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Thomas Joshua Cooper BIOGRAPHY 1946 Born in San Francisco,
CA
Education 1972 Master of Arts, Art with distinction in Photography, University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM 1969 Bachelor of Arts, Art, Philosophy and Lecture, Humbolt State University, Humbolt, CA Honors 1994 Major Artists Award, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland 1978 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellow, Washington, D.C. 1976 Arts Council of Great Britain Photography Bursary, London, England 1970 John D. Phelen Award in Art and Literature, San Francisco, CA Selected Solo Exhibitions 2005 Plotting the River, Kunst und Ausstellunghalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany; Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Germany 2004 The Dorsky Museum, College Art Gallery of New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ 2003 Thomas Joshua Cooper: Fortunate Islands, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS 2002 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX The Dorsky Museum, College Art Gallery of New Paltz, New Paltz, NY The New York Rivers, Roth/Horovitz Gallery, New York, NY 2001 At the Very Edges of the World, Tate Gallery, St. Ives, England Moving West, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Galeria Arnes Ropke, Madrid, Spain The Rio Grande Series, James Kelly Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 1999 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Water, Patrick de Brock, Knocke, Belgium Work from the New Found Land, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Where the Rivers Flow, Esbjerg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark Gallerie Franck und Schulte, Berlin, Germany 1998 River Works: America & Scotland, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Galerie Franck und Schulte, Berlin, Germany Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany Keynes Gallery of Art, University of Kent, Canterbury, England Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1997 Where the Rivers Flow, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Border Crossings, Konsthallen-Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden 1996 Rivers and Ritual 1975 - 1995, Sean Kelly, New York, NY The River Suite, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany Archiieplago - Thomas Joshua Cooper and Alfred Graf, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis and Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria 1995 Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium Site Santa Fe - Longing and Belonging - From the Faraway Nearby, New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 1994 Simply Counting Waves, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal 1993 The Swelling of the Sea, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY Sojourn - XI Years, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, Scotland sea shore, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria 1992 Sojourn - Ten Years, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England 1991 wind - riffling memories, Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria Galeria Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, Germany 1990 Project Room, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY Works from Three Projects - 1983-1990, Janine Mautsch Gallery, Koln, Germany New Works 1986-1988, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England The Swelling of the Sea, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland Dreaming the Gokstadt, Kunstnernnes Hus, Oslo, Norway 1989 Dreaming the Gokstadt, Serpentine Gallery, London, England Dreaming the Gokstadt, Brandts Klaedefabric Museum, Odense, Denmark 1988 Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria John Weber Gallery, New York, NY Dreaming the Gokstadt, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Scotland 1986 The Staffa Project - A Collaboration, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Ian McKeever, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England (travelled to Anolfini Gallery, Bristol, England; Provincial Museum, Hassalt, Belgium; Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland) 1985 Between Dark and Dark, Graeme Murray Gallery and Fruit Market Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (travelled to The Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Pier Art Gallery, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southhampton, Southhampton, England; Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England) 1984 A Quality of Dancing, Gallery of Art, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 1983 Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983, The Fine Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983, The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Ghost Dance, Coracle Press Gallery, London, England New Photographs, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1982 Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1979-1982 and Selected Inspirations, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1981 Dos Hombres/Dos Estilos: Thomas Joshua Cooper/Tom Knight, Teatro Juarez, Guanajuato, Mexico Intimations, Northcoast Arts Gallery, Arcata, CA 1979 Paysages, Bibliotheque, Paris, France 1977 Images of Our Morality, Robert Self Gallery, London, England Group Exhibitions 2004 Haunch of Venison, London, England 2003 Die Neue Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany 2002 Regarding Landscape, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada Regarding Landscape, Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, Canada The Great Divide, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2001 From the Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England 2000 Land: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Richard Long, and Paul Nash, Ingleby Gallery, Morayshire, Scotland The Sleep of Reason, Norwich Gallery, Norwich Norfolk, England Schafft Land!, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg, Germany 1999 Eclipse: Thomas Joshua Cooper and James Turrell, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, International Center for Photography, New York, NY An American Century of Photography: The Hallmark Photographic Collection Sojourn, Eleven Years, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1998 PhotoImage: Printmaking 60s to 90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Grunwald Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Sea Change; The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1997 A Case for Collection, The Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, England Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, with Galerie Franck und Schulte, Berlin, Germany Location, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany, with Galerie Francke und Schulte, Berlin, Germany 1996 Prospect 96, Schirn Kunsthalle/Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Tokyo Today, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Black, White, and Grey, Galerie Bugdahn and Kainer, Dusseldorf, Germany Printemps de Cahors: Photographie and Arts Visuels 1996, Espace Caviole, Cahors, France 1995 From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Calanais, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland Luz y Tiempo Coleccion fotografica formada por Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Fundacion Cultural Televisa, A.C. and Centro Cultural/Art Contemporaneo A.C., Mexico City, Mexico Lights from the Darkroom - A Celebration of Scottish Photography, Royal Scottish Academy/National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland Shadows in the Water, Fotofeis, Fotofeis touring exhibition, the Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia, et al. 1994 Dear Stieglitz, Peninsula, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1993 Nine Photographers for the Nineties, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Shared Light, Oriel Mostlyn, Llandudno, Wales 1992 Poesies, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Salon Glasgow, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland 1991 Two Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, the Swelling of the Sea, and David Nash, Kunst Europa (Britain), Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany Salzburg; Six Artist, Six Views, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria The Revenge of the Camera, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland From Art to Archeology, South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London, England New Scottish Photography, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain 1990 Paysages de Moralise, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY New North - New Works by Twelve Artists Working in the North of Britain, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England (touring exhibition) Von der Natur in der Kunst, Vienna Arts Festival, Vienna, Austria Houston Fotofest, Houston, TX Four British Artists: Victor Burgin, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Hamish Fulton and John Murphy, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY The Forced of Nature: Landscape as Metaphor, Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England Poesies, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland V - Five Years of Photography in Fine Art, Mackintosh Museum and Newbury Museum, Glasgow, Scotland National Portrait Gallery and Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museum, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland New Scottish Photography, National Portrait Gallery and Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museum, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland 1989 Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Landscape in the Experience - 21 Artists Working in the Landscape, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany Our Photographic Legacy, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland Three British Artists - Thomas Joshua Cooper, Andy Goldsworthy and David Nash, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA Through the Looking Glass - Photographic Art in Britain - 1945-1989, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England New Acquisitions, New Directions, New Works, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Photography on Landscape - Six International Artists, Alden Bissen Flemish Cultural Centre, Alden Bissen, Belgium Ways of Telling, Oriel Mostyn, Llanudno, Wales Making New Pictures, Smith Art Gallery and Institute, Stirling, Scotland 1988 The Glasgow Rim - The Hidden Views, Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow, Scotland The British Landscape, The Museum of the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD 1987 Three British Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Kate Whiteford, Galerie S65, Aalst, Belgium The Unpainted Landscape, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Perspectives: Glasgow, A New Look, Collins Gallery, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland 1986 Four Artists - Thomas Joshua Cooper, David Tremlett, Hamish Fulton and Roger Ackling, The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland Nine Photographers, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland Boundaries, The Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England At the Serpentine, Serpentine Gallery, London, England 1985 The Photographic Art - Pictorial Traditions in Britain and America, The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland American Photography: 1945-1980, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England The Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, England 1984 The Creation - Modern Art and Nature, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland The Scottish Society of Artist‰s 90th Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland 1983 The Guardian Cycle: Photographic Works 1980-1983, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Ghost Dance, Coracle Press Gallery, London, England 1981 New Works of Contemporary Art and Music, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 1979 A Place in Between, College of the Redwoods Art Gallery, Eureka, CA Three Perspectives on Photography, Hayward Gallery, London, England 1977 Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 The Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, CA 1975 Gallery II Diaframma, Milano, Italy Remnants and Prenotations, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England 1974 Indications, The Photographer‰s Gallery, London, England She Rain, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England 1973 Sweet Play, Quivera Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1971 I See the God in You, The Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA Selected Public Collections Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD La Bibliotheque, Paris, France Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Cahors Museum of Art, Cahors, France Centre for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucscon, AZ City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland Centre National Arts Plastique, Paris, France D.G. Bank, Frankfurt, Germany Dundee City Art Museum, Dundee, Scotland The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY The J. Paul Getty Museum: The Sam Wegstaff Collection, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Stradtpark, Krems, Austria Gulbenkean Foundation, Centre of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal The Harris Museum, Preston, England Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey, CA Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway The National Collection of Mexico: The Manuel Alvarez Bravo Collection, Mexico City, Mexico National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Nimes Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes, France Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Dorthy Norman Bequest, Philadelphia, PA The Polaroid Collection, Frankfurt, Germany Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland The Scottish Photography Archive, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Southampton City Art Gallery and Museum, Southampton, England State Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM University of New Mexico Fine Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM University of Southampton, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Wadsworth Athenaeum, The Sol LeWit Collection, Hartford, CT | ||||||
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