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/Jane Kim, 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 New York Sun and Kunstforum International.
Elizabeth Cooper is represented by Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne
Born in NYC 1972
lives and works in NYC
Education
Columbia University, MFA Visual Arts 1998
The Cooper Union, BFA Major Fine Art, Minor Art History 1994
Residencies and Grants
Galveston Artist Residency, 2019-2020
Atelier Hoherweg, 2019
The Pollock Krasner Award, 2010
The George Hitchcock Prize, The National Academy Museum, 2008
The Lerman Trust, Artist residency grant, 2002, 2003, 2005
Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, 1998-99
MoMA PS 1, International Studio Program 1997-98
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1996
Nominated for The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, The Joan Mitchell Award
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne
2015 Michaela Vergottis, London
2013 Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2009 Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Thrust Projects, NY, NY
2008 Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2006 Thrust Projects, NY, NY
2005 Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
2002 Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
2000 Roger Smith Gallery, NY, NY
1998 Roger Smith Gallery, NY, NY
1996 Roger Smith Gallery, NY, NY
Two Person Exhibitions
2011 Elizabeth Cooper and Jasmine Justice, curated by Klaus Merkel, T-66 Kulturwerk, Frieberg, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2024 John Graham Comes Home, curated by Severin Delfs of Hollis Taggart Gallery and Glenn Adamson, Text by Glenn Adamson, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Jungle Press Editions, High Point Print Center, NC
2022 The Fiction of Property 2, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
2020 Look Again: A Survey Of Contemporary Painting, Hollis Taggart Southport, CT
Anne Buckwalter, Elizabeth Cooper, Elizabeth Glaessner, Galveston Artist Residency Show, GAR Gallery, Texas
2019 Every Woman Biennial, New York City
Screwball's Delight at Atelier Hoherweg 271, Dusseldorf
2018 Highlight:Chelsea, Hollis Taggart, New York City
Raw Meat, curated by Steffen Lenk, Salon Haus 9, Berlin
2017 Dusseldorf Art Fair, Gallery Anke Schmidt
Highlight, New Canaan, curated by Paul Efstathiou. Silvermine Arts Center, Ct.
Cooper, Hoffman, Lenk, Ostendarp, Werres. Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne
The Greatest Show On Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
2016 Highlight, Summer 1, curated by Paul Efstathiou, Hollis Taggart Gallery, NYC
How To Be Unique, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin
Bushwick, David Schweitzer Gallery, Brooklyn
2015 New York Painting at The Kunstmuseum Bonn featuring Joe Bradley, Elizabeth Cooper, Matt Connors, Jeff Elrod, Amy Feldman, Ross Ianatti, Eddie Martinez, Ruth Root, Ryan Sullivan and Ned Vena
Dipthong, The Shirley Fitterman Center, curated by Gelah Penn and Stephen Maine, NYC
Winter Selection, Old Brompton Gallery, curated by Michaela Vergottis, London
Cologne Art Fair, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne, Germany
2014 The Last Brucennial, curated by Vito Schnabel, NYC
2013 Der Sammlung Kienzle at The Kunstmuseum Kloster Magdeburg
Six Memos For The Next, Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
2012 Paintings From New York, Elizabeth Cooper, David Reed, Fabian Marcaccio and Alexandra Seeber, Hausler Contemporary, Zurich
Smile, American Art, The Kienbaum Collection, curated by Rolf Ricke, Galerie Thomas Zander, Koln
Sleepwalker, curated by Caleb Nussear and Lisa Taliano, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Itsy Bitsy Spider, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Koln, Germany
Art Station, curated by Beth Fiore and Rachel Stekson, pop up, Lukoil Chelsea, NY
The Incipient Image, curated by Stephen Maine, Lesley Heller Gallery, NY
FIAC, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris
Shrage Sache, Columbus Art Foundation, Kunsthalle Ravensberg, Austria
Bodily Functions, curated by Volker Saul, Koelnberg Kunstverein, Germany
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Acrochage, curated by Elodie Rahard, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
False Friends, Brandenburgischen Kunstverein Potsdam, e.V, Potsdam
The Business of Aura, curated by Kelsey Harrington, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY
Nice To Meet You, Sloan Fine Art, NY
Bushwick Schlact! curated by Guillermo Creus and Tom Sanford, Fortress To Solitude, Brooklyn, NY
Heed The Machine, Illustrious, St. Cecilia's, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Fur Das Abstrakte Gibt es Ersatz, obqo, Berlin, Germany
Slick Surfaces, Villa Goecke, Krefeld, Germany
Ma Couleur Preferee, Galerie Gisele Linder, Switzerland
New Positions, solo presentation, The Cologne Art Fair
Basel Art Fair, Galerie Gisele Linder, Switzerland
All This Useless Beauty, curated by Ken Ragsdale, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
Morsel Remains, Morsel, Long Island City, NY
Unlikely, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
Fortress To Solitude, Brooklyn Fireproof, New York
2008 Miniaturization, Galerie Gisele Linder, Switzerland
The Invitational,curated by Marshall Price, The National Academy Museum, New York
Dream Tigers, curated by Brian Zegeer, Vaudeville Park, Williamsburg, NY
Freeze Frame, Thrust Projects, New York
The Collection of Rolf Ricke, Villa Merkel, Germany
Unlikely, Stadtische Gallery Waldkraiburg, Germany
traveling to Gallery W-139, Amsterdam
2007 On Every Wall, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Unlikely, Galerie Kienzle and Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
In Technicolor, Queensborough Community College Gallery
Smooth Surfaces, Galerie Frank Impact & Cie., Vienna
2006 Cloudless Clear Cuts, Castle Raab, Austria curated by Rolf Ricke
Abstract....curated by Eleanor Cayre, Long Branch, NJ
2005 Pink, curated by Heather Harmon, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Especial!, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Damenwahl, Galerie Karen Friebe, Mannheim, Germany
2004 Sweet Temptations,The Collection of Rolf Ricke,Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland
Pas de Turbulences, curated by Rolf Ricke, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Brussels
Surface Tension, Savage Art Resources, Portland, Or
2003 Greetings From New York, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzberg
Perpetuum Mobile, 40 Years of Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Schokolade, Was Denn Sonst. Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany
Some Are Painting, curated by David Gibson, Artist Alliance, NY
2002 Einfach Kunst, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
In a Silent Way, Galerie Gisele Linder, Switzerland
Peter Coe, Elizabeth Cooper,Jim Gaylord, Bucheon Gallery,San Francisco
Artist to Artist: A Decade of The Sharpe Foundation, Ace Gallery, NYC
2001 Kunstlerrame/Sammlerrame, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Delicious, (part 1), Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne
Delicious,(part 2), The Roger Smith Gallery,NYC
Some Are Painting, John Gibson Gallery, NYC
2000 Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, NYC
Abstraction in Painting Today, Castle Gallery, College Of New Rochelle, NY
Yard Sale, installation with Amanda Church, Chelsea Lab School, NY
1999 Reconciliations; curated by Jeffrey Hoffeld, DC Moore Gallery, NYC
Elizabeth Cooper, summer solo installation; curated by Brendan Rooney, Gallery Joan Prats, NYC
Gesture and Contemporary Painting, University of Michigan
Size Matters, curated by Mike Weiss, Gale Gates, Brooklyn
The Stroke, selected by David Reed, Exit Art, NYC
Elizabeth Cooper, Carl Ostendarp, James Hyde; curated by Mary Dinaburg, Dinaburg Arts
1998 Wish You Luck, MoMA/PS 1, NY
Abstraction in Process 2, curated by Irving Sandler, Artists Space, NYC
Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, NYC
The Sharpe Foundation Annual Exhibition
1997 The Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
MoMA/ PS 1 International Studio Program Exhibition
The Art Exchange Show, 67 Broad Street, NYC
Wash Out the Heavy Days; Joan Prats, NY
Carousel, MFA Exhibition, Leo Castelli Print Gallery, NY
Peter Coe,Elizabeth Cooper, Jennifer Reeves; curated by Jill Brienza, Roger Smith Gallery
College Art Association MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, NY
26 Positions, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University,NY
1996 Far Out, ViewRoom Exhibitions, NYC
Soho Annual, curated by Simon Watson,NYC
24 Degrees, curated by Kenny Schachter, 480 Broome Street, NY
Bright, curated by Jill Brienza, The Roger Smith Gallery, NY
Art Fairs- My work has been featured at Art Basel, Art Chicago, Art Dusseldorf, Art Miami, Art Brussels, FIAC and Art Cologne among others
Numerous Private and Public Collections including, UBS, Progressive, Saks Fifth Avenue, Kienbaum, Kienzle, Ricke
Curatorial Projects-
2018- Art Director, Arete Venue and Gallery, Greenpoint Brooklyn
Curator- The Art Of Protest; The Natural World; and Meredith Allen: Ice Pops
2004-2006 Art Director and Co- Founder, Morsel Gallery, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Co-curated the shows Morsel Remains, Inaugural Ball, Bam! Boom! Bang! and Into The Woods; featuring artists including Isidro Blasco, Tommy Hartung, Tricia Keightley, Lisa Hamilton, Beth Gilfilen, Paul Jacobson and others
Art Director for Morsel outdoor sculpture yard including artist projects by David Humphrey, Michael Krummenacker, Nils Folke Anderson, Jesse Farber and Mesh Architecture
2008- Freeze Frame, Thrust Projects, NYC ; I curated a show including Carrie Moyer, Wendy White, Alisa Margolis, Elizabeth Cooper, Joyce Kim, Jasmine Justice, Lisa Hamilton and Veronica Tyson Strait. Freeze Frame received press in Art In America, Time Out NY, US Arts, The Brooklyn Rail, L Magazine and The New York Sun
2004-2011 Coordinator and Co - Founder of Super Elastic Studios, a 10,000 sq ft artist workspace in LIC
Teaching-
1992-current
Includes- Columbia University, Middlebury College, York College, Kingsborough Community College
Pi Art Center, Jamaica Art Center, MoMa/PS 1 Museum Education Dept, Columbia Prep School, Cypress Fulton Senior Center, NYC DOE
Panels and Artist Talks/ Visiting Artist include- Hollis Taggart Gallery, UT Houston, RU Residencies Unlimited, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Technical University of Dortmund,
PS 1/ MoMA, Artists Space, Cooper Union, Vis A Vis Festival
Partial Bibliography
John Graham Comes Home, essay, Glenn Adamson, 2024
How to Invest 100,000,Suzanne Wooley, Bloomberg News, April 2021
Catalog, 10 Years Of Neue Galerie Gladbeck, 2020
Catalog, Elizabeth Cooper -Galerie Anke Schmidt, essay by Jens Peter Koerver, 2020
New York Painting, The Kunstmuseum Bonn, catalog, Christophe Schreirer, 2015
Smile, American Art, The Kienbaum Collection, (catalogue) 2012
Reverend Jen, Art Station, The Gallery Comes To the Gas Station, Artnet Magazine, September 2011
Reindl, Uta, Bodily Functions, Kunstforum International, Band 209, 2011
Maine, Stephen, curator's essay for The Incipient Image, New York, 2011
Druhl, Sven, Elizabeth Cooper, (4 page profile) Kunstforum International, summer 2010
Kalm, James, Art Scene: The Bushwick Biennial, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August, 2009
Muldorf and Rosenheim, “A Transatlantic Mix”, Unlikely at The Waldkraiburg House of Culture, OVB Online, February 25,2009
Last Chance, Image Reproduction, July 2008, The New York Sun
Cohen, David, Elizabeth Cooper and Angela Freileigh. Masters Of Chance, The New York Sun, June 2008
Around Town, Time Out New York, Image Reproduction, June 2008.
The Collection Rolf Ricke, Catalog, The Villa Merkel, Esslingen, 2008.
Slick Surface, Catalog, Galerie Franck Impact & Cie., 2008
The 183rd Annual, Catalog, The National Academy Museum, New York, 2008
Connor, Jill, Freeze Frame, Art US, Spring 2008
Maine, Stephen, Report From the Lower East Side, Art In America, April 2008
Olsen, Craig, Freeze Frame at Thrust Projects, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2008
Critic’s Pick, Freeze Frame, Time Out New York, February 2008
Unlikely, catalog for the traveling exhibition, Jochim Kienzle, Berlin
Maine, Stephen, Freeze Frame, The New York Sun, January 24,2008 p. 20
The Collection of Rolf Ricke, Catalog, Frankfurt MMK, 2007
Maine, Stephen, Elizabeth Cooper at Thrust Projects, Art In America, January 2007
Kalm, James, Elizabeth Cooper at Thrust Projects, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2006
Baron, Reuben and Joyce, The Joy Of Painting, Elizabeth Cooper at Thrust Projects, ArtNotes, Revista y Cultura 2006
Elizabeth Cooper/ Thrust Projects, L Magazine, Image Reproduction, Summer 2006
Holzney, Magdalena, Elizabeth Cooper, Kunst Bulletin, Summer 2005
Stahl, Enno, Elizabeth Cooper at Schmidt Maczollek, Kolner Stadt Anzeiger, July 22, 2005
Elizabeth Cooper at Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Catalog with writing by Ingrid Calame, David Reed and Konrad Bitterli, 2005
Bitterli, Konrad, Elizabeth Cooper/ UBS Catalog, Hong Kong 2004
Reindl, Uta, Perpetuum Mobile, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Kunstforum International, 2004
New American Paintings, Issue #38, 2002
Artist to Artist, A Decade of The Space Program, Catalog, Sharpe Foundation, 2002
Einfach Kunst, The Collection of Rolf Ricke, Catalog, Neue Museum Nuremberg, 2002
Humphrey, David, New York e- mail, Delicious, Art Issues, Nov/ Dec 2001
Siegel, Katy, Making Waves, The Legacy of Lee Lozano, Conversation with David Reed, Artforum, Oct 2001
Johnson, Ken, Some Are Painting, The New York Times, June 20, 2001
David Ebony, Elizabeth Cooper, solo show review, Art In America, 2000
Johnson, Ken, Art In Review, Collector's Choice, The New York Times, Dec 15, 2000
Lombardi D. Dominick, Abstracting The Meaning, The New York Times, Sept 24, 2000
Huang, Wennie, Catalog essay, Another Story Altogether, Castle Gallery College of New Rochelle, 2000
Worth, Alexi, solo show review, The New Yorker, May 29, 2000
Worth, Alexi, Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, August 21 and 28, 2000
Kostabi, Mark, Focus on Elizabeth Cooper, Shout Magazine, April 2000
Kino, Carol, Reconciliations at DC Moore, Art and Auction, Oct 1999
Everett, Deborah, Reconciliations, 4 Contemporary Painters, NY Arts, vol 4 Number 10, October 1999
Hoffeld, Jeffrey, catalog essay for Reconciliations at DC Moore Gallery, 1999
Brennan, Matthew, Painters Journal, Artnet, October 1998
Ebony, David, Elizabeth Cooper, solo show review, Artnet, March 1998
Johnson, Ken, solo show review, The New York Times, March 20, 1998
Gibson, David, Abstraction in Process 2, NY Arts, March- April 1998
Atamian, Christopher, Abstraction In Process 2 at Artists Space, Review Magazine, February 15, 1998
Johnson, Ken, Art In Review, Abstraction In Process 2, The New York Times, Friday February 6, 1998
Sandler, Irving, essay for Abstraction In Process 2, The Artists Space Newsletter, Winter 1998
Cooper, Jacqueline, Elizabeth Cooper, The Wight Biennial, catalog, UCLA Museum, 1997
Politti, Giancarlo, At The Galleries, Flash Art International, Summer 1997
Kino, Carol, A Room With A View, Art News, April 1997
Smith, Roberta, Art In Review, View Room Exhibitions, The New York Times, Nov 9, 1996
Sutherland Scott, Where High Art Shares The Field With Sheep, The New York Times, Arts and Leisure, August 11, 1996
Karmel, Pepe, Critic's Choice, Bright at The Roger Smith Gallery, The New York Times, April 19, 1996