitting Factory, New York,NY 1998 The Robert Shiffler Foundation, Greenville, OH "Edinburgh International Art Festival," Edinburgh, Scotland "Exploiting The Abstract" , Feigen Contemporary, New York "The Benefit Exhibition", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,NY "Usefool", Postmasters Gallery, New York,NY "Stirring Space: Site Installations at the Brooklyn Brewery", Brooklyn, NY "Drawing" , Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1997 "On the Wall," TIAA CREF, New York, NY "Alumni Show 1997" (curated by Dore Ashton), New York Studio School, New York, NY "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 Kampo Culture Center, New York, NY 1995-96 "Scrolling New York in Japan", Gallery Kawafume, Tokyo, Japan "Scrolling New York", Gallery 128, New York, NY 1995 Milton Weill Gallery, 92nd St Y, New York, NY 1989 "Silvermine Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", Silvermine, CT

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2002 Ken Johnson "I-Beam," Art Guide, The New York Times, July 5, 2002 Holland Cotter, "Second Sight," Art in Review, The New York Times, March 22, 2002 Douglas Max Utter, "Accumulations," New Art Examiner, March/April 2002 Morgan Falconer, "Parapaint with pom-poms," Art Review, London, December-January 2002 David Ryan, "Thinking in the Abstract," Contemporary, London, February 2002 Martin Herbert, "Vivid," Time Out (UK), January 6-16, 2002 John Russell Taylor, "Vivid," The Times (UK), January 1, 2002 2001 Dinah Ryan, "Diana Cooper/Mid Atlantic Reviews," Art Papers Magazine, November/December 2001 Ken Johnson, "ClenchClutchFlinch," The New York Times, June 15, 2001 Ken Johnson, "Painting/Not Painting," The New York Times, April 13, Titziana Conti, "Female Abstractionists," Tema Celeste, March/April 2001 "Working Proof: Diana Cooper," Art on Paper, March/April 2001 Grace Glueck, "Personal Abstractions," The New York Times, February 16, 2001 Roy Proctor, "New VCU Gallery: Diana Cooper," Richmond -Times Dispatch, January 28, 2001 "Goings on About Town: Personal Abstractions," The New Yorker, January 29, 2001 2000 David Gleeson, "Diana Cooper," Time Out (UK/London), November 15-22,2000 Regina Von Planta, "Chaos with System: Diana Cooper," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, (Germany), November 18, 2000 Ken Johnson, "Re-Drawing the Line," The New York Times, October 13, 2000 Noah Chasin, "Biennial 2000/Greater New York,", Springerin, July- September 2000 Pamela Lawton, "no rhyme or..." The New York Times on the Web, July 1-29,2000 Jonathan Goodman, "Greater New York," Contemporary Visual Arts, July 2000 Frantiska and Tim Gilman-Seveik, "New York Mega Shows," Flash Art, May/June 2000 Robert Raczka, "Painting Function: Making It Real," New Art Examiner, June 2000 Michael Loderstedt, "Painting Function: Making It Real," Dialogue, May/June 2000 Holland Cotter, "New York Contemporary, Defined150 Ways," The New York Times, March 6, 2000 Rachel Urkowitz,"Diana Cooper,"Art Text, Feb.-April 2000 Manami Fujimori,"Very New Art 2000,"BT(Japan),January 2000 David Bonetti,"Driven To Dynamic Abstraction",Gallery Watch, San Francisco Examiner, January 28,2000 1999 Meghan Dailey, "Diana Cooper", Review , Artforum,December 1999 "Diana Cooper", Goings On About Town:Art, The New Yorker, October 4,1999 1999 Tim Griffin,"Diana Cooper" Review, Time Out , September 30-Oct.7,1999 Kim Levin, "Short List", The Village Voice, September 21,1999 Roberta Smith, "Art In Review",The New York Times, September 17,1999 Manami Fujimori,"Diana Cooper", Geijutsu Shinco(Japan) Kim Levin, "Voice Choice", The Village Voice, February 23, 1999 1998 Tim Griffin, "Diana Cooper," Review, Art In America, November 1998 Bennett Simpson, "Digit et al." Artbyte, August- September 1998 Holland Cotter, "A Tour Through Chelsea, The New Center of Gravity," The New York Times, May 15, 1998 Manami Fujimori, "Diana Cooper", BT(Japan),April 1998 Ken Johnson, "Diana Cooper," Review, The New York Times,March 13, 1998 Jerry Saltz, "Diana Cooper" Review, TimeOut, March 12- 19, 1998 Peter Schjeldahl, "Thanks For Painting" Village Voice, March 11- 17,1998 Rachel Urkowitz, "Diana Cooper, Anissa Mack", Internet Review (citysearch.com), March 5,1998 Kim Levin, "Voice Choices Shortlist Art" Village Voice, March 4-10, 1998 J. Bowyer Bell, "Diana Cooper, Anissa Mack and Perry Hoberman", Review Magazine, March 1998 Ezra Shales, "Sample Sale", Review Magazine, March 1998 1997 Roberta Smith, "Art in Review", The New York Times, February 14, 1997 Jennifer Dalton, Review Magazine, February 1997

AWARDS

2000 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship Artist¹s Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts 1996 Graf Travel Grant, Hunter College,New York,NY 1990 Sy Gort Award for Painting,New York Studio School,New York,NY

PROJECTS

2002 Visiting Artist,Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Visiting Artist,University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Panelist, "Ree Morton: The Mating Habits of Lines," Art n General, New York, NY Visiting Artist/Guest Juror, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH Visiting Artist, SUNY New York, Purchase, NY Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 2001 Artist in Residence,Virginia Commonwealth University,Richmond,VA Artist in Residence, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Visiting Artist, Queens College, NY Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University,Richmond,VA Visiting Artist,The Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore,MD Panelist,"Beyond Form: Architecture and the Space of Media,"(moderated by Saul Ostrow),New York University,New York,NY Panelist, "Redrawing the Line," Art in General, New York (moderated by Monica Amor) Visiting Lecturer,Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Visiting Artist,Mt. Holyoke College,South Hadley,MA Visiting Artist,Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,Provincetown,PA Visiting Artist,Kent State University,OH Visiting Artist,Rhode Island School of Design,Providence,RI 1999 Visiting Artist,Yale University School of Art,New Haven,CT Visiting Lecturer,Rice University,Houston,TX Visiting Artist,University of Houston,Houston,TX Visiting Lecturer,Hunter College,New York,NY Adjunct Professor,New York University,New York,NY (ongoing) Panelist, "Curriculum, Instruction and Collaborative Planning (conference), The 92nd Street Y, New York 1998 Visiting Artist, New York University, New York Artist in Residence, "The Inn Tone International Festival of Contemporary Music and Art," Austria Panelist, "Subject Matters: What Does it Mean to be Contemporary?" (moderated by Anna Chave), Queens College, Queens, NY 1995-96 Assistant Curator, "Handmade Readymades", Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY