Wendy Cooney

Wendy Cooney Lighting Design LLC
http://wendycooneylightingdesign.com/

Biography

Wendy Cooney has been practicing lighting design for nearly 25 years.  She attended the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, and has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Hobart & William Smith Colleges. Wendy Cooney’s lighting design career started in New York City in 1986 working for the lighting design firm, Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design. The quality of her work resulted in numerous lighting awards from both the International Association of Lighting Designers and the Illuminating Engineering Society. In 1993, she started her own practice, which led to consulting work for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Ms. Cooney worked as the Guggenheim’s exhibition lighting designer until 1997. Her exhibition design work with the museum included direct collaboration with many notable artists, and the development of a gallery lighting system for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

Wendy Cooney Lighting Design has been addressing architectural lighting concerns in Colorado for the past thirteen years. Ms. Cooney’s architectural lighting design work has focused on custom residential projects, schools, restaurants, galleries and churches.  Ms. Cooney has consulted on numerous projects seeking LEED certification and she has worked closely with local municipalities developing community lighting policies that address issues of light trespass, energy usage, and Dark-Sky initiatives.

As a theatrical lighting designer, Ms. Cooney has consulted on major concert tours and has executed console programming and equipment focusing for concert lighting systems.

Wendy Cooney Lighting Design is committed to creating innovative, relevant and sustainable design solutions for architecture, environment and stage.