(this page was last updated in July 2020)
Stroud, United Kingdom, 1981.
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Represented by Galeria Estação
PIPA Prize 2020 nominee.
“Time is central to Coopey’s production. Not only because of his interest in the ancestral making of basketry, but also in the way the artist discreetly weaves out objects and images of different temporalities. One eye explores the organic fragility and ephemerality of his materials, while the other manipulates objects that desired eternal life and can already be seen as ruins. Between them, we see Coopey’s central preoccupation, a question of permanence.” Raphael Fonseca ‘Sunday’ 2020.
Website: www.dancoopey.com
Press
2019
– Veja Sao Paulo, Sunday Preview
– NewCityBrazil, Sunday, interview with Cynthia Garcia
2017
Art Agenda, Matthew J McLean, ‘Dry’, review
Terremoto, ‘Interiors’, review
Artsy.com, Cassey Lesser, ‘15 Artists to Watch at SP-Arte’
2015
– Frieze, Tom Morton, ‘Highlights 2015’
2014
– Art Monthly, Chris Fite-Wassilak, ‘A Merman I Should Turn To Be’
2012
– Guardian Guide, Skye Sherwin, ‘Things That Have Interested Me’
2011
– Guardian Guide, Skye Sherwin, ‘Untitled’
– ArtReview, Laura McLean-Ferris, ‘Glaze’
– Pop Magazine, artist project
2010
– Art Asia Pacific, Andy Cushman, ‘Dan Coopey, Position 1’
– Saatchi Online Magazine, Rebecca Geldard, ‘Top 10 Shows in London’
– Garageland, Alli Sharma, ‘Position 1’
– a-n Magazine, Dan Green, ‘Meteor’
– Guardian Guide, Robert Clark, ‘Meteor’
2009
– 10 Magazine, Skye Sherwin, ‘10 Sculptors You Should Meet’
– Philips Art Expert, Philips de Pury Magazine, Rebecca Geldard, ‘Urchin Eater’
– Kaput Magazine, Georgia Korossi, ‘Urchin Eater’
Solo projects
2019
– “Sunday”, Galeria Estacao, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– Solo project as part of Against Forgetting, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, ArtBo, Bogota
– “Interiors”, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
– “Dry”, Kubikgallery, Porto, Portugal
2015
– “lalahalaha”, Belmacz, London, UK
2012
– “Laura_UpsideDown”, The Institute of Jamais Vu, London, UK
– “Untitled”, Touring Arts Council Commission, various locations, UK
2010
– “Position 1”, The Agency Gallery, London, UK
2009
– “Doodad”, Hayward Gallery, Concrete, London, UK
Group projects
2019
– “Mingei Now”, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2018
– “Fibra”, Von Goetz, London, UK
– “Amaranthine” (curated), Kupfer, London, UK
– “⦿”, curated by Caterina Duncan, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
– Two person project with Emmanuel Nassar, Semana De Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
– “Woven”, curated by Mia Romanik, Rental Gallery, NY, USA
– “Against Forgetting”, curated by Kiki Mazzucchelli, ArtBo, Bogota, Colombia
– “The Peaceful Dome”, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
– “Neither”, curate by Fernanda Brenner, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
2015
– “The Ultimate Vessel”, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, UK
2014
– “A Merman I Should Turn To Be” (curated), Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
– “Fourth Drawer Down”, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
– Wirksworth Festival, curated by Rose Lejeune, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, UK
– “Survival of the Fullest, The Politics of Food”, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2013
– “Binary”, ReMap4, Athens, Greece
– “The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old: Contemporary Art and Archaeology from the Stone Age to the Present”, curated by Tom Morton, Lincoln Museum & The Collection, Lincoln
– “Slate”, in collaboration with Laura Buckley, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2012
– “See Through”, with Camilla Low, Paul Housley, Rudolf Polansky, and Ben Newton, Belmacz, London, UK
– “Please wait while we contact your bank 4”, French Riviera, London, UK
– “The Discerning Eye”, curated by Skye Sherwin, London, UK
– “Glaze”, curated by George Henry Longly, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
– “Festivela”, in collaboration with Laura Buckley, Gallery Vela, London, UK
– “Things That Have Interested Me”, Waterside Contemporary, London, UK
2011
– “Glaze”, curated by George Henery Longly, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
Residencies
2018
– Fibra, Colombia
2017
– Pivô, São Paulo
2016
– Pivô, São Paulo
2012–2015
– Acme Fire Station, London
Public Collections
– Lincoln Museum, UK
Publications
2019
– Sunday, Galeria Estacao, Essay by Raphael Fonseca, catalogue
– Mingei Now, Sokyo Gallery
– Neither, MendesWoodDM
2012
– ‘Laura_UpsideDown’, Tom Morton and Helen Sumpter, published by The Institute of Jamais Vu
2011
– ‘Strangers in a Zine! A fanzine about Patrica Highsmith’, published by The Coelacanth Press