Alika Cooper CV & Artist Statement
Alika Cooper, Cherried, solo show, Sept. 17th - Oct. 29th ’11
Available Work by Alika Cooper
Born in Agana, Guam 1979
Lives in Los Angeles, California
2006 M.F.A. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2002 B.F.A. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2000 Painting Studio with Raymond Saunders, CCA, Paris, France
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Cherried, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Alika Cooper, Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Making Magic, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008
Alika Cooper, Galleria Studio Legale, Vienna Fair, Vienna, Austria
2007
Alika Cooper, Galleria Studio Legale, Rome, Italy
Alika Cooper, Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2005
Alika Cooper, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Tropic of Capricorn, Katharine Mulherin, Toronto, Canada
To Live and Paint in LA, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Making it Natural, Mulherin + Pollard, New York, NY
Holding Onto Something Slippery, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, LIFEONMARS, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Aqua Art Miami, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
NADA Miami Beach, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ultrasonic VI: Appropriate, Mark Moore, Los Angeles, CA
California Girls, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, NYC,NY
Living Arrangements, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
On Forgery: Is one better than another?, LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Two By Two, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
Passover, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Gray Day, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Die Dame, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Women of Women, Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles, CA
Fuckheads, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Awesome!, Baer Ridgway, San Francisco, CA
100 Records, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2009
VOLTA, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Close to Home, Davide Di Maggio Gallerie, Milan, Italy
The Power of Selection, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Dearly, Madly, Howard House, Seattle, WA
2008
Garden of Earthly Delights, Cairo Collection, Seattle,WA
New Art from Oakland, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Gold Rush, Okay Mountain Gallery, Austin, TX
Panorama Project, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY
Cartefatti, Galleria Studio Legale, Rome, Italy
2007
Glamour, Glory, & the Good Old Days, Paul Morris Gallery, NY, NY
2006
In the Black, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Light Opt(s): A Selection, Kim Light Gallery,Los Angeles,CA
Authentic Selves, JFK University Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Murphy & Cadogan Award Show, SFAC Gallery, San Francisco,CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
2009 & 2010
Artist in Residence, Galleria Studio Legale, Marzano Appio, Italy
2005
Magic- Trillium Press, Yesland Prize, San Francisco, CA
Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship, San Francisco, CA
California College of the Arts Graduate Merit Scholarship, San Francisco, CA
2004
California College of the Arts Graduate Merit Scholarship, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
Berardini, Andrew, "Alika Cooper, Eleanor Harwood Gallery," Artforum, Reviews, December, p.263
2009
Swanhuyser, Hiya, "It's Just Not Farrah", SF Weekly, Calender, September
2007
Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe, "Alika Cooper At Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco," Saatchi Online Magazine, Reviews, July
COLLECTIONS
SOR Rusche Collection
