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Exhibitions
2016 Trawick Prize Finalist Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD
2016 35th Annual Invitational Sculpture Exhibition: Spatial Interpretations
2015 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2015 projection room, Leidy Gallery at Fred Lazurus IV Center, Baltimore, MD
2014 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2013 B Grant exhibition, D-Center, Baltimore, MD
2013 drawing the undifferentiated – Common Ground Gallery, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2012 Dematerialization – Pterodactyl, Creative Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2012 The Truth Following the Existence of Something – Rendition Gallery, Ft Collins, CO
2012 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2012 Reflections + Refractions – CVA Gallery, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2012 SOLOS 2012 – MoCA, Arlington, VA
2011 In Response - Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park
2010 Sondheim Finalist Exhibition - Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 allographic iterations - John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009 Drawing Chestnut, Towards an Open Work - Chestnut Project Space, Baltimore, MD
2009 iterating the ordinary, MICA – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2007 Of Paper - Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
2006 Solo Exhibit - Creative Alliance, Amalie Rothschild Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2004 Solo Exhibit - Frieda O. Weise Gallery, RTKL Architecture, Baltimore, MD
2002 Unfiltered - Blue Elephant Art Center, Frederick, MD
2001 Friends of the Walters-Summer Solstice - Big Bang Studio, Baltimore, MD
2000 Fall into Blue Dreams - 1601 Guilford, Baltimore, MD
1994 Solo Exhibit - American Institute of Architecture, Baltimore, MD
Awards/Grants
2017 Maryland States Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2016 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grantee
2014 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Semi-finalist
2012 The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, B-Grant
2012 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Semi-finalist
2011 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2010 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Finalist
2006- MFA in Studio Art Fellowship
2009
Residencies
2012 ART342, Fort Collins, Colorado
Related projects
The Black Bucket Essays (cofounder) www.blackbucketessays.com
Discourse, a penny university (founder) https://baltimorediscourse.wordpress.com/
Education
2009 MFA in Studio Art - Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore,MD
1989 BA Studio Art - University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Press/Publications
2010 The Washington Post, May 4, 2012, ‘Overlookable works shouldn’t be missed’, by Michael O’Sullivan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/exhibits/spring-solos-2012,1221549/critic-review.html
2010 The Washington Post, July 30, 2010, ‘Competing Perspectives’, by Michael O’Sullivan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/29/AR2010072902252.html
2010 The City Paper, Cover Story, July 7, 2010, “The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize 2010” by Bret McCabe
http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=20401
2010 Visual Overture Magazine, Volume 1, Summer 2010
2009 Sketch Pages, Contemporary Drawing Practices, Online article ‘Leah Cooper, Drawing in Space’
http://sketchpages.blogspot.com/2009/11/leah-cooper-drawing-in-space.html
2009 The Maryland Morning Show with Tom Hall
Podcast on www.wypr.org, original air date June 22, 2009
2016 Trawick Prize Finalist Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD
2016 35th Annual Invitational Sculpture Exhibition: Spatial Interpretations
2015 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2015 projection room, Leidy Gallery at Fred Lazurus IV Center, Baltimore, MD
2014 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2013 B Grant exhibition, D-Center, Baltimore, MD
2013 drawing the undifferentiated – Common Ground Gallery, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2012 Dematerialization – Pterodactyl, Creative Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
2012 The Truth Following the Existence of Something – Rendition Gallery, Ft Collins, CO
2012 Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2012 Reflections + Refractions – CVA Gallery, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
2012 SOLOS 2012 – MoCA, Arlington, VA
2011 In Response - Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park
2010 Sondheim Finalist Exhibition - Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2010 allographic iterations - John Fonda Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2009 Drawing Chestnut, Towards an Open Work - Chestnut Project Space, Baltimore, MD
2009 iterating the ordinary, MICA – MICA, Baltimore, MD
2007 Of Paper - Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
2006 Solo Exhibit - Creative Alliance, Amalie Rothschild Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2004 Solo Exhibit - Frieda O. Weise Gallery, RTKL Architecture, Baltimore, MD
2002 Unfiltered - Blue Elephant Art Center, Frederick, MD
2001 Friends of the Walters-Summer Solstice - Big Bang Studio, Baltimore, MD
2000 Fall into Blue Dreams - 1601 Guilford, Baltimore, MD
1994 Solo Exhibit - American Institute of Architecture, Baltimore, MD
Awards/Grants
2017 Maryland States Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2016 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grantee
2014 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Semi-finalist
2012 The William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, B-Grant
2012 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Semi-finalist
2011 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2010 Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Finalist
2006- MFA in Studio Art Fellowship
2009
Residencies
2012 ART342, Fort Collins, Colorado
Related projects
The Black Bucket Essays (cofounder) www.blackbucketessays.com
Discourse, a penny university (founder) https://baltimorediscourse.wordpress.com/
Education
2009 MFA in Studio Art - Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore,MD
1989 BA Studio Art - University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Press/Publications
2010 The Washington Post, May 4, 2012, ‘Overlookable works shouldn’t be missed’, by Michael O’Sullivan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/exhibits/spring-solos-2012,1221549/critic-review.html
2010 The Washington Post, July 30, 2010, ‘Competing Perspectives’, by Michael O’Sullivan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/29/AR2010072902252.html
2010 The City Paper, Cover Story, July 7, 2010, “The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize 2010” by Bret McCabe
http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=20401
2010 Visual Overture Magazine, Volume 1, Summer 2010
2009 Sketch Pages, Contemporary Drawing Practices, Online article ‘Leah Cooper, Drawing in Space’
http://sketchpages.blogspot.com/2009/11/leah-cooper-drawing-in-space.html
2009 The Maryland Morning Show with Tom Hall
Podcast on www.wypr.org, original air date June 22, 2009