Saying Goodbye's, 2022
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.