Born in 1953, Eileen Cooper studied at Goldsmith’s College, London from 1971 to 1974 and the Royal College of Art, London from 1974 to 1977. She has been Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art and City & Guilds of London Art School since 1998.

Cooper’s first solo exhibition was held in 1979 at the Air Gallery, London. Subsequent exhibitions were held throughout the UK including Blond Fine Art, London (1982, 1983 and 1985), Artspace Gallery, Aberdeen (1985), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (1986) and Artsite Gallery, Bath (1987). Regular exhibitions of her work were held at Benjamin Rhodes Gallery from 1988 and at Art First, London from 1998.

Cooper has also participated in many group exhibitions, including \'New Contemporaries\', in 1974 and 1976, \'Hayward Annual\', in 1982, the \'John Moores Liverpool Exhibition\', in 1986, and \'New British Painting\', held at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, in the United States. Among the more recent group exhibitions which have included her work are \'Contemporary Art\', at the Courtauld Institute, London (1993), \'Spirit on the Staircase: 100 Years of Print Publishing\', at the RCA, V & A, London (1996-7) and \'Private View\', at The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (1998). Eileen Cooper lives and works in London.