Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper (born 1950, Evansville, Indiana) is an American multimedia artist based in Boston, Massachusetts working in ceramics and sculptural installation as well as painting. He is best known for his large scale biomorphic fiberglass sculptures.

Education Cooper attended Harrison High School in Evansville, Indiana.

Cooper received his Bachelor of Science at Indiana University Bloomington in 1972, and his Masters of Fine Arts, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University in 1980, Boston, Massachusetts.

Career

Cooper currently teaches ceramics at Boston College.

His paintings and sculptures made with fiberglass pieces, layered with rice paper, paint, silk-screens, and varying images and patterns, "explore dualities of culture and meaning." The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston College Museum, Capital Children's Museum in Washington, DC, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, New York. Mark Cooper has been represented by Samsøñ since 2012.

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