About the Artists
Mark Cooper (American, born 1950) earned a Bachelor of Sciences from Indiana University in 1972 and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1980. Ramirez has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions projects at Shanghai University Academy of Fine Arts (2019); Samson Projects at Seattle Art Fair (2015); and Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA (2011). Select museum exhibitions include Bridge with Vu Trong Thuan, Da Nang Fine Arts Museum, Da Nang, Vietnam (2019); Bon a Tirer, Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA (2018); Boston Museum of Fine Arts (2017); A Whisper of Where It Came From, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (2016); Mark Cooper-YuYu Columbus, Indiana University for Art and Design at Columbus/Columbus Museum of Art and Design (2013); James and Audrey Foster Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2013) and Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA (2011). Cooper is Adjunct Professor at Boston College, Professor of Practice at School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, and lives and works in Boston, MA.
Jiha Moon (American, born Daegu, South Korea, 1973) earned a Master of Fine Arts from Ewha University in Seoul, Korea in 1999, a Master of Arts from the University of Iowa, Iowa City in 2001, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, Iowa City in 2002. Select solo exhibitions have been presented at the University of the South, Sweanee, TN (2019); Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC (2018); Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL (2017); Salina Art Center, Salina, KS (2016); Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (2015); and Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, SC (2014). Select group exhibitions have been presented at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (2019); Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (2018); Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2018); Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA (2018); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (2016); and the Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (2013). Moon’s works are in numerous public collections including the Chrysler Museum of Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Virginia Museum of Fine Art; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
Huma Bhabha (American, born Karachi, Pakistan, 1962) earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1989. Her work has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2020); The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019); the 57th Edition of the Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2018); Salon 94, New York (2018); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018); and MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, NY (2013). Select group exhibitions include We Fought to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum New York (2020); The world to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL (2020); Zombies: Pay Attention!, Aspen Art Museum (2019); Fourth Plinth Shortlist Exhibition, The National Gallery, London, UK (2017); Home Room, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY (2017); A Whisper of Where It Came From, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2016); All the Worlds Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia (2015); and The Human Factor: Uses of the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2014). Bhabha’s works can be found in the collections of the Bronx Museum of Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nerman Museum of Art, Overland Park, KS; Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Bhabha is the recipient of the Berlin Prize in 2013 and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Emerging Artist Award in 2008.