1964

Lives and works in New York City
Teaches at Columbia University

Hunter College, New York, NY , M.F.A.

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA., B.A.

“Overdrive,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

Beyond the Line: The Art of Diana Cooper, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH, curated by Margo Crutchfield

“Diana Cooper,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

Galerie Staub (g*fzk!), Zurich
Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London

"Hidden Tracks Sabotage the Random," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

“Diana Cooper,” The Bradford-Renick Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA, curated by Jean Crutchfield

"The Best Part of the Song and It's Too Short," Postmasters Gallery New
York, NY

“Diana Cooper,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

“Diana Cooper,” Yearsley Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Diana Cooper,” Ah! space Gallery, New York, NY

“Baroque Reason,” Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK
“Sight Mapping,” Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

“Color in 3D: Found Applied & Readymade,”Westport Arts Center,
Westport, CT. Curated by Saul Ostro “Capricious and Mercurial Systems,” A + D Gallery, Columbia College,Chicago, IL

“Holiday Reading,” Number 35, New York, NY. Curated by Ron Keyson

“Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions,” The Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, NY. Curated by Apsara di Quinzio

“Speed,” Galerie Staubkohler, Zurich
“Process & Promise: 75 Years of Art,” 92nd Street Y, New York, NY. Curated by Amei Wallach

“Off the Wall,” curated by Tracy Adler, The Leubsdorf Art Gallery at
Hunter College, New York “I am 5,” Parker Box, Brooklyn, NY
“Hew Locke and Diana Cooper”, Chapter, Cardiff, UK, May-July
“Plan D”, Viscondes de Balsemao, Porto. Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
Modelniland, Sligo “Ebb and Flow”, Three Colts Gallery, London
“The Continuous Mark”, The New York Studio School, NY. Curated by David Cohen

Projects/Awards

Public Art Commission. New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Percent for Art Program, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and Polshek PartnershipArchitects

The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program, NY

The Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome

Artist-in-Resident, Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Artist's Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts

Collections

Beyond the Line: The Art of Diana Cooper. Text by Margo Crutchfield
and Barbara Pollock, MOCA Cleveland
The Progressive Collection, Text by Dan Cameron and Tony Morrison.
Peter B. Lewis and Toby Devan Lewis.
DAP/ Distrbuted Art Publishers Inc.

The Drawing Book. Text by Kate Macfarlane and Katherine Stout. Black
Dog Publishers UK. (find same version of 2005 Off the Wall. Text by
Tracy Adler, The Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, NY

Global World/Private Universe. Text by Konrad Bitterli and Oliver
Kielmayer. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen.
Following the Line of Cut: Diana Cooper and Hew Locke. Text by Jon Wood.
The Drawing Room. London
VIscondes De Balsemao. Plan D, Praca Carlos Alberto, Portugal.. Text by
Sherman Sam.
Four Rooms: Erwan Ballan, Diana Cooper, Flavio Favelli and Jim
Lambie,Caraglio. Museo Il Filatoio. Italy