EXHIBITIONS
2010 "Home" Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Ma
2008 "It Is What It Is" Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Ma
2008 "Little Women" Grubbs Gallery Williston Northampton Academy
Easthampton Ma
2007 "Little Women" Nashawannuck Gallery Easthampton Ma
2007 "Floral Variations" Artisan Gallery & Cafe Holyoke Ma
2007 "The Fantastical" Student Union Gallery University of Massachusetts
Amherst Ma
2007 "Self Portraits" Artisan Gallery & Cafe Holyoke Ma
2007 "The Mother and the Monk" Amherst Town Hall Amherst Ma
2006-7 "Making Music Part II" City Treasurer's Office City Hall
Northampton Ma
2006 "Making Music" Salon Herdis Northampton Ma
2006 "Panapoly" Daly Gallery Baystate Medical Center Springfield Ma
2006 "Pelican Mother" The Life Center Northampton Ma
2005 "Sixty-Four Human Situations: Artists Interpret the I Ching"
A.P.E. Gallery Northampton Ma
2005 Five Colleges Open Square Fine Art Center Holyoke Ma
2005 "WaterWorks" Open Square Fine Art Center Holyoke Ma
2004 Solo Show L'uva Springfield Ma
2003 "Womb Work" Empty Set Project Space Pittsfield Ma
2003 Solo Show Thirsty Mind South Hadley Ma
2002 Valley Valentines Northampton Center for the Arts
Northampton Ma
2001 Art Auction Northampton Center for the Arts Northampton Ma
2000 Group Show Flywheel Gallery Easthampton Ma
2000 Art Auction Northampton Center for the Arts Northampton Ma
1999 Solo Show Amanouz Northampton Ma
1994-7 Open Studios Arts and Industry Building Florence Ma
EDUCATION
2010 BA Studio Art University of Massachusetts,Amherst Ma '10
Commonwealth Honors College, in progress
2005 AS Visual Art Holyoke Community College Holyoke, Ma
Phi Theta Kappa
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2009-10 James Naurison Scholarship,Western Mass. Community Foundation
2009-10 John & James Mahoney Scholarship,Western Mass. Community
Foundation
2005 Northampton Arts Council Grant
2005 Visual Art Faculty Award Holyoke Community College
2005 Visual Art Award Holyoke Community College
2005 Holyoke Community College Foundations Scholarship
2004 Holyoke Community College Foundations Scholarship
2004 Adalin Wichman Scholarship,Vermont Sculpture & Carving Center
COLLECTIONS
My work is in numerous private collections in the New England
and New York City region.
GineenCooper
is a poet, writer, visual artist, trained SoulCollage facilitator, and peer support in healing.
She has led groups in the use of writing, movement, collage, dreamwork and painting to help
people connect to their creative inner resources in the Pioneer Valley and beyond for the last six
years.
Showing visual work for the last fifteen years in local galleries, she also co-facilitates an ongoing
weekly creative writing group for the Recovery Learning Center in Northampton, MA and
participates in local readings.
She has been published in many literary journals. Most recently Naugatuck River Review's WINTER
'10 issue of narrative poetry featured her poem entitled "Late Words for My Sister."
Artist Statement
The practice of meditation has transformed my creative work.
It allows me to engage the energy of the moment through the principles of mindfulness.
Through diverse mediums, my aim is to raise the consciousness of the viewer. My vehicles of
expression through writing are poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and playwriting. Visually I employ fiber
art, performance art, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation art, photography and collage as
modalities.
Through my art I seek to bring awareness about societal issues which affect empowerment and
personal freedom.
I believe all beings are potential channels for the creative energy inherent in the universe. My
interactive art workshops teach others how to connect within themselves and discover their true
nature, discovering a way of being that is naturally happy, joyous and free.
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(413) 219-0569 gineenlee@hotmail.com
PUBLICATIONS
Naugatuck River Review....poetry
Torch 2, Brooklyn, Ma.....poetry, mixed media art
Torch 1, Brooklyn, Ma.....poetry
Holyoke Community College Calendar...photography
The Pannus Index, Northampton, Ma.... poetry, art direction
Downward Glide, Errol Miller....cover photograph, graphics
Old Crow, Amherst, Ma....poetry
Performances and Readings
2007 “Women Artists” for Honors Independent Study
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2009 Smith College Poetry Class 195 Reading, Forbes Library
2009 Yellow Sofa Northampton, MA
2009 30 Poems in 30 Days Project, Forbes Library
2009 Best Damn Poetry Show Northampton, MA
2010 Yellow Sofa Northampton, MA
2010 Naugatuck River Review, Forbes Library
2010 Dynamite Records Reading Thornes, Northampton, MA
2010 Best Damn Poetry Show, Northampton, MA
2010 Wellstone Open-Mic, Anchor House, Northampton, MA