1972 Master of Arts, Art with distinction in Photography, University of New Mexico, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, USA
1969 Bachelor of Arts, Art, Philosophy and Literature, Humbolt State University, Humbolt,
California, USA

1999 Major Artist’s Award, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, USA
1994 Major Artists Award, Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland
1978 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellow, Washington, D.C., USA
1976 Arts Council of Great Britain Photography Bursary, London, England
1970 John D. Phelan Award in Art and Literature, San Francisco, California, USA

2005
end of the world, Casa das Mudas Centro das Artes, Madeira
point of no return, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Thomas Joshua Cooper, Galerie Judin, Zurich, Switzerland

2004
Point of No Return, Haunch of Venison, London, England
Rock, Water, Wood, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Dorsky Museum, College Art Gallery of New Platz, New York, USA
Views from the Edge, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University,
Philadelphia
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, U.S.A

2003
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Some Rivers, Some Trees, Some Rocks, Some Seas,
Galleria d’Arte Il Prisma, Cuneo, Italy
Galleria Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Fortunate Islands, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.
The Dorsky Museum, College Art Gallery of New Platz, New York, USA
The New York Rivers, Roth/Horowitz Gallery, New York, USA.
Sea Shore; Along Brendan’s Path; Stuart Gallery, Mount Stuart, Scotland

2002
settlement, Blains Fine Art, London, England
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
The Dorsky Museum, College Art Gallery of New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, USA
The New York Rivers, Roth/Horovitz Gallery, New York City, USA

2001
At the Very Edges of the World, Tate Gallery, St. Ives, England
Selected Solo Exhibitions continued
Moving West, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

2000
Galeria Arnes Ropke, Madrid, Spain
The Rio Grande Series, James Kelly Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

1999
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
Water, Patrick de Brock, Knocke, Belgium
Work from the New Found Land, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Where the Rivers Flow, Esbjerg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Waterfront; Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England

1997
Where the Rivers Flow, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Border Crossings, Konsthallen-Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden

1998
River Works: America & Scotland, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Keynes Gallery of Art, University of Kent, Canterbury, England
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

1996
Rivers and Ritual 1975 - 1995, Sean Kelly, New York City, USA
The River Suite, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Archipelago - Thomas Joshua Cooper and Alfred Graf, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn
und Taxis and Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria

1995
Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Site Santa Fe - Longing and Belonging - From the Faraway Nearby, New Mexico
Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

1994
Simply Counting Waves, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian,
Lisbon, Portugal

1993
The Swelling of the Sea, John Weber Gallery, New York City, USA
Sojourn - XI Years, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
sea shore, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria

1992
Sojourn - Ten Years, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England

1991
wind - riffling memories, Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Galeria Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, Germany

1990
Project Room, John Weber Gallery, New York City, USA
Works from Three Projects - 1983-1990, Janine Mautsch Gallery, Koln, Germany
New Works 1986-1988, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England
The Swelling of the Sea, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Kunstnernnes Hus, Oslo, Norway

1989
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Brandts Klaedefabric Museum, Odense, Denmark

1988
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
John Weber Gallery, New York City, USA
Dreaming the Gokstadt, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition,
Scotland

1986
The Staffa Project - A Collaboration, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Ian McKeever,
Harris
Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England (travelled to Anolfini Gallery, Bristol,
England;Provincial Museum, Hassalt, Belgium; Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow,
Scotland)

1985
Between Dark and Dark, Graeme Murray Gallery and Fruit Market Gallery, Glasgow,
Scotland (travelled to The Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland; Pier Art
Gallery, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland; John Hansard Gallery, University of
Southhampton, Southhampton, England; Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham,
England

1984
Duality of Dancing, Gallery of Art, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA

1983
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983, The Fine Art Museum, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1970-1983, The Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Ghost Dance, Coracle Press Gallery, London, England
New Photographs, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

1982
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Photographs 1979-1982 and Selected Inspirations,
Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

1981
Dos Hombres/Dos Estilos: Thomas Joshua Cooper/Tom Knight, Teatro Juarez,
Guanajuato, Mexico
Intimations, Northcoast Arts Gallery, Arcata, California, USA

1979
Paysages, Bibliothèque, Paris, France

1977
Images of Our Morality, Robert Self Gallery, London, England

2005
Landscape is Metaphor, Blickle Stiftung (Foundation), Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
Festival Connections, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

2004
A Mares – Olladas Oceánicas en el arte Contemporáneo, Museo do Mar de Galicia, Vigo, Spain

2003
Die Neue Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2002
Regarding Landscape; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, USA
The Great Divide, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2001
From the Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England

2000
Land: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Richard Long, and Paul Nash, Ingleby Gallery,
Morayshire, Scotland
The Sleep of Reason, Norwich Gallery, Norwich Norfolk, England
Schafft Land!, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg, Germany

1999
Eclipse: Thomas Joshua Cooper and James Turrell, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art,
London, England
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, International Center for
Photography, New York City, USA
An American Century of Photography: The Hallmark Photographic Collection
Sojourn,Eleven Years, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

1998
PhotoImage: Printmaking 60s to 90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Grunwald Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

1997
A Case for Collection, The Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, England
Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, with Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Location, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany, with Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany

1996
Prospect 96, Schirn Kunsthalle/Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Tokyo Today, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Black, White, and Grey, Galerie Bugdahn and Kainer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Printemps de Cahors: Photographie and Arts Visuels
Espace Caviole, Cahors, France

1994
Dear Stieglitz, Peninsula, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1993
Nine Photographers for the Nineties, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, USA
New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, California, USA
Shared Light, Oriel Mostlyn, Llandudno, Wales

1992
Poesies, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Salon Glasgow, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Group Exhibitions continued

1991
Two Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, the Swelling of the Sea, and David Nash, Kunst
Europa (Britain), Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Salzburg: Six Artists, Six Views, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
The Revenge of the Camera, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
From Art to Archeology, South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London, England
New Scottish Photography, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid and Barcelona,
Spain

1990
Paysages de Moralise, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York City, USA
New North – New Works by Twelve Artists Working in the North of Britain, Tate
Gallery, Liverpool, England (touring exhibition)
Von der Natur in der Kunst, Vienna Arts Festival, Vienna, Austria
Houston Fotofest, Houston, Texas, USA
Four British Artists: Victor Burgin, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Hamish Fulton and John
Murphy, John Weber Gallery, New York City, USA
The Forced of Nature: Landscape as Metaphor, Manchester City Art Galleries,
Manchester, England
Poesies, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
V - Five Years of Photography in Fine Art, Mackintosh Museum and Newbury
Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
National Portrait Gallery and Aberdeen City Art Gallery and Museum, Edinburgh and
Aberdeen, Scotland
New Scottish Photography, National Portrait Gallery and Aberdeen City Art Gallery
and Museum, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland

1989
Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Landscape in the Experience - 21 Artists Working in the Landscape, Kolnischer
Kunstverein, Koln, Germany
Our Photographic Legacy, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland
Three British Artists - Thomas Joshua Cooper, Andy Goldsworthy and David Nash,
L.A Louver Gallery, Venice, California, USA
Through the Looking Glass - Photographic Art in Britain - 1945-1989, Barbican Art
Gallery, London, England
New Acquisitions, New Directions, New Works, International Museum of Photography
at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA
Photography on Landscape - Six International Artists, Alden Bissen Flemish Cultural
Centre, Alden Bissen, Belgium
Ways of Telling, Oriel Mostyn, Llanudno, Wales
Making New Pictures, Smith Art Gallery and Institute, Stirling, Scotland

1988
The Glasgow Rim - The Hidden Views, Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
The British Landscape, The Museum of the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Maryland,
USA

1987
Three British Artists: Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Kate Whiteford, Galerie S65, Aalst, Belgium
The Unpainted Landscape, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Perspectives: Glasgow, A New Look, Collins Gallery, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland

1986
Four Artists - Thomas Joshua Cooper, David Tremlett, Hamish Fulton and Roger Ackling,The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland
Nine Photographers, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
Boundaries, The Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England
At the Serpentine, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

1985
The Photographic Art - Pictorial Traditions in Britain and America, The Scottish Arts
Council, Edinburgh, Scotland
American Photography: 1945-1980, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
The Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Group Exhibitions continued

1984
The Creation - Modern Art and Nature, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Scottish Society of Artists’ 90th Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh, Scotland

1983
The Guardian Cycle: Photographic Works 1980-1983, Graeme Murray Gallery,
Edinburgh, Scotland
Ghost Dance, Coracle Press Gallery, London, England

1981 New Works of Contemporary Art and Music, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1979
A Place in Between, College of the Redwoods Art Gallery, Eureka, California, USA
Three Perspectives on Photography, Hayward Gallery, London, England

1977
Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

1976
The Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, California, USA

1975
Gallery II Diaframma, Milano, Italy
Remnants and Prenotations, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England

1974
Indications, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
She Rain, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England

1973
Sweet Play, Quivera Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

1972
I See the God in You, The Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California, USA