Jess Riva Cooper is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose work integrates clay, drawing, and found materials into sculptural and installation-based forms. Her practice explores mythology, ecology, and transformation, often merging human and botanical imagery into hybrid structures that evoke vulnerability and persistence. Across her work, vegetal forms erupt, creep, and overtake architectural and bodily frameworks, unsettling systems of order while suggesting cycles of growth, decay, and renewal.

Cooper holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her research-driven practice has been shaped by residencies at Medalta, the Archie Bray Foundation, Lillstreet Art Center, and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, among others. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Gardiner Museum in Toronto and Cynthia Corbett Gallery in London, and is held in public and private collections. Through her sculptures, Cooper engages ecological and cultural histories, inviting reflection on interdependence, fragility, and regeneration.