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; a 2008 Traveling Scholars’ Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and a Kresge Artist Fellowship in 2011.
"At Salon 94, The East German Trabant Gets a Stretch in Liz Cohen's Trabantimino," Artforum Video, Liza Béar. Read more here.
Liz Cohen
Canal, 2000 , Gelatin prints, tape, rubber stamp, 8 x 10 inches
Trabantimino, 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
Trabantimino, 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
Trabantimino, 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
Black Execution, 2010, c-print, 24x 20 inches
Liz Cohen
Hydro Force (still), 2011, high definition video, 00:55
Liz Cohen
Welder, 2005, C-print, 50 x 60 inches
Recent Press
- “Yes, That is a Car Seat in my Low Rider: An Interview with Liz Cohen,” Bad at Sports, Sarah
Margoles-Pineo, November 3, 2011 - “The Amazing Collapsable Family Muscle Car,” T Magazine Blog: Artifacts, Linda Yablonsky, October 29, 2010
- Rosenberg, Karen. “Liz Cohen: ‘Trabantimino’,” The New York Times, , October 29, 2010
- Wilson, Michael. “Liz Cohen, Trabantimino,” Time Out New York, October 28 – November 3, 2010
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 "Trabantimino", Salon 94, New York, NY
2010 "Liz Cohen: Zwickau Routine", Joseph Gross Gallery, Univerisity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2009 "Liz Cohen: The Builder and the Bikini Model", El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso
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
2011
"Autobody," Ballroom Marfa, Marfa
2011 "Commercial Break," Garage Projects, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2011 "Car Fetish. I Drive Therefore I Am," Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2011 "Femme Objet / Femme Sujet," Centre de Arte Contemporain, Meymac, France
2011
"No Object Is an Island," Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills,Michigan
2011 "here," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
2010
"Resurrectine," Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
2010 "SMFA Traveling Scholars," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2010 "Drive,"
David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009 "Second Skin," Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
2008 "18," Center, Berlin, Germany
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