18/03/2026
Fitzpatrick Gallery is pleased to congratulate Cooper Jacoby on the opening of his installation at the Whitney Biennial, open through August 28th at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Excerpt from Cooper Jacoby interviewed by Jordan Carter
Whitney Biennale Catalogue, March 2026
JC: I want to think about the ideas of portraiture and biography, as you and your friends show up in your work by way of proxies. You described the series of works in which you mobilize your friends’ voices to recreate the way these dead creatives speak as portraits, as well as the work in which you’ve used your own baby teeth.
CJ: I thought, if I’m instrumentalizing the digital remains of anonymous people in these intercom works, I should instrumentalize myself in a way, which led to me using my baby teeth in the clockworks [Mutual Life]. It also came out of an exhaustion with biography, of being asked, “Where are you in the work?” My frustration with that led me to think, “Okay, I’ll give you something that’s the most valued or cherished material part of myself.” Baby teeth were also my first real encounter with the type of money exchange where something comes out of your body and you’re paid for it somehow, and that’s supposed to be even.
Cooper Jacoby
Mutual Life (76.4 years), 2026
Polished stainless steel, alligator teeth, electronics, wax, mdf, thermoplastic, acrylic, clear coat
35 x 35 x 14 cm
13 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 5 1/2 in
Cooper Jacoby
Estate (July 10, 2022), 2026
Thermoplastic, polarized polycarbonate, camera, screen, speaker, electronics, acrylic, clear coat, magnetic field viewing film, dead hard drive magnets, motors, leather, painted steel, acrylic, aluminum, and polystyrene board
200 x 204 x 90 cm
78 3/4 x 80 1/4 x 35 3/8 in
Cooper Jacoby
Estate (January 21, 2016), 2024
Thermoplastic, polarized polycarbonate, camera, screen, speaker, electronics, acrylic, clear coat, pan arm
40 x 20 x 25 cm
15 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in
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Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery
Photo and Video Credit: Brad Farwell