Diana Cooper

Diana Cooper is a New York-based mixed-media artist whose abstract works are inspired by patterns found in nature and the artificial human environment, which she transforms and translates into her own visual language.

Cooper has exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions, including the Whitney Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, PS 1/MOMA, the New Museum and the He Xiangning Art Museum. In 2007 Cooper had a 10 year retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Cooper is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim, a Pollock-Krasner, NYFA, a Joan Mitchell, and Anonymous Was a Woman, and most recently she was inducted into The National Academy of Design.



Cooper’s most recent public artwork “Double Take” is permanently installed on Roosevelt Island. This outdoor installation was commissioned by the MTA and is open to the public. She has also completed several public commissions, including at the Jerome Parker Campus, Staten Island, commissioned by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Public Art for Public Schools and the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech.



Ms. Cooper received a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard College and an MFA from Hunter College. She also attended the New York Studio School. Cooper has taught in graduate and undergraduate programs at RISD, Yale, NYU, VCU, Cornell, Princeton and SVA. She currently teaches Mixed Media: Collage at Columbia. She created the course Mixed Media: Collage specifically for Columbia and has been teaching at Columbia since 2012.