Sarah Cooper is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Los Angeles.
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
Ever Present: Milka Djordjevich, Victoria Fu, Matt Rich
Saturday, October 8, 2022 at 5 pm; Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 12 pm
Getty Museum Los Angeles
Choreographer Milka Djordjevich and visual artists Victoria Fu and Matt Rich collaborate on an original performance for the Getty Center. Djordjevich and dancers perform throughout the site with Fu and Rich's wearable artworks.
LA-based Milka Djordjevich is a choreographer, performer and educator whose work questions preconceived notions of what dance should or should not be. Her work has been shown at many venues, including the Kitchen, the Chocolate Factory Theater, the Whitney Museum, the American Realness Festival, and Danspace Project in New York; REDCAT, Grand Performances, Pieter, MAK Center, the Hammer Museum, Machine Project, and HomeLA in Los Angeles; and others nationally and internationally.
Visual artists Victoria Fu and Matt Rich work on collaborative projects alongside their individual studio practices. Together, they have exhibited at venues such as Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Carnegie Mellon University, La Jolla Athenaeum, Orange County Museum of Art, and University of Massachusetts Boston, among others. They live and work in San Diego, where they are Associate Professors at the University of San Diego.
