Departmental Philosophy
Artist In Residence
Current Student Work

 

 

 

Selected Biblography

(Newspapers and Magazines 2008-2006)

Smillie,Eric. "Auto Erotic,” Make Magazine, Volume 14, 2008
Hall, Christopher. “Where 'Art' Has Met 'Craft' for 100 Years," New York Times, November 11, 2007
Myers, Holly." 'Body Double': Through a Lens Starkly,” Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2007
Weideman, Paul. “Getting Low and Arty,” Pasatiempo, August 24 - 30, 2007
Fischer, Zane.“Transformers!,” Santa Fe Reporter, August 29, 2007
Genoccio, Benjamin. “Hotel Rooms Set the Scene, and 45 Artists Star,” New York Times, August 5, 2007
Yablonsky, Linda. “Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars,” New York Times, July 8, 2007
Chun, Kimberly. “Balazo KO?,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 5 - 11, 2007
LaMotta, Lisa and Alex C. Pasquariello. “It Sure Beats the NEA,” Fast Company, May 2007
Finkel, Jori. “Saying the F-Word,” Artnews, February 2007
Güsefeld, Friederike. “Bodywork,” Sleek (Germany), Winter 2006/2007
Hackett, Regina. “Knockout Work by a Trio of Young Artists,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 27, 2006
Astrapellou, Marilena. “My Lowrider - Liz Cohen,” Intersection Magazine, Fall 2006
Milén, Maria. “Intervju: Bilbyggande bikinibrud,” Femkul (Stockholm), 2/2006
Spataro, David. “Bodyshop,” Readymade, Aug/Sept 2006
Cook, Xerxes. “Pimp my ride: Liz Cohen takes a torch to the macho world of lowriding,” Tank (London), v4 issue 5, 2006
Ringdahl, Klas. “Bil - Och Kroppsbyggareiett,” Motor Magasinet (Stockholm), January 25, 2006
Cash, Stephanie. “Report from San Francisco II: New and Now,” Art in America, January 2006

 

 

Selected Bibliography (Books)

Åman, Jan and Carlmichael Von Hauswolf. Teleport Färgfabriken: We Did Everything Wrong. Stockholm: Färgabriken, 2008
Cohem, Liz. Radical Mod Magazine. Scottsdale: Scottsdale Public Art, 2008
Bourriaud, Nicolas and Paolo Falcone. FUORIUSO'06 Altered States: are you experienced. Pescara: Arte Nova, 2007
Denan, Pierre. 1680 Grams of Art, Paris: M19, 2007
Cohen, Liz. The 5 P's: Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. Paris: Onestar Press, 2007
Booth-Clibborn, Edward and Nan Ellin. Phoenix: 21st Century City United Kingdom: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2006
Cohen, Liz. Liz Cohen Body Work, Paris: Onestar Press and Galerie Laurent Godin, 2006
Bers, Miriam. Parallel Worlds. Berlin: Fine Arts Unternehmen Books, 2002

 

 

 

 

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Artist-in-Residence Liz Cohen

Liz Cohen was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Photography Department in July of 2008. She received her MFA degree in Photography from the California College of the Arts. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA in Philosophy from Tufts University, both in Boston, Massachusetts. Cohen is a photographer and performance artist, whose multi-media work is exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is best known for her recent subversive project, "Bodywork," in which she transformed an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino. She has won numerous awards and grants including: a Studio Residency from The MacDowell Colony in 2001; a Studio Fellowship in 2002 from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; a Creative Capital Foundation Project Grant in 2005; an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission for the Arts in 2007; and a 2008 Traveling Scholars’ Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

 

In PursuitLiz Cohen

Canal, 2000

Gelatin prints, tape, rubber stamp
8 x 10 inches

 

Liz Cohen

Trabantimino (in process); 2002
Modified Trabant 601 Deluxe, Chevrolet 305 V8, Chevrolet 350 turbo transmission, custom chassis,
custom hydraulics, custom drive train
retracted 154 x 70 x 55 inches, extended 226 x 70 x 55

 

Liz Cohen

Welder, 2005
C-print
50 x 60 inches



Recent Press

"Art exhibits reveal a love of cars, beauty in ruins" by Michael H. Hodges, the Detroit News

 

 

Upcoming Exhibitions 2010





Selected Solo Exhibitions


2008        "Liz Cohen: The Builder and the Bikini" (solo), El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2008        "No Room for Baggage", Rubin Center, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
2006        "Liz Cohen", Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
2005-06  "Liz Cohen: Bodywork", The Gender Turntable, Fargfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2004        "Bikini Carwash, Modern Culture", New York, NY
2002        "Bikini Carwash", Spanganga, San Francisco, CA

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions


2010        "Drive", David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009        Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2009        "Hall of Mirrors", Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2009        Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
2008        "Teleport Fargfabriken", Fargfabriken Norr, Ostersund, Sweden
2008        "Car Culture", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2007        "Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA", Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2007        "Body Double", Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2007        "Chopped, Chromed, and Customized", Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2006-07   "FUORI USO 2006--ALTERED STATES: Are You Experienced", Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy

                "TRAFO", Budapest, Hungary; Noua Gallery, Bucarest, Romania
2006        "This is Gallery", Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
2006        "Tina b.: The Prague Contemporary Art Festival (Same Same But Different)", Veleterzni Palac/National Gallery,      

                 Prague, Czech Republic
2006        "Joint Venture: Selections from the Dr. Barry S. Ramer Collection and Other Photographs", Richard L. Nelson     

                Gallery, University of California, Davis and Pence Gallery; Davis, CA