Biography
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Ian Cooper,(known as KAELIN), was born in 1996 in Chattanooga, TN. They moved to Murfreesboro in 2014 to receive their BFA in Studio Art. There they concentrated in printmaking and painting, maturing in their craft to fit their mixed media style of artwork. After graduating, they decided to dive into performance based work, combining video instillation, music, and theatre into their practice. They have shown their work in Nashville and Murfreesboro locations, being Cummins Station, East Nashville's Main Street Gallery, and Murfreesboro's Murfree Gallery. They premiered their performance work at Adverse Fest 2020, a queer arts festival based out of Athens, GA that encourages and celebrates diversity. Outside of galleries and performance venues, Ian has been published in international and National Journals such as, Freidericksburg Literary Review Magazine, Sink Hollow Journal, and the Santa Ana Review magazine. Ian is working on creating an interactive experience, to give diverse crowds a feel for their art. Their new work pushes their content into synesthetic, hypnagogic platforms while allowing their more traditional art to breathe, attempting to merge the gap between both gallery and performance venues. Ian is currently enrolled at Illinois State University, where they are receiving their Masters in Fine Arts in printmaking, exploring new and old territories. |