RHONDA COOPER, Art Gallery Director & Adjunct Lecturer, M.A. University of Hawaii
rcooper@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
University Art Gallery 1st Floor - 631.632.7240

Rhonda Cooper has been the Director of the University Art Gallery at Stony Brook University since 1983. Before coming to Stony Brook, she was Curator of Exhibitions at The Queens Museum in New York City and Curator of Asian Art at The Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. Other museums and galleries at which she has worked include The Harvard University Archives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Rhonda Cooper received her M.A. in the History of Far Eastern Art from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and did additional graduate study towards the Ph.D. at Cornell University. She has taught arts management and Asian art history at Stony Brook since 1984. She has also taught at the Art Institute of Boston and the University of Bridgeport. Rhonda Cooper is the author of many articles and exhibition catalogues and co-author of the book Masterpieces of Chinese Art.