Nicole Cohen
Van Fantasy, Video still, 2006
How to make your windows beautiful, Video Projection onto a vintage magazine, 2008
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*1970 Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
1999 MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
1992 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Exhibitions at the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has also shown internationally in Berlin, Germany; Bergen, Norway; Denmark, Paris, France; Harajaku, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan; and Shanghai, China.
2011 Solo exhibition at the Katzen Art Center at American University in Washington, D.C..
2007-09 Commissioned solo exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California
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Solo Exhibitions
2011
Circles & Beamers, Working Title, The Katzen Art Center at American University
Museum, Washington, D.C.
2009
French Connection, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008
First Impressions, Curated by Corrina Billert, Autostadt, Volkswagen (VW), Wolfsburg, Germany
Make yourself at home, The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, curated by Arezoo Monseni
2007-09
Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen, curated by Peggy Fogelman, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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
1998
Video Drawings, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Guards, Harold Johnson Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Group Exhibitions
2009
BORDERS, Curated group show, Berlin, Germany
2008
BAC! The International Festival of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, The Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neu Im Paradies, curated by Nora Klumpp, Kontemporar Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Test Tone – Sound & Image, Spor Festival, curated by Brandon La Belle,
Denmark
2007
CRG Video Series, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Angela Dufresn
All the Way, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
What a Great Space you have…LA, curated by Marc Glode, The Claremont Unversity Gallery, Claremont, CA
Reality Crossings, curated by Christoph Tannert, Photo Festival Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, Germany
Seen and Imagined, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, NYC
2006
A Sense of Place, curated by Tami Philion, LouAnne Greenwald, USC Roski School School of Fine Arts, LA, CA
What a great space you have…, curated by Marc Glode, Luxe Gallery, 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, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland
It’s Not About Sex, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
Fair Play, PLAY_Gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin, Germany
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, CA
Stop & Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
USA Today, Galleri s.e., Bergen, Norway
Too Jewish – Not Jewish Enough, Bell Family Gallery, The Jewish Federation, Los Angeles
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 (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, CentreD’Art Passarelle, Brest, France (Traveling exhibition)
Still Life – Still Here, curated by Jaime Villaneda, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2002
Seeing, LACMA Lab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Summer 2001, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
I See You 2, organized by Sam Messer and Kiki Smith, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
Travelogue, The Orange County Museum for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2000
Seizure!, Artplace, Los Angeles, CA
Video Blowout, Crazy Space, 18th Street Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Non Satis Scire, Harold Johnson Gallery, Hampshire College, MA
Dream House, Miller Durazo, Los Angeles, CA
Spurgeon, Santa Ana, CA
IN formation, curated by Arzu Arda Kosar and Gul Cagin, Claremont University Gallery, Claremont, CA
Privatized, Artist Space Independent Grant Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
re: Moved, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
It’s About Time, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Juried 2000, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Art In Motion, Interactive & Multimedia Event, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Video Show, Museum Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand
Basic Drawing: Complex Projects, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA
Portfolios, Saddleback College Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
Trajectories, University of Southern California MFA exhibition, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Live Fictions, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
CAA Juried Exhibition, LA Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Art for Art Sake, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
Ninety-Nine, Miller Durazo, Los Angeles, CA
Media coverage – Feature Stories
2007
CNN, 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, Channel +, Morning Show in Paris featuring show
Distinctions
Nov 6, 2008
Visions and Voices event, Please Be Seated: Film Screenings at the Getty, A USC
Event at the Getty Museum,
2007
Go Native, Nicole Cohen Solo Juror for Experimental Film Festival, 825 Gallery,
coordinated by Peter Mays, Panel Discussion, Center of Democracy, LA, CA
2000
Artist Space Independent Grant, Privatized, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Southern California Worldwide Grant, SC/W, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles (to curate ten exhibitions worldwide in alternative spaces)
