As director Jordan Peele’s producing partner, Ian Cooper has worked on the critically acclaimed 2019 film, Us, as well as the forthcoming Candyman, which Peele co-wrote and Nia DaCosta directed. Cooper is currently prepping to shoot Peele’s third directorial outing, which stars Academy Award winner Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Academy Award nominee Steven Yeun, with a release date set for summer 2022.

Cooper is also a visual artist with a focus on mixed media sculpture, and was a faculty member in the studio art department at New York University from 2005 – 2016 where he taught sculpture and was the head of the undergraduate thesis program. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad over the past several decades, and his work sits in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Perez Art Museum in Miami.