Cash-Cooper (b. 1990, New York, NY) is an artist devoted to furthering the shared history of humanity, primarily through large-scale paintings. His work, informed by grand narratives of spirituality and anchored in the broad, inclusive practice of “worship,” simultaneously borrows techniques and approaches from Silver Age (1970’s) comic books and anime, and oil paintings from the Northern European Renaissance. The characters Cash-Cooper introduces en masse, stylized in ink and gouache, operate within an immanent, transcendent universe. There, bodies and beings, weapons and wild unknowns coexist towards an unforeseeable end; the only certainty is struggle, transformation, movement, journeying.
Cash-Cooper has a BFA in Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. His fellowships include The Princeton in Asia fellowship at Dalian University in China and a teaching fellowship at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. Solo exhibitions feature his first solo show, Unseen Forces, at Junmei Art Gallery in Dalian, China and a series of Worship Grounds exhibitions in Los Angeles. The California Institute of the Arts commissioned Black Magic, Blessed Children, for their permanent collection.
Cash-Cooper currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
