Eileen Cooper RA (b. 1953)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2000
1999
1998
1998
1997
1996/7
1995
1994
1993/4
1992
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1983
1982
1981
1979
Hide and Seek, Drawing 1977-2014 Royal Academy of Arts, Tennant Gallery and Fine Rooms
In the Garden, Rabley Dawing Centre, Wiltshire
Eileen Cooper RA, Paintings and Works on Paper, Atelier Rose and Gray, Hale, Cheshire.
Edge to Edge, Art First, London
Aldeburgh Beach, South Lookout Project
Showing Off, Art First, London
Collages, Sir Hugh Casson Room, Royal Academy, London
New Work, Arts Club, London
Dreams of Elsewhere, Art First, London
Crosscurrent, Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton
Crossing, Art First Projects, London
Taking Stock: The Printmaking Of Eileen Cooper RA, Clifford Chance, London &
The Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University
Deeper Water, Art First, London
An Encore: Eileen Cooper, Art First Projects, London
Time of Your Life, Art First London
Subject Matter – Paintings Drawings & Prints, Glasgow Print Studio
Eileen Cooper, 50, Art First London
Eileen Cooper at 50, A Celebration, Art First New York
Passions: New Work on Paper, Art First, London
'Passions', Art First, New York
Raw Material: Eileen Cooper at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Raw Material Part II, Art First, London
Homecoming – The Prints Of Eileen Cooper, Clifford Chance, London
Second Skin: Eileen Cooper in the 80s and 90s, touring to Wolverhampton, Nottingham and
Eastbourne
Open Secrets, Art First, London
Graphic Work, Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset
Graphic Works, The Gallery In Cork Street with Benjamin Rhodes, London
Touring Exhibition – Graphic Work, Darlington, Harrogate & Scarborough
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
Eileen Cooper at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London
Shapechanger, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
Touring Exhibition – Lifelines, Lancaster, Exeter, Newcastle, Brighton,
Sheffield & Warwick
Drawings, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
Paintings Drawings Prints, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
Works on Paper, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
Artsite Gallery, Bath
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Blond Fine Art, London
Artspace gallery, Aberdeen
Blond Fine Art, London
Blond Fine Art, London
House Gallery, London
AIR Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014
2014
She Came To Stay, curated by Aretha Campbell and Lucy Farley, Rook and Raven, London
Good Figures, Mall Galleries London and The Downland Jerwood Gridshell West Sussex
Delineations, Drawing at Art First, London
Figuratively Speaking, Heike Moras Gallery, Marcelle Joseph Projects
Master Drawings, Beaux Arts, London
Marcelle Joseph Projects , At Home Salon
Jerwood Drawing Prize 1994-2014: Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings.
Royal Academy Summer show( selector and exhibitor)
2014
2014
2014
2013-14
2012-13
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
1999-2000
1998
1997
1996
1994/95
1993
1992
1991/92
1991
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985/87
1985
Underexposed: Female Artists and the Medium of Print. Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent
Wildwood, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
Embrace, The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.
RA Portfolio Diamond Jubilee Gift, Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
Encounter, The Royal Academy in the Middle East, Cultural Village Foundation-Katara, Doha, Qatar
The Mechanical Hand : 25yrs of Printmaking at Paupers Press, Kings Place, Gallery, London
Eileen Cooper & Sara Lee : The Peninsula Project, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance.
Encounter, The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Twelve Royal Academicians in Edinburgh, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Contemporary Monotypes, Glasgow Print Studio
20 Years, Art First, London
Print, Stoneman Gallery, Penzance
The Discerning Eye, Mall gallery selector and exhibitor
Bite, Mall Galleries, London
Academicians (with David Mach, Neil Macpherson & Michael Visocchi), Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Originals, Mall Galleries, London
ZOOM, Art First, London
A Tribute to Hugh Stoneman Master Printer Lemon St Gallery Truro
Confluence curated by Eileen Cooper APT Gallery London, and Stoneman Gallery Penzance
Originals Mall Galleries selector/exhibitor
Dialogue, Art First, London
Hugh Stoneman – Master Printer, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
10 (The Chris Orr Printmaking Years), Gulbenkian Galleries, RCA, London
Leben Lieben, RISE Gallery, Berlin
Translations – Re-working from the National Gallery, Art First, London
Drawing Breath – 10 Years of the Jerwood Annual, Wimbledon College Of Art, London (touring
UK & Sydney, Australia)
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London
Tradition & Innovation, Scarborough Museum and Art Gallery
Visual Wit, Royal Academy, London
Art First in Print, Art First, London
The Divine Comedy, Art Space Gallery, London
ExPress – Printmaking From The Royal College Of Art, RCA, London
Hand To Hand (with Julian Stair), Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead & Art First, London
The Contemporary Print Show Part I, The Barbican Centre.
The Body Politik, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Spirit on the Staircase, 100 Years of Print Publishing, RCA, V&A, London
An American Passion, The Susan Kasen Summer & Robert D
Summer Collection of Contemporary Painting, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow & Royal College of Art,
London
Contemporary Art at the Courtauld, Courtauld Institute, London
The New Patrons, Twentieth Century Art from Corporate Collections, Christie's London
Myth, Dream and Fable, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Innocence and Experience, touring exhibition organised by the South Bank Centre & Manchester City
Art Gallery: Manchester, Hull, Nottingham, & Glasgow
20th Century Women's Art, New Hall, Cambridge
Look Here Upon This Picture and On This, selected by Norbert Lynton, South Bank Centre, touring
exhibition
Woodlands Art Gallery, London with Paula Rego
The Outsider: British Figuration Now, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
Postmodern Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Picturing People, selected by Norbert Lynton, British Council tour to Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong &
Singapore
The New British Painting, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati & tour, USA
Conversations, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
The Flower Show, selected by Norbert Lynton ,Stoke on Trent Museum
John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
International Biennial of Graphic Art. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Ten Years at Air, Air Gallery, London
Hand Signals, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
The Passion And The Power, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
International Festival of Painting, Cagnes sur Mer, France
1984
1982/83/87
1982
1980
1974/6
1977 – 2013
Proud and Prejudice, selected by William Feaver,Twining Gallery, New York
The Image as Catalyst, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Nuremberg Drawing Triennial (Purchase Prize)
Women's Images of Men, ICA, London
New Contemporaries Exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Awards & Commissions
2010 & 2013
2009
2008-9
1999
1999
1998-9
1986
1982
Artist in residence, Alayrac, France
Royal Academy Summer Show Curator/Co-ordinator
Selector Originals, Mall Galleries, London
Artist in residence, Lewisham College
Arts & Humanities Research Board, Award for Ceramic work “ Ceramics from a Fine Artist
Cover & illus. for Carol Ann Duffy’s “Meeting Midnight” Pub. Faber & Faber
Artist in residence, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Frontispiece: Carol Ann Duffy’s “Thrown Voices”, pub. Bernard Stone
Staircase Project, ICA, London
Collections
Arts Council Collection
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
British Council
British Museum
Imperial College, London
Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany
Manchester Art Galleries
MIMA, Middlesborough
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Newport Art Gallery
Open University, Milton Keynes
Pallant House
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Collection
Swindon Art Gallery
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
University of Warwick Art Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Walpole Library, Yale University, USA
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Wolverhampton Art Gallery