Chris Cook

Artist Bio

Christopher Cook is a New York-based artist, born and raisedin Brooklyn. After a friend recommended the Canon AE-1, he began photographinghis neighborhood.

Cook has exhibited in galleries throughout New York State,from the Lower East Side to upstate Auburn. He was a 2020 AIM Fellow at theBronx Museum of the Arts. In 2021 Valentine Museum of Art acquired 160 of hisBlack Lives Matter photographs. In February 2021, Cook’s solo exhibition atBrooklyn’s Welancora Gallery, “Am I Next?". It showcased his documentationof the Black Lives Matter movement (May–September 2020). In the Summer of 2021,he finished an artist-in-residence at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for theArts in Ithaca, New York.

He is currently showing an outside art exhibition inPhotoville this year. It is a group exhibition curated by Jamel Shabazz named“The Brooklyn Connection”.