PRESS
Romanian Economic and Business Review – "Transforming and Translating Monsters: Adam Cooley and the Art of Yōkai in the Interregnum," Kathryn M. Tanaka. Special Issue: Monsters Re-Visited: The Fantastic Creatures of Japan, ed. Carmen Săpunaru Tămaș. Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania. Summer 2026 PDF
Romanian Economic and Business Review – "Translating the Uncanny: Yōkai, Ritual Process, and Transcultural Vision." Special Issue: Monsters Re-Visited: The Fantastic Creatures of Japan, ed. Carmen Săpunaru Tămaș. Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania. Summer 2026 PDF
The Daily Tar Heel – "'Visually impactful': New sculpture on Franklin Street celebrates Pride Month" Sarayu Thondapu, Chapel Hill, NC, May 2024 PDF
Art Collector's Magazine – "Adam Cooley・我妻 瑩眞 二人展「LOVE × 愛」" Tokyo, Japan: Seikatsu no Tomosha. Feb 2022
Gekkan Bijutsu (月刊美術) – "Adam Cooley Solo Exhibition – Fairyland" Tokyo, Japan: San Art Co., Ltd. Issue No. 534, March 2020
TOKYO ART BEAT – "The Passion of Adam Cooley" Finnegan Campbell, Tokyo, Japan, February 2019 PDF
Gekkan Bijutsu (月刊美術) – "Adam Cooley Exhibition: Flower of Passion / イチオシ作家 2019" Tokyo, Japan: San Art Co., Ltd. Issue No. 520, January 2019
GALLERY – issue 405 – vol. 1 "Adam Cooley Exhibition – Flower of Passion" Tokyo, Japan: Sou Hokkai Tokyo Co., Ltd. January 2019
GALLERY – issue 404 – vol. 12 "Adam Cooley – Flower of Love / Flower of Passion" Tokyo, Japan: Sou Hokkai Tokyo Co., Ltd. December 2018
Sassify Zine – "Electra Raygun" (Adam Cooley), Issue #5, The Defiance Issue, United Kingdom, 2018
Gekkan Bijutsu (月刊美術) – "Adam Cooley Exhibition – Sea of Love" Tokyo, Japan: San Art Co., Ltd. Issue No. 510, March 2018 PDF
Kansai Scene – "Queer Film Festival" Daniel Lee, Mojoworks KK, Osaka, Japan, July 2005
Kansai Time Out – "A Day in the Life of an Artist; A Portrait of Adam Cooley" Simon Moran, Kobe, Japan, December 1999 PDF
Daily Yomiuri – "Amulet Artworks on Sale, Display at Kyoto Gallery" Akino Yoshihara, Kyoto, Japan, July 1999 PDF
Daily Yomiuri – "A Touching Experience" Akino Yoshihara, Kyoto, Japan, March 1998 PDF
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa – Karin Muller, Rodale Books, Emmaus, Pennsylvania. ISBN 1-59486-523-X, 9781594865237, 2005
Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture – Irina Holca and Carmen Săpunaru Tămaș (eds.), Lexington Books. ISBN 9781793623874, 2020 — artwork featured on cover; Adam Cooley cited in Chapter 5, "The Body as Canvas: Osaka Drag Queens from Kabuki to Lady Gaga" by Carmen Săpunaru Tămaș
Adam Cooley: Reflections in the Light of Darkness, Adam Cooley New York. ISBN 978-0-9973542-0-1, 2016
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa – Karin Muller (author), interview, Osaka, Japan. ISBN 9781594862236, Hardcover, 2005 PDF Watch trailer
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa – documentary television series, interview, Karin Muller (Producer), Osaka, Japan, 2004, USA release date 2006
FILM
Spit and Honey 「唾と蜜」 – artwork featured in museum scenes. Directed by Kenji Maki, Japan, 2018
IN THE NEWS
Charlotte Observer – "After Eastover gallery was abruptly evicted, Charlotte artists remain in limbo" Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte, NC, December 2025 PDF
Queen City Nerve – "Coffey & Thompson Closure Leaves Artists Reeling, Unable to Retrieve Work" Ryan Pitkin, Charlotte, NC, December 2025 PDF