Mitch Cope is a Detroit based multi disciplined artist working as a solo studio artist, a collaborator on long term projects and curator/arts administrator. His solo work, known for it’s large scale paintings, drawings and photographs are derived from autobiographical meditations on landscape, memory and place. His collaborative work includes the duo team Design 99, which evolved from a quirky storefront gallery to a multi media installation based art project, blending social aesthetics, painting and architecture and the Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop an international collaborative team that harvests the ailanthus altissima, aka the Ghetto Palm, aka the Tree of Heaven as a metaphor for decay, growth and healing, transforming a despised, invasive tree into valuable sculpture and museum furniture. His work has been shown locally and internationally. As a director and curator he founded the Tangent Gallery in 2000 and the neighborhood arts non-profit Power House Productions in Detroit 2010. He also worked as a curator and artist for the international research/art project Shrinking Cities out of Berlin, Germany and served as the first Assistant Curator for The Museum of Contemporary Art. He earned a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, 1991 and an MFA from Washington State University, 1999.

His work has bee shown nationally and internationally at such venues as the Smart Museum in Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts and Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Netherland, KunstWerke in Berlin and Kunsthalle in Dresden Germany.