Cooper lives and works in Westtown, New York. Each of his pieces is hand made in one of his two studios: either in the lower level of his house, a converted barn from 1840, or a separate studio located in a barn dating back to 1830. Cooper studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and later at the Fashion Institute of Technology. "As an artist, I design and hand fabricate each piece of jewelry and Judaica, and sculpture with my hands, my head and especially my heart," says Cooper.