Selected CV
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of Works by Women, The Bryn Mawr College Art and Archaeology Collection, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Chemical Bank Collection, New York
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection at The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach
Hall Art Foundation
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase
Oestreicher Properties Inc., New York
RCM Capital Management, San Francisco
Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Sonesta Hotels, Boston
The Swedish APOTEKET AB, Stockholm
The Swedish State Art Council, Stockholm
The Texas State Bank, Houston
The Tsagaris/Hilberry Collection
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018
Elected to the National Academy of Design
2013
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2012
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
2009
The Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency, Montauk, New York
2008–9
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program Residency, Brooklyn
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 Fellowship—Painting
1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship—Painting
1982
Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga Springs, New York—Residency
1969
University of Pennsylvania Fellowship in Fine Arts—Painting
SYMPOSIA, INTERVIEWS, PANELS AND LECTURES
2015
Visiting Lecture Series, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
Radio WYBCX interview, Yale University, New Haven, March 27, 2015
2014
“Painting as Agency,” GASU Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Brooklyn College
“Painting as Agency,” Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania
“Sensitive Instruments, a panel about painting today,” moderated by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, 102nd Annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago
2013
“Living Together,” Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
“Cora Cohen,” interview by Christopher Joy and Zachary Keeting, November 2013, gorkysgranddaughter.com
2012
“Living Together, Young People Who Paint,” Medicine Hat College, Alberta, Canada
“Living Together, Young People Who Paint,” Visiting Lecture Series, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2011
“Painting in the Age of Digital Technology,” Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
“Living Together,” Visiting Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Living Together,” Visiting Lecture Series, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York
2010
“Is Painting a Language?” symposium moderated by Joan Waltemath, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
“Becoming A Painter,” Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2009
“My Work,” Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
2008
“Once or a Thousand Times,” moderated by Wendy Gittler, New York Artists Equity Association, The Art Students League, New York
2007
“Being a Painter,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2006
“My Work, Fordham University,” New York
“On Her Work,” New York Studio School
1995
“Artists in the Studio: Cora Cohen,” video aired on channel 16, New York, December 17, 1995
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
1989
“Institutions of the Art World,” moderated by Paul Mattick, Jr., American Society of Aesthetics, New York
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2009
Snippets, Sampling, Static, The Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York
1992
An Esemplastic Shift, AC Project Room, New York
TEACHING
2012
Medicine Hat College, Alberta, Canada—Visiting Artist
School of the Art Institute of Chicago—Visiting Artist
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
2007–11
The Educational Alliance, New York—Contemporary Painting
2006–11
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, Missouri—Visiting Artist
Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia—Visiting Artist
2000
Corcoran Museum and School of Art, Washington, DC—Visiting Artist
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson—Visiting Critic
1998–2003
The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina—Associate Professor of Art
1999
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson—Visiting Critic
1998
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson—Visiting Critic
1997
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson—Visiting Critic
School of the Art Institute of Chicago—Visiting Artist
New York University— Fundamentals of Painting, MFA Studio Critique; Adjunct Faculty
1996
Kunsthögskolan, Umeå, Sweden—Seminar Instructor
Kunsthögskolan, Stockholm—Seminar Instructor
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis—Visiting Artist
New York University—Advanced Painting, Adjunct Faculty
1995
New York University –Advanced Drawing, Adjunct Faculty
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Visiting Artist
1994
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia—Lecture
New York University—Fundamentals of Drawing and Advanced Painting, Adjunct Faculty
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Visiting Artist
1993
New York University—Advanced Painting, Adjunct Faculty
School of the Art Institute of Chicago—Visiting Professor
New York University—Advanced Drawing, Adjunct Faculty
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—Painting, Adjunct Faculty
Brooklyn College—Lecture
1991
New York University—Fundamentals of Drawing, Adjunct Faculty
School of the Art Institute of Chicago—Visiting Artist
Kent State University, Ohio—Blossom Art Program, Visiting Artist
1990
New York University—Introduction to Drawing, Advanced Painting; Adjunct Faculty
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia—Visiting Artist
1989
New York Studio School—Lecture
1985
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Visiting Artist
1984
School of the Art Institute of Chicago—Visiting Artist
Wesleyan University, Middletown, 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, Bennington, Vermont—Drawing, Instructor
1969–70
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia—Artist-in-Residence