BIOGRAFIE
1943 | born in New York City |
1957 - 1960 | High School of Music & Art |
1960 - 1964 | Bennington College, Vermont, B. A. where she studied with Paul Feeley, and Lawrence Alloway |
1972 | M.A. |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2018 | Discourse: Abstract, organized by Gayle Ruskin, Anita Rogers Gallery, New York, New York Four Degrees of Abstraction, curated by Anne-Brigitte Sirois, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, New York Three Days at Custom Cabinets, Los Angeles, California Sideshow: The Greatest Show on Earth, Brooklyn, New York |
2017 | Hand Over Hand, Jiun Ho at Dennis Miller NY, New York, New York Bluets, curated by Sofia Leiby, Burning in Water Gallery, New York, New York Sideshow Nation V: Thru the Rabbit Hole II, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2016 | Bridge Freezes Before the Road: Drawings, New York Studio School, New York, New York Cora Cohen and Susanne Doremus in collaboration, Zolla/Leiberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Machines of Paint Machines of Paint and Other Materials curated by Jennifer Riley, Studio 1046, Brooklyn, New York *Artists' Painters, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren Shaky Ground, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, New York Sideshow Nation IV: Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2015 | Salon du Dessin, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York Paperazzi IV, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Sideshow Nation III: Circle the Wagons!!!, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2014 | Le Show Des Amis, Show Room, Brooklyn, New York Urban Virtue: Paintings by Cora Cohen and Susanne Doremus, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Making Space, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Sensitive Instruments, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois Paperazzi 3, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Sideshow Nation II: At the Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Painting in the Expanded Field, Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia |
2013 | Cora Cohen – auf Papier, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden The Responsibility of Forms, Guided by Invoices, New York, New York Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York Season Review, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York Signs and Systems, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Signature Works, Guided By Invoices, New York, New York Paperazzi 2, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2012 | Recent Paintings, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, Connecticut *Works on Paper, d. m. allison art, Houston, Texas Assembly 2012, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York Paper Band, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts 2012, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York I Surrender, devening projects + editions, Chicago, Illinois Hex, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Mic: check (occupy), Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2011 | Altered X Rays, Field Institute Hombroich, Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss field notes, Project Room #50, Dinter Fine Art, dinterfineart.com Auf Papier, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden American Women, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Drawn out Death, curated by Angel Quesada, Rolando Reyna, Talento Bilingue de Houston, Houston, Texas Polis, curated by Markus Winter, Art Blog Art Blog, New York, New York Scripted, curated by Todd Keyser, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 70 Years of Abstract Painting - Excerpts, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, New York IT’S ALL GOOD!! apocalypse now, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2010 | *Carl Plansky and Friends, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, New York This World, Other World, curated by David Grozinsky, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont The Feminine in Abstract Painting: new works by Cora Cohen, Melanie Parke, Kiki Slaughter, Margie Stewart, Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia It's a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2009 | *Strokes, curated by John Pomara, Visual Arts Building: Main Gallery, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas Group Exhibition, William Shearburn Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
2008 | Come in a Little Closer: Recent Paintings, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, New York Shape Shifters: New York Painters, curated by James Biederman, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina; Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Back to the Drawing Board, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, New York |
2007 | *Oblique Forms: Spray Paint Paintings, Photographs, The Hybrid Indexical Adventure Series, Abaton Garage, Jersey City, New Jersey *Paintings and Drawings, Markus Winter Gallery, Berlin No Words And Words On Paper, Stalke Kirke Sonnerup, Denmark Dutch Barn Fall Show, curated by Rose Burlingham, Clinton Corners, New York Painters of California and New York, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Art Connections 4r, George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey |
2005 | Strange Fruit, Abaton Garage, Jersey City, New Jersey New Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona |
2004 | Cora Cohen: Recent Paintings, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York |
2003 | Questions of Nature: Uncharted Space and Wasted Time, National Focus Artist 2003-2004, Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia im + provisus: Compositions in Jazz, curated by Alison Nichols Ferring and Eva Lundsager, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri Painting Painting, N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, New York |
2002 | Space, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Back to the Future, curated by Michael St. John and Jason Duval; Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, New York CEPA Benefit Art Auction, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
2001 | Paintings, McCoy Chelsea, New York, New York *The Five and Dime Series, The Record, the Death, the Surprise, Jan Van der Donk, New York, New York Celebrating Yaddo Artists, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York |
1999 | Paintings and Altered X Rays, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Belvederestrasse 149a, Köln New Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Group Show, organized by Stefanie Hering, Oppenhoff and Rädler, Leipzig Stockholm Art Fair, with Galerie Mariann Ahnlund, Stockholm *Immediacies of the Hand: Recent Abstract Painting in New York, curated by Carter Ratcliff and Kim Sobel, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, New York Positionen 33 Painting, Hering Raum Stahlwerk Willich, Willich Selected Paintings, McCoy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri |
1998 | Works on Paper, Upstairs Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn Cora Cohen, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California Painting New York/Copenhagen, Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen *Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina Stockholm Art Fair with Galerie Mariann Ahnlund, Stockholm Group Show, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas Lilith, curated by Stephanie Theodore; The Workspace at Dolgenos, Newman, & Cronin, New York, New York Absolute Surprise to Benefit the Royal College of Art and the New York Studio School, David McKee Gallery, New York, New York Coalition for the Homeless Benefit Exhibition and Auction, The Puck Building, New York, New York *The Tsagaris/Hilberry Collection: A Sustaining Passion, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona Rapids, Iowa; Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, Iowa |
1997 | The Mob Within the Heart, Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn Cora Cohen: Recent Paintings, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York Cohen/Koberling, Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California Abstract Painting, curated by Jeffrey Wasserman, Carrie Hadad Gallery, Hudson, New York |
1996 | *Cora Cohen: paintings and altered x rays 1983- 1996, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, and Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama *After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, curated by Lilly Wei, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York Import/Export, presented by Stefanie Hering at Auto Kaiser, Köln Cohen, Dagly, Dahn, Penck, others, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Köln Group Show, Galerie Mariann Ahnlund, Umeå Accrochage, Hering Raum Bonn, Bonn Cora Cohen, Leslie Kamen, Robert Mallary, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, New York |
1995 | Salon des Tree, Central Park, New York, New York *In Search of the Pleasure Principle, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York *New York University 1995 Faculty Show, Apex Art, New York, New York Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, New York |
1994 | *Cora Cohen, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York Cora Cohen: Works on Paper, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York Freedom—Discipline—Abstraction, Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey Heterogeneity, Abstraction and Virtual Space, curated by Leonard Bullock, Out of the Blue Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Mirage, with McClelland, Nelson, Szold, Whitten, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York Abstract Paintings, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois Small Format Abstract Paintings, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, New York Group Show, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York *Contemporary American Artists, U.S. Embassy, Manilla |
1993 | New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania Recent Paintings, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York Libidinal Painting, curated by Bill Arning; White Columns, New York, New York 30th Anniversary Exhibition of Drawings for the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York Inaugural Show 1993, The Painting Center, New York, New York New Works by Gallery Artists, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, New York |
1992 | A/C Project Room, New York, New York Introductions, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri Contemporary Surfaces, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, New York An Esemplastic Shift, A/C Project Room, New York, New York *Painting Self-Evident, curated by Katherine Porter; Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, South Carolina Painting Invitational, with Bloodgood, Bullock, Kinmont; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, New York Multiple Grounds, with Balth, Fisher, Ostendarp; Sytsema Galleries, Baarn The Fetish of Knowledge, A/C Project Room, New York, New York Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, New York Shades of Difference, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, New York |
1991 | *Strategies for the Next Painting, curated by Saul Ostrow and Jamie Wolff, Wolff Gallery, New York, New York; Feigen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
1990 | Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York Painting the Dematerialized Ego, with Fitzgerald and Boocheever, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Postminimalism, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Serial Drawings, Genovese Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts The Radiant Principle, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York |
1989 | A Decade of American Drawing: 1980-89, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California Methods of Abstraction, Urban Gallery, New York, New York |
1988 | Wolff Gallery, New York, New York Among Them, But Not Of Them, with Fisher, Heilmann, Sarat, Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California Six Abstract Painters, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York Aspects of Abstraction, with Eigenheer, Hess, Mitchell, Murray, Pfaff, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York Group Revelations, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts |
1987 | The Presence of Nature: Some American Paintings, with Berthot, de Kooning, Dove, Hartley, Krasner, Mitchell, curated by Beth Urdang, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts *Art Against AIDS, curated by Robert Rosenblum, Dia Art Foundation, New York, New York Contemporary and Modern Masters, Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York, New York Painting Invitational, with Goldberg, Mitchell, Mueller, Palazzolo, Porter, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York |
1985 | *Painting as Landscape: Views of American Modernism, curated by Klaus Kertess, Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California; Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York The Non-Objective World, curated by Stephen Westfall, Kamikaze, New York, New York |
1984 | Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York Figures of Paint, curated by Klaus Kertess, Cable Gallery, New York, New York |
1983 | Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey |
1982 | Abstract Substance and Meaning: Painting by Women Artists, College Art Association New York City Convention, New York, New York |
1981 | Dunne/Steen Fine Arts, Greenwich, Connecticut |
1980 | Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York |
1979 | Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York *New Options in Painterly Abstraction, with Palazzolo, Phillips, Porter, Cadman Plaza East Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York |
1977 | State University of New York at Oneonta, New York |
1976 | Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, New York *New Talent, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Invitational Exhibition, Deitcher/O'Reilly Gallery, New York, New York |
1974 | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York |
1972 | Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
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 - 2009 | The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program Residency, Brooklyn, New York |
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, Painting Fellowship |
1987 | National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship |
1982 | Yaddo, Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, New York |
1969 | University of Pennsylvania, Fellowship in Fine Arts—Painting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase Bennington College, Bennington The William and Uytendale Scott Memorial Study Collection of Works by Women, The Bryn Mawr College Art and Archaeology Collection, Bryn Mawr Chase Manhattan Bank, New York Chemical Bank Collection, New York Oestreicher Properties Inc., New York RCM Capital Management, San Francisco Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Tuscaloosa Sonesta Hotels, Boston The Swedish APOTEKET AB, Stockholm The Swedish State Art Council, Stockholm The Texas State Bank, Houston The Tsagaris/Hilberry Collection The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro Yale University, New Haven Widener Library, Cambridge |