| SUSAN COOPER | ||
| Lives and works in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado Born in Los Angeles | ||
| EDUCATION | ||
| 1970 | University of California, Berkeley, Practice of Art MA | |
| 1968 | University of California, Berkeley, Art, Anthropology BA | |
| 1965–7 | California State University, Northridge | |
| PUBLIC ART | ||
| 2024 | COLORS Seven polycarbonate printed panels, each 8 feet by 4 feet, of images of art in this district, City of Aurora, Colorado | |
| 2020 | HER FLAG 26 feet strip for a flag that travels to all 36 states and around the country | |
| 2020 | MY TOWN City of Cherry Hills Village | |
| 2018 | SHAPES OF GOLDEN Mitchell School, Golden, Colorado. Etched plexiglas sculpture suspended in the atrium between two floors. 6 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet | |
| 2015 | FIRST ROSE Eisenhower Park, Denver, Colorado Aluminum and polycarbonate bench. The images are symbols of the lives of Mimi and President Eisenhower. 15 feet by 5 feet by 3 feet | |
| 2014 | NATURE’S RHYTHM: Ocean Patterns and Mountain Paths McLaughlin Youth Center, Ancorage, Alaska 60 feet aluminum and polycarbonate panels on four walls | |
| 2013 | SPOTLIGHT AURORA Five block of LED lamps along the roofs of the buildings along the main street, downtown Aurora, Colorado | |
| 2010 | Bronze plaques for a triangle park in downtown Denver, CO | |
| ORBITS Bike racks at three sites in Downtown Claremont, CA and the Claremont Colleges in California | ||
| 2009 | TREASURE SHIPS Railings for a 525 foot bridge in Stockton, California | |
| 2008 | OBSERVATION POINT University Hills Market Place CO, Denver Steel wall sculpture 12 feet by 24 feet | |
| YEAR Four light wall sculptures, relating to the four seasons, Denver | ||
| HANDS Shalom Park, Steel and glass sculpture, Denver CO | ||
| 2007 | LaVILLA BRAID Ritz Theater and LaVilla Museum, Jacksonville FL LED light strips and lamps on the roof and 4 aluminum painted panels on the exterior | |
| 2005 | COLORS Aurora, CO 7 panels, light and vinyl, each 8 feet by 4 feet | |
| 2006 | BEDROOM AT ARLES Kaiser Permanente Painted wood sculpture, Aurora Water Park, Denver | |
| LIFE/LIGHT Kaiser Permanete, Lafayette, Colorado Glass and Alumium 92 foot spiral sculpture in a stairwell that begins in the basement and stretches to the clearstory windows on the 4th floor. In honor of Rosalind Franklin, who first discovered the double helix structure of DNA. | ||
| 2003 | CLASSIC PERSPECTIVE Concrete, granite and stucco arch, University of Nebraska Replaced by a building | |
| 2003 | AURORA WRAP Wall sculpure 32 feet by 20 feet on 3 walls Steel and copper Facade of Aurora Police Department #1 | |
| 2002–6 | RTD Regional Transportation District, Design Team 43 polycarbonate windscreens for 13 stations for the light rail system in Denver, Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village, Lone Tree, Colorado Stations: Louisiana, University, Colorado, Yale, Southmoor, Belleview, Orchard, Lone Tree, County Line, Dry Creek, Arapahoe, Nine Mile, Dayton Bike racks: Bayton and University, University Garage | |
| 2002 | FOOTNOTE St. Louis, MO Steel 36 feet by 7 feet by 7 feet, at Laclede Landing. | |
| UNIVERSAL TRAVEL Two wall relief panels on railroad bridge walls, Sheridan CO, 100 feet by 36 feet each | ||
| 2001 | HOZHO Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO 12 feet by 8 feet arch | |
| DOW RANGE Fort Lewis College, 82 feet mural for the Department of Business as a graph of the Dow industrial Average since it began in 1896. | ||
| 2000 | Rose Community Foundation, painting | |
| 1999 | SILK CABLE Colorado State University, School of Business, Pueblo CO 70 feet steel wall sculpture, 32 feet wall sculpture inside the School of Business. | |
| EAGLE VIEW US Army National Guard, Watkins, CO, mural | ||
| 1998 | Children’s Hospital, 72 feet mural | |
| 1997 | NEIGHBORHOOD Kaiser Permanente, Skyline, Denver, CO 25 feet mural | |
| 1994 | PURSUING PERSPECTIVE Denver Public Library, Virginia Village, Life size painted wood sculpture in 5 parts | |
| 1993 | 20th CENTURY PERSPECTIVE: Beginning a Century, Ending a Millennium Two relief murals in the Rotunda of the City and County Building, Denver. 14 feet by 7 feet by 8 inches each | |
| 1992 | Kaiser Permanente, Littleton CO, wall sculpture | |
| 1991 | PARK PERSPECTIVES Congress Park Denver, Two Concrete and stucco sculpture installations at the swimming pool and at the playground | |
| 1989 | Denver Art Museum Commissioned to creat three sculptural awards for Excellence in the arts | |
| DAVID Kaiser Permanente, Smokey Hill, CO sculpture | ||
| 1987 | GIFT Blue Cross Blue Shield, Denver Painting | |
| 1975 | ARROYO HONDO School of American Research Painting of reconstruction of an a abandoned pueblo in the 13th century | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2026 | Exhibition at Artespaziotempo, Venice, Italy, September 2026 | |
| 2025 | Exhibition at Artistikamente, Pistoia, Italy, September–October 2025 | |
| 2024 | Exhibition at Artespaziotempo, Venice, Italy, November–December 2024 | |
| 2023 | FORWARD AND BACK TO EUROPE Installation at Associazione Culturale Lartquotidien, Idea4mi. Milan, Italy | |
| 50th SESSION Bone Springs Art Space and Gallery Roswell, New Mexico | ||
| 2021–2022 | STORY LINE University of Denver | |
| 2022 | REARRANGING Curtis Art Center, Greenwood Village, Colorado | |
| 2020 | STORY LINE UCLA Hillel | |
| 2019 | STORY LINE Jewish Museum, Chmielnik, Poland | |
| 2009 | DOWNSTAIRS UPSTAIRS William Havu Gallery Denver Colorado | |
| 2007 | PURSUING PERSPECTIVE William Havu Gallery Denver Colorado | |
| 2005 | Art in the Embassies: U.S. Department of State, Montevedio, Uruguay | |
| MAINTAINING PERSPECTIVE Lois Lambert Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA | ||
| 2000 | RECOLLECTION | Jewish Federation, Los Angeles CA |
| 1997 | RECOLLECTION | Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles CA |
| 1996 | RECOLLECTION | Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO |
| RECOLLECTION | Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO | |
| RECOLLECTION | Mizel Museum of Judaica, Denver CO | |
| RECOLLECTION | Durango Art Center, Durango CO | |
| RECOLLECTION | Cortez Art Center, Cortez CO | |
| RECOLLECTION | Grand Junction, CO | |
| 1993 | Inkfish Gallery, Denver CO | |
| 1992 | Galleria Expositum, Mexico City | |
| 1990 | Inkfish Gallery, Denver, CO | |
| 1989 | Henri Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| 1988 | Rettig y Martinez, Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| Inkfish Gallery, Denver CO | ||
| 1986 | Rettig y Martinez Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| 1985 | Inkfish Gallery, Denver CO | |
| 1983 | Inkfish Gallery, Denver CO | |
| 1980 | RETROSPECTIVE University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, Jonson Gallery | |
| 1979 | Northern Kentucky University | |
| 1978 | Colorado Women’s College, Denver CO | |
| 1973 | Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico | |
| 1971 | Concord Art Center, California | |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2024 | Arvada Center for the Art, Arvada, Colorado | |
| Lois Lambert Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA | ||
| 2021 | Arvada Center for the Art | |
| 2016 | University of California, Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery | |
| 2014 | University of California, Berkeley Worth Ryder Gallery | |
| 2016 | William Havu Gallery, Denver CO | |
| 2008 | Boulder Public Library, Boulder CO | |
| 2009 | Red Dot, Miami, FL | |
| 2009 | Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, CO | |
| 1992 | Metropolitan State College, CO | |
| Lowry – Denver CO | ||
| Denver International Airport | ||
| 1989 | New Art Forms Expo, Chicago, Illinois | |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC | ||
| Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center | ||
| University of Colorado, Colorado Springs | ||
| 1985 | AAIP Galeria de Arte, Barcelona, Spain | |
| 1984 | Henri Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| 1981 | RECENT ACQUISITIONS Denver Art Museum | |
| Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Midlands Invitational | ||
| University of Colorado, Denver | ||
| Pirate: A Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver CO | ||
| 1977 | Center for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | |
| Phoenix Art Museum | ||
| Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe | ||
| Denver Art Museum | ||
| New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, New Mexico | ||
| 1976 | Museum for Art and Art History, Juarez, Mexico | |
| 1971 | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
| AWARDS, GRANTS AND, RESIDENCIES | ||
| 2018 | Residency at Mitchell Elementary School | |
| 2015 | C3 School Artist in Residence, Denver, CO | |
| 2014 | La Napoule Art Foundation, France | |
| 2002 | St. Lewis Downtown Partnership, Better Downtown Award | |
| 2000 | Computer Lab University of Colorado Artist in Residence, Boulder | |
| 1995 | Colorado Visions Project Grant, Colorado Council on the Arts | |
| 1988 | Colorado Lawyers for the Arts | |
| 1968 | University of California, Berkeley, Grant from Friends of the University of California Berkeley | |
| 1973 | Yaddo Artist in Residency | |
| 1972–73 | RAIR Artist in Residency, Roswell, New Mexico | |
| 1966 | Rubel Shapiro Foundation for the Arts | |
| 1965 | Charles C. And Ila Winocur Foundation | |
| RELATED ACTIVITIES | ||
| 1987–90 | Teaching: University of Colorado, Denver Metropolitan State College, Denver | |
| 1977–1987 | Director, then President of Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute University of Denver and Colorado Woman’s College | |
| Board Memberships: | Mizel Center, Denver JCC Denver Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute | |