Donna Cooper is a visual and community engaged artist living in Virginia, USA. She holds a MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has also been taking ecopsychology and eco-literacy courses to expand her understanding of identity and the environment. Photography, sculpture, and performance are utilized as she collaborates with the energies of place. Her photographs document a sliver of time of a much larger process that expresses a deeper ecology of mind.
Some of the highlighted institutions that have exhibited Cooper’s work have been the Chicago Cultural Center, The New Orleans Museum of Art, the FAC Modern in Colorado, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. On an international level, she has shown at La Porte Peinte Center, in Noyers, France, and at the Photo Ireland Festival in Dublin, Ireland. Cooper has been awarded a variety of artist residencies in the last few years that have allowed her to travel and expand her explorations into the energies of other places. She was most recently selected for a mentorship residency with Renee Cox in Florida, at the Atlantic Center for Arts.
