Darin Cooper
Transcending, 2022
Acrylic, glitter, ink on muslin
78 × 53 9/10 in | 198 × 137 cm
signed and dated 2022 verso
Through layered materials and imagery, Darin Cooper reimagines Black Southern lineage, creating spaces where memory resists erasure.
Darin Cooper (b. 2000, Newport News, Virginia) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City whose work examines family, lineage, and memory within the African American diaspora. Working across photography, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, Cooper redefines notions of family and addresses the erasure of Black histories. He has exhibited at Bode Projects, Grove Collective, Seville Gallery, and Andrea Festa Fine Art, and has been a resident at The Macedonia Institute. Cooper is completing his BFA at the School of Visual Arts, New York.