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Barbara Cooper
Born: Philadelphia, PA, 1949
Education
1975-77 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1969-74 BFA Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Selected Solo Shows
2006 John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2004 John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2003 Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjardar, Iceland
2003 Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
2000 Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Indiana University NW Gallery for Contemporary Art, Gary, IN
2000 Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1999 Southeast Missouri State University Museum, Cape Girardeau, MO
1998 Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
1997 Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1996 Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1996 Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Shows
2007 The Nature of Art, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2007 Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
2005 Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Biennial Sculpture Invitational, site-specific outdoor piece
2005 Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., High Fiber
2005 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, Selected Works from the Collection
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Soft Edge, curated by Staci Boris
2004 Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, Terrestrial Forces (catalogue)
2004 City of Chicago Parks, Chicago, IL, Art in the Garden, (catalogue)
2004 RAM, Racine, WI, Drawing from the Collection
2004 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 100 Treasures of Cranbrook Art Museum (catalogue)
2003 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Affinity to Form: Artists Working in Wood
2002 Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, KY, In the Spirit of Nature
2002 Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, Sculpture: Beneath the Surface
1999 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI, Opening Celebration Exhibition
1999-2000 British Crafts Council, exhibition traveled to Manchester, London, Bradford, Gateshead Contemporary International Basketmaking (catalogue)
1999 Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, KY, Barbara Cooper and Jeffrey Vaughn
1998-99 Illinois State Museums, traveling exhibition, From Limb to Limb (catalogue)
1998 Cardinal Stritch University Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Nature as Composer
1998 Snyderman/Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Modus Operandi
1998 Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MI, Sculpture
1996 Snite Museum, South Bend, IN, Survey of Contemporary Sculpture
Selected Awards
2006 Kohler Arts in Industry Program, three-month residency fellowship
2005 Vermont Studio Center, one-month residency fellowship
2004 Eastern Frontier Society, Maine, 3-week residency fellowship
2003 Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, one-month residency fellowship
2002 Fellowship and Residency Award, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Kentucky
2002 Artist's Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council
2001 White Artists Colony, Costa Rica, one-month residency fellowship
2000 Artist's Fellowship Award, Illinois Arts Council
2000 Gilsociety, Akureyri, Iceland, one-month residency fellowship
1999 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, California, one-month residency fellowship
1996 Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, one-month residency fellowship
Selected Bibliography
Apel, Dora, editor. Cranbrook Art Museum: 100 Treasures, 2004, Cranbrook Art Museum, pp. 242-243
Fariello and Owen, editors, Objects and Meaning: New Perspectives in Art and Craft, 2004, Scarecrow Press, p. 197
McLane and Palladino-Craig, Terrestrial Forces, Florida State Museum of Fine Arts, 2004, exhibition catalogue, pp. 18,19, 36-7, front and back cover Thodos, Diane, Barbara Cooper, New Art Examiner, April 2001, p. 52
Craig, Gerry, Barbara Cooper, Sculpture Magazine, December 2000, p.69-70
Marsha Miro, Sculptures by Barbara Cooper, Fiberarts, Jan. /Feb., 2001, p. 56-57
Jacob, Mary Jane, Undulating Memories of Time, Sybaris Gallery Brochure, April /May 2000
Leucking, Stephen, Biomorphs: Organic Abstraction and the Mechanics of Life, Sculpture Magazine, Jan. /Feb. 2000, pp. 38-43
Ullrich, Polly, Barbara Cooper: Layering Time, American Craft, Feb. /March 2000, pp. 66-69
Ullrich, Polly, From Limb to Limb, New Art Examiner, Dec. /January 99-2000, p. 46
Castro, Jan Garden, St. Louis Review, Sculpture Magazine, November 1999, p. 65
Sheply, Carol Ferring, Innovations in Textile Art, Fiber Arts Magazine, Nov. /Dec. 1999, p. 53
Abell, Jeff, Barbara Cooper: Fassbender Gallery, C Int. Contemporary Art, # 60, Nov. 1998, p. 44
Rice, Robin, Modus Operandi, American Craft Magazine, Feb. /March 1999, pp. 66-69
Bates, Geoffrey, From Limb to Limb, The Living Museum, Vol. 60, No. 1, 1998, pp. 9-12
Public Collections
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, KY
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
First National Bank of Columbia, Columbia, MO
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Sprint, Kansas City, MO
William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT