ELIZABETH COOPER
B. 1972, NEW YORK CITY
Elizabeth Cooper received a BFA Cooper Union and MFA Columbia University. Her paintings accumulate gestures and pours into heaps of color. In her monotypes, she builds the surface with layers wash and cutout color.
Elizabeth Cooper's work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums including Galerie Rolf Ricke, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Hollis Taggart Gallery, Galerie Gisele Linder, Galerie Jean Fournier, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Neues Museum Nuremberg, MoMA/PS 1,The National Academy Museum, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DC Moore Gallery, Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Neues Galerie Gladbeck, Artists Space, Exit Art, Thrust Projects/JaneKim, Kienzle Foundation, Kunstmuseum Kloster Magdaburg and others. Her work has been reviewed in publications including Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The NewYork Sun, and Kunstforum International.She has been awarded the Galveston Artist Residency,Atelier Dusseldorf, Pollock Krasner, Ora Lerman Trust, Artist,The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation residency, MoMA Museum P.S. 1, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture