biography
1946
Born in California, USA
1972
MA in Art, with Distinction in Photography, University of New Mexico, USA
1978
Photography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA
1982
Founded Fine Art Photography Department, Glasgow School of Art
2005
Winner of Creative Scotland Award
2009
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, USA
2010
First recipient of the Lannan Visual Arts Award, USA
2014
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, UK
Currently Research Professor in Fine Art, at the Glasgow School of Art, UK
selected solo exhibitions
2021-2022
Thomas Joshua Cooper | The World's Edge, Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh
2019-2020
Thomas Joshua Cooper: The Capes of California, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
2019
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Allure, Blain Southern, NYC
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Refuge, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2014
Scattered Waters: Sources Streams Rivers, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK touring to Fleming Collection, London
2013
Messages, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2012
Shoshone Falls, curated by Toby Jurovics, Sun Valley Art Center, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
2010
TRUE and earlier works, curated by Ben Tuffnell, Centro de Arte Naturaleza, Hueca, Spain
2009
True, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Selections from True: Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
True: Special project of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, GMG Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008
Point of No Return, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, UK
2007
Thomas Joshua Cooper & David Bellingham, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
international waters, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006
Ojo de Agua - Eye of the Water, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA
2005
End of the World, Casa das Mudas Centro das Artes, Madeira
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Galerie Judin, Zürich, Switzerland
Point of no return, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2004
Point of No Return, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Rock, Water, Wood, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Views from The Edge, The Drexel Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2003
Sojourns, Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper, from The Lannan Collection. Marion Centre for Photography at the College of Santa Fe, USA
Fortunate Islands, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Some Rivers, Some Trees, Some Rocks, Some Seas. Il Prisma Galleria d'Arte, Cunoe, Italy
Coastline, Thomas Schulte Galerie, Germany
2002
Running to The Sea. Fundacíon César Manrique, Canary Islands
Settlement, Blain's Fine Art, London, UK
The Edges of The World, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA
At The Very Edges of The World, Tate St Ives, UK
Moving West - Being West. New Photographs from The Atlantic Coasts, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2000
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, USA
2000
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Galerie Arnes y R, Madrid, Spain
1999
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Anthony Meier, San Francisco, California, USA
The Eclipse Pictures, James Turrell and Thomas Joshua Cooper, Michael Hue-Williams, London, UK
Water, Patrick de Brock, Knocke, Belgium.
Work from The New Found Land, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
Where The Rivers Flow, Esbjerg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark., Galerie Franck und Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Waterfront. Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK
1998
River Works - America - Scotland, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Robert Adams and Emmet Gowin. Princeton University Art Museum, USA
The World's Edge, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Where The Rivers Flow, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Border Lines - The Cinque Ports, Keynes Gallery of Art, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Backwaters, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
1997
Where the Rivers Flow, (touring) Fruitmarket Gallery, UK
Border Crossings, Konsthallen - BohuslMuseum, Sweden
1996
Rivers and Ritual - 1975-1995, Sean Kelly, New York, USA.
The Art Gallery, Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, Maine, USA
The River Suite, Galerie Frank und Schulte, Berlin, Germany
October Calm - The North Sea, Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
1994
Simply Counting Waves, Centre for Modern Art, 1994 European City of Culture Exhibition. Curated by Jorge Molder, Director, Centre for Modern Art, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal
1993
sea shore, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
The Swelling of the Sea, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1992
Sojourn - Ten Years, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK
1991
wind - riffling memories, Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Kunst Europe (Britain) - Thomas Joshua Cooper, The Swelling of The Sea, Heidelberg Kunstsverein, Heidelberg, Germany
1990
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Kunstnerness Hus, Oslo, Norway
The Swelling of the Sea, Art Gallery and Museum, European City of Culture Exhibition, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, UK
New Works 1986-1988, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Works from Three Projects - 1983-1990, Janine Mautsch Gallery, Cologne, Germany,John Weber, New York, USA
1989
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Brandts Klaedefabrik Museum, Denmark.
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1988
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol The Staffa Project (touring - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria;
John Weber Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1984
A Quality of Dancing, Gallery of Art, Humboldt State University, California, USA
1983
The Guardian Cycle: Photographic Works, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983,The Fine Art Museum, University of New Mexico, USA
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983, The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona,USA.
Ghost Dance, Coracle Press Gallery. - (concurrently with drawings of Hamish Fulton, Twilight Horizons), London, UK
1982
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1982 and Selected Inspirations, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow, UK
1979
Atonements, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Paysages, The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
A Place In Between, with Robert Benson, The Art Gallery, College of the Redwoods, Eureka,
California, USA
Images of Our Mortality, The Robert Self Gallery, London, UK
Focus Gallery, with Paul Hill and Raymond Moore, San Francisco California, USA
The Friends of Photography Gallery, with Paul Hill, Carmel, California, USA
1975
Remnants and Prenotations, with Paul Hill, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1974
She Rain, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Indications, The Photographers' Gallery London, UK
1973
Sweet Play, Quivera Gallery. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
"The Fields We Know" - A Myth of Recollection, University of New Mexico Fine Art Museum. Master's Degree exhibition, New Mexico, USA
1971
I See the God in You! The Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
selected group exhibitions
2018
Twenty, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Collected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict, Stills, , Edinburgh, UK
2017-2018
A Green and Pleasant Land, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK – featuring works from The Hyman Collection
2014
The Power of the Sea - Making Waves in British Art 1790 - 2014, curated by Janett Kerr, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Ship to Shore - Art and the Lure of the Sea, curated Jean Wainright, John Hanard Gallery, Sea City Museum, Southhampton, UK
2013
Once upon a time and a very good time it was, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Hayward Touring group exhibition: Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-79, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
2011
Mannerism and Modernism: The Casper collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York, USA
2010
Framing the West - The Survey Photographs as Timothy H. O'Sullivan, curated by Toby Jurovics, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., USA
2009
Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection, New Mexico Museum of Art, New Mexico, USA
Worlds, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Scotland, UK
Revisiting Landscape and Still Life, Bafa Foto, Geneva, Switzerland
2008
Paraisos Indomitos, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
ParisPhoto, Paris, France
On Edge, The Traveling Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2006
Del Paisaje reciente, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain
PHotoEspaña 06, PHotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
Human/Nature: Landscape photography from the GoMA collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
Photographie sehen, Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2005
Marine - Paintings of the Sea, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, UK
Landschaft als Metapher - Gruppenausstellung, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany
2004
A Mares - Olladas Oceánicas en el arte Contemporáneo, Museo do Mar de Galicia, Vigo, Spain
2003
Selections from the Sol Lewitt Collection, Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, USA
From the Collection - American Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Sol Lewitt and Shirin Neshat, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Thomas Joshua Cooper - Photographs / Mark Francis - Drawings, Galerie Tomas Schuite, Berlin, Germany
2002/03
110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Forth Worth, Texas, USA
The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
The Great Divide, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
2001
From The Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK
East of Eden-Art, Nature, Society, Spacex and The Centre for Art and The Natural World, Exeter, UK
Horizon on the Sea, Santa Monica Centre of Art and Berini Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Land - Thomas Joshua Cooper, Richard Long, Paul Nash, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh,UK
The Idea of North, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
2000
Earth/Sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1999
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Olafur Eliasson, Günter F, Axel Hütte, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt , Madrid, Spain
Contemporary British Landscape, Angela Flowers Gallery, Flowers East, London, UK
Visione Britannica, Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
Sea Change - A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography. The International Centre of Photography, New York, USA
By the Sea, Pingree Gallery, East Hampton, New York, USA
Sea Change - A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, USA
1998
Sea Change- A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, USA
1997
Location, Usher Gallery. Lincoln, UK
A Case for Collection, The Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, UK
1996
Tokyo Today, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Grey and White, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Le Printemps de Cahors/ Photographie and Arts Visuels 1996. Espace Caviole. Cahors, France
Prospect 96 Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst. Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1995
Shadows in the Water Fotofeis, Fotofeis touring exhibition
Light from the Darkroom - A Celebration of Scottish Photography, Royal Scottish Academy / National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Tiempo Colección fotografica formada por Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Mexico City, Mexico Calanais, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, UK
1994
Dear Stieglitz, Peninsula, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1993
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Shared Light, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
Nine Photographers for the Nineties, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
1992
Poiésis - Aspects of Contemporary Poetic Activity, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1991
Two Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, the Swelling of the Sea, and David Nash, Kunst
Europa (Britain), Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Salzburg: Six Artists, Six Views, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
The Revenge of the Camera, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
From Art to Archaeology, South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
New Scottish Photography, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
1990
The Forces of Nature: Landscape as Metaphor, Manchester City Art Galleries, UK
Four Artists - Burgin, Cooper, Fulton, Virtue, John Weber Gallery; New York, USA;
Houston Fotofest, Houston, Texas, USA
New Scottish Photography, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Von der Natur in der Kunst, Vienna Art Festival, Vienna, Austria
New Art from the North, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK
Paysages de Moralise, Grey Art Gallery of New York University, NY, USA
1989
Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain - 1945. Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, UK
New Acquisitions, New Directions, New Works, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA
Three British Artists - Cooper, Goldsworthy, Nash L.A. Louvre Gallery, Los Angeles,
California, USA
Our Photographic Legacy, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, UK
Landscape in the Experience, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1988
Three British Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Kate Whiteford, The Gallery, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
The Rim of Glasgow - Hidden Views, Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow, UK
1987 Perspectives: Glasgow, A New Look Collins Gallery, Strathclyde UniversityThe Unpainted Landscape, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh,
UK
1986
At the Serpentine, The Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Boundaries, The Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, UK
Four Artists, - Ackling, Cooper, Fulton, Tremlett, The Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, NI, UK
1985
The Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
American Photography: 1945-1980, The Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1984 The Photographic Art - Pictorial Traditions in Britain and America, RSA, Edinburgh, UK
The Creation - Modern Art and Nature, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
1983
The Guardian Cycle: Photographic Works 1980-1983, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1981
New Works of Contemporary Art and Music, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Photographer as Printmaker, The Photographers Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain Tour Exhibition, London, UK
selected public collections
Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, UK
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Banco Espírito Santo, Libon, Portugal
La Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Centre for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderna, Los Palmas de Gran Canaria, The Canary Islands
CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, UK
D.G. Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, USA
Dundee City Art Museum, Dundee, UK
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y, USA
The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Sam Wagstaff Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA
Galerie Stradtpark, Krems, Austria
Gulbenkian Foundation,Centre of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Hallmark Collection of Contemporary Art, Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, USA
Harris Museum, Preston, UK
Herbert Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, New York, New York, USA
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Co. (KKR) London, UK
La Printemps de Cahors, Cahers, France
La Salle National Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lhoiste Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey, California, USA
Mount Stuart Trust, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, UK
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
The National Collection of Mexico, The Manuel Alverez Bravo Collection, Mexico
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Nimes Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes, France
Nordia Foundation, Oslo, Norway
Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Dorothy Norman Bequest, Pennsylvania, USA
The Polaroid Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, UK
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
The Scottish Photography Archive, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Southampton City Art Gallery and Museum, UK
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
State Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, UK
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
University of New Mexico, USA
University of Southampton, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wadsworth Athenaeum, The Sol LeWitt Collection, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Selected Solo Publications
biography
1946
Born in California, USA
1972
MA in Art, with Distinction in Photography, University of New Mexico, USA
1978
Photography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA
1982
Founded Fine Art Photography Department, Glasgow School of Art
2005
Winner of Creative Scotland Award
2009
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, USA
2010
First recipient of the Lannan Visual Arts Award, USA
2014
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, UK
Currently Research Professor in Fine Art, at the Glasgow School of Art, UK
selected solo exhibitions
2021-2022
Thomas Joshua Cooper | The World's Edge, Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh
2019-2020
Thomas Joshua Cooper: The Capes of California, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
2019
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Allure, Blain Southern, NYC
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Refuge, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2014
Scattered Waters: Sources Streams Rivers, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK touring to Fleming Collection, London
2013
Messages, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2012
Shoshone Falls, curated by Toby Jurovics, Sun Valley Art Center, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
2010
TRUE and earlier works, curated by Ben Tuffnell, Centro de Arte Naturaleza, Hueca, Spain
2009
True, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Selections from True: Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
True: Special project of the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, GMG Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008
Point of No Return, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, UK
2007
Thomas Joshua Cooper & David Bellingham, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
international waters, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006
Ojo de Agua - Eye of the Water, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA
2005
End of the World, Casa das Mudas Centro das Artes, Madeira
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Galerie Judin, Zürich, Switzerland
Point of no return, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2004
Point of No Return, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Rock, Water, Wood, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Views from The Edge, The Drexel Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2003
Sojourns, Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper, from The Lannan Collection. Marion Centre for Photography at the College of Santa Fe, USA
Fortunate Islands, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Some Rivers, Some Trees, Some Rocks, Some Seas. Il Prisma Galleria d'Arte, Cunoe, Italy
Coastline, Thomas Schulte Galerie, Germany
2002
Running to The Sea. Fundacíon César Manrique, Canary Islands
Settlement, Blain's Fine Art, London, UK
The Edges of The World, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA
At The Very Edges of The World, Tate St Ives, UK
Moving West - Being West. New Photographs from The Atlantic Coasts, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2000
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, USA
2000
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Galerie Arnes y R, Madrid, Spain
1999
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Anthony Meier, San Francisco, California, USA
The Eclipse Pictures, James Turrell and Thomas Joshua Cooper, Michael Hue-Williams, London, UK
Water, Patrick de Brock, Knocke, Belgium.
Work from The New Found Land, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
Where The Rivers Flow, Esbjerg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark., Galerie Franck und Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Waterfront. Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK
1998
River Works - America - Scotland, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Robert Adams and Emmet Gowin. Princeton University Art Museum, USA
The World's Edge, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Where The Rivers Flow, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Border Lines - The Cinque Ports, Keynes Gallery of Art, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Backwaters, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
1997
Where the Rivers Flow, (touring) Fruitmarket Gallery, UK
Border Crossings, Konsthallen - BohuslMuseum, Sweden
1996
Rivers and Ritual - 1975-1995, Sean Kelly, New York, USA.
The Art Gallery, Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, Maine, USA
The River Suite, Galerie Frank und Schulte, Berlin, Germany
October Calm - The North Sea, Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
1994
Simply Counting Waves, Centre for Modern Art, 1994 European City of Culture Exhibition. Curated
by Jorge Molder, Director, Centre for Modern Art, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal
1993
sea shore, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
The Swelling of the Sea, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1992
Sojourn - Ten Years, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK
1991
wind - riffling memories, Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Kunst Europe (Britain) - Thomas Joshua Cooper, The Swelling of The Sea, Heidelberg Kunstsverein, Heidelberg, Germany
1990
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Kunstnerness Hus, Oslo, Norway
The Swelling of the Sea, Art Gallery and Museum, European City of Culture Exhibition, Kelvingrove,
Glasgow, UK
New Works 1986-1988, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Works from Three Projects - 1983-1990, Janine Mautsch Gallery, Cologne, Germany,John Weber,
New York, USA
1989
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Brandts Klaedefabrik Museum, Denmark.
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1988
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol The Staffa Project (touring)
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
John Weber Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1984
A Quality of Dancing, Gallery of Art, Humboldt State University, California, USA
1983
The Guardian Cycle:Photographic Works Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983,The Fine Art Museum, University of New Mexico,
USA
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983, The Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona,USA.
Ghost Dance, Coracle Press Gallery. - (concurrently with drawings of Hamish Fulton,Twilight
Horizons), London, UK
1982
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1982 and Selected Inspirations, Mackintosh Museum,
Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow, UK
1979
Atonements, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Paysages, The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
A Place In Between, with Robert Benson, The Art Gallery, College of the Redwoods, Eureka,
California, USA
Images of Our Mortality, The Robert Self Gallery, London, UK
Focus Gallery, with Paul Hill and Raymond Moore, San Francisco California, USA
The Friends of Photography Gallery, with Paul Hill, Carmel, California, USA
1975
Remnants and Prenotations, with Paul Hill, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1974
She Rain, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Indications, The Photographers' Gallery London, UK
1973
Sweet Play, Quivera Gallery. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
"The Fields We Know" - A Myth of Recollection, University of New Mexico Fine Art Museum. Master's
Degree exhibition, New Mexico, USA
1971
I See the God in You! The Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
selected group exhibitions
2018
Twenty, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Collected Shadows: The Archive of Modern Conflict, Stills, , Edinburgh, UK
2017-2018
A Green and Pleasant Land, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK – featuring works from The Hyman Collection
2014
The Power of the Sea - Making Waves in British Art 1790 - 2014, curated by Janett Kerr, The Royal
West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Ship to Shore - Art and the Lure of the Sea, curated Jean Wainright, John Hanard Gallery, Sea City
Museum, Southhampton, UK
2013
Once upon a time and a very good time it was, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Hayward Touring group exhibition: Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-79, Southampton
Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
2011
Mannerism and Modernism: The Casper collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York, USA
2010
Framing the West - The Survey Photographs as Timothy H. O'Sullivan, curated by Toby Jurovics, the
Smithsonian Museum ofAmerican Art, Washington D.C., USA
2009
Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection, New Mexico Museum of Art, New
Mexico, USA
Worlds, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Scotland, UK
Revisiting Landscape and Still Life, Bafa Foto, Geneva, Switzerland
2008
Paraisos Indomitos, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
ParisPhoto, Paris, France
On Edge, The Traveling Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2006
Del Paisaje reciente, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain
PHotoEspaña 06, PHotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
Human/Nature: Landscape photography from the GoMA collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow,
UK
Photographie sehen, Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2005
Marine - Paintings of the Sea, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, UK
Landschaft als Metapher - Gruppenausstellung, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim,
Germany
2004
A Mares - Olladas Oceánicas en el arte Contemporáneo, Museo do Mar de Galicia, Vigo, Spain
2003
Selections from the Sol Lewitt Collection Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut,
USA
From the Collection - American Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Sol Lewitt and Shirin Neshat, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Thomas Joshua Cooper - Photographs / Mark Francis - Drawings, Galerie Tomas Schuite, Berlin,
Germany
2002/03
110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, The Modern Art
Museum of Forth Worth, Forth Worth, Texas, USA
The Peter C. Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
The Great Divide, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
2001
From The Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK
East of Eden-Art, Nature, Society, Spacex and The Centre for Art and The Natural World, Exeter, UK
Horizon on the Sea, Santa Monica Centre of Art and Berini Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Land - Thomas Joshua Cooper, Richard Long, Paul Nash, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh,UK
The Idea of North, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
2000
Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Earth/Sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1999
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Olafur Eliasson, Günter F, Axel Hütte,
Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt , Madrid, Spain
Contemporary British Landscape Angela Flowers Gallery, Flowers East, London, UK
Visione Britannica, Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
Sea Change - A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography. The International Centre of
Photography, New York, USA
By the Sea, Pingree Gallery, East Hampton, New York, USA
Sea Change - A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Photographic
Arts, San Diego, California, USA
1998
Sea Change- A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Centre for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, USA
1997
Location, Usher Gallery. Lincoln, UK
A Case for Collection, The Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, UK
1996
Tokyo Today, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Grey and White, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Le Printemps de Cahors/ Photographie and Arts Visuels 1996. Espace Caviole. Cahors, France
Prospect 96 Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst. Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1995
Shadows in the Water Fotofeis, Fotofeis touring exhibition
Light from the Darkroom - A Celebration of Scottish Photography, Royal Scottish
Academy / National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Tiempo Colección fotografica formada por Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Mexico City, Mexico
Calanais, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, UK
1994
Dear Stieglitz, Peninsula, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1993
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Shared Light, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
Nine Photographers for the Nineties Laura Carpenter Fine Art Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
1992
Poiésis - Aspects of Contemporary Poetic Activity, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1991
Two Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, the Swelling of the Sea, and David Nash, Kunst
Europa (Britain), Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Salzburg: Six Artists, Six Views, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
The Revenge of the Camera, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
From Art to Archeology, South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
New Scottish Photography, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
1990
The Forces of Nature: Landscape as Metaphor, Manchester City Art Galleries, UK
Four Artists - Burgin, Cooper, Fulton, Virtue, John Weber Gallery; New York, USA;
Houston Fotofest, Houston, Texas, USA
New Scottish Photography, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Von der Natur in der Kunst Vienna Art Festival, Vienna, Austria
New Art from the North, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK
Paysages de Moralise, Grey Art Gallery of New York University, NY, USA
1989
Through the Looking Glass: Photographic Art in Britain - 1945. Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican
Centre, London, UK
New Acquisitions, New Directions, New Works, International Museum of Photography at the George
Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA
Three British Artists - Cooper, Goldsworthy, Nash L.A. Louvre Gallery, Los Angeles,
California, USA
Our Photographic Legacy, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, UK
Landscape in the Experience,Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1988
Three British Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Kate Whiteford, The Gallery,
Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
The Rim of Glasgow - Hidden Views, Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow, UK
1987 Perspectives: Glasgow, A New Look Collins Gallery, Strathclyde University; artist's
contribution Outskirts - a City Circumnavigation
Message to Magellan, British and European tour. Glasgow, UK
The Unpainted Landscape The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh,
UK
1986
At the Serpentine, The Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Boundaries, The Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, UK
Four Artists, - Ackling, Cooper, Fulton, Tremlett, The Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, NI, UK
1985
The Hayward Annual Hayward Gallery, London, UK
American Photography: 1945-1980 The Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1984 The Photographic Art - Pictorial Traditions in Britain and America, RSA, Edinburgh, UK
The Creation - Modern Art and Nature Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
1983
The Guardian Cycle: Photographic Works 1980-1983, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1981
New Works of Contemporary Art and Music, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Photographer as Printmaker, The Photographers Gallery, Arts Council of Great
Britain Tour Exhibition, London, UK
selected public collections
Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, UK
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Banco Espírito Santo, Libon, Portugal
La Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Centre for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderna, Los Palmas de Gran Canaria, The Canary Islands
CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, UK
D.G. Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, USA
Dundee City Art Museum, Dundee, UK
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y, USA
The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Sam Wagstaff Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA
Galerie Stradtpark, Krems, Austria
Gulbenkian Foundation,Centre of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Hallmark Collection of Contemporary Art, Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, USA
Harris Museum, Preston, UK
Herbert Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, New York, New York, USA
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Co. (KKR) London, UK
La Printemps de Cahors, Cahers, France
La Salle National Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Lhoiste Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Monterey Peninsula Museum, Monterey, California, USA
Mount Stuart Trust, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, UK
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
The National Collection of Mexico, The Manuel Alverez Bravo Collection, Mexico
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Nimes Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes, France
Nordia Foundation, Oslo, Norway
Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Dorothy Norman Bequest, Pennsylvania, USA
The Polaroid Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, UK
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
The Scottish Photography Archive, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Southampton City Art Gallery and Museum, UK
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
State Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, UK
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
University of New Mexico, USA
University of Southampton, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wadsworth Athenaeum, The Sol LeWitt Collection, Hartford, Connecticut, USA