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parrasch heijnen gallery 1326 s. boyle ave, los angeles, ca, 90023 www.parrasch-heijnen.com 323.943.9373 fax 646.429.8770 Ron Cooper Born 1943, New York, NY Lives and works in Ranchos de Taos, NM, and Oaxaca, Mexico Education Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA Select Solo Exhibitions 2015 Ron Cooper: Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Ron Cooper: Lightworks, Nyehaus, New York, NY 2010 Platones, Aplastados y Dichos, Nadie Es Perfecto, Oaxaca, Mexico 2009 Platters, Flattened Bottles, and Phrases, 203 Fine Art, Taos, NM 2007 Laminas & Aplastados, Nadie Es Perfecto, Oaxaca, Mexico 2005 Laminas & Aplastados, Colectivo Central, Oaxaca, Mexico 2001 Light Traps and Vertical Bars, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Mexiwares-Recent Works, Gallery 68, Austin, TX 2000 Mirrors and Voids, Collectors Gallery in Taos, Taos, NM 1999 Cafe Serves Art, Cafe, Albuquerque, NM 1991 Works Produced in Oaxaca, Mexico, Sena Galleries, Santa Fe, NM 1990 Works Produced in Oaxaca, Mexico, C.A.F.E., Albuquerque, NM Special Project, Maguire Thomas Partners/IBM Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Special Project, Pacific Enterprise Corporation, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Monotype Pitchers and Vases, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, NM 1987 Bronze Portrait Vases and Bronze Portrait Lamps, Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1986 Clay Torsos, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Clay Torsos, Portrait Vase, Cast Iron Torso, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Janie Beggs Fine Art Ltd., Aspen, CO 1985 Portrait Vases, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Light Traps, Clay Torsos, Wohlert Gallery, Albuquerque, NM A Performance and Installation of the Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, with music by Don Buchla, The Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM Clay Torsos, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Installation of the Pseudo Color Torsos, Light Traps, Large Quilts, Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1984 Clay Torsos, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Clay Torsos, Polaroid Flashlight Torsos, Smart Art, Inc., Dallas, TX 1983 Flashlight Torsos, Pseudo Color Torsos, Posts and Lintels, and Light Traps, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Color Flashlight Torsos, DVS Gallery, Taos, NM One of Each Work from the Last Five Years and a Light and Water Installation Homage to Monet, Advanced Art Gallery, Rinconada, NM 1982 Enhanced Torsos, Binocular Visions, The Male Quilt, The New Gallery, Taos, NM Torsos and Light Traps, Robin Cronin, Inc., Houston, TX 1981 Large Photographed Torsos, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Large Photographed Torsos, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1980 Torsos, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Photographic Works, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Large Photographed Torsos, The Kitchen, New York, NY 1979 Photo is Light, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1974 A Continuing Series, 1967-1974: Vertical Bars, ACE Gallery, Venice, CA Light Traps, Art in Progress, Munich, Germany

Paintings, Galerie Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf, West Germany 1973 Separator Variations, Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, West Germany Separator Variations and Large Corner Volume of Light, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1972 Light Traps, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Sealed Volume of Light, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Double Sealed Volume, Lo Guidice Gallery, New York, NY 1971 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany 1970 Light Traps, Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany 1969 Ball Drop, Pomona College Art Gallery, Claremont, CA Light Traps, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Select Group Exhibitions 2015 Material Matters: Selections from the Joann and Gifford Phillips Gift, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM 2014 Orale! Kings and Queens of Cool, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the 60s, Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013 California Dreaming, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY 2012 It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles, 1969-1973, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 2012 Taos Contemporary, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO 2011 LA Art Fair, James Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Venice in Venice: Glow & Reflection, Venice California Art from 1960 to Present, Nyehaus and Foundation 20 21 at Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni, Venice, Italy 2010 Keep Memory Alive, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV Swell, Nyehaus, New York, NY Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2009 Hopper Curates: Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Ronald Davis, Ken Price, and Robert Dean Stockwell, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM 2008 SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA s Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Taos Outside Taos, 203 Fine Art/ Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM 2005 Bloc Busta, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM 1999 Rasical P.A.S.T.: Contemporary Art in Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA 1997 Taos Today, Anderson Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM 1989 Rendezvous, Broschofsky Galleries, Ketchum, ID Group Show, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1988 The Nude: Male/Female & The Explicit Image, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Clay, Modern Objects, Los Angeles, CA Black & White, Hand Graphics Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1987 Poetics of Space, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM California Figurative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Visions 87, The Fine Arts Gallery, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Abstract and Non-Objective Art, Stables Art Center, Taos, NM A View Through Revisited, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA On Being, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, CA New Work, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, NM 1986 The Torso, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Foundry/Process, Art Gallery, Saint Johns College, Santa Fe, NM Artists/Works, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA Opening Exhibition, Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA

Light and Space, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, CA New Mexico Selections 86, The Gallery, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Alter Ego, Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, NM A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pacific Connections, traveled to five venues in the Western United States including Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary art and Tacoma Art Museum 1985 Illumination: The Quality of Light, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Art Furniture, Kron/Reck Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Summer 85: Gallery Artists, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA L.A., Recent Designs in Fashion and Furniture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Southwest 85, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1984 Neon on My Mind, Madison Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Cirrus Celebrates Los Angeles Art, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Winter 84, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Nude in Modern Photography, an exhibition of photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, circulated by the Art Museum Association of America, traveled to seven venues in the United States and Canada 1983 Cirrus Downstairs, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Artist & the Computer, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Summer Group Exhibition, Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Gus Foster, Roscoe West, Advanced Art Gallery, Rinconada, NM Young Talent Awards: 1963-1983, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA California Dreamin, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Taos Seven, Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO 1982 Exhibition of Contemporary Los Angeles Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan Quilts by Contemporary Artists, Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, CA Selections from the Collections of Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Triptychs, Galleries of Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA A Personal Viewpoint, Fullerton College Gallery, Fullerton, CA Studio Work: Photographs by Ten Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Artists Furniture, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA Group Show, Fort Worth Gallery, Fort Worth, TX 1981 Artists Quilts, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA California 1: Light and Space, 1960-1980, Lonny Gans and Associates, Venice, CA Decade: Los Angeles Painting of the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Artists Quilts, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA A Look at Boundaries: 14 California Photographers, Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA Group Show, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA Jerry Burchard/Ron Cooper, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Los Angeles Prints, 1883-1980, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA California: A Sense of Individualism, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA Furniture by Architects, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Tables by Artists, The Functional Art Store, Santa Monica, CA Holiday Exhibition, Lonny Gans and Associates, Venice, CA New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1980 Jack Brogan: Projects, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Furnishings by Artists, Otis Art Institute of The Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA

New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Artists Furniture, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Photographs by Ron Cooper, Gus Foster, Douglas Kent Hall, Maggie Kress Gallery, Taos, NM Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Group Show, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY California Perceptions: Light and Space, Selections form the Wortz Collection, Visual Arts Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA Cirrus 1970-1980, Part One, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1978 Contemporary California Photography, Camera Works Gallery, San Francisco, CA Change, Inc. West, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Drawers: 200 International Artists, Stadtlische Kunstalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany; traveled to New York and Jerusalem 1977 California Light, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1976 Cirrus Prints, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 1975 A View Through, California State University, Long Beach, CA 1974 Three to One, Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA To Separate=Trennen, Teilen, America Haus, West Berlin, Germany Light, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California The Wall Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1972 Peter Alexander/Ron Cooper, Art in Progress, Zurich, Switzerland Drawings: Chick Arnoldi, Ron Cooper, Laddie John Dill, Betty Gold Fine Prints, Los Angeles, CA Alexander, Cooper, Judd, Peru, Sonnier, ACE Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada Working in California/14 Artists, Albright-Knox Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York Group Show, Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; traveled to five venues throughout the United States and Canada The State of California Painting, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 1971 Art and Technology, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA Afterquake, Friends of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO Centennial Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 24 Young Los Angeles Artists, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA The Black Show, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada; traveled to two venues in the United States and Canada 1970 69th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Three Young Americans: Charles Close, Ron Cooper, Neil Jenney, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Group, The Douglas Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada Permutations: Light and Color, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1969 The Appearing/Disappearing Image/Object, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA 1969 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Prospect 1969, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany The Other City, Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA New Directions, West Side Center, Los Angeles, CA March 1969: An Exhibition in Print, organized by Seth Sieglaub, New York, NY Plastics and New Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Marion Koogler McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX 1968 New Work/Southern California, University of California Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA

The West Coast Now, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, WA; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 1967 Arp to Artschwager, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY Plastics: West Coast Now, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Publications 2001 Ron Cooper. The Magazine April. 2001. Print. Calendar Santa Fean Magazine. Print. 2000 Ron Cooper: Voids and Shadows The Magazine Dec. 1988. Print. 1988 Art, Pitchers and Landscapes Santa Fe Reporter Dec. 1988. Print. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members Calendar LACMA June. 1988. Print. 1987 Galleries Deserve Applause for Collections of Excellence Albuquerque Journal Aug. 1987. Print. The Art Galleries Los Angeles Times 15 May. 1987. Print. The Way We Are, Figuratively Los Angeles Times. 3 March 1987. Print. Space is the Key to New Tack in Art Albuquerque Journal. 1 Feb. 1987. Print. California Figurative Sculpture Art Talk. Jan. 1987. Print. 1986 At the Galleries Los Angeles Times. 28 Feb. 1986. Print. Ron Cooper at Ovsey Art in America. Jan. 1986. Print. Art Museum Show Links The News Tribune. Tacoma, WA. 12 Jan. 1986. Print. 1985 Ron Cooper Artforum. Dec. 1985. Print. Ron Cooper Tokyo, Japan: The Ikebana Ryusei. Oct. 1985. Print. Downtown Los Angeles Times. Sept. 1985. Print. Long Beach Los Angeles Times. Aug. 1985. Print. 1984 Parks, Stephen. Confronting Ideas and Emotions in Art Artlines. Oct. 1984. Print. Taos: The Heroes Live On ArtNews. Sept. 1984. Print. Downtown Los Angeles Times. 11 May. 1984. Print. 1983 Then and Now: Two Decades of Young Talent Award Winners Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1983. Print. 1982 Photos are Made, not Found Los Angeles Times. 1 Sept. 1983. Print. Studio Work: Photography by Ten Los Angeles Artists Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members Calendar. July. 1982. Print. Ron Cooper: New Work, New Gallery Artlines. Feb. 1982. Print. 1981 Datebook San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle. 5 Jul. 1981. Print. Art Review Los Angeles Times. 1 Jun. 1981. Los Angeles ArtNews. April. 1981. California Light and Space Los Angeles Times. Feb. 1981 Print. Ron Cooper at Rosamund Felsen Art in America. Feb. 1981. Print. Intriguing Works in Light and Space Los Angeles Times. 12 Feb. 1981. Print. 1980 Jack Brogan: Projects Pasadena, CA: Baxter Art Gallery at California Institute of Technology. 1980. Print. One Man s Torso is Another Man s Art San Diego Magazine. Dec. Print. Shots in the Dark Village Voice. 25 Nov. 1980. Print. A Wider View of Artistic Endeavor/Furnishings by Artists Los Angeles Times. 25 June 1980. Print. 1979 Best Bets: Ron Cooper Curates Exhibition Los Angeles, CA: New West Magazine. 1979. Print. 1976 Artists Videotapes New York, NY: Electronic Arts Intermix. 1976. Print. 1975 A View Through Long Beach, CA: California State University. 1975. Print. L.A. Newsletter Art International. Dec. 1975. Print. A View Through Artweek. Oct. 1975. Print. 1974 Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse. Praeger Publishers, 1974: 137. Print. America Haus. West Berlin. March. 1974. Print. Los Angeles Exhibits ArtNews. March. 1974. Print.

1973 Milant, Jean. The Cirrus Editions. Cirrus. 1973. Print. Art International. Jan. 1973. Print. 1972 Harold Szeemann. Documenta V Kassel, West Germany. 1972. Print. ArtNews. Oct. 1972. Print. Arts Magazine. Oct. 1972. Print. 1971 Five Artists: ACE Gallery Artforum. Oct. 1971. Print. Los Angeles: ACE Gallery ArtNews. Sept. 1971. Print. Artists and Public: The Children of Marcel Duchamp, The New York Times. 16 June. 1971. Print. Review, Pasadena Art Museum Artforum, April. 1971. Print. 1970 Reflections on the Works of Charles Close, Ron Cooper, Niel Jenney and other Contemporary Art Oberlin, OH: Bulletin, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College April. 1970. Print. 1969 One Month New York, NY: Seth Siegelaub.1969. Print. Reviews, Los Angeles Artforum. June. 1969. Print. West Coast Shows Arts Magazine. March. 1969. Print. Whitney Annual, Sculpture Artforum. Feb. 1969. Print. Two Generations in L.A. Art in America. Jan. 1969. Print. 1968 Work of Seven Artists in Newport Display Los Angeles Times. 1968. Print. Plastics into Art Art in America. May. 1968. Print. Plastics, L.A. Artforum. May. 1968. Print. 1967 Craftsmanship in Plastics Show San Francisco Examiner. 8 November. 1968. Print. Awards 1980 National Endowment for the Arts, photography 1971 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Theodoran Award and Fellowship 1970 National Endowment for the Arts, painting 1968 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Young Talent Award Public Collections Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Bank of Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY