Exhibitions

2009

Selections from True – Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper, Lannan Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)

true, Haunch of Venison, London, UK (solo)

Thomas Joshua Cooper and Bill Fontana, GMG Gallery, Moscow, part of the Third Moscow Biennale of contemporary art

Revisiting Landscape and Still Life, Bafa Foto, Geneva, Switzerland

Worlds, Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie, Scotland

Beyond Visibility, 3rd Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland

On Edge, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

New Scots, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

2008 - 2009

Prix Pictet, exhibition of artists short listed for photography prize, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Dubai International Finance Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece; Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Point of No Return, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2008

Untamed Paradises, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain

On Edge, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2007

international waters, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (solo)

Thomas Joshua Cooper & David Bellingham, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2006 - 2007

ojo de agua, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)

2006

Del Paisaje reciente, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain

Thomas Joshua Cooper, Galerie Judin, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

end of the world, Casa das Mudas Centro das Artes, Madeira (solo)

Landscape is Metaphor, Blickle Stiftung (Foundation), Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany

2005

Festival Connections, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

Point of no Return, Galerie Judin, Zürich

2004

Thomas Joshua Cooper, The Texas Gallery, Houston, USA (solo)

Views from The Edge, The Drexel Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (solo)

Point of no Return, Haunch of Venision, London, England

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

Rock, water, wood Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)

2003

Selections from the Sol Lewitt Collection, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA

Some Rivers, Some Trees, Some Rocks, Some Seas, Il Prisma Galleria d'Arte, Cuneo, Italy (solo)

Coastline, Thomas Schulte Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Sojourns - Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper, from The Lannan Collection,
The Marion Centre for Photography at the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA (solo)

Fortunate Islands, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

The Dorsky Museum, College Art Gallery of New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, USA

Berge, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Unger, Munich, Germany

The New York Rivers, Roth/Horovitz Gallery, New York, USA

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Great Divide, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

The Edges of The World, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA (solo)

Along the Path of Brendon, Mount Stuart Trust, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, UK (solo)

Settlement, Blain's Fine Art, London, UK (solo)

2002

Running to The Sea, Fundacíon César Manrique, Ilas Lanzarote, Spain (solo)

The Great River: Rio Grande River Crossings - From The Source to The Sea, 1994 – 2000, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, USA (solo)

Land - Thomas Joshua Cooper, Richard Long, Paul Nash, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

From The Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, UK

2001

At the Very Edges of the World, Tate Gallery, St. Ives, England

"Moving West", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

2000

The Idea of North, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK

Earth/Sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA

The Great River: Rio Grande Crossings from the Source to the Sea. 1994-2000. James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Galeria Arnés + Röpke Madrid, Spain

1999

Where the Rivers Flow, Museum of Modern Art Esbjerg, Denmark

Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH, USA

The Cinque Ports, Keynes Gallery of Art University of Kent, Canterbury, England

The World's Edge, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf, Germany

Thomas Joshua Cooper - Robert Adams - Emmet Gowin, Princeton University Art Museum Princeton, NJ, USA

1998

A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Travel Exhibition Tuscon, AZ, USA

1997

Where the Rivers Flow, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland

1996

Tokyo Today, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo, Japan

1995

Light from the Darkroom - A Celebration of Scottish Photography, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, Scotland

Site Santa Fe - Longing and Belonging - From the Faraway Nearby, New Mexico Museum of Fine Art Santa Fe, NM, USA

1994

A Simples Conttagem das Ondas, Centro de Arte Moderna Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissabon

Simply Counting Waves, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Portugal

1993

New Acquisitions, New Directions, New Works, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA, USA

1992

Poiésis - Aspects of Contemporary Poetic Activity, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland

1991

From Art to Archeology, South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery London, England

1990

New Art from the North, Tate Gallery Liverpool, England

1984

The Creation - Modern Art and Nature, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Scotland

1983

Photographs 1970-83, The Fine Art Museum Albuquerque, NM, USA

1982

Photographs 1970-82, Mackintosh Museum Glasgow, Scotland

1979

Paysages, Biblioteque Nationale Paris, France

1971

I See the God in You, Art Center San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

Dreaming the Gokstadt, Travel Exhibition Scotland, England, Norway, Denmark

A Review of the Seascape in Contemporary Photography, San Diego, CA, USA