Jo Cook
Individual
Roles
Artist, CuratorBiography
Jo Cook (1946-2021) was an artist publisher based in Mayne Island, BC, preceded by years of practice in Vancouver with the Vancouver Women’s Book Store and other community publishing projects. After attending Printed Matter in New York in 1978, Cook amassed a vast collection of zines, comix, artists books, posters, and flyers. In 2004, she curated (self)Publish or Perish for Open Space in Victoria, Cyclops Dreams (with Owen Plummer) for Access Gallery, and Tales from the Cyclops Library for Third Space Gallery in St John. She organized exhibitions at Lucky’s Comics and the lowercase reading room in Vancouver. Cook participated in artist residencies in Tabor, Czech Republic; Tallinn, Estonia; and at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She was the Artists’ Books Research Resident (ABRRR) at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2016. In 2005, Wesley Mulvin and Jo Cook founded Perro Verlag Books by Artists. Perro Verlag has published over 125 titles including comics, zines, poetry chapbooks, pamphlets, broadsides, and works of short fiction by artists and authors including Derya Akay, derek beaulieu, Brandy Fedoruk, Kasper Feyrer, Ted Hiebert, Doug Jarvis, Demi London, Petra Poldlahová, Sally Rees, Jackson Two Bears, and James Whitman.SFU Gallery, 2024