Katie Joan Cooper moved to Tucson after 10 years as a working artist in New York City, where she earned her MFA at the School of Visual Arts. She has shown in New York and Arizona, supervised numerous community public-art projects, is a past member of the Arizona Commission on the Arts Residency Roster, the Tucson-Pima Arts Council Public-artist Roster and the Tucson-Pima Arts Council Teaching-artist Roster. Cooper is self-represented at this time.
 

SHOWS

Solo Exhibitions:

2010     Straw House Gallery, Amado, AZ
1997     RAW Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1994     Phantom Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1992     Guest artist, Poetry in the Parks, Phoenix, AZ
1991     Emerging Collector, New York, NY
1982     Windows on White, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions:

​​2018         Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX  "Texas National 2018" (Jed Perl, juror)          
​                 Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ  "Shock of the New West" (Michael Fenlason, juror)
2017         Tucson International Airport, Tucson, AZ  "TAG: Arrivals and Departures"
2010         801 Gallery, Tucson, AZ  “TAG Mix”
2008         The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ  “Figures From Life”
                  Dinnerware, Tucson, AZ  “Citizen Warehouse” invitational
                  Rocket Gallery, Tucson, AZ  “Arriving”
                  Dinnerware, Tucson, AZ  “Big Ideas, Small Frames”
2007          The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ  Inaugural Show invitational
2006          Graficas Gallery, Tucson, AZ 
2005          Tucson-Pima Arts Council Travelling Exhibition
2001          Tucson-Pima Arts Council Gallery, Tucson, AZ 
2000          Arizona Commission on the Arts Travelling Exhibition
                  Pima Community College Center for the Arts Gallery, Tucson, AZ 
                  Arizona State Capitol Building Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1999          Arizona Gallery, Univ. of AZ, Tucson, AZ 
1998          Tucson International Airport, Tucson, AZ 
                  Tucson-Pima Arts Council Gallery, Tucson, AZ 
                  RAW  Gallery, Tucson, AZ 
1997          RAW  Gallery,Tucson, AZ  monoprint show
                  RAW  Gallery, Tucson, AZ   TAG show
1995          DeGrazia Little Gallery, Tucson, AZ 

New York, NY:
1990     Frank Bernarducci Gallery 
             HBO Gallery
             P.S. 1 (The Institute for Contemporary Art)
1989     Blum-Helman Gallery
             Westbeth Gallery
1988     Visual Arts Gallery
             Visual Arts Gallery
1987     Soho 20, Invitational
1984     Soho 20, Invitational
1983     Windows on White
             Gallery 345
1982     Windows on White


ILLUSTRATED WORK

Western Mule magazine, November 2010 issue, “It Takes a Mule Group…”

PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS

Tucson Weekly, 2008 article/interview
Tucson Citizen, 2008 article/interview
Tucson Weekly, 2001 review (group show, specific mention)
Arizona Daily Star, 1999 article/interview
Tucson Weekly, 1999 review (group show, specific mention)
Tucson Weekly, 1997 review