Mark Cooper (born 1950, Evansville, Indiana) is an American multimedia artist based in
Boston, Massachusetts working in ceramics and sculptural installation as well as painting. He is best known for his large scale biomorphic fiberglass sculptures.
Education
Cooper received his Bachelor of Science at
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana University and, with ...
in 1972, and his Masters of Fine Arts, from the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University in 1980, Boston, Massachusetts.
Career & Work
Cooper currently teaches ceramics at
Boston College
Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
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His paintings and sculptures made with fiberglass pieces, layered with rice paper, paint, silk-screens, and varying images and patterns, "explore dualities of culture and meaning."
The
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...
, Boston College Museum, Capital Children's Museum in Washington, DC,
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, New York.
He has received various public art commissions and grants from the Boston Medical Center, an Artist Fellowship Grant through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a Gund Travel Grant (Bali), and a special commission for the new Comme des Garçon store in New York City.
Recent exhibitions include: ''James and Audrey Foster Prize Finalists'',
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Since then it has gone through multiple na ...
, Massachusetts (2013); ''New Blue and White'', Foster Gallery, Curated by Emily Zilber Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts (2013); ''More is More'', a solo exhibition at Samsøñ, Boston, Massachusetts. Most recently Cooper exhibited at the
Seattle Art Fair
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in Seattle, Washington, with work representing a collaborative exchange with artists in Vietnam, China, Korea and Seattle. He was also a part of Seattle Art Fair's off-site exhibition at the
Living Computer Museum, called ''A Singularity''.
Mark Cooper has been represented by Samsøñ since 2012.
Articles
*http://markfcooper.com/pdfs/MarkCooperReview2002.pdf
*http://seattleartfair.com/projects-events/mark-cooper/#.VcZOvDBVhBc
*https://news.artnet.com/market/seattle-art-fair-2015-321683
*http://artdaily.com/news/80449/Seattle-Art-Fair-opens-to-more-than-4-000-visitors#.VcZO_TBVhBc
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*http://markfcooper.com/pdfs/AIA_SAMSON%20PROJECTS_Jan12-1.pdf
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1950 births
Living people
People from Evansville, Indiana
Artists from Boston
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Boston College faculty
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni
American multimedia artists
Sculptors from Massachusetts
21st-century American ceramists