Bio
Kathleen Koopman’s work for the past several years has focused on boxes, frames, books and constructions, assembling found objects, rust, maps, found paper, old photographs, and plants. Her process is to create a narrative with memories and dreams intertwined. She has been exploring the many metaphors we associate with plants, boats and birds, creating dreamlike installations.
Part collector, part archivist, part archeologist, and part researcher, Kathleen delights in the randomly found, studies and researches things, arranges and organizes, then displays and photographs, visually exploring their past and provenance.
Currently living in Silver City, New Mexico, Kathleen was born in New York City; she attended C.W. Post College, Long Island University, earning both a Bachelor’s and Masters in Fine Arts.
Resume
Education
1976 Bachelors of Fine Art, C.W. Post College, Long Island University
1978 Masters of Fine Arts, C.W. Post College, Long Island University
Group Shows
2023 Wings, Grant County Art Guild Studio
2023 Spring Celebration, LightArtSpace Members exhibit
2023 Magical Light, LightArtSpace, Silver City, NM
2022 Fiercely Independent, LightArtSpace, Silver City, NM
2022 Through the Body, LightArtSpace, Silver City, NM
2022 Color, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2021 Bound, Southwest Print Fiesta, LightArtSpace, Silver City, NM
2021 Visions of Nature, contemporary views in alternative photographic techniques. LightArtSpace, Silver City, NM
2020 Provocation of Place, a juried exhibition of work by Tucson-based Paperworks. LightArtSpace, Silver City, NM
2020 On the Desert. The Discovery and Invention of Color, Tohono Chul
2019 Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery
2019 Lotería de Tucson, Galeria Senita
2018 PaperWorks Exhibition, Roche Tissue Diagnostics, Tucson
2017 Glow! Triangle L Ranch, Oracle
2017 Recuerdos de Mascotas, Galeria Senita
2017 Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery
2017 Dias de Los Muertos. Tohono Chul Gallery
2017 Arrivals and Departures, Tucson International Airport
2017 Re-Emergence 2, Tucson Artists Group, Temple Gallery
2016 Lotería de Tucson, Galeria Senita
2016 Shaped by Hand, PaperWorks, Tohono Chul Gallery
2016 Arizona Aqueous XXX, Tubac Center of the Arts
2015 Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery
2015 Tumamoc Hill: Art, Culture, and Science, Tohono Chul
2015 Sonoran Desert: Large and Small, Tohono Chul Gallery
2015 Arte de Avian, Tubac Center of the Arts
2015 Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery
2015 Dias de Los Muertos. Tohono Chul Gallery
2015 Taking Flight: Birds in Art. Tohono Chul Gallery
2014 Small Works Invitational, Tohono Chul Gallery
2014 Hit the Road! Tohono Chul Gallery
2013 Dias de Los Muertos. Tohono Chul Gallery
Two Person Shows
2020 Found Rust Assemblage, 2-person show, Galeria Senita
2015 Hunting/Gathering: Time and Materials, Rain Crow Gallery
2014 Found, Petroglyphs Gallery
Publications
2023 Anna Atkins Tribute Journal 2024, Alternative Photography.
2022 The Hand, Issue 38, November 2022, page 50.
2018 A Sense of Place, PaperWorks Journal, Winter, pp. 9-12
2015 Journal of the Southwest, Summer-Autumn 2015. The Tumamoc Hill Arts Initiative, pp. 281–288
2014 Zocalo Magazine, June, 2014, Tumamoc Artistic Inspiration, pp. 14-15
2013 This Piece of Earth, Images and Words from Tumamoc Hill,
pp. 11, 28, 35
Classes/Workshops at LightArtSpace
2023 Sail Away: Build your Own Dream Boat.3
2022 Build your Own Dream Boat.2
2020 Build your Own Dream Boat.1
Coming Fall 2023: Mixed Media/Assemblage Workshop
Representation: Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
