Nicole Cohen
A video installation artist who additionally creates works on paper, Nicole Cohen’s work draws on the intersection of fantasy, reality and culturally constructed spaces. Distorting notions of time, depth, scale and environment in her video and digital media pieces, Cohen challenges conceived ideas of lifestyle, domesticity, celebrity, and social behavior, often using surveillance as a tool of visual reflection and disruption. Interior space is another focus, as seen in many of Cohen’s works on paper, which use fragments of color and image to create a jumbled visual illusion of dimension. Using contemporary technologies, in conjuncture with historical or site-specific locations, the artist also explores how we behave in spaces that have, “implied scripts of how to act,” evoking themes of psychology and identity and well as experience.
Nicole Cohen has exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, American University Museum, Washington, D.C., the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, and the New York Public Library, New York. In 2011, she unveiled a public art sculpture in the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. She has also shown internationally …
A video installation artist who additionally creates works on paper, Nicole Cohen’s work draws on the intersection of fantasy, reality and culturally constructed spaces. Distorting notions of time, depth, scale and environment in her video and digital media pieces, Cohen challenges conceived ideas of lifestyle, domesticity, celebrity, and social behavior, often using surveillance as a tool of visual reflection and disruption. Interior space is another focus, as seen in many of Cohen’s works on paper, which use fragments of color and image to create a jumbled visual illusion of dimension. Using contemporary technologies, in conjuncture with historical or site-specific locations, the artist also explores how we behave in spaces that have, “implied scripts of how to act,” evoking themes of psychology and identity and well as experience.
Nicole Cohen has exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, American University Museum, Washington, D.C., the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, and the New York Public Library, New York. In 2011, she unveiled a public art sculpture in the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. She has also shown internationally in Berlin, Germany, Bergen, Norway, Paris, France, Harajaku, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan, and Shanghai, China.
