“I feel more clearly than ever that my work derives sustenance from the placement of culture within nature (as with the architecture at Insel Hombroich, as in various unplanned neighborhoods where I have had studios in New York.) During the past several years I have begun paintings with that particular attitude.”
Cora Cohen 2012

Cora Cohen is a New York artist known for gritty abstract paintings that draw on contemporary urban and philosophical sources. Based on improvisatory and gestural procedures, “... originary effacements...negations of nothing...” (Barry Schwabsky, "One Art,"

2004), Cohen’s recent paintings are mediations on actual artifacts, often the syllabary, logograms, and pictograms of Linear B script.

Cohen began exhibiting in New York in the seventies, and in the eighties began exhibiting nationally and internationally. Her works have been written about extensively in various publications including The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Art News, Flash Art, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, ArtNet Magazine, openpr.de, and artcritical.com. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Swedish State Art Council, Stockholm, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, and Yale University, New Haven.

Cohen's recent awards include a Gottlieb Foundation Award, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program Award, Brooklyn, New York, and The Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency Award in Montauk, New York. She has received awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the NEA, the New York State Council for the Arts, and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York.

In June 2011 a solo exhibition of Cohen's Altered X Rays – a continually evolving project begun in the early nineties – was held at the Field Institute Hombroich, Neuss. In early 2012 a solo exhibition of Cora Cohen’s recent works on paper will be held at d. m. allison art, Houston, Texas, and in the spring of 2012 her paintings will be included in Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

Born in New York City in 1943, Cora Cohen studied at Bennington College with Paul Feeley and Richard Haas (B.A., 1964, M.A. 1972.) She has lectured at many institutions including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Columbia University, New York, and the New York Studio School, New York.

Cora Cohen currently maintains a studio in Long Island City, New York and lives in Long Island City with her partner Peter Arnold.



Selected Solo Exhibitions
* denotes catalogue and/or essay
 
2012 d.m. allison art, Houston, Texas
   
2011 Field Institute Hombroich, Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss
  field notes, Dinter Fine Arts, http://www.dinterfineart.com/html/project.html
   
2008 Come in a Little Closer, Recent Paintings, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, New York
   
2007 *Oblique Forms: Spray Paint Paintings, Photographs, The Hybrid Indexical Adventure Series, Abaton Garage, Jersey City, New Jersey
*Markus Winter Gallery, Berlin
   
2005 Abaton Garage, Jersey City, New Jersey
  Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
   
2004 Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York
   
2003 National Focus Artist 2003-2004, Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia
   
2002 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
   
2001 McCoy Chelsea, New York, New York
   
1999 Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Belvederestrasse 149a, Köln
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
   
1998 Upstairs Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California                                                             
   
1997 The Mob Within the Heart, Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn                                             
Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York
Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn Cohen/Koberling
   
1996 * Cora Cohen: paintings and altered x rays 1983-1996                                                
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
   
1994 *Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York
   
1993 New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York
   
1992 A/C Project Room, New York, New York, Cohen/Deleporte
   
1990 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York
   
1988 Wolff Gallery, New York, New York
   
1984 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York
   
1983 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey
   
1981 Dunne/Steen Fine Arts, Greenwich, Connecticut
   
1980 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York
   
1979 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York
   
1977 State University of New York at Oneonta, New York
   
1976 Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, New York, Cohen/Fortgang
   
1974 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
   
1972 Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
   
1968 Makaroff Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
   
   

 

Selected Group Exhibitions
 
2012 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts 2012, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
5th Anniversary Exhibition, devening projects + editions, Chicago, Illinois
Hex: Cora Cohen, Loren Erdrich, Tamara Gonzales, Margrit Lewczuk, JennyLynn McNutt and Joelen Mulvaney, curated by Joelen Mulvaney, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Mic: check (occupy), Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
   
2011 aufPapier, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden
American Women, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Drawn out Death, curated by Angel Quesada, Rolando Reyna, Talento Bilingue de Houston, Houston, Texas
Polis, curated by Markus Winter, Art Blog Art Blog, New York, New York
Scripted, curated by Todd Keyser, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
70 Years of Abstract Painting - Excerpts, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
It’s All Good! apocalypse now! Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
   
2010 *Carl Plansky and Friends, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, New York
This World, Other World, curated by David Gronzinsky, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont
The Feminine in Abstract Painting, new works by Cora Cohen, Melanie Parke, Kiki Slaughter, Margie Stewart, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
It's a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
   
2009 *Strokes, curated by John Pomara, Visual Arts Building: Main Gallery, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Group Exhibition, William Shearburn Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
   
2008 Shape Shifters: New York Painters, curated by James Biederman, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina; Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Back to the Drawing Board, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, New York
   
2007 No Words And Words On Paper, Stalke Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark
Dutch Barn Fall Show, curated by Rose Burlingham, Clinton Corners, New York
Painters of California and New York, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Art Connections 4r, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
 
 
 
   
2005 Benefit Auction for the Vermont Studio Center, Sotheby's, New York, New York
   
2004 The Art Fair, The 69th Regiment Armory, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York
Benefit Art Auction, Grace Church School, New York, New York
   
2003 im + provisus: Compositions in Jazz, curated by Alison Nichols Ferring and Eva Lundsager, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri
Painting Painting, N3 Project Space, Williamsburg, New York
   
2002 Back to the Future, curated by Michael St. John and Jason Duval; Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, New York
CEPA Benefit Art Auction, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
   
2001 *The Five and Dime Series, The Record, the Death, the Surprise, Jan Van der Donk, New York, New York
Celebrating Yaddo Artists, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
   
1999 Oppenhoff and Rädler, organized by Stefanie Hering, Leipzig
Galerie Mariann Ahnlund, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm
*Immediacies of the Hand: Recent Abstract Painting in New York, curated by Carter Ratcliff and Kim Sobel, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, New York
Positionen 33 Painting, Hering Raum Stahlwerk Willich, Willich
Selected Paintings, McCoy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
   
1998 Painting New York/Copenhagen, Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen
*Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Galerie Mariann Ahnlund, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Lilith, curated by Stephanie Theodore; The Workspace at Dolgenos, Newman, & Cronin, New York, New York
Absolute Surprise to Benefit the Royal College of Art and the New York Studio School, David McKee Gallery, New York, New York
Coaliton for the Homeless Benefit Exhibition and Auction, The Puck Building, New York, New York
*The Tsagaris/Hilberry Collection: A Sustaining Passion, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona Rapids, Iowa; Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa
   
1997 Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Abstract Painting, curated by Jeffrey Wasserman, Carrie Hadad Gallery, Hudson, New York
   
1996 *After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, curated by Lilly Wei, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Import/Export, presented by Stefanie Hering at Auto Kaiser, Köln
Cohen, Dagly, Dahn, Penck, others, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Köln,
Galerie Mariann Ahnlund, Umeå
Accrochage, Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn
Cora Cohen, Leslie Kamen, Robert Mallary, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, New York
   
1995 Salon des Tree, Central Park, New York, New York
*In Search of the Pleasure Principle, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York
*New York University 1995 Faculty Show, Apex Art, New York, New York
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, New York
   
1994 Freedom—Discipline—Abstraction, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey
Heterogeneity, Abstraction and Virtual Space, curated by Leonard Bullock, Out of the Blue Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mirage, with McClelland, Nelson, Szold, Whitten, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York
Abstract Paintings, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
Small Format Abstract Paintings, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York
*U.S. Embassy, Manilla: Contemporary American Artists
   
1993 Libidinal Painting, curated by Bill Arning; White Columns, New York, New York
30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings for the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
Inaugural Show 1993, The Painting Center, New York, New York
New Works by Gallery Artists, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York
   
1992 Introductions, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Contemporary Surfaces, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, New York
An Esemplastic Shift, A/C Project Room, New York, New York
*Painting Self-Evident, curated by Katherine Porter; Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, South Carolina
Painting Invitational, with Bloodgood, Bullock, Kinmont; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, New York
Multiple Grounds, with Balth, Fisher, Ostendarp; Sytsema Galleries, Baarn
The Fetish of Knowledge, A/C Project Room, New York, New York
Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, New York
Shades of Difference, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, New York
   
1991 *Strategies for the Next Painting, curated by Saul Ostrow and Jamie Wolff, Wolff Gallery, New York, New York; Feigen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
   
1990 Painting the Dematerialized Ego, with Fitzgerald and Boocheever, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Postminimalism, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Serial Drawings, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
The Radiant Principle, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York
   
1989 A Decade of American Drawing: 1980-89, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Methods of Abstraction, Urban Gallery, New York, New York
   
1988 Among Them, But Not Of Them, with Fisher, Heilmann, Sarat, Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Six Abstract Painters, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York
Aspects of Abstraction, with Eigenheer, Hess, Mitchell, Murray, Pfaff, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York
Group Revelations, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
   
1987 The Presence of Nature: Some American Paintings, with Berthot, de Kooning, Dove, Hartley, Krasner, Mitchell, curated by Beth Urdang, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
*Art Against AIDS, curated by Robert Rosenblum, Dia Art Foundation, New York, New York
Contemporary and Modern Masters, Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York, New York
Painting Invitational, with Goldberg, Mitchell, Mueller, Palazzolo, Porter, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York
Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
   
1985 *Painting as Landscape: Views of American Modernism, curated by Klaus Kertess, Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California; Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York
The Non-Objective World, curated by Stephen Westfall, Kamikaze, New York, New York
   
1984 Figures of Paint, curated by Klaus Kertess, Cable Gallery, New York, New York
   
1982 Abstract Substance and Meaning: Painting by Women Artists, College Art Association New York City Convention, New York, New York
   
1979 *New Options in Painterly Abstraction, with Palazzolo, Phillips, Porter; Cadman Plaza East Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York
   
1976 New Talent, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Invitational Exhibition, Deitcher/O'Reilley Gallery, New York, New York
   
 
 

Selected Bibliography

Mittelstedt, Mitchell Ed: F Newsmagazine “Cora Cohen’s Writerly Art” November 14, 2011
Newhall, Edith: The Philadelphia Inquirer “Going off Script With A Show Called Scripted” August, 7, 2011
Smith, Roberta: The New York Times “Chelsea: Art Chockablock with Encyclopedic Range” November 2008
Waltemath, Joan: The Brooklyn Rail “Cora Cohen: Michael Steinberg Gallery” November 2008
Riley, Jennifer: artcritical.com “Cora Cohen: Come in a Little Closer at Michael Steinberg” October 2008
Sneed, Gillian: New York Arts Magazine “Trends in Contemporary Painting” July/August 2008
Quinlan, Cathy Nan: artcritical.com “Shape Shifters: New York Painters” May 2008
Fendrich, Laurie: “The Interface of Art and Humanity” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Review, Brainstorm, February 23, 2008
Maine, Stephen: “Keeping it Real,” catalogue essay to accompany the solo exhibition Oblique Forms: Spray Paint Paintings, Photographs, The Hybrid Indexical Adventure Series at Abaton Garage, September 9 – October 31, 2007
MacAdam, Barbara: Artnews “The New Abstraction” April 2007, Volume 106, Number 4
Buhmann, Stephanie: “Experience versus Experimentation” catalogue essay to accompany the solo exhibition of paintings and drawings at Galerie Markus Winter, Berlin, February 10 – March 31, 2007
The Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy Sarajevo, catalogue, 2006
Bortz, Lauri: “Far Less Tangible States of Being, Cohen’s altered x rays, drawings and photographs” August 2006
Maine, Stephen: Art in America, February 2005
Buhmann, Stefanie: The Brooklyn Rail, “Artseen” November 2004
Schwabsky, Barry:  “One Art,” essay to accompany exhibition, 2004
Rubenstein, Raphael: Art in America “Not a Mirage", Number 12, December 2002
Cohen, Cora: “The Record, the Death, the Surprise” Abaton Press, Newton, New Jersey, August 1999
Landi, Ann: Artnews "New York Reviews", Volume 98/ Number 7, Summer 1999
Cotter, Holland: The New York Times "Reviews" April 9, 1999
Ratcliff, Carter and Sobel, Kim: "Immediacies of the Hand: Recent Abstract Painting in New York," catalogue accompanying the exhibition, March 1999
Sendo, Lenore: Art Vue, Reviews
Heartney, Eleanor: Art in America, June, 1998
Schmerler, Sarah: Artnews  "New York Reviews", Volume 97/ Number 2, February 1998
Pope, Robert Russell III: The Abstract Painter As Snake Handler: An Investigation and Interpretation of the Practice of Five American Abstract Painters in 1998, dissertation, Florida State University
Humphrey, Jacqueline:Greensboro News and Record "Art on Paper show has unfinished feeling" November 19, 1998
Perl, Jed: The New Republic "Transformations" December 1, 1997
Brackman, Yvette: Time Out New York, Issue 109, October 23-30, 1997
Arning, Bill: Art in America, "John Zinsser at Pamela Auchincloss" November 1997
_______: The New Yorker, October 13, 1997
Smith, Dinita: The New York Times "Besides the Hudson, The Lure of Art" October 10, 1997
Ebony, David: www.artnet.com "David Ebony's New York Top Ten" September 23, 1997
_______: The New Yorker, September 22, 1997
Macmillan, Kyle: Sunday World Herald "Exhibitions at Joslyn Illustrate Two Different Approaches to Art,"  September 15, 1996
Johnson, Ken: The New York Times, September 19, 1997
 _______: Time Out New York "Issue 103, Galleries: 57th Street" September 11-18, 1997            
Arning, Bill: Time Out New York "Lilith" Issue 103 September 11-18, 1997
Mendelsohn, John: The Jewish Week "The Abstract Lilith" August 29, 1997
Newhall, Edith: New York Magazine "Fall Previews" September 8, 1997
Schwabsky, Barry: Review  "Five Shows I Wish I'd Had a Chance to Write About, 1996-7” July/August 1997
Cosar, Sascha: Bonner Rundschau, "Urbanes Lebensgefühl in Amerika" May 22, 1997
_______: Bonner Illustrierte, May 1997
Seidel, Martin: Bonner Generalanzeiger, "Spaß mit Öl und Marmorstaub" May 6, 1997
_______: Bonner Generalanzeiger  "Tips und Termine" April 18, 1997
Hirsch, Robert: Exploring Color Photography, figure 22.5, Brown & Benchmark Publishers, Madison, Wisconsin, 1997
_______: Kölneiz Illustrierte, "Nene Ausslellungen, Import/Export" November 1996
Macmillan, Kyle: Sunday World Herald "Exhibitions at Joslyn Illustrate Two Different Approaches to Art,"  September 15, 1996
Stich, Sidra: Paintings and Altered X rays 1983 - 1996: catalogue accompanying the exhibition, includes a conversation with Barry Schwabsky, The University of Alabama, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, July 1996
Björkman, Anders: Västerbottens - Kuriren, "The Earth Reddens and Bursts” Umeå, Sweden,  April 26, 1996
Bell, J. Bowyer: Review "Reviews and Previews of Current Exhibitions in New York", Volume 1, Number 1 April 1996
Hirsch, Robert: Campos Perspective "In Search of the Pleasure Principle", Issue 2, May/June 1995
Lehrer, Leonard and Rand, Steven: Catalogue of New York University Faculty Exhibition at Apex Art, "Diverse Group One Direction", Spring 1995
Deyneka, Elisa: Art Voice "In Search of the Pleasure Principle", Vol. 6, No. 10 May 1995
Huntington, Richard: The Buffalo News "Sweet visions from 13 seekers of pleasure" April 27, 1995
Huntington, Richard: The Buffalo News "Joy Division" April 7, 1995
________: Camera and Darkroom, April 1995
________: Women Artists: Selections from the Collections of Bryn Mawr College, Calendar, 1996
Campbell, Kathleen and Hirsch, Robert: In Search of the Pleasure Principle: catalogue of the exhibition, 1995
U. S. Embassy, Manila: Contemporary American Artists: catalogue of the exhibition, 1994
Nadelman, Cynthia: Drawing "Museum Acquisitions", Vol. XVI, No. 4, November/December 1994
Stevens, Mark: New York Magazine "Bravura Brushwork", Vol. 27, No. 47, November 28, 1994
Nochlin, Linda:  Cora Cohen: Recent Paintings: catalogue of the exhibition, 1994
Bacon, George: The Art Newspaper, No. 40, July - September 1994
Kalina, Richard: Art in America, No. 7, Vol. 82, July 1994
Morgan, Robert C.: Art Press "Peintures pour un hiver", No. 190, April 1994
Neugroshel, Joachim: The New York Review of Art, Vol. I, No. 2, April 24, 1994
Hirsch, Faye: Art in America, Vol. 82, No. 1, January 1994
________: The New Yorker,  October 4, 1993
Smith, Roberta: The New York Times, December 10, 1993
Wei, Lilly: Art in America, Vol. 81, No. 6, June 1993
Henry, Gerrit: Artnews, Vol. 92, No. 6, Summer 1993
Cotter, Holland: The New York Times "Art Guide" March 19, 1993
_________: The New Yorker "Bright Spark" March 22, 1993
McConaughy, Claire: Cover "Cora Cohen/Anne Delaporte", Vol. VII, Winter 1993
Cohen, Cora: Tema Celeste "The Fulcrum of the Fight", No. 37-38, Autumn 1992
Cotter, Holland: The New York Times "Art Guide" August 7, 1992
Smith, Roberta: The New York Times June 26, 1992
Phillips, Michael: Painting Self-Evident: Evolutions in Abstraction: catalogue of the exhibition, 1992
Ostrow, Saul: “Shifting Grounds, Unstable Territories” essay for the exhibition Multiple Grounds, 1992
_________: Tema Celeste "Where the Meaning Begins", from a Round Table on Abstraction, No. 35April/May 1992
Figee, Thea: Utrechts Nieuwsblad "Nieuwe materieschilderkunst uit New York"  March 28, 1992
Ostrow, Saul: Tema Celeste "Strategies for a New Abstraction" Special Issue, No. 32-33, Autumn 1991
Cohen, Cora: Bomb Magazine "Social Volition", No. XXXVII, Fall 1991
Kaneda, Shirley: Arts Magazine "Painting and its Others", Vol. 65, No. 6, Summer 1991
Artner, Alan G.: Chicago Tribune, March 8, 1991
Ostrow, Saul: Strategies for the Next Painting: catalogue of the exhibition, 1991
McQuaid, Cate: South End News "Painting the Dematerialized Ego" October 3, 1990
Sherman, Mary: Boston Globe "The Artful Uses of Classification" August 1990
McQuaid, Cate: South End News "Drawing the Line" June 28, 1990
Westfall, Stephen: Art in America, Vol. 77, No. 6, June 1989
Welish, Marjorie: Arts Magazine, Vol. 63, No. 7, March 1989
Donohue, Marlena: Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1988
Kimmelman, Michael: The New York Times, November 25, 1988
_________: Bomb Magazine "An Abbreviated Theory of the Body", No. XXV; Reproduction, Fall 1986
Brenson, Michael: The New York Times "Art: Works by 7 Women, 'Aspects of Abstraction'" January 22, 1988
Cohen, Cora: Bomb Magazine "Interview with Joan Mitchell", No. XVII, Fall 1986
Kertess, Klaus: John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculpture 1954-85
Kertess, Klaus: Painting as Landscape: catalogue of the exhibition, 1985
_________: Bomb Magazine "The American Landscape", No. XI; Reproduction, Winter 1985
Choate, Pari Stave: Flash Art "New York Reviews", No. 118, Summer 1984
Moorman, Peggy: Artnews "New York Reviews", Vol. 83, No. 6, Summer 1984
Brenson, Michael: The New York Times, March 16, 1984
Zimmer, William: Arts Magazine, Vol. 58, No. 7, March 1984
Rickey, Carrie: The Village Voice "Why Women Don't Express Themselves" November 2, 1982
Kenny, Kay: Women's Art Journal "Abstract Substance and Meaning", Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1982
Nadelman, Cynthia: Artnews "New York Reviews", Vol. 80, No. 4, April 1981
Polk, James: Art World "New York Exhibitions" March 20, 1981
Polk, James: Greenwich Time "The Arts" March 13, 1981
Zimmer, William: Soho Weekly News "Reviews" December 3, 1980
Frank, Peter: The Village Voice "Reviews" June 4, 1979
Cohen, Randy: Synapse "Sound Articulates Space", Vol. 3, No. 1, January/February 1979
Phillips, Michael: New Options in Painterly Abstraction: catalogue of the exhibition, 1979
Canaday, John: The New York Times "It's Spring in Connecticut, and New Talent Blooms" May 9, 1976
Lorber, Richard: Arts Magazine "Reviews", Vol. 50, No. 3, March 1976
Wright, Carolyn: Syracuse New Times “Ambiguity in Art and Person” December 8, 1974
 
 
Selected Symposia/Interviews/Panels/Lectures
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2012 Living Together, Young Painters, Visting Lecture Series, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
   
2011 Painting in the Age of Digital Technology, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Living Together, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Lecture Series
Living Together, School of the Arts Columbia University, Visiting Lecture Series
   
2010 Is Painting a Language? symposium moderated by Joan Waltemath, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Becoming A Painter, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
   
2009 My Work, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
   
2008 “Once or a Thousand Times,” moderated by Wendy Gittler, New York Artists Equity Association, The Art Students League,
New York, New York
   
2007 "Being a Painter," University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
   
2006 “My Work,” Fordham University, New York, New York
“On Her Work,” New York Studio School, New York, New York
   
1999 Open Studio to Benefit the Coalition for the Homeless
Interview with Cora Cohen, published by Bentley Gallery to accompany a solo exhibition
   
1998 Contemporary Painting: Interview with Cora Cohen by Robert Pope as part of a Dissertation on Contemporary Abstract Painting, Florida State University
   
1996 “Kunstmarkt New York/Köln,” Interview by Peter Krüger, Köln
   
1995 "Artists in the Studio: Cora Cohen," video aired on channel 16, December 17, 1995, New York, New York
   
1992 “The Feminine in Abstract Painting,” moderated by Anna Chave, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
   
1991 Round Table on Abstraction under the auspices of Tema Celeste at Charlie Clough's, New York, New York
   
1989 "Institutions of the Art World," moderated by Paul Mattick, American Society of Aesthetics, New York, New York
 

 

Grants and Awards

 
2009 The Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency, Montauk, NY
   
2008-09 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program Residency, Brooklyn, NY
   
2006 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award
   
1998 The Pollock / Krasner Foundation Award
   
1990 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award
   
1989 New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
   
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
   
1982 Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
   
1969 University of Pennsylvania, Fellowship in Fine Arts—Painting
   
1964 Bennington College, Fellowship in Studio Art
 

 

Selected Curatorial Projects
 
2009 Snippets, Sampling, Static, The Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, New York 
 
1992 An Esemplastic Shift, AC Project Room, New York, New York 

 

Selected Teaching
 
2012 New York Studio School - Drawing Marathon
   
2011 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont - Visiting Critic
   
2010-11 Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
   
2007-11 The Educational Alliance, New York, New York  – Contemporary Painting
   
2006,7,9 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont – Visiting Critic
   
2006 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland – Adjunct Faculty
   
2005 New York University – Visiting Artist
Private Studio Tutorial – Drawing
   
2004 The New School, New York – Visiting Artist
State University of New Jersey, Newark – Adjunct Faculty
   
2003 Washington University, St. Louis – Visiting Artist
Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia – Visiting Artist
   
2000 Corcoran Museum and School of Art – Visiting Artist
Vermont Studio Center – Visiting Critic
   
1998-03 The University of North Carolina, Greensboro – Associate Professor of Art
   
1999 Vermont Studio Center – Visiting Critic
   
1998 Vermont Studio Center – Visiting Critic
   
1997 Vermont Studio Center – Visiting Critic
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Visiting Artist
New York University – Adjunct Faculty
Fundamentals of Painting; M.F.A. Studio Critique
   
1996 Kunsthögskolan, Umeå – Seminar
Kunsthögskolan, Stockholm – Seminar
University of Minnesota – Visiting Artist
New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Advanced Painting
   
1995 New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Advanced Drawing
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts – Visiting Artist
   
1994 Tyler School of Art, Temple University  - Lecture
New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Fundamentals of Drawing – Advanced Painting
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts – Visiting Artist
   
1993 New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Advanced Painting
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Visiting Professor
New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Advanced Drawing
New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania – Visiting Artist
   
1992 School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Visiting Professor
School of the Art Institute of Chicago at Oxbow – Visiting Artist
New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Painting
Brooklyn College – Lecture
   
1991 New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Fundamentals of Drawing
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Visiting Artist
Kent State University – Blossom Art Program – Visiting Artist
   
1990 New York University – Adjunct Faculty – Introduction to Drawing, Advanced Painting
Tyler School of Art – Visiting Artist
   
1989 New York Studio School – Lecture
   
1985 Boston Museum School of Fine Arts – Visiting Artist
   
1984 School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Visiting Artist
Wesleyan University, Connecticut – Studio Lecture
University of Chicago – Visiting Artist
   
1983 School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Visiting Artist
Converse College, South Carolina – Studio Lecture
   
1979 C. W. Post College, Long Island – Studio Lecture
   
1970-72 Bennington College, Vermont – Drawing
   
1969-70 University of Pennsylvania – Artist-in-Residence
   

 

Education
 

Bennington College, Vermont, B. A., M. A. (Painting and Drawing) 1972