CV — NICOLE COHEN
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
2026 — L’Space Gallery, Chelsea, NYC Gallery (Gallery Representation), New works (https://www.lspacegallery.com)
2026 — Subterranean, Teaneck Public Library, Teaneck, NJ
2024 — Super Vision, Mid Career Survey Exhibition, Zuccaire Gallery, curated by Karen Levitov, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/gallery/)
2024 — Contemporary Art Books & NY Public Library, Premiere with Bellevue Literary Review, cover art, L’Space Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, 4/4/24 (https://www.lspacegallery.com)
2020 — “Be Free”, curated HLK Art Advisory, Refinery Hotel, NYC
2017 — “library”, RYAN LEE GALLERY, RL Window, High Line, NYC (https://www.ryanleegallery.com)
2013–2014 — Domestic Concerns, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC (https://www.morganlehman.com)
2012 — Studio Visits, an Interactive Video Installation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artist Ball and Gala (https://www.brooklynmuseum.org)
2012 — French Connection, Project Space, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC
2011 — A Live Performance: The Mythology of Interiors, Mondrian Hotel, Sky Bar, LA, curator Janet Levy
2011 — Driving in Circles, curator Carolina Puente, American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
2010 — Business Class, La B.A.N.K. Galerie, Paris, France (https://www.labankgalerie.com)
2010 — 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
2009 — First Impressions, Volkswagen (VW), Wolfsburg, German, Curated by Corrina Billert
2009 — 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 (https://www.getty.edu)
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
2003 — Solo Museum Exhibition: My Vie en Rose, Williams College Museum of Art (https://wcma.williams.edu)
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 — International Women’s Month, L’Space Gallery, Chelsea, NY, ARTSY (https://www.artsy.net)
2026 — Sakura, curated by Kyoko Soto, Romanian Cultural Institute, NYC
2026 — Possibilities, CICA Museum, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea (https://cicamuseum.com)
2025 — Dreamscapes and Innerscapes, April – June 2025, curated by Joe Diggs, The Cape Cod Museum, Dennis, MA (https://www.capecodmuseum.org)
2025 — Nature Morte, May 2025, curated by Anna Kell and Joe Meiser, Bucknell University, PA
2025 — Facade, About Architecture + Design, 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
2021 — Re-Merge, curated by HLK Advisory, Kathryn Merkel Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2021 — Two Selected Video for LED Screen, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
2021 — Bloom, curated by Rula Jones, Gallery 115, Frederick, Maryland
2021 — 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
2020 — Up All Night, Video Exhibition curated by Christina Valentine, Director, Art Center DTLA and Julie Joyce, Curator, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena & Downtown, Los Angeles
2020 — Be Free, curated by HLK Advisory, Refinery Hotel, NYC
2020 — 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
2018 — Inverted Realities, curated by Gul Cagin, Oxnard College, Los Angeles, CA
2017 — Personal Tesseract, curated by Anne Spalter, Spring Break Art Show, Times Square
2017 — 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
2015 — Anchor, curated by Arden Sherman, East Harlem Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
2015 — Teknology, Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru
2014 — Interiors, curated by Tracy McKenna and Kirsten Pitts, Flnn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2014 — Jakarta Asean 2014, Art In Embassies, US Department of State, Jakarta, Indonesia
2013 — Censored, curator Rose Wei, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia (https://www.fehilycontemporary.com)
2010 — Last Sitting with Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe Exhibition, curator Katia Hermann, Schloss Britz, Berlin, Germany
2010 — La Regle De Jeu, curated by Teresa Vena, Forgotten Bar, Berlin
2010 — Future Tense, curated by Dede Young, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY
2010 — Death Perception, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY
MEDIA COVERAGE / Feature Stories
2009 — “French Connection”, Shoshana Wayne Gallery – Edward Goldman’s Art Talk – KCRW Radio in Los Angeles, CA
2008 — ARTETracks, Germany & France, interviewed by Sophie Peyard, May 9; 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; JewishJournal.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”
2015 — 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
2015 — 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”; Art Daily, “Domestic Concerns: Nicole Cohen’s first solo exhibition with Morgan Lehman Gallery opens”, December
2013 — Wall Street International, “Nicole Cohen. Domestic Concerns: 12 December 2013 – 25 January 2014 at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York”, December
2013 — Ulrichs, David. Art in America, “Sunny Skies Over Berlin Gallery Weekend”; W Magazine, “Studio Visits”, Video Installation Commission, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artist Ball
2013 — Angeleno Magazine, “The Mythology of Interiors Video Performance”, Mondrian Hotel, LA
2013 — 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.
2013 — 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
2010 — “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
2010 — “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
2010 — Pagliai, Andrea F., “Let Them Eat…Cake?”, Fine Arts LA, July 5; Kunst Portal: Art & Design, “Borders”, article by Katia Hermann; Catalog: “An Interview with Nicole Cohen and Carolina Puente”, curator, Kontemporar Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2010 — Guha, Rohin, “The French Time Machine”, Black Book; Cherington, Sam, “In the Studio”, Non Satis Scire, Hampshire College Alumni Magazine; “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
2008 — O’Brien, Pat, “Take a Seat in History”, The Press-Enterprise.com, September 27; Jones, Caitlin, “Lap of Luxury”, Rhizome.org, September 20
2008 — Muchnic, Suzanne, “Sit down, and you will be transported”, The Los Angeles Times, September 15
2008 — 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; Dorin, Lisa, “My Vie en Rose”, Williams College Brochure; Valentine, Christina, Flash Art, May/June, p. 151
2003 — 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. 48–53; 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
2000 — 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
RECENT TALKS
Mid-Career Retrospective Solo Exhibition Walk Through with the Artist, NICOLE COHEN
Artist Talk Lecture, Sept, 2024
