Cora Cohen

Biography
Cora Cohen, Outside St. Severin, 1987, Flashe and oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches (152.4 x 127 cm)
Cora Cohen, Outside St. Severin, 1987, Flashe and oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches (152.4 x 127 cm)

Cora Cohen (1943, New York, NY–2023, Brooklyn, NY) lived and worked in New York, where her practice is widely regarded as broadening the horizons of American abstraction. Solo exhibitions of Cohen’s work have been mounted at Greene Naftali (2025); Morgan Presents, New York (2022); Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss (2011); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha (1996); and included in group exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2012); Dia Art Foundation, New York (1987); Parrish Art Museum, Southampton (1985); Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield (1976). Cohen’s work is also held in the collections of Bennington College, Bennington; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; Swedish Arts Council, Stockholm; Harvard Library, Cambridge; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, among others.

Select Works
  • Cora Cohen, Outside St. Severin, 1987
    Outside St. Severin, 1987
  • Cora Cohen, Untitled 3085-7 (Can Can Dancer), 1987
    Untitled 3085-7 (Can Can Dancer), 1987
  • Cora Cohen, The Three Graces, 1987—1988
    The Three Graces, 1987—1988
  • Cora Cohen, The Heart Strong Core, 1993
    The Heart Strong Core, 1993
  • Cora Cohen, How the Planets Gather, 1997
    How the Planets Gather, 1997
  • Cora Cohen, Diasphoric Identity, 2004
    Diasphoric Identity, 2004
Exhibitions