Cynthia Cooper has been making art since she could hold a crayon and considers her work to be completely autobiographical whether it is figural or abstract or whether or not it could be understood as such by a viewer. It is a depiction of the world as she experiences it. It includes her reaction to internal and external events including environmental concerns, the status of women and social justice.

The work is her personal form of geometric abstraction made by arranging patterns and colors in repetitive cycles and using math to make curves that go off on tangents. They are bursting outward with exuberant colors on an upward trajectory and is light-drenched and joyful. They are made with the hope that their optimism touches every viewer because the artist feels a connection to everyone and everything around her. Ms Cooper considers them to be a joyful parade that pulls in the viewers to march alongside her, onward and upward, toward transcendence

Her work has been exhibited in numerous juried shows and several solo exhibitions. Awards include the Dagny Hultgreen Award for Best in Show in the 104th Annual Juried Exhibition, Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich, CT. The juror, Allison Rudnick is the Associate Curator in the department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has also been awarded Second Place in The Nor’Easter 44th Annual Juried Members Exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art; Third Place in the 75th Annual Connecticut Artists Juried Exhibition 2019, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT and Winner of the 2019 Contemporary Award at The Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), 108th Annual Juried Exhibition, Mystic Museum of Art in Mystic CT. Her work is held in private collections as well as in the permanent collections of Penn State University and The New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT where it was included in "Director’s Favorites, The New Britain Museum of American Art," Oct. 2015 - Jan. 2016.