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nicole cohen
Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, Nicole Cohen lives and works in New York and in Berlin, Germany. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and her MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Her work has been exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Paris, France; Shanghai, China and Harajaku, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan. Recently she has a commissioned solo exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California on view until 2009.

education
1999 MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1992 BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

solo exhibitions
2011"Circles & Beamers", Working Title, The Katzen Art Center at American University Museum, Washington, D.C.
2010 "Business Class", La B.A.N.K. Galerie, Paris, France
2010 Rio Hondo Community College, Curated by Robert Miller, Whitter, CA
2009 "French Connection", Shoshana Wayne Gallery
2008 “First Impressions”, Curated by Corrina Billert, Autostadt, Volkswagen (VW), Wolfsburg, Germany
2008 “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
"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