Cooper Battersby

Cooper Battersby received his diploma in computer programming at Okanagan College, and completed his Masters at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was the recipient of a Canada Council Production Grant in 2001.

Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke have been working collaboratively since June 1994. Their work has been broadcast and exhibited around the world. With Emily Vey Duke, his work has been exhibited at the Walker Center, Minneapolis; The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada; The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; YYZ, Toronto; and The New York Video Festival, New York City. Duke and Battersby are currently teaching at Syracuse University in Central New York. In 2010 they were shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award, and their work is distributed by Video Data Bank in Chicago, Argos in Brussels, V-Tape in Toronto and Video Out in Vancouver. In 2012, a book was published about their work. It is titled The Beauty is Relentless.