Jerald Cooper

Jerald “Coop” Cooper was born in 1983 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Coop is a researcher, artist, DJ, and the founder of Hood Century (@hoodmidcenturymodern), a new media agency researching, documenting, and educating the masses on the African American legacies within modern architecture, design, and “the city.” Through Hood Century and his own multidisciplinary practice, Coop explores the relationship between the Black lived experience and modernity as something “by design.” Centering the Ghanaian tradition of Sankofa, which means to gather, protect, and renew what is at risk of being left behind, Coop documents and proliferates Black Modernism through pop culture, mixed media, and edu-tainment.