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EDUCATION
1999 M.F.A., (Master’s of Fine Arts) Roski School of Art, University of Southern California (U.S.C.), Los Angeles, California
1992 B.A., (Bachelor’s of Art) Painting, Drawing, & Art History, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Be Free”, curated HLK Art Advisory, Refinery Hotel, NYC
2017 "Library", RYAN LEE GALLERY, RL Window, High Line, NYC
2013-2014 Domestic Concerns, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC
2012 Studio Visits, an Interactive Video Installation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artist Ball and Gala
French Connection, Project Space, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC
2011 A Live Performance: The Mythology of Interiors, Mondrian Hotel, Sky Bar, LA, curator Janet Levy
Driving in Circles, curator Carolina Puente, American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
2010 Business Class, La B.A.N.K. Galerie, Paris, France
Close Encounters, Curated by Robert Miller, Rio Hondo College, CA with Artist Catalogue, Video Installations, ArtSet, Haymarket Hotel, Frieze Art Fair, 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, curated by Arezoo Monseni
2007-2009 Please Be Seated, An Interactive Video Installation The J. Paul Getty Museum, curator 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
Solo Museum Exhibition: My Vie en Rose, Williams College Museum of Art
2001 Van Fantasies, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY, Art Forum Review (New York debut)
2000 Fantasy Space & Crystal Ball: Dreamhouse, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
PUBLIC/ Corportate ART COMMISSION:
Upcoming 2026 It’s Shady, 2025, Commissioned Public Art Sculpture / Video, The Mob Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
2022 Scarves, Reception, Multi-channel video installation, Cruise Ship, ICART (International Corporate Art), curated by Mariangela Capuzzo
2019 Garden Video Platform: The Garden of Earthly Delights, Video Experience, Bloomingdales proposal, Video Proposal, Pop-Up store, Interactive iPhone Art
2018 Flowers with insects video, Cruise, ICART
2017 Unlock NYC, A Series of Large Keys Representing NYC Iconic Locations on Broadway, Approved by Broadway Mall Foundation
TownShop, Video for Swimwear and under garments, Upper West Side Store
Seasons, 6 videos, Cruise, ICART
2016 Rocco Chairs, 6 videos, Cruise, ICART
2015 Alice in Wonderland Themed restaurant, Table design, Mirror, Clocks, Cards, Videos, 5, Chandeliers, Cruise, ICART
2014 Illuminations, 6 videos in a corridor, 6 photographs, original score with composer collaboration, Cruise, ICART
2013 Reception Skyscape, 6 Multi-chanel videos, Cruise ship, ICART
Interactive Table Design, Projection from underneath.
2012 1800 Essential Tequila Bottle, Limited Edition, Prada proposal, Paper Dolls store, Interactive store clothes, ZARA
2011 Public Art Sculpture, Keys, “Interiors: Marilyn, Michael, and Versailles”, curated by Helen Varola, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Dreamscapes, curated by Joe Diggs, The Cape Cod Museum, Dennis, MA
Nature Morte, curated by Anna Kell and Joe Meiser, Bucknell University, PA
Facade, curated by Paul Paiement, NeoLA Gallery, Los Angeles
2024 Video Festival in Nice, Galerie Depardieu, curated by Helene Mukhtar, Nice, France, Contemporary Art Books & New York Public Library, video
2023 The New Jersey Botanical Gardens, Holiday Installation
2022 Act Natural, curated by Stephen Wozniak
2021 Animal House #2, curated by Adelinda Allegretti, Caselo di Turino, Turin, Italy
Re-Merge, curated by HLK Advisory, Kathryn Merkel Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Two Selected Video for LED Screen, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
Bloom, curated by Rula Jones, Gallery 115, Frederick, Maryland
L.A. Stories, curated by Paul Paiement, Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia
2020 Luminaire, An Exhibition of Light in the Dark, curated by Rula Jones, Frederick, Maryland
Up All Night, Video Exhibition curated by Christina Valentine, Director, Art Center DTLA and Julie Joyce, Curator, Curator,
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena & Downtown, Los Angeles
Be Free, curated by HLK Advisory, Refinery Hotel, NYC
Exposing Migration, The Spirit of the American Dream, curated by Sofia Gutierrez, St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Museum of the Moving Image, curated by Antonio Ortuno
2019 Light Year, Projection on to the Brooklyn Bridge, curated by Simonetta Moro
2018 X-Marks the Spot, The New York Studio School of New York, curated by Malado Baldwin and Maia Ibar
Inverted Realities, curated by Gul Cagin, Oxnard College, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Personal Tesseract, curated by Anne Spalter, Spring Break Art Show, Times Square
Muse in the Mews, The Printing House, Salomon Contemporary Gallery, New York
2016 Lake Life, curated by James Salomon, Salomon Contemporary, TheGarage, Washington Depot, CT
2016 Not (So) Still Life, curator Jennifer McGregor and Gabriel de Guzman, Wave Hill Cultural Center,
2015 Open Studios, (studio occupancy and event in Berlin), curated by Markus Wirthmann, Berlin, Germany
Anchor, Curated by Arden Sherman, East Harlem Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
Teknology, Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru
2014 Interiors, curated by Tracy McKenna and Kirsten Pitts, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Jakarta Asean 2014, Art In Embassies, US Department of State, Jakarta, Indonesia
2013 Censored, curator Rose Wei, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Last Sitting with Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe Exhibition, curator Katia Hermann, Schloss Britz, Berlin, Germany
La Regle De Jeu, curated by Teresa Vena, Forgotten Bar, Berlin
Future Tense, curated by Dede Young, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY
Depth Perception, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
Haute, Curated by Roman Stollenwerk, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, LA
Open Space 1, Grazia Blumberg Galerie, Recklinghausen, Germany
In Search of Last Time/Remembrance, curators Aboli Lion, Epicentro, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibition, Art in Embassy Program, curator Sally Mansfield, U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium
Phatomschaltung, curator Katia Hermann, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2009 BORDERS, Curated by Georgi Begun, ConcentArt, e.V., Berlin, Germany
Consciences & Frontiers, Curated by Bonadventure Soh Bejung Ndikung and Sophie Elliot
2008 BAC! The Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neu im Paradies (New in Paradise), Curated by Nora Klumpp, Kontemporar Gallery, Hamburg,
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, The Claremont Unversity Gallery
Reality Crossings, curated by Christoph Tannert, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, Germany
2006 A Sense of Place, curators Tami Philion, LouAnne Greenwald, USC Roski School of FA
What a great space you have..., 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
Chthonic Cartographers, curated by Jenny G. Sheppard, Chesapeake Gallery,
2004 DOMICILE: A Sense of Place, CoCa, curated by Jim O’ Donnell, Seattle, WA
Simply Drawn, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
The Garden Lab Experiment, co-curated by Fritz Haeg and Francois Perrin, Wind Tunnel, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
USA Today, Galleri s.e., Bergen, Norway
2003 WPA, Corcoran Museum of Art, Art in Embassies, Washington D.C.
NUEVA, curated by Matthew Clark, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Japan, Kobe, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo (traveling exhibition)
Signals from a Deserted Outpost, Chapman University Gallery, Orange, CA
Threading Technology, curated by Christina Valentine, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, 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, Centre D’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
It’s About Time, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1999 Video Show, Museum Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand
Basic Drawing: Complex Projects, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA Live Fictions, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Art for Art Sake, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
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 on the making of the exhibition, The J. Paul Getty
Museum, LA, CA, 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
Selected Visiting Artist Talks:
NYU (4 invitations)
University of Southern California
Amherst College, MA
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Syracuse University
Kentucky College of Art + Design at Spaulding University, Louisville, Kentucky
Pace University
University of Vermont
Arts Student League of New York
Otis Parson Los Angeles
2024 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Cover Art for the Bellevue Literary Review, Statement, and short Documentary in the studio in NYC
2023 US Art in Embassies De Hague Permanent Collection
2022 A Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist (Book) by Margaret Lazzari, (Images of Video Installations in the Book) and Interview
2015 Kinsella, Eileen, Art Net, “New Miami Fair, X-Contemporary Crackles With Youthful Energy”
Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, “10 Galleries to Visit on the Upper East Side”, April
Heddaya, Mostafa. Blouin Art Info, “High Contrast: Art and Community in East Harlem.” April
Corchado, Carmen. Centro Voices, Hiram Maristany’s Anchor Exhibit: Securing the Past, Present and Future of El Barrio”, March
SFAQ: International Arts and Culture, “SFAQ Pick: “Domestic Concerns” Solo Exhibition by Nicole Cohen at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York.” December Art Daily, “Domestic Concerns: Nicole Cohen’s first solo exhibition with Morgan Lehman Gallery opens”, December
Wall Street International, “Nicole Cohen. Domestic Concerns: 12 December 2013 – 25 January 2014 at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York”, December
Ulrichs, David. Art in America, “Sunny Skies Over Berlin Gallery Weekend”, May W Magazine, “Studio Visits”, Video Installation Commission, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artist Ball
Angeleno Magazine,“The Mythology of Interiors Video Performance” Mondrian Hotel, LA
Art in America, Curated Shelf Life Group Exhibition in Berlin, Germany
The Washington Post Newspaper Art Review on museum exhibition at Katzen American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
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
“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
Ng, David, “7 Ways to Celebrate French Culture on Bastille Day”, Los Angeles Times, July 14
Goldman, Edward, “Collecting Until Death Do Us Part”, 89.9 KCRW Art Talk,
July 14
Pagliai, Andrea F., “Let Them Eat...Cake?”, Fine Arts LA, July 5
Kunst Portal: Art & Design “Borders”, article by Katia Hermann, http://artandevents.mediaquell.com
Catalog: An Interview with Nicole Cohen and Carolina Puente, Curator,
Kontemporar Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Guha, Rohin, “The French Time Machine”, Black Book, August 8 <http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/the-french-time-machine/3729>
Cherington, Sam, “In the Studio”, Non Satis Scire, Hampshire College Alumni Magazine
“Nicole Cohen: Make Yourself at Home”, nypl.org, Art in the Windows, <www.nypl.org/branch/central/mml/art/art_windows.html>
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
Cherington, Sam, “Interview with Nicole Cohen”, Non Satis Scire, Hampshire College Alumni Magazine
2006 Cohen, Nicole, “Who’s Afraid of Video Art”, La Linea, magazine, Arts Student League of New York
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. Faust, Lily. “Stop & Stor,” The New York Art World, February, p.7
2003 “Art in Embassies”, Corcoran Museum of Art catalogue
Mitchell, Phoebe, “Off-color Longing, in Pink Rooms,” Hampshire Gazette, October 21, P. C4.
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.
Sain, Bob, “SEEING Investigates Our Visual Life,” At the Museum (Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members’ Magazine), January/February, pp. 16-19.
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
DISTINCTIONS
2023 Publications in US Art in Embassies Book NICOLE COHEN 2012 Artist Talk, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2011 Artist Residency: Brooklyn Space, Gowanus, Brooklyn
2009 Artist Residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2008 U.S.C. Commencement Speaker, The Gayle Roski School of Fine Arts, LA U.S.C. Event at the Getty Center, Film Series
Artist Space Independent Grant, Privatized, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED ART COLLECTIONS
Cedar Sinai Hospital Art Collection, Los Angeles
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
The J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
US Art in Embassies (AIE) U.S. Department of State, The Hague
Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Volkswagen VW (Wolfsburg, Germany)
Royal Caribbean International
Celebrity Cruise Ship
Norweigan Cruise Ship
LOOP Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain