Cooper Holoweski
Education
2009 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2009 - M.F.A. Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004 - B.F.A. Printmaking, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2004 - B.A. Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2003 - La Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile
Solo Exhibitions
2017
•Basement Cosmos, Center Galleries, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
•As Above, So Below, Cobo Hall Big Screen, Detroit, MI
2016
•Cannibal Universe, The Clocktower Gallery at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
•Nostalgia and Obsolescence, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY
2015
•Noeticus, Sister, Brooklyn, NY
•The Viewing Room, GCA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – 2 person show with Clive Murphy
2014
•Let Our Love Guide You From This World to the Next, SPACE Gallery Storefront, Portland, ME
•Katabasis, video/live sound performance at multiple venues including: BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY; RISD Auditorium, Providence, RI; Space Gallery, Portland, ME
2013
•Katabasis, video/live sound performance at multiple venues including: The Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY; PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2011
•Things Were Perfect, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
2007
•Boom and Bust, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
2006
•Infrastructure and Other Capital, CAC, Las Vegas, NV
•Constellations, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
•Obsolete, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
•Bas Blue, Bas Blue, Detroit, MI
•Brought to the Table, Cranbrook House, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2021
•Best Times, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
•Invisible, Gallery C, Massey University, Wellington, New Zeland
•With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
•New Work, New , David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2020
•Invisible, BWA Gallery, Wrocław, Poland
•Locus Amoenus, Locus Terribilis, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
•9 Hour Interludes,Studio Angelico, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI
2019
•9 Hours: A Live Stream from Detroit, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL
•Salon, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
•Invisible,1301 Broadway, Detroit, MI
•Real Presents, Mr. Distro – Pressure Club, Philadelphia, PA
•Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
•57th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI
2018
•Dice from that Ancient Game, C for Courtside, Knoxville, TN
2017
•Instrumental, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
•Dlectricity 2017, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
•Just Under 100, Curated by Kathy Bradford, IPCNY, NY, NY
•Dead Air, Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
•Failed Evolution, Spring Break Art Show, 4 Times Square, New York, NY
2016
•Editions and Artists Book Fair, Small Editions, The Tunnel, New York, NY
•The Lives of Forms, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
•Sun Ship, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY
•Divisions, Skowhegan 22nd Street, New York, NY
2015
•DOPPELGÄNGING, Work Release, The Rutter Family Foundation, Norfolk, VA
•Renaissance, Lille3000 Triennial, Lille, France
•In Search Of, Congress Square Park, Portland, ME
•Near Dark, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2014
•Baltimore Alternative Art Fair, Present Company, Baltimore, MD
•Dlectricity, Detroit, MI
•Material Art Fair, Present Company, Mexico City, Mexico
2013
•Untitled Art Fair, Present Company, Miami Beach, FL
•Fresh 10, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
•Terraform, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO
•Sonance, University of Missouri Kansas City Gallery of Art, KC, MO
•A City(ies) That Walked: The Archigram Space Program, TSA and Fjord, Philadelphia, PA
•Color War, Recession Art Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
•That Summer Feeling, The Sweatshop, Brooklyn, NY
2012
•Whats Wrong with Visual Pleasure?, Homesession, Barcelona, Spain
•Stones, Bones, and Relics, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
•Beyond the Bedroom, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
•What I Know, NYCAMS Gallery, New York, NY
•The Bricoleurs, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
•The Final Roundup, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
•Failed States, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, NY
•Boom, Picaflor Studio, Atlanta, GA
•Works on Paper, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
•New Year, New Work, New Faces, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
2010
•Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention, Brooklyn, NY
•People Like Us, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
•Tunneling, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY
•Belle of the Ball, Park Central Hotel Ballroom, New York, NY
•False Prophets, Aspen Alternative Artspace, Snowmass Village, CO
•The Drawing Show, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
•I Know What You Did Last Summer, St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, NY
2009
•From Beginning to End, Gelman Gallery, Chace Center, Providence, RI
•Capturing Motion, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor Michigan
•Ultra Art Fair, Waiting Room Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
•Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
•Boston Printmakers 2009 Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
•RISD Graduate Printmaking, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2008
•From Big Box to White Box, Chace Center RISD Museum, Providence, RI
•A Lapse of Time, Chace Center RISD Museum, Providence, RI
•Artists’ Commentary, International Print Center New York, NY
2006
•Nature Re-perceived, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
•Under the Radar: The Willis Remembered, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
•Animate Object, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI
2005
•New Prints Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY
Residencies / Awards
2019 - Creators of Culture Grant, CultureSource Detroit
2019 - Best Regional Filmmaker, 57th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival
2017 - Prix de Print, Art in Print
2015 - Clocktower Gallery Media Art Residency
2015 - Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency
2010 - Smack Mellon Hot Picks
2009 - Skowhegan / RISD Matching Fellowship
2008 - Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design
2006 - Sumu Residency, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland
2004 - Taller 99 Printshop Residency, Santiago, Chile
Published Writing and Curatorial Projects
2017 - Matthew Zivich: Empires and Enclaves, review for Black Cat Journal
2013 - A City(ies) That Walked: The Archigram Space Program, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Fjord, Philadelphia, PA co-curated with Rubens Ghenov, essay by Cooper Holoweski
Selected Bibliography
•Coldwell, Paul, “Recent Antiquities by Cooper Holoweski” Art in Print, May/June 2017
•Battaglia, Andy, “The Art of Curation” V Magazine Vol. 99, Spring 2016, p. 58
•Noisey Staff, “Unstoppable Death Machines Bring ‘Single Clarity’ to Claymation Insanity” nosiey.vice.com, 10 Oct. 2014
•Brusese, Stephanie, “Fjord and TSA: A City(ies) That Walked” The St. Claire 6 Oct. 2013
•Gerwin, Daniel. “A City(ies) That Walked, The Archigram Space Program” Title Magazine 29 Sept. 2013
•Vartanian, Hrag. “Art Rx: BOS Studio Pics.” Hyerallergic.com 31 May, 2012
•Butler, Sharon. “Not Buying American Optimism.” Twocoatsofpaint.com 25 Aug. 2011
•Schmerler, Sarah. “Tunneling.” Art in America 10 Nov. 2010 p. 182
•Sutton, Benjamin. “Tunneling for Treasure in Bushwick.” The L Magazine 18 Apr. 2010
•Thelander, Emmy. “Tunneling in Bushwick.” The Artblog 1 Sept. 2010
•Kalm, James. “Tunneling” The James Kalm Report Online Video Blog
•Vartanian, Hrag. “Tunneling Through Famous Accountants” Hyperallergic 3 Sept. 2010
•Voss, Elizabeth. “Parallel Stance” The Oakland Press 23 Jun. 2007
•Hodges, Michael H. “Architectural Prints Boom” Detroit News 21 Jun. 2007
•Del Valle, Robert. “The Dismal Science” Real Detroit Weekly 20 Jun. 2007
•KujanpAA, Kaisa. “Cooper Holoweskin Videoissa Naiset Liikuvat Kuin Autot.” Turun Sanomat Aug. 2006
•Connors, Thomas. “Printed Matter.” Time Out Chicago 2 Feb. 2006
•Liu, Jacque “Rough and Ready.” Metro Times 22 Feb. 2006
Teaching and Professional Experience
2018- Artist-in-Residence / Head of Print Media, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2018- Lecturer I, Foundation 2D Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2017- Assistant Professor (fixed term), Color and Design, Michigan State University
2017- Lecturer I, Art and Design in Context, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2017- Lecturer I, Foundation 2D Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2016- Part-Time Faculty, Time Studio, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2016- Part-Time Faculty, Digital Imaging 1&2, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2016- Lecturer I, Foundation 2D Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2012 - Artist Educator, Intro to Collage, Nurture Art, Grand St. High School, Brooklyn, NY
2011-16 - Studio Manger for Laurie Anderson, Canal Street Communicaitons
2009- Instructor or Record, Architecture as Etching, Rhode Island School Design
2007- Adjunct Instructor, Lithography 245, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2006- Adjunct Instructor, Intro Studio Art, Washtenaw Community College
Lecture and Panels
2019- Material of the Immaterial, Southern Graphics Conference, Dallas, TX
2019- As Above, So Below, Lecture at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2017- Artist Talk, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2014- Q&A with David Gersten, Katabasis, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2010- Artist Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2009- Final Review Panel, First-Year Arch. Design Studio, Cooper Union, NYC
2008- Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Provincetown, MA
2008- Artist Lecture, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2007- Artist Demonstration, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI