Sarah Cooper 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, Cooper worked with collaborator Nina Gorfer to develop a new body of work under the working title Constellations. Through a series of brainstorming sessions and preparatory sketches, they explored conceptual and visual frameworks for the project, alongside the creation of several sculptural prototypes. In parallel, they initiated a Tarot and oracle-based system inspired by their experience at MacDowell, conceived as a reflective and generative tool for their own practice as well as for other artists. One sculptural prototype was donated to MacDowell, and a copy of the Tarot deck was contributed to the Oracle site on MacDowell’s grounds.
Sarah Cooper
Studios
Firth
Sarah Cooper 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…