American, b. 1964
Diana Cooper is an artist based in New York City. She has had her studio in Brooklyn since 1997. She wrote a thesis on Virginia Woolf in her undergraduate degree, whose stream-of-consciousness style spoke to her and shaped her work. After graduation, she studied at the New York Studio School and Hunter College, where she received her MFA. In 1998, she showed at Postmasters Gallery in NYC. She has received several fellowships including The Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. In 2007, she had a ten-year retrospective at MOCA Cleveland. She has participated in major public art commissions such as MTA’s Arts & Design Program, the NYC Percent for Art Program, the NYC School Construction Authority, and the Virginia Tech Moss Art Center.
