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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Kerry Stuart Coppin is currently an assistant professor of photography and digital imaging at the University of Miami, Coppin has traveled extensively through Senegal, Cuba, Barbados, and Brazil. A documentary- style photographer, Coppin's work explores African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro- Latin American life and experience. In his words, Coppin documents "Black community experience, cultural life and customs. Through photography, I attempt to not only interpret and record my experience, but also to participate in an ongoing debate about the fate and shape of the Black cultural experience."

Coppin's photography is in permanent collections around the world, including the African-American Museum (Philadelphia), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), Asociation Cultural Yoruba de Cuba (Havana), Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Paris), Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), and the West African Research Center (Dakar, Senegal). Later in the fall, Coppin will travel to Egypt to photograph urban Cairo while his 2005 exhibition schedule includes a one-person exhibition at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and two exhibitions in Cuba. In spring of 2005, MIT Press will reproduce two of Coppin's photographs in Writing the World: On Globalization, edited by David Rothenberg.