Born 1974. Lives and works Melbourne

Master of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design, RMIT

Honours in Fine Arts, UWA, Perth

The Stranger, Blockprojects, Melbourne

Interference Pattern, collaboration with Rebecca Najdowski, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
A light without stars, Galerie pompom, Sydney

The Insufficient Photograph, Bus Projects, Melbourne

Apparition Apparatus, Galerie pompom, Sydney

Concrete Compositions, Fort Delta, Melbourne
And yet, but for these flowers, City of Yarra Carlton Library Lightbox Project, Melbourne

Anchorage, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Point Farewell (collaboration with Jo Scicluna), C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne

Anchorage, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne
The Year of the Savage, West Space, Melbourne

Control Study, with Jon Butt, St Heliers Street Gallery
Endings, Centre of Contemporary Photography Billboard Project, Melbourne
We’ll make it last forever, MOP Projects, Sydney

UnNatural Light, Kurb Gallery, Perth
UnNatural Light, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne

Wordless, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne

Taking Up Country, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne

Wreckage, Upstairs Flinders, Melbourne
Lullaby Me to Sleep, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

After They, Ume Nomiya, Melbourne

When I Remembered You, Ume Nomiya, Melbourne

Searching for Monsters, Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts, Perth

Sneaking Around the Motel, Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts, Perth

Come on: pop my bubbles, Port Gallery, Fremantle

By Definition, Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland, NZ
Liminal, Five Walls, Melbourne

Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks
Looking but not seeing, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
In Bloom, SPRING1883, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
An Empire of Things, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Imagine, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale

Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Another Look – Contemporary Artists and the Collection, Townhall Gallery, Melbourne
Contagious Magic, Galerie pompom, Sydney
CLIP Award, Perth Centre of Photography, Perth
Waves, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne

Interiors/Exteriors, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Butchery, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne

Cutting edge: 21st-century photography, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Terra Australis, Galerie Pavlova, Berlin
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Carriageworks, Sydney
West Space 2015 fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne

Holy Lands, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
View from the Window, Edmund Pearce, Melbourne
Secure the shadow, Breezeblock, Sydney
Landscape transformed, Wallflower Gallery, Mildura
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Gallery

Stockland, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Face Off, Wellington St Projects, Sydney
The Dark Arts, Strange Neighbour, Melbourne
Contemporary Landscapes in Photography Prize, Perth Centre of Photography
Yarra Yarra, St Heliers Street Gallery

Heaven or Las Vegas, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Archive 3, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne
Flanagans Art Prize, St Patricks College, Ballarat
Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Copyshop, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne
The Study of Everything, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne
Near Earth Art, The Knock of the Shoe, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong

Kodak Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Golden Mountain, C3 Contemporary Arts Space, Melbourne

We were young, Kings Gallery, Melbourne
Contemporary Landscapes in Photography Prize, Perth Centre of Photography
St Michael’s Exhibition and Archangel Prize, St Michaels Grammar School, Melbourne

Two, Westspace, Melbourne

Bespoke, Mori Gallery, Sydney

The Arts Show with Alex McCulloch, Jewish Australian Radio 87.8FM, 25 April 2019
Three Belly Buttons, Podcast with Siying Zhou and Sanja Pahoki

Terra Firma, Issue 5, November, p 88-91
Looking but not Seeing, exhibition catalogue, Benalla Art Gallery
Sophie Willison, ‘Vivian Cooper Smith showing at Galerie pompom’, Terra Firma

Another Look: Contemporary Artists and The Collection, exhibition catalogue, Town Hall Gallery

Pippa Milne, ‘Forecast: Vivian Cooper Smith’, Vault, Issue 15, pp.122-124

Ingrid Kesa, ‘Photographer Vivian Cooper Smith Messes with Static Images’, The Creators Project, 1 September

Dan Rule, The Age, May 10

2013 ‘Vivian Cooper Smith: Anchorage’, The Melbourne Review
Jo Scicluna, ‘Year of the Savage’, catalogue essay

Toby Blyth, ‘Vivian Cooper Smith’, A Magazine
Dan Rule, The Age, November 17
Dylan Rainforth, ‘Space’, The Age, October 3
Dan Rule, The Age, June 30
Kate Walsh, ‘6 of the Best. Q&A’, ‘Good Life’ supplement, Illawarra Mercury, March 27
Angela Thompson, ‘What’s in a name for curator’, Illawarra Mercury, March 1

Dan Rule, The Age, July 2

Dan Rule, The Age, February 13
Karl Smith, ‘Wordless’, catalogue essay

Dan Rule, The Age, June 20

Penny Modra, The Age, November 16
Rohan Trollope, The Age / EG, March 7

Andrew Gaynor, ‘What lies beneath’, Wreckage catalogue essay

Finalist, The King’s School Art Prize

Winner, CLIP Award (Contemporary Landscapes in Photography), Perth Centre for Photography
Finalist, The Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC

Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art

Finalist, The Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, VIC

NGV Women’s Association Award

Finalist, The Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, VIC

Semi-Finalist, Moran Contemporary Photography Prize
Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize
Finalist, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Finalist, The Iris Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA

CCP Salon Patrick Corrigan AM Acquisitive Award
Finalist, Contemporary Landscapes in Photography Prize

Winner, Best Night-time image, CCP Kodak Salon
City of Yarra, Small Projects Grant
Finalist, Flanagan Art Prize

Highly Commended, St Michael’s Archangel Prize
Finalist, Contemporary Landscapes in Photography Prize
Semi-finalist, Moran Contemporary Photography Prize

Australian Catholic University, Gippsland Art Gallery, Artbank, City of Yarra Melbourne