MARK COOPER is an internationally recognized artist known for large-scale and site-specific installations and public commissions. . His commissions and grants vary from Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a Gund Grant, Daynard Grant, and an Open Society Fellowship among others. In July 2020, he completed three permanent large-scale marble sculptures for the DaNang Museum of Fine Art, Vietnam. In 2006 he authored Making Art Together through Beacon Press.
Mark Cooper had recent major exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Arts Hanoi, Vietnam, the University of Fine Arts, the DaNang Museum of Fine Art, Vietnam, the Doris Duke Mansion Museum, the Yuan Art Museum, the Kemper Museum , Kansas City, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA and The Street Museum: Connect in Seoul, Korea; As well as the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, the Corcoran Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the City Museum of Paris, France, the Westlicht Museum in Vienna, Austria and in over one hundred individual and group international exhibitions.