Diana Cooper lives and works in Brooklyn. She has exhibited extensively both in the United States and abroad, and is represented by Postmasters Gallery. Cooper is the recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a NYFA Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and Anonymous Was a Woman. She received her B.A. from Harvard College and M.F.A. from Hunter College, and also attended NYSS. She currently teaches at Columbia University.

This lecture coincides with an exhibition of work by Diana Cooper on view at NYSS through April 15, 2018.