RON COOPER. Ron Cooper was born in New York City in He lives in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico and Oaxaca, Mexico. EDUCATION

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1 RON COOPER Ron Cooper was born in New York City in He lives in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico and Oaxaca, Mexico. EDUCATION Chouinard Art Institute SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 Platones, Aplastados y Dichos, Nadie Es Perfecto, Oaxaca, Mexico 2009 Platones, Aplastados y Dichos, 203 Fine Art, Taos, New Mexico 2007 Laminas & Aplastados, Nadie Es Perfecto, Oaxaca, Mexico 2005 Laminas & Aplastados, Colectivo Central, Oaxaca, Mexico 2001 Light Traps and Vertical Bars, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2000 Mirrors and Voids, Collectors Gallery in Taos, Taos, New Mexico 1991 Works Produced in Oaxaca, Mexico, Sena Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico Works Produced in Oaxaca, Mexico, C.A.F.E, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1990 Special Project, Maguire Thomas Partners/IBM Los, Angeles, California 1989 Special Project, Pacific Enterprise Corporation, Los Angeles, California 1988 Monotype Pitchers and Vases, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1987 Bronze Portrait Vases and Bronze Portrait Lamps, Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, California 1986 Clay Torsos, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California Clay Torsos, Portrait Vase, Cast Iron Torso, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Janie Beggs Fine Art Ltd., Aspen, Colorado 1985 Portrait Vases, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Light Traps, Clay Torsos, Wohlert Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico A Performance and Installation of The Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, with music by Don Buchla, The Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Clay Torsos, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Installation of the Pseudo Color Torsos, Light Traps, Large Quilts, Works Gallery, Long Beach, California 1984 Clay Torsos, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California Clay Torsos, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Smart Art, Inc., Dallas, Texas 1983 Flashlight Torsos, Pseudo Color Torsos, Posts and Lintels, and Light Traps, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California Color Flashlight Torsos, DVS Gallery, Taos, New Mexico One of Each Work from the Last Five Years and a Light and Water Installation Homage to Monet, Advanced Art Gallery, Rinconada, New Mexico 1982 Enhanced Torsos, Binocular Visions, The Male Quilt, The New Gallery, Taos, New Mexico Torsos and Light Traps, Robin Cronin, Inc., Houston, Texas 1981 Large Photographed Torsos, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, California Large Photographed Torsos, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1980 Torsos, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California Photographic Works, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California Large Photographed Torsos, The Kitchen, New York, New York 1979 Photo is Light, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2 SOLO EXHIBITIONS, continued 1974 A Continuing Series : Vertical Bars, Ace Gallery, Venice, California Light Traps, Art in Progress, Munich, Germany Paintings, Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf, West Germany 1973 Separator Variations, Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, West Germany Separator Variations and Large Corner Volume of Light (catalogue), La Jolla, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California 1972 Light Traps, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California Sealed Volume of Light, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California Double Sealed Volume, Lo Guidice Gallery, New York, New York 1971 Light Traps, Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, California Installation: Four Corners, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California Light Traps, Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf, West Germany 1970 Installation: Ball Drop, Pomona College Art Gallery, Claremont, California 1969 Light Traps, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Stopped keeping track 1989 Rendezvous, Broschofsky Galleries, Ketchum, Idaho Group Show, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1988 The Nude: Male/Female & The Explicit Image, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California Contemporary Clay, Modern Objects, Los Angeles, California Black & White, Hand Graphics Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1987 Poetics of Space, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico California Figurative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California Visions 87, The Fine Arts Gallery, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico Abstract and Non-Objective Art, Stables Art Center, Taos, New Mexico A View Through Revisited, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California On Being, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, California New Work, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1986 The Torso, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, California Foundry/Process, Art Gallery, Saint Johns College, Santa Fe, New Mexico Artists/Works, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California Opening Exhibition, Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, California Light and Space, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, California New Mexico Selections 86, The Gallery, The College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico Alter Ego, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, New Mexico A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California Pacific Connections, traveled to five venues in the Western United States, including Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art and Tacoma Art Museum Illumination: The Quality of Light, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Art Furniture, Kron/Reck Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Summer 85: Gallery Artists, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California L.A., Recent Designs in Fashion and Furniture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Southwest 85, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

3 1984 Neon on My Mind, Madison Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Cirrus Celebrates Los Angeles Art, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1984 Winter 84, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California The Nude in Modern Photography, an exhibition of photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, circulated by the Art Museum Association of America, traveled to 7 venues in the United States and Canada 1983 Cirrus Downstairs, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California The Artist & The Computer, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Summer Group Exhibition, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Gus Foster, Roscoe West, Advanced Art Gallery, Rinconada, New Mexico Young Talent Awards: , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. California Dreamin', Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California The Taos Seven, Pirate Gallery, Denver, Colorado 1982 Exhibition of Contemporary Los Angeles Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan Quilts by Contemporary Artists, Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, California Selections From the Collections of Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California Contemporary Triptychs, Galleries of Claremont Colleges, Claremont, A Personal Viewpoint, Fullerton College Gallery, Fullerton, California Studio Work: Photographs by Ten Los Angeles Artists, Ahmanson Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Artists' Furniture, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California Group Show, Fort Worth Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas 1981 Artists Quilts, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California California 1: Light and Space, , Lonny Gans and Associates, Venice, California Decade: Los Angeles Painting of the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (catalogue) A Look at Boundaries: 14 California Photographers, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, California (brochure) Group Show, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California. Jerry Burchard /Ron Cooper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Los Angeles Prints, , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (catalogue) California: A Sense of Individualism, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, Furniture by Architects, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (catalogue) Tables by Artists, The Functional Art Store, Santa Monica, California Holiday Exhibition, Lonny Gans and Associates, Venice, California New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1980 Jack Brogan: Projects, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Furnishings by Artists, Otis Art Institute of The Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California Artists Furniture, Marion Goodman Gallery, New York, New York 1979 Photographs by Ron Cooper, Gus Foster, Douglas Kent Hall, Maggie Kress Gallery, Taos, New Mexico Attitudes: Photography in the 1970 s, 247 artists Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara,

4 GROUP EXHIBITIONS, continued 1979 Group Show, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York California Perceptions: Light and Space, Selections from the Wortz Collection, Visual Arts Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Cirrus , Part 1, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1978 Contemporary California Photography, Camera Works Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalogue) Change, Inc. West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Drawers, 200 International Artists, Statlische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany; traveled to New York and Jerusalem California Light, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976 Cirrus Prints, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, 1975 A View Through, California State University, Long Beach, 1974 Three to One: Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, California To Separate=Trennen,Teilen, America Haus, West Berlin, Germany (catalogue) Light, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California 1973 Cirrus Editions at the Texas Gallery, The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas The Wall Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California 1972 Peter Alexander/Ron Cooper, Art In Progress, Zurich, Switzerland Drawings: Chuck Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, Laddie John Dill, Betty Gold Fine Prints, Los Angeles, California Alexander, Cooper, Judd, Peru, Sonnier, Ace Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Working in California/14 Artists, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Group Show, Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, California Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards, The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; traveled to five venues throughout the United States and Canada. The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (catalogue); traveled to nine venues in New Zealand and the Western United States Art and Technology, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Afterquake, Friends of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, 24 Young Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California The Black Show, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, traveled to two venues in the United States and Canada th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (catalogue) Three Young Americans: Charles Close, Ron Cooper, Neil Jenney, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (catalogue) Group, The Douglas Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Permutations: Light and Color, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois 1969 The Appearing /Disappearing Image/Object, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, 1969 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (catalogue) Prospect 1969, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany (catalogue) The Other City, Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, California

5 GROUP EXHIBITIONS, continued 1969 New Directions, West Side Center, Los Angeles, California March 1969: An Exhibition in Print, organized by Seth Siegelaub, New York, New York Plastics and New Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, traveled to Marion Koogler McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas 1968 New Work/Southern California, Univ. of California Art Gallery, La Jolla, West Coast Now, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; traveled to two venues in the United States and Canada (catalogue) 1967 Arp to Artschwager, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, New York Plastics: West Coast Now, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (catalogue) PROJECTS Del Maguey, Single Village Mezcal, Alive in the mythical past, retain the mysteries and embrace the notion of alcohol as a gift from the gods. 100% Organic, Unblended, made the 400-year-old, handcrafted way; from the heart of maguey and soul of the village Whirlpool in the Labyrinth: Tall circular hedge-labyrinth (forest) that surrounds a clock of twenty-four limestone blocks, forming a walkway around a 30-foot diameter whirlpool The Big Pitcher, Fifteen-foot bronze pitcher, tipped at a radical angle, pouring 300 gallons of water per minute into large pool, commissioned by IBM, Maguire Thomas Partners Fifty-one portraits of California Artists, commissioned by Pacific Enterprise Collection, Los Angeles, California. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Art Gallery of Toronto, /Toronto, Ontario, Canada Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, California Bank of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, California Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, West Germany La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico Neue Galerie, Aachen, West Germany Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La, Jolla, California Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, California Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California University of Redlands, Redlands, California Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

6 AWARDS 1980 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography 1971 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Theodoran Award and Fellowship 1970 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting 1968 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Young Talent Award PUBLICATIONS stopped collecting / recording "Ron Cooper," The Magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April Calendar, Santa Fean Magazine, photo reproduced 2000 "Ron Cooper: Voids and Shadows," The Magazine, December 1988 Art, Pitchers and Landscapes, Santa Fe Reporter, December Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Members Calendar, June 1987 Galleries Deserve Applause for Collections of Excellence, Albuquerque Journal, August The Art Galleries, Los Angeles Times, May 15 Charles Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, Laddie John Dill, catalogue, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, New Mexico The Way We Are, Figuratively, Los Angeles Times, March 3 Space is the Key to New Tack in Art, Albuquerque Journal, February 1 California Figurative Sculpture, Art Talk, January 1986 At the Galleries, Los Angeles Times, February 28 Ron Cooper at Ovsey, Art in America, January Art Museum Show Links, The News Tribune, Tacoma Washington, January Ron Cooper, ArtForum, December Southwest 85, catalogue, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts Pacific Connections, catalogue, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, November Illumination: The Quality of Light, catalogue, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Ron Cooper," The Ikebana Ryusei, Tokyo, Japan, October Downtown, Los Angeles Times, September Long Beach, Los Angeles Times, August 1984 Confronting Ideas and Emotions in Art, by S.M. Parks, Artlines, October Taos: The Heroes Live On, ArtNews, September Downtown, Los Angeles Times, May The Nude in Modern Photography, California Arts Council/National Endowment for the Arts Then and Now: Two decades of Young Talent Award Winners, Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1982 Photos are Made, not Found, Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1982 Studio Work: Photography by Ten Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members Calendar, July Contemporary Triptychs (catalogue), Trustees of Pomona College, Claremont, California Ron Cooper: New Work, New Gallery, Artlines, February 1981 Los Angeles Prints , catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Furniture by Architects, catalogue, MIT Committee on the Visual Arts Datebook, San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, July 5, photo reproduced Art Review, Los Angeles Times, June 1 Los Angeles, ArtNews, April California Light and Space, Los Angeles Times, February Ron Cooper at Rosamund Felsen, Art in America, February

7 PUBLICATIONS, continued 1981 Intriguing Works in Light and Space, Los Angeles Times, February Jack Brogan: Projects, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena One Man s Torso is Another Man s Art, San Diego Magazine, December Shots in the Dark, Village Voice, November 25 A Wider View of Artistic Endeavor/Furnishings by Artists, Los Angeles Times, June Attitudes: Photography in the 1970 s, by Fred Parker, Santa Barbara Museum of Art California Perceptions: Light and Space/Selections From the Wortz Collection, California State University Art Gallery, Fullerton, California, November-December Best Bets: Ron Cooper Curates Exhibition, New West Magazine, Los Angeles, California 1978 The Museum of Drawers, Dasschubladen Museum, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland 1977 Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 1976 Artists Videotapes, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, New York 1975 A View Through, California State University, Long Beach, California L.A. Newsletter, Art International, December A View Through, Artweek, October 1974 Sunshine Muse, Praeger Publishers, New York, New York Review, America Haus, West Berlin, March-May Los Angeles Exhibits, ArtNews, March 1973 Catalogue, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California The Cirrus Editions, by Jean Milant, Los Angeles, California, January Review, Lo Guidice Gallery, Art International, January 1972 Documenta V, by Harold Szeemann, Kassel, West Germany Review, Lo Guidice Gallery, ArtNews, October Review, Lo Guidice Gallery, Arts Magazine, October 1971 Ten Young Artists/Theodoron Awards, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Five Artists: Ace Gallery, Artforum, October Los Angeles: Ace Gallery, by Elizabeth C. Baker, ArtNews, September The Black Show, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July Artists and Public: The Children of Marcel Duchamp, New York Times, June 16 Review, Pasadena Art Museum, Artforum, April Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, January-February 1970 Reflections on the Work of Charles Close, Ron Cooper, Neil Jenney and Other Contemporary Art, Bulletin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 69 th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, January-February 1969 Annual Exhibition Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art One Month, published by Seth Siegelaub, New York The Appearing /Disappearing Image/Object, Newport Harbor Art Museum Reviews, Los Angeles, Artforum, Summer West Coast Shows, Arts Magazine, March Whitney Annual, Sculpture, Artforum, February Two Generations in L.A., Art in America, January 1968 New Work: Southern California, University of California Press, San Diego Work of Seven Artists in Newport Display, Los Angeles Times Plastics into Art, Art in America, May Plastics, L.A., Artforum, May 1967 Craftsmanship in Plastics Show, San Francisco Examiner, November 8