Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University
1990
BS Communications, Syracuse University, New York
Selected Exhibitions
2009
Super Human, November 2009, Melbourne Museum and Australian Center for the Moving Image
2009
IMPACT: art in the age of climate change, October 2009, Staten Museum for Kunst Copenhagen, Denmark
2008
HAVIDOL: September 4-21, 2008 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2008
Terminal, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, May 8 - June 14
2007
The Leisure Class, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia, October 13, 2007 - March 2008 Curator Kathryn Weir
2007
Goodbye Privacy, Ars Electronica, Linz Austria, September 5 - 11
2007
The Art & Artifice of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, February 9 - May 20
2007
Havidol, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, February 8 - March 17
2006
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. February 10 - August 1
2006
Strange Attractors, Zendai MOMA, Shanghai, July 22 - August 29
2006
Asia - Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, Nov 2006 - May
2005
Saved By Science, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia October 25 - November 6
2005
Your Sky, GAS, New York, New York July 9 - 29
2005
Saved by Science, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York, New York April 21 - June 4
2005
Beijing Biennale, The Millennium Dialogue, Beijing, China, Second International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium, May 31 - June 27
2005
RAPT I and II, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, January 7 - February 4
2005
WetLab: The New Nexus Between Art and Science, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University
2004
Transfigure, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne curator Alessio Cavallaro
2004
The Nature Machine, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, December 3 - February 13, 2005 curators
2004
Lynne Seear and Kathryn Weir
2004
TRANS: Australian artists in New York, Dumbo, NY
2004
TULP, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
2003
How Human, life in the post genome era, International Center of Photography, New York
2003
Science Fictions, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2003
Excite/Moist, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2003
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award Exhibition, Melbourne
2003
Genetic Expressions: Art After DNA, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
2003
Divine Fragments, Center for Photography at Woodstock
2002
PhotoGENEesis: Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
2002
MOIST, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Millennium Monument, Beijing, PRChina
2002
Microviews, Urban Center Galleries at The Municipal Art Society, New York
2002
Corps + Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
2002
Other Views, QCA Gallery, Queensland, (curator Timothy Morrell)
2002
Den Haag Film and Video Festival, "Oor(g)/See[h]ear"
2002
ConVerge: where art and science meet, Adelaide Biennial, The Art Gallery of South Australia
2002
Medicine As Metaphor, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan
2002
World Views, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2001
Steel Fracture, Dir. Gail Kelly, Australian Technology Park + Performance Space (video commission)
2001
Figure It, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Tasmania
2001
Theory or Faith, LIMN gallery, San Francisco
2001
Hybrid forms: Australian new media art, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
2000
Gwang - Ju Biennale, Korea
2000
Foreign Bodies, Untitled Space, New Haven, Connecticut
2000
Pivot V: About Photography, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2000
Wired Body/Mediated Body, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada, and Goethe Institute, Toronto
1999
Probe: Australian Embassy, Beijing, China
1999
Romancing the Brain, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
1999
Sci - Art 99, MAAP, Queensland Sciencentre, Brisbane
1999
The Self, Absorbed, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington
1999
The Universal Machine, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
1999
Persona, Institute of Modern Art, Queensland
1998
Skin/Deep, Julie Saul Gallery, 560 Broadway SoHo, New York
1998
Videomedeja, 3rd International Video Summit, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1998
ArtRAGE, ABC
1998
MUU Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland
1998
Surveillance show, Artspace, Sydney
1998
Rapt II, Center for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne
1998
Viruses and Mutations, Experimenta, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
1998
Maap (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific), Brisbane
1998
National Digital Art Awards, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, September 1998
1998
VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
D.art, Sydney Film Festival
1998
Cell, Gallery 19, Sydney
Commissions
2004
TULP: The Body Public(visual artist/director) perfomance/installation with ELISION Ensemble, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Festival and the Powerhouse, Brisbane Festival
2003
The Imaginary Opera Project, Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 2003
2003
Lady from the Sea video animations (Ibsen), Wax Factory Production, New York 2003
2002
Video commission for Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Millennium Monument, Beijing, China 2002
2001
Video commission for Steel Fracture, Director Gail Kelly, Australian Technology Park + Performance Space, April 4 - 8, 2001
Selected Screenings
2007
Mapping Bodies, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2005
The Nature Machine, Queensland Art Gallery,Australia, December 3 - February 13
2004
Flicker, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
2003
oZone,Centre Pompidou, Paris
2003
Another Planet, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York + Chicago Institute of Art
2003
Future Perfect, D.art, Sydney Film Festival
2003
Corps + Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
2002
Den Haag Film and Video Festival, "Oor(g)/See[h]ear", Netherlands
2000
Wired Body/Mediated Body, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada, May 2000 and Goethe Institute, Toronto
1999
Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1999
Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History
1999
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm Und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
1999
4ième Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique , Montreal
1999
Peripheral Visions, Museum of Sydney
1999
Anemone,Imago, Western Australia tour
1999
WRO International Video Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
1999
Women in the Director's Chair Video Festival, Chicago, USA
1999
Digital New Wave, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
1999
ArtRAGE, Australian Broadcasting Channel
1998
Videomedeja, 3rd Intnat'l Video Summit, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1998
MUU Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland
1998
Viruses and Mutations, Experimenta, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
1998
MAAP (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific)
1998
National Digital Art Awards, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1998
VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
D.art, Sydney Film Festival
Residencies, Grants, Scholarships and Prizes
2005
NYSCA Individual Artist grant
2005
Greenwall Foundation Grant
2005
The Harries First Place for the National Digital Arts Awards, Australia
2004
Australia Council New Media Fellowship
2004
Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board Grant
2003
Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board Grant
2003
Greenwall Foundation Grant
2003
Greenwall Foundation Grant
2002
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Artist in Residence at Central Academy of Fine Art, New Media Department, Beijing, PR China September - October
2002
Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, February 2002
2001
Bellevue Art Museum Artist - in - Residence, Washington, December 2001
2001
Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) deep immersion: scientific serendipity grant for artist - in - residency at The Museum of Natural History, New York
2001
World Views, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Artist - in - Residence Program at the World Trade Center, New York
2001
Harvestworks Artist - in - Residence Grant, New York
1999
Australia Council New Media Grant
1998
The Harries First Place for the National Digital Arts Awards, Australia
1997
Australian Film Commission New Technologies Grant
Publications and Public Lectures
2005
Australians work outside the New York label, Jacqui Taffel, Sydney Morning Herald, July 5, 2005
2005
An Artist Goes Behind Closed Doors, Ruth Graham, The New York Sun, v.121, no.10, p.14, April 29, 2005
2005
Behind Closed Doors, Mary Knight, Natural History Magazine, June 2005, pp.40 - 43
2005
Justine Cooper, Saved By Science, Voice Choice, Village Voice, June 1 - 7, 2005
2005
Cabinets, Curiosities, and Collections; Revealing the Museums Stored Treasures, Linder Theatre, American Museum of Natural History, March 31, 2005
2005
Good Morning Alabama ABC TV and 6pm Fox Newscast, January 11, 2005
2004
Science & Art, Sydney Festival, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery New South Wales, January 18, 2004
2004
Work guaranteed to get under your skin, Joyce Morgan, Sydney Morning Herald, January 16, 2004
2004
TULP: The Body Public, Harriet Cunningham, Sydney Morning Herald, January 17, 2004
2004
Panelist, Science & Art, Sydney Festival, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery New South Wales, January 18, 2004
2003
Guest Speaker, Distinguished Visitors Program, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, November 5, 2003
2003
Justine Cooper: new media alchemist, Real Time, #55, June/July 2003, p.4
2003
Identity, Photovision (Spanish edition)
2002
Prefiguring Cyberculture, eds. Tofts, Jonson, Cavallaro, The MIT Press
2002
Cartography in the Age of Digital Media, Symposium, Yale School of Architecture, April 5, 2002.
2002
ConVerge:where art and science meet, Genomics Symposium, March 3, 2002
2002
Scrambling Space, Elastic, public talk, February 27, 2002
2002
Oxygen Media, 5' television profile, January, 2002
2001
Out of Australia:International Exposure, Linda Wallace, Artlink, vol.21, no. 3, 2001
2001
Interfacing Art, Science and New Media, Anna Munster, Artlink, vol.21, no. 3, 2001
2001
Science for Art's Sake, presenter and panelist, American Museum of Natural History, June 13, 2001
2000
Keynote Speaker, Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration's Conference AIMBI 2000 - The Art of Imaging, June 2000
2000
Interface: visions of the body and the machine, Kathy Cleland, ART Asia Pacific, issue #27, June 2000
2000
Justine Cooper Artist Profile, Australian Art Collector, Patrick Crogan, Issue 12, April - June 2000
2000
The Genetic Esthetic, Barbara Pollack, ArtNEWS, pp 133 - 136, April 2000
2000
Space Graft,Cyberanthology, Cavallaro, Jonson,+Tofts,Power Publications, Sydney, 2000
2000
Justine Cooper Artist Profile, Australian Art Collector, Patrick Crogan, Issue 12, April - June 2000
1999
A Digital Region - , Anat Newsletter #39, December 1999
1999
Insides Out: Speculations on the Body in 3D Computer Animation,Patrick Crogan, paper delivered at the Society for Animation Studies Conference, August 1999
1999
Justine Cooper: RAPT, Robyn Donohue, Photofile, #56, May 1999
1998
Between Professional Diagnosis and Dumb Fascination,Colin Hood, Real Time #26,OnScreen, August 1998
1998
Art and Science Sing the Body Transparent, Vicky Goldberg, New York Times, December 19, 1998
1998
Promises and Metaphors, Ben Zipper, Broadsheet, vol 27, no.4, summer 1998
1998
Snap Arts Program , Channel 31, Melbourne 1998
1998
Imaging the Virtual Body, Future Screen seminar, Powerhouse Museum, November 21st, 1998
1998
Good medicine makes art, Jenny Sinclair, The Age, October 13th, 1998
1998
Religion and science show their artistic face, Peter Timms, The Age, October 21st, 1998
1998
Between Professional Diagnosis and Dumb Fascination, Colin Hood, Real Time, #26, OnScreen, 1998
Collections
Currently held in collections in Australia, Europe, and New York, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Powerhouse Museum, Australian Center for the Moving Image, Griffith Artworks and The Queensland Art Gallery, Monash University and the Queensland Health Centre.
Public Lectures
2004
Science & Art, Sydney Festival, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery New South Wales, January 18, 2004
2003
Guest Speaker, Distinguished Visitors Program, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, November 5, 2003
2002
Cartography in the Age of Digital Media, Symposium, Yale School of Architecture, April 5, 2002
2002
ConVerge:where art and science meet, Genomics Symposium, March 3, 2002
2002
Scrambling Space, Elastic, artist talk, February 27, 2002
2001
Science for Art's Sake, presenter, American Museum of Natural History, June 13, 2001
2000
The Art of Imaging, Keynote Speaker, Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration's Conference AIMBI 2000, June 2000
1999
Seminar on Science and Art, Australian Network for Art and Technology Summer School, 1999
1998
Imaging the Virtual Body, Future Screen seminar speaker, Powerhouse Museum, Nov 21, 1998
Born in Sydney, Australia and currently residing in New York, interdisciplinary artist, Justine Cooper's moves between many forms of media - photography, animation, video, installation, as well as medical imaging technologies such as MRI, DNA sequencing, Ultrasound and SEM (scanning electron microscopy). Cooper’s artwork investigates the intersections between culture, science and medicine. She sees herself as an artist who is concerned with the expression of desire. Cooper does so by working with medicine and science, areas that often seem far from desire. Yet, there is a desire by natural science to rationalize our sublime world, to understand where we came from. There is a desire by medicine to push the physical and chemical boundaries of our bodies into places that make us healthier or happier. Justine Cooper is curious how these areas intersect with us as a society and as individuals.
Her work has been internationally recognized and exhibited and screened at venues including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Ars Electronica, Linz, The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Singapore Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art, The George Pompidou Centre, Paris; Kwang Ju Biennale, Korea, and the International Center of Photography, New York. Cooper's artwork is held in public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), The Queensland Art Gallery and the Australian Center for the Moving Image.
