Cooper Jacoby
Incorporating responsive elements such as machine learning, motors and sensors, his sculptures rescript ubiquitous systems in ways that make their labor and forms of circulation intelligible. From the screens of thermostats to the thresholds of storm drains to the inner circuits of fluorescent lights, Jacoby’s work vitiates and repurposes the ambient technologies that regulate life into potent tokens of the ongoing friction between the built world, its inhabitants and the environment at large.
Cooper Jacoby was born in 1989 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He currently lives and works in Miami, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include: Intermission, Athens, Greece; Swiss Institute at LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland; Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany. Group exhibitions include: CAPC, Bordeaux, France; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; C L E A R I N G, Paris, France; Le Plateau-Frac Île-de-France, Paris, France; Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France; Mathew Gallery, NYC, New York, USA; Union Pacific, London, England; KM Temporaer at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, USA.
Selected Works
Exhibitions
Press
Curriculum Vitæ
Lives and works in Miami, USA
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Mirror Runs Mouth, High Art, Arles, France
Sun is bile, The Intermission, Athens, Greece
2019
Stragglers, Central Fine, Miami, USA
2018
Susceptibles, High Art, Paris, France
2017
Disgorgers, Swiss Institute at LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Bait, Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Matte Wetter, 45 cbm, Kunsthalle Baden, Baden, Germany
Stagnants, Mathew Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
Double Room #2, with Rosa Aiello, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Deposit, High Art, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Solstice, Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris, France
Antéfutur, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
2022
Mirrors, Motors & Blossoming Bodies, Atlantis-Lumière, Marseille
Lifes, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Grand Ménage, C L E A R I N G, Paris, France
2019
Foncteur d’oubli, Le Plateau-Frac Île-de-France, Paris, France
Bètes de scène, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
United Brothers Fukushima Android Series Franchise: Worldwide Premiere, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, France
2017
I’m Nobody!, High Art, Paris, France
New York Grids, Mathew NYC, New York, USA
2016
No. 6, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA
Mo‘ tile, Union Pacific, London, England
Blackboxing, Room East, New York, USA
2015
Grand Opening Reception, KM Temporaer at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Bare Code Scan, Fused Space, Los Angeles, USA
This is a way, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, USA
2014
Transatlantic Transparency, Mathew, New York, USA
Transatlantic Transparency, Mathew, Berlin, Germany
The Remains of the Day, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of Too, C L E A R I N G, New York, USA
White Flag Library, St Louis, USA
Between Arrival & Departure, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013
Tradewinds (with Marina Pinsky), C L E A R I N G, Brussels, Belgium
The Shadow Knows, C L E A R I N G, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Shelf Life, UBS Bard College Exhibition Center, Red Hook, New York, USA