Mark Cooper (artist)

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.

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.

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.

[1] Recent exhibitions include: James and Audrey Foster Prize Finalists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2013); New Blue and White, Foster Gallery, Curated by Emily Zilber Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts (2013); More is More, a solo exhibition at Samsøñ, Boston, Massachusetts.

He was also a part of Seattle Art Fair's off-site exhibition at the Living Computer Museum, called A Singularity.

Mark Cooper, yu yu tangerine , 2013