Ron Cooper (b. 1943, New York) is an artist associated with the Southern California Light and Space movement. After training at the Chouinard Art Institute, he began exhibiting in Los Angeles in the late 1960s — including in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1967 and 1969 Annual Exhibitions of Contemporary Painting — and in 1968 began his signature Light Trap series, layering tinted polyester resin and fiberglass to trap and hold ambient light. His 1972 lithograph Tri-Axial Rotation of a Floating Volume of Light, published by Cirrus Editions, is held by both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; LACMA separately holds an untitled 1968–69 resin Light Trap acquired in 1970, and the Whitney Museum of American Art holds an untitled 1970 Light Trap, acquired as a gift in 2023.