Camille Cooper is a 2026 Van Lier Fellow at Wave Hill. The Van Lier Fellowship, funded by the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund through the New York Community Trust, provides early-career support to artists from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. As part of this fellowship, Cooper is participating in Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace residency from February 24 to April 12, 2026, and presenting a site-responsive solo exhibition as part of the 2026 Sunroom Project Space.
Cooper has performed as a puppeteer with The Human Beast Box, Meow Wolf, The New Mexico Museum of Art, and PASEO Project, all in New Mexico; and at Snake in The Boot Collective, Pinc Louds, Foreshadow Co., Concrete Temple Theatre, and Fictionville Studios, in New York. Recent performances include Song of The North at the New Victory Theatre, New York, NY, as well as touring internationally in Guanajuato, Mexico and Charleville-Mézières, France, with PACKRAT, a Concrete Temple Theatre production. Cooper earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, New York. Learn more about the artist at camillecooperworks.com.