Nina Gorfer is an artist based in Sweden and one half of the artist duo Cooper & Gorfer. Their work spans photography, collage, and video, exploring female identity, mythology, and transformation through hybrid, materially layered forms. Cooper & Gorfer’s work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Fotografiska Berlin, the Hasselblad Center and CODA Museum of Art. Their publications I Know not These My Hands and Between These Folded Walls, Utopia, received major awards in Germany and Sweden.
At MacDowell, Gorfer worked with collaborator Sarah Cooper to develop the next stage of their shared practice, moving from image-based work into sculpture. They produced a series of sculpture and material studies, exploring a new three-dimensional language and the shifting relationship between viewer and object. Drawing from the place itself, they engaged with MacDowell’s language and demeanor as an active source of inspiration.
Nina Gorfer
Studios
Firth
Nina Gorfer worked in the Firth studio.
Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956 and named The Barn Studio. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north…