Nancy Cohen

Nancy Cohen (b. Queens, NY) is a Jersey City-based artist who examines resiliency in relation to the environment and human body. Cohen received her MFA from Columbia University (1984) and BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology (1981), and has studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1984). She has been an artist-in-residence at Women’s Studio Workshop, the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Ninth Wave Global, Bullseye Glass, Pilchuck Glass School, Dieu Donné, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and The Archie Bray Foundation, among others. Awards include fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and multiple fellowships in Sculpture and Works on Paper from the NJ State Council of the Arts.

Cohen has had solo exhibitions at The Visual Arts Center of NJ (2021), Kathryn Markel Gallery (2019, 2017), and Accola Griefen Gallery (2013) in NYC. Recent projects include installations in Karmiel, Israel; the CODA Museum in Holland; the Katonah Museum of Art in NY and a collaboration with environmentalists based on the Mullica River for the Noyes Museum of Art in NJ. Cohen’s work is in the permanent collections of the NJ State Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Montclair Art Museum, and Yale University Art Museum, among many others. Her work has been reviewed in books and periodicals, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, ArtNews, and Sculpture Magazine, among many others.