Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2021 "Nancy Cohen: Atlas of Impermanence", Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (images)
- 2019 “Force: Observations from the Interior,” Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
- 2018 “Colloquy,” Collaborative Exhibition with Anna Boothe, Taplin Gallery, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ catalog
- 2017 "Liasons," Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
- 2017 "Permutations," Collaborative exhibition with Anna Boothe, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA installation photo
- 2013 "A Condition of Light," Accola Griefen Gallery, NYC installation photos
- 2013 "Beyond the Surface", Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
- 2012 Accola Giefen Gallery, New York, NY (catalog essay by Jill Conner) (installation photos)
"Nancy Cohen: Precarious Exchange", Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
- 2010 "Permeable Matter", Kean University, Union, NJ (catalog)
(essays by
Janet Koplos and
Kelly Murphy)
(installation photos)
- 2009 "Perspectives on Salinity: River From Within", Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
(brochure)
- 2007 "Water Ways", Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ (brochure)
- 2006 Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
- 2004 Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (brochure)
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
- 2003 Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
- 2001 "Objects and Intentions", Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ (catalog)
- 1999 Hunterdon Museum of Art - Clinton, NJ
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
- 1998 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
- 1996 New Jersey State Museum - Trenton, NJ
- 1993 Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
- 1990 Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York, NY
- 1989 Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
- 1988 Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (catalog)
- 1985 Jing An Cultural Center, Shanghai, China
Commissions and Large Scale Installations
- 2018 "Between Seeing and Knowing," collaboration with Anna Boothe, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia PA installation photos
- 2015 -2016 “Hackensack Dreaming,” New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ travels to Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA, The Power Point Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC and UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY(catalog) installation photos, interior design
review, artefuse
review,
Hand Papermaking
article
- 2016 “Cove House Tide,” Private Installation on Fishers Island, NY (installation photos)
- 2013 "Between Seeing and Knowing," collaboration with Anna Boothe, Accola Griefen Gallery, NYC video interview brochure installation photos
- 2011 "Estuary: Moods & Modes IV", The Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library, Howard University, Washington DC
- 2011 "P (n,k) [Combinatoric]2", The Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
- 2011 "Perspectives on Salinity 2011", Richard Stockton College of NJ, Pomona, NJ video interview
- 2010 "Looking Forward/Looking Back", Park HaGalil, Karmiel, Israel
- 2009 "Perspectives on Salinity: River from Within", Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY (brochure)
- 2008 "Elements of a General Theory of Hydrodynamics" :CODA Museum, Appeldoorn, NL
- 2007 "Estuary: Moods & Modes", The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
- 2006 "Sensation: Interior View", Collaboration with Shirly Tilghman, Jim Sturm and A.R. Willey, Quark Park Sculpture Garden, Princeton, NJ
- 2005 "Going Places: Skyway to Wow!", Percent for Art Commission, Ross-Woodward School, New Haven, CT
- 2003 "Inside-Out (Adentro/Afuera)", Mountain Development Corp, 100 Hamilton Plaza, Paterson, NJ
- 1996 "Only Connect", Staten Island Botanical Garden, Staten Island, NY
- 1992 "Community of Shelter", Thomas Paine Park, New York, NY
- 1986 "Taking Form", Windows on White Street, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2019 “Kin,” Accola Griefen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Summation & Absence,” BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
“Trace Elements,” Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ
“New World Water,” Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
“The Other Glass: An Alternative History,” Heller Gallery, New York, NY
“New Directions in Fiber Art,” The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
- 2018 "Wake" Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, NY
“Mike Childs and Nancy Cohen,” Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
- 2017 “Bete Noire,” Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY catalog
“In Residence: Nancy Cohen and Steven Millar,” Bullseye Glass, Mamaroneck, NY
“NJ Arts Annual Special Addition 1996-2016,” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
“River Woman,” ODETTA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY installation photos
- 2016 “Of an Urban Nature,” 1+1 Collective, Brooklyn, NY
"TFAP@TEN" Exhibition in Honor of The Feminist Art Project’s 10th Anniversary, Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (catalog)
“The Nature of Things”, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
- 2015 “Art x Women”, VanDeb Editions, Long Island City, NY
“Legends of the Pines” The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ (catalog)
“Tipping Points”, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
“Contrasting Abstractions”, Morris Arts, Morristown, NJ (catalog)
- 2014 “Water & Earth: A Call to Protect Fragile Ecosystems”, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
- 2014 "Faculty Exhibition · Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College", Queens, NY (catalog)
"Jersey Women Artists Now: Contemporary Visions 2013" · George Segal Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ (catalog)
"Pulp Culture: Paper is the Medium" · The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
"Paper Cuts" · Gallery Gaia · Brooklyn, NY
"In-Site: The Creative Process in Plain View" · The Robeson Center Gallery · Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
"Road Kill" ·Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY
"Emerald City", Gateway Center · Newark, NJ
- 2013 "Structure and Flow: An Exploration of Contrasts in Abstraction", Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ (brochure)
"The Land Before and After Time", Accola Griefen Gallery, NYC
"Shattered: Contemporary Sculpture in Glass", Frederik Meijer Garden & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
"Fabriano 1264 750 Years of Western Paper: Carrying Knowledge, Spreading Culture, Connecting Peoples" · The Italian Embassy · Washington, DC
- 2012 "Paper in Space", Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
"50 Years of Studio Glass", Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Lexington, KY
"Possible Realities: Proposals for the Karl Stirner Arts Trail", Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
- 2011 "An Uncommon Thread", The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY
Kamikaze, POST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Green: the Color & the Cause", The Textile Museum, Washington D.C. catalog
- 2010 "As You Like It", Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
- 2009 "Mark of the Hand", Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
"Global Warning: Artists and Climate Change", Zilhka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
"Multiple/Incremental/Repetition", Loft Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
"Insight: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing", Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
"Yarn Theory", PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
"Multi [Ply]", Studio Theatre Gallery, Middlesex Community College, Edison, NJ
"The Exquisite Corpse" - Robeson Center Gallery - Rutgers University - Newark, NJ
- 2008 "The Innerworld or the Outerworld of the Innerworld" - Von Lintel Gallery - New York, NY
"Inaugural Exhibition" - Accola Contemporary - New York, NY
"Holland Paper Biennale 2008" - Museum Rijswijk - Rijswijk, NL - CODA Museum - Apeldoorn, NL (catalog)
"Trellis" - Rupert Ravens Fine Art - Newark, NJ
- 2007 "The Outdoor Gallery: 40 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks" - The Arsenal Gallery - New York, NY
"Per Square Foot" - The Gallery at Dieu Donne - New York, NY
- 2006 "Out There" - 2006 New Jersey Arts Annual - The Newark Museum - Newark, NJ (catalog)
- 2005 "Plane + Form" - Minnesota Center for Book Arts - Minneapolis, MN
"Art Athina Contemporary Art Fair" - Helexpo Exhibition Center - Athens, Greece
- 2004 "Material Witness" - Heidi Cho Gallery - New York, NY
Self Evidence - Gallery 31 North - Glen Gardner, NJ
"Music in Art" - Anchorage Museum of History and Art - Anchorage, AK (catalog)
- 2003 "Correspondences: Poetry and Contemporary
Art" - Hunterdon Museum of Art - Clinton, NJ (catalog)
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Sculpture Project - New Brunswick, NJ (catalog)
"Paper and Metal" - Minnesota Center for Books Arts - Minneapolis, MN
- 2002 "Material Passage" - JP Morgan Chase Project Space - Jersey City, NJ
"500 Drawings" - Gary Snyder Fine Art - New York, NY
"Magnitude" - An exhibition of poet/artist collaborations - The Educational Alliance - NY, NY
"100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints: 15 Years of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper" - New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ - Travels to The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ and The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ (catalog)
- 2001 "Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Done Papermill" - Kresge Art Museum- Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI
"Travels through 2003 to: Maryland Institute College of Art" - Baltimore, MD Beach Museum of Art - "Manhattan, KS, Heckscher Museum" - Huntington, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI and Fort Wayne Museum of Art - Fort Wayne, IN (catalog)
"Paper, Rock, Stone" - Elaine Benson Gallery - East Hampton, NY
"Revenge of The Pussy" - Barbara Ann Levy Gallery - Fire Island, NY
Installed Collections/Collections Installed - Mason Gross Galleries - New Brunswick, NJ
"Nancy Cohen and Robert Gutierrez" - PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
"Performance and Art by Women" - Sideshow - Brooklyn, NY, NY
- 2000 "The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture" - Exit Art - NY, NY
"Displacement: Art + Suitcase, Will Travel" - Gallery: Gertrude Stein, New York, NY
- 1999 "A Common Thread" - New Art Center - Newton, MA (catalog)
"Size Matters" - GAle GAtes et al. - Brooklyn, NY
"Souvenirs/documents: 20 years" - PS122 Gallery - New York, NY (catalog)
"Three Artists - Three Stories" - NJ Center for Visual Arts - Summit, NJ (catalog)
- 1998 "Wild" - Exit Art - New York, NY
"Memory and Transformation" - Painted Bride Art Center - Philadelphia, PA
"In Touch" - Elsa Mott Ives Gallery - New York, NY
"Form and Space: A Dialogue" - Hunterdon Museum of Art - Clinton, NJ
"Drawings" - ChiMeat - Brooklyn, NY
- 1997 "Balancing Act" - Room - New York, NY
"Objects and Delusion" - Smack Mellon Studios - Brooklyn, NY
- 1996 "Innovations and Explorations in Handmade Paper" - Dieu Donne Papermill - New York, NY (catalog)
- 1995 "Four X-Change" - Het Kunst Keldertje - Rotterdam, NL
"Light Inspirations" - San Francisco Jewish Museum - San Francisco, CA (catalog)
"Workspace Program: 5 Years" - Dieu Donne Papermill - New York, NY (catalog)
"In Making it Actual" - Wheeler Gallery - Providence, RI
"What's the Connection" - Trans Hudson Gallery - Jersey City, NJ
- 1994 "Fabricated Nature" - Boise Art Museum - Boise, ID (catalog) Travelled to University of Wyoming Art Museum, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts
"Small Works" - The Sculpture Center - New York, NY
"Passages in Sculpture: Six Sculptors" - Jersey City Museum - Jersey City, NJ
"Biomorphosis" - Miami-Dade Community College - Miami, FL (catalog)
"Rough Cuts" - Henry Street Settlement - New York, NY
"Natural Histories" - Pyramid Atlantic - Rivervale, MD
- 1993 "93NY50" - Socrates Sculpture Park - Long Island City, NY
"Object Lessons" - Police Building - New York, NY
- 1992 "Environmental Sculpture" - Kouros Sculpture Center - Ridgefield, CT
"Drawings and Sculptures by Sculptors" - Kouros Gallery - New York, NY
- 1991 "Six East Coast Sculptors" - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
"Disjunctive" - Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL (catalog)
"Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood" - Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA (catalog)
- 1990 "Sculptors' Drawings" - East Hampton Center For Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY (catalog)
"Positive Actions: Visual AIDS 1990" - Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
- 1989 "Material Forms" - NJ Center For Visual Art, Summit, NJ (catalog)
- 1988 "The Life Force" - Robeson Gallery - Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (catalog)
"Sculpture 1988" - White Columns, New York, NY
"Invitational Exhibition" - 55 Mercer Street Gallery - New York, NY
- 1987 "Taking Form" - Windows on White Street, New York, NY (installation)
"Three Sculptors" - A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
"Biomorphic Sculpture" - Art In General, New York, NY
- 1986 "The Figure Abstracted: Intimated Presences" - Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (catalog)
Public and Museum Collections
- Citibank, New York, NY
- Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
- DHR International, Newark, NJ
- Hillwood Art Museum, C. W. Post College, Brookville, NY (catalog)
- Howard University, Washington DC
- Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ
- Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
- Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
- Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Middletown, NJ
- Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
- Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
- New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
- New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
- New York University, New York, NY
- Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
- Park Ha Galil, Karmiel, Israel
- Pilchuck Print Collection, Seattle, WA
- Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ
- Richard Stockton College of NJ, Pomona, NJ
- TIAA/CREF, New York, NY
- Tides Institute Museum of Art, Eastport, ME
- Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
- Westin Hotel, Jersey City, NJ
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
- Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Awards and Residencies
- 2021 Studio Residency Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
- 2018 StudioWorks Residency, Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, ME
- 2018 Ninth Wave Global Residency, Samana, Dominican Republic
- 2018 Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund Award, Brooklyn, NY
- 2016 Artist in Residence, Bullseye Glass, Mamaroneck, NY
- 2016 New Jersey Glass Residency, Wheaton Arts, Millville, NJ
- 2016 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Works on Paper Fellowship
- 2015 ISE Cultural Foundation, award in support of "Hackensack Dreaming"
- 2012 Collaborative Residency, The Studio at Corning, Corning, NY
- 2011 Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Standwood, WA
- 2006 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Works on Paper Fellowship
- 2004, 1993 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Fellowship
- 1996 The Greenwall Foundation, award in support of "Only Connect"
- 1993, 89, 86 New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship
- 1992 Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY, Workspace Artist
- 1991 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
- 1989 Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant
- 1986, 81 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough
- 1982 The Archie Bray Foundateion, Helena, MT
- 1981 The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
Education
- 1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
- 1982-1984 Columbia University, New York, NY, MFA
- 1977-81 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, BFA