NICOLE COHEN received her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She has exhibited at the Los Angeles County of Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, numerous group exhibitions, La B.A.N.K Galerie in Paris, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, American University Museum at Katzen Art Center in Washington D.C., and in Asia. She has lived in Los Angeles and in Berlin, Germany, and in New York City were she currently lives.
In 2014, she will have a new monograph/ book published on her work until present. Additionally, she will have her fifth museum exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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N I C O L E C O H E N
EDUCATION
1999
MFA, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles
1992
BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Solo Museum Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2013
12/13- Solo Exhibition- at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2012
“Studio Visits”, a commissioned interactive video installation by the Brooklyn Museum’s Artist Ball, April 18, 2012
“French Connection”, The STUDY (Project Space) Video Works, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC
2011
“Driving in Circles”, Curated by Carolina Puente, Katzen Art Center at American University Museum, Washington, D.C..
“The Mythology of Interiors”, a live video performance, MONDRIAN Hotel, Los Angeles
“Interiors: Marilyn, Michael, and Versailles”, Public Sculpture, Curated by Helen Varola, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
2010
“Business Class”, La B.A.N.K. Galerie, Paris, France
“Close Encounters”, Curated by Robert Miller, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA, with Artist Catalogue
“Video Installations”, ArtSet, Haymarket Hotel, London, England
2009
“French Connection”, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“First Impressions”, Volkswagen (VW), Wolfsburg, German, Curated by Corrina Billert
“Make Yourself @ Home” The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, curated by Arezoo Monseni
2007-09
“Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen”, , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Peggy Fogelman
2007
“Rap Rococo”, La B.A.N.K. Galerie, Paris, France
2005
“How To Make Your Windows Beautiful”, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
2003
“40-Love”, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“My Vie en Rose”, Media Field, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
2001
“Van Fantasies”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2000
“Fantasy Space & Crystal Ball: Dreamhouse”, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011-12
“Back from Berlin”, University of Southern California, USC Hillel, Los Angeles
2010
“Marilyn’s Interiors”, A Commissioned Video, curated by Katia Hermann, Schloss Britz, Berlin, Germany, “The Last Sitting”, Photography by Bert Stern
“Haute”, Curated by Roman Stollenwerk, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, LA
“Open Space 1”, Grazia Blumberg Galerie, Recklinghausen, Germany
Ongoing Group Exhibition, U.S. Art in Embassy Program, Curated by Sally Mansfield, U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium
“Phatomschaltung”, Curated by Katia Hermann, Berlin, Germany
2009 “BORDERS”, Curated by Georgi Begun, ConcentArt,e.V., Berlin, Germany
2008
“BAC! The International Festival of Contemporary Art in Barcelona!”,
The Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
“Neu im Paradies” (New in Paradise), Curated by Nora Klumpp, Kontemporar Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
“Volkswagen”, Curated by Corrina Billert, VW at Wolfsburg, Germany
“Test Tone – sound and image”, SPOR festival, Musikhuset Aarhus, Denmark
2007
CRG Video Series, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Angela Dufresne
“What a Great Space you have…LA”, curated by Marc Gloede, The Claremont Unversity Gallery, Claremont, CA
“Reality Crossings”, curated by Christoph Tannert, Photo Festival Mannheim / Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, Germany
2006
“What a great space you have…”, curated by Marc Glode, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
“Pixel Visions”, The University of Alabama Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama
2005
“SLURP!”, curated by Lisa Dorin, Assistant Curator at the Chicago Art Institute, Interactive Gallery, New Media Caucus, CAA, Boston, MA
2004
“DOMICILE: A Sense of Place”, CoCa, curated by Jim O’ Donnell, Seattle, WA.
“The Garden Lab Experiment”, co-curated by Fritz Haeg and Francois Perrin, Wind Tunnel, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
“USA Today”, Galleri s.e., Bergen, Norway
2003
“WPA”, Corcoran Museum of Art, Art in Embassies, Washington D.C.
“Sunday Morning”, U.S. Embassy in Paris, Paris, France
“NUEVA”, curated by Matthew Clark, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Japan, Kobe, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo
“Signals from a Deserted Outpost”, Chapman University Gallery, Orange, CA
“Surface Tension”, curated by Cassandra Coblentz, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
“Light and Spaced-out”, curated by Carlos Cartenas, Galerie, Loevenbruck, Paris, CentreD’Art Passarelle, Brest, France
2002
“Let Them Eat Cake and Eat it too”, in collaboration with Delia Brown, “Seeing”, LACMA Lab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001
“I See You 2”, organized by Sam Messer and Kiki Smith, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
2000
“Privatized”, Artist Space Independent Grant Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
“re: Moved”, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
1999
“Video”, Museum Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand
“Basic Drawing: Complex Projects”, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, C
“Live Fictions”, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLIC ART COMMISSION:
2011
“Interiors: Marilyn, Michael, and Versailles”, curated by Helen Varola, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
4/ 2010
“Freedom Statue Projection”, Budapest, Hungary, Curated by Caroline Reden, Funded by Schreder Lighting, Co.
MEDIA COVERAGE- Feature Stories
2009
“French Connection”, Shoshana Wayne Gallery – Edward Goldman’s Art Talk –
KCRW Radio in Los Angeles, CA
2008
ARTE Tracks, Germany & France, interviewed by Sophie Peyard , May 9
2007
Getty Center Documentary: Making Of: The J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, Channel 7 – ABC News, Channel 4 – NBC News, CNN International News, KCRW Channel 62 TV, Edward Goldman’s Art Talk – KCRW Radio in Los Angeles, CA, Jewish Journal.com, Art and Living
Feature Show, “Rap Rococo”, La B.A.N.K. Galerie, Chanel + Plus, Paris France (Morning Show), 12/17, 9:30am
DISTINCTIONS
2011
Artist Residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009
U.S.C. Commencement Speaker, The Gayle Roski School of Fine Arts, LA
2008
U.S.C. Event at the Getty Center, Film Series, Curated by Marc Gloede, PhD. Film scholar, in honor of exhibition “Please Be Seated”, November 6, 2008
2000
Artist Space Independent Grant, Privatized, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
The Washington Post, Art Review
2010
Tagespiegel Newspaper, Berlin, Germany, “Marilyn’s Interiors”, new video work
by Kunstlerin Nicole Cohen
Hermann, Katia, “Business Class in Paris: Kunstlerin, Nicole Cohen zeigt neue Arbeiten”, Art and Events, January 11
2009
“Nicole Cohen: French Connection”, review by Ellen Birrell, X-TRA Magazine, p.30-33, LA
Goodale, Gloria, “Museum’s New Mantra: Connect with Community”, The Christian Science Monitor, July 20
“Art World: Nicole Cohen: French Connection at Shoshana Wayne
Gallery, Santa Monica, California”, Art and Living Magazine, July 20
Goldman, Edward, “Collecting Until Death Do Us Part”, 89.9 KCRW Art Talk,
July 14
Catalog: An Interview with Nicole Cohen and Carolina Puente, Curator, Kontemporar Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2008
Guha, Rohin, “The French Time Machine”, Black Book, August 8
Cherington, Sam, “In the Studio”, Non Satis Scire, Hampshire College Alumni Magazine
2007
“Nicole Cohen: Make Yourself at Home”, nypl.org, Art in the Windows,
Dambrot, Shana Nys, “Seats of Power”, Art Ltd. Magazine, November
Berrin, Danielle and Kadosh, Dikla, “Sitting Pretty”, JewishJournal.com, The Calendar Girls, October 10
Review, “Please Be Seated”, Rhizome.org, Connecting Art + Technology
Baum, Gary, “The Radar Culture”, Angeleno Magazine, Fall Issue
O’Brien, Pat, “Take a seat in history”, The Press-Enterprise.com, September 27, www.pe.com/lifestyles/stories/PE_Ent_Daily_D_chairs28.1ebaca4.html
Jones, Caitlin, “Lap of Luxury”, Rhizome.org, September 20
http://rhizome.org/editorial/fp/blog.php/86
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Sit down, and you will be transported”, The Los Angeles Times, September 15
2006
Reed, John, “Spacificity”, The Brooklyn Rail
Pixel Visions: Contemporary Videos from Birmingham Collections,
Birmingham News
2004
“Art on the Edge”, published by Art in Embassies
Newhouse, Kristina, “The Post Human Uncanny”, XTRA Vol. 6 No. 3, Spring.
2003 “Art in Embassies”, Corcoran Museum of Art catalogue
Dorin, Lisa, “My Vie en Rose,” Williams College Brochure
Valentine, Christina, FLASH ART, May/June, p. 151.
Frank, Peter Art Pick of the Week: Still Life, Still Here, L.A. Weekly,
August 22 – 28, p. 162.
2002 Loughrey, Felicity, “Rococo Pop,” Black + White (Australia), June/July 2002, p. 10.
2001 Lazzari, Margaret, “The Practical Guide for the Emerging Artist, Artist Space Independent Grant, “Privatized”, Brooklyn, NY
Bates, Dianne, “An Artistic Playground,” The Los Angeles Times Calendar, November 29, pp. 18-19.
Ise, Claudine, “Video Art’s Digital Generation,” Res 4, no. 2, pp. 4853.
Loughrey, Felicity, “Lost in Space,” Black + White 52 (Australia), May.
Myers, Holly, “This Show Is Not Just Kids’ Stuff,” The Los Angeles Times, December 19, p. F2
Schwendener, Martha, “Karen Kimmel, Alix Lambert, & Nicole Cohen,” critic’s picks. Artforum Online, June 6
