Born in Sydney, Australia and currently residing in New York, interdisciplinary artist, Justine Cooper’s artwork investigates the intersections between culture, science and medicine. She moves between many forms of media - animation, video, installation, photography, as well as medical imaging technologies such as MRI, DNA sequencing, Ultrasound and SEM (scanning electron microscopy). Her work has been internationally recognized and exhibited in over sixty shows and screenings including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; The Singapore Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art, The George Pompidou Centre, Paris; Kwang Ju Biennale, Korea, and the International Center of Photography, New York. Cooper’s artwork is held in public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), The Queensland Art Gallery and the Australian Center for the Moving Image.

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. February 10-August 1, 2006

Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, Nov 2006 - May 2007

Saved By Science, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, Sydney, Australia October 25 – November 6

Your Sky, GAS, New York, New York July 9-29

Saved by Science, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, New York, New York April 21-June 4

Beijing Biennale, The Millennium Dialogue, Beijing, China, Second International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium, May 31-June 27

Justine Cooper: RAPT, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, January 7-February 4

WetLab: The New Nexus Between Art and Science, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University

TULP: The Body Public (visual director) performance/installation with Elision Ensemble and composer John Rodgers, Art Gallery of New South Wales – Domain Theatre, Sydney Festival

TRANSFIGURE, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

How Human, life in the post genome era, International Center of Photography, New York

Science Fictions, Singapore Art Museum

oZone, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Another Planet, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York + Chicago Institute of Art

Future Perfect, D.art, Sydney Film Festival

Excite/Moist, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award Exhibtion, Melbourne

Lady from the Sea video animations (Ibsen), Wax Factory Production

PhotoGENEesis: Opus 2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

MOIST, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Millennium Monument, Beijing, PRChina

Microviews, Urban Center Galleries at The Municipal Art Society, New York

Corps + Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal

Other Views, QCA Gallery, Queensland, (curator Timothy Morrell)

Den Haag Film and Video Festival, “Oor(g)/See[h]ear”

ConVerge: where art and science meet, Adelaide Biennial, The Art Gallery of South Australia,

Medicine As Metaphor, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan

World Views, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Steel Fracture, Dir. Gail Kelly, Australian Technology Park + Performance Space (video commission)

Figure It, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Tasmania

Theory or Faith, LIMN gallery, San Francisco

Hybrid forms: Australian new media art, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

Gwang-Ju Biennale, Korea

Foreign Bodies, Untitled Space, New Haven, Connecticut

Pivot V: About Photography, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania

Wired Body/Mediated Body, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada, and Goethe Institute, Toronto

Probe: Australian Embassy, Beijing, China

Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Romancing the Brain, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

Sci-Art 99, MAAP, Queensland Sciencentre, Brisbane

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm Und Videofest, Kassel, Germany

The Self, Absorbed, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington

4ième Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique

Peripheral Visions, Museum of Sydney

Anemone, Imago, Western Australia tour

The Universal Machine, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

WRO International Video Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland

Women in the Director's Chair Video Festival, Chicago

Persona, Institute of Modern Art, Queensland

Digital New Wave, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

Skin/Deep, Julie Saul Gallery, 560 Broadway SoHo, New York

Videomedeja, 3rd International Video Summit, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

ArtRAGE, ABC

MUU Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland

Surveillance show, Artspace, Sydney

Rapt II, Center for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Melbourne

Viruses and Mutations, Experimenta, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

Maap (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific), Brisbane

National Digital Art Awards, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, September 1998.

VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil

D.art, Sydney Film Festival

Cell, Gallery 19, Sydney

TULP: The Body Public (visual artist/director) perfomance/installation with ELISION Ensemble, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Festival and the Powerhouse, Brisbane Festival. 2004
The Imaginary Opera Project, Ensemble Offspring, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 2003
Lady from the Sea video animations (Ibsen), Wax Factory Production, New York 2003
Video commission for Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Millennium Monument, Beijing, China 2002
Video commission for Steel Fracture, Director Gail Kelly, Australian Technology Park + Performance Space, April 4-8, 2001

Flicker, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York 2004

oZone,Centre Pompidou, Paris 2003

Another Planet, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York + Chicago Institute of Art 2003

Future Perfect, D.art, Sydney Film Festival 2003

Corps + Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal 2002

Den HaagFilm and Video Festival , “Oor(g)/See[h]ear” , Netherlands 2002

Wired Body/Mediated Body, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada, May 2000 and Goethe Institute, Toronto 2000

Videodrome, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, American Museum of Natural History

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm Und Videofest, Kassel, Germany

4ième Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique , Montreal

Peripheral Visions, Museum of Sydney

Anemone,Imago, Western Australia tour

WRO International Video Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland

Women in the Director's Chair Video Festival, Chicago, USA

Digital New Wave, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

ArtRAGE, Australian Broadcasting Channel

Videomedeja, 3rd Intnat'l Video Summit, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

MUU Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland

Viruses and Mutations, Experimenta, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

MAAP  (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific)

National Digital Art Awards, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane

VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil

D.art, Sydney Film Festival

The Harries First Place for the National Digital Arts Awards, Australia, 2005

Australia Council New Media Fellowship, 2004

Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board Grant 2004

Australia Council Visual Arts and Crafts Board Grant 2003

Greenwall Foundation Grant 2003

Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Artist in Residence at Central Academy of Fine Art, New Media Department, Beijing, PR China September-October 2002

Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, February 2002

Bellevue Art Museum Artist-in-Residence, Washington, December 2001

Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) deep immersion: scientific serendipity grant for artist-in-residency at The Museum of Natural History, New York 2001

World Views, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Artist-in-Residence Program at the World Trade Center, New York 2001

Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence Grant, New York 2001

Australia Council New Media grant 1999

The Harries First Place for the National Digital Arts Awards, Australia, 1998

Australian Film Commission New Technologies Grant 1997

Australians work outside the New York label, Jacqui Taffel, Sydney Morning Herald, July 5, 2005

An Artist Goes Behind Closed Doors, Ruth Graham, The New York Sun, v.121, no.10, p.14, April 29, 2005

Behind Closed Doors, Mary Knight, Natural History Magazine, June 2005, pp.40-43

Justine Cooper, Saved By Science, Voice Choice, Village Voice, June 1-7, 2005

Cabinets, Curiosities, and Collections; Revealing the Museums Stored Treasures, Linder Theatre, American Museum of Natural History, March 31, 2005

Good Morning Alabama ABC TV and 6pm Fox Newscast, January 11, 2005

Science & Art, Sydney Festival, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery New South Wales, January 18, 2004

Work guaranteed to get under your skin, Joyce Morgan, Sydney Morning Herald, January 16, 2004 URL:

TULP: The Body Public, Harriet Cunningham, Sydney Morning Herald, January 17, 2004

panelist, Science & Art, Sydney Festival, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery New South Wales, January 18, 2004

Guest Speaker, Distinguished Visitors Program, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, November 5, 2003

Prefiguring Cyberculture, eds. Tofts, Jonson, Cavallaro, The MIT Press, 2002

Justine Cooper: new media alchemist, Real Time, #55, June/July 2003, p.4

Identity, Photovision (Spanish edition), 2003

Cartography in the Age of Digital Media, Symposium, Yale School of Architecture, April 5, 2002.

ConVerge:where art and science meet, Genomics Symposium, March 3, 2002

Scrambling Space, Elastic, public talk, February 27, 2002

Oxygen Media, 5” television profile, January, 2002.

Out of Australia:International Exposure, Linda Wallace, Artlink, vol.21, no. 3, 2001

Interfacing Art, Science and New Media, Anna Munster, Artlink, vol.21, no. 3, 2001

Science for Art's Sake, presenter and panelist, American Museum of Natural History, June 13, 2001

Probe, Julian Scarff, ART Asia Pacific: new media issue #27, June 2000

Keynote Speaker, Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration's Conference AIMBI 2000 - The Art of Imaging, June 2000

Interface: visions of the body and the machine, Kathy Cleland, ART Asia Pacific, issue #27, June 2000

Justine Cooper Artist Profile, Australian Art Collector, Patrick Crogan, Issue 12, April-June 2000

The Genetic Esthetic, Barbara Pollack, ArtNEWS, pp 133-136, April 2000

Space Graft,Cyberanthology, Cavallaro, Jonson,+Tofts,Power Publications, Sydney, 2000.

A Digital Region?, Anat Newsletter #39, December 1999.

Justine Cooper Artist Profile, Australian Art Collector, Patrick Crogan, Issue 12, April-June 2000

Insides Out: Speculations on the Body in 3D Computer Animation,Patrick Crogan, paper delivered at the Society for Animation Studies Conference, August 1999

Between Professional Diagnosis and Dumb Fascination,Colin Hood, Real Time #26,OnScreen, August 1998

Justine Cooper: RAPT, Robyn Donohue, Photofile, #56, May 1999.

Art and Science Sing the Body Transparent, Vicky Goldberg, New York Times, December 19,1998

Promises and Metaphors, Ben Zipper, Broadsheet, vol 27, no.4, summer 1998.

Snap Arts Program , Channel 31, Melbourne 1998

Imaging the Virtual Body, Future Screen seminar, Powerhouse Museum, November 21st, 1998

Good medicine makes art, Jenny Sinclair, The Age, October 13th,1998

Religion and science show their artistic face, Peter Timms, The Age, October 21st, 1998

Between Professional Diagnosis and Dumb Fascination, Colin Hood, Real Time, #26, OnScreen, 1998

Currently held in collections in Australia, Europe, and New York, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Powerhouse Museum, Australian Center for the Moving Image, Griffith Artworks and The Queensland Art Gallery, Monash University and the Queensland Health Centre.

Science & Art, Sydney Festival, Domain Theatre, Art Gallery New South Wales, January 18, 2004

Guest Speaker, Distinguished Visitors Program, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, November 5, 2003

Cartography in the Age of Digital Media, Symposium, Yale School of Architecture, April 5, 2002

ConVerge:where art and science meet, Genomics Symposium, March 3, 2002

Science for Art's Sake, presenter, American Museum of Natural History, June 13, 2001

Scrambling Space, Elastic, artist talk, February 27, 2002

The Art of Imaging, Keynote Speaker, Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration's Conference AIMBI 2000 -, June 2000

Seminar on Science and Art, Australian Network for Art and Technology Summer School,1999

Imaging the Virtual Body, Future Screen seminar speaker, Powerhouse Museum, Nov 21, 1998

Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University 1998

BS Communications, Syracuse University, New York 1990

Good Morning Alabama ABC TV and 6pm Fox Newscast, January 11, 2005

The Makers, ABC Radio National interview, September 26, 2004

The Body Speaks, Sandra McLean, Courier Mail, September 18, 2004

Work guaranteed to get under your skin, Joyce Morgan, Sydney Morning Herald, January 16, 2004 
TULP: The Body Public, Harriet Cunningham, Sydney Morning Herald, January 17, 2004

TULP review, Rosemary Duffy, State of the Arts magazine

A Visceral Experience, Carina Dennis, NATURE, v.427, p.587, February 12, 2004

The darkness that yields light, Keith Gallasch, RealTime, RT59 - February - March 04, 2004

Rapt, Ashley Crawford, Sunday Age, January 11, 2004

Prefiguring Cyberculture, eds. Tofts, Jonson, Cavallaro, The MIT Press 2003

Justine Cooper: new media alchemist, Real Time, #55, June/July 2003, p.4

Cartography in the Age of Digital Media, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2003

Scientific Serendipity, eds. Julianne Pierce + Caroline Farmer, Australian Network for Art and Technology, introduction and interview by Kathy Cleland, August 2002.

Future Bodies, eds. Angerer, Peteres, Sofoulis, Springer-Verlag, Vienna 2002

Artlink review, vol.22, no.2, p. 83.2002

Now I Talk Like This, Stephanie Radok, Art Monthly Australia, April, 2002, pp.9-12

ConVerge:where art and science meet, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art  Gallery of South Australia, catalog, Thames & Hudson, Melbourne. 2002

Studios in the Sky, Stephanie Cash, Art in America, March 2002

Medicine as Metaphor, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Catalog 2002

Oxygen Media, television profile, January, 2002.

hybrid <life>forms: Australian new media art, Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Amsterdam, catalog 2001

Out of Australia: International Exposure, Linda Wallace, Artlink, vol.21, no.3, 2001, pp. 53-55.

Interfacing Art, Science and New Media, Anna Munster, Artlink, vol.21, no.3, 2001, pp.19-23.

Probe, Julian Scarff, ART Asia Pacific: new media issue #27, June 2000

Interface: visions of the body and the machine, Kathy Cleland, ART Asia Pacific, issue #27,
June 2000

Justine Cooper, Australian Art Collector, Patrick Crogan, Issue 12, April-June 2000

The Genetic Esthetic, Barbara Pollack, ArtNEWS, pp 133-136, April 2000

CCTV (China Television) 20" documentary on Probe, November 1999.

HighTech High Touch, John Naisbitt, Broadway Books (Brealey, London edition), 1999

Insides Out: Speculations on the Body in 3D Computer Animation, Patrick Crogan, Paper delivered at the Society for Animation Studies Conference, August 1999

Rapt, Robyn Donohue, Photofile, # 56, May 1999.

Art and Science Sing the Body Transparent, Vicky Goldberg, New York Times, December 19, 1998