Tara Cooper is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo[2] and a member of the Loop artist collective.[3] Cooper received her BFA, BEd from Queen's University, in 1994 [4] and her MFA with a specialization in print media from Cornell University in 2008.[2] Accomplishments include residencies at Anderson Ranch Art Center (Snowmass, Colorado), The Wassaic Project (Wassiac, New York) and Landfall Trust (Brigus, Newfoundland), as well as arts council grants from Ontario and Canada.[5]
Cooper's art practice combines media from print, photography and animation to installation and book arts.[1] Cooper's work has been reviewed by Canadian Art.[6] Tara Cooper and Jenn Law are co-editors of the 2016 book Printopolis.[7] Cooper is the co-director of the documentary Follow the Bones (along with Terry O'Neill), a film that tells the story of Northern Alberta's Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum.[5]