About

Nicole Cooper confronts the Climate Crisis through her work. Active in renewables and climate organizations, she's experienced how emotions can both motivate and paralyze action. Her figurative oil paintings use vibrant colors, energetic brushwork, and the human form to explore humanity as an interwoven, evolving force. Through her work she investigates the complex feelings surrounding climate change to create pathways toward connection, understanding, and action.

 

Nicole Cooper (American, 1983) lives and works as an artist in New York, NY. Cooper holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, MO) and has completed the Yale Norfolk School of Art Summer Residency with Yale University (Norfolk, CT). In 2023 her work and interview was featured in USA Today article "All talk and, yes, action. Could conversations about climate change be a solution?" Cooper is a trained Climate Cafe facilitator and curates with the Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island, NY. She is a dedicated member of the New York Artists Circle. Her work resides in private collections across the US and in Italy. Cooper's most recent solo exhibitions include "Living Resonance: Paintings by Nicole Cooper" at Angad Arts Hotel (St. Louis, MO), "Pivotal: Recent Paintings by Nicole Cooper" at Fontbonne University Fine Art Gallery (St. Louis, MO), and "Nicole Cooper: Interwoven" at the Schmidt Art Center (Belleville, IL). She has exhibited in several group exhibitions in notable New York venues like Field Projects and St. Louis, MO venues Duane Reed Gallery, COCA Millstone Gallery, Art St. Louis, and the Foundry Art Center and has participated in the Open Studios STL organized by the Contemporary Art Museum.