| COOPER |
Born in Miami, single-named artist COOPER earned a B.F.A. from the Pratt Institute in New York, and an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama. His work has been exhibited at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; White Box Gallery, New York; and the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, where he has had several solo shows. Now based in Santa Fe where he exhibits at Dwight Hackett Projects, COOPER is represented in the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the Miami Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; and The Rubell Family Collection.
COOPER is best known for his conceptual, mixed-media installations which incorporate objects, video, audio, photography, and large-scale drawings. Anti-aesthetic and deliberately ambiguous, his unsettling, sometimes darkly humorous work borrows imagery from a wide range of unconventional sources, such as urban plumbing, technical manuals, and B horror films. COOPER typically combines obliquely related images with esoteric titles which cryptically allude to a range of topical issues, including violence, popular media, power, consumerism, and existential angst.
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