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
2023 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 traveled to the capitols of the 36 states that first ratified women’s right to vote
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
Alumininum 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 Mountian Paths
McLuaghlin 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.
2003 CLASSIC PERSPECTIVE
Concrete, granite and stucco arch, University of Nebraska
2003 AURORA WRAP
Wall sculpure 32 feet by 20 feet on 3 walls Steel and copper
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
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 painted wood sculpture
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
2024 Exhibition at Venice Italy
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, Chelmienit, 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
Lowrey – 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
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