Zen Cohen
Assistant Professor of Art, Digital Arts Media
Contact
Department of Art
Office: 2-217 Lee Hall
Website: https://www.zencohenprojects.com/
Email: zcohen7@clemson.edu
Education
MFA, Art Studio, University of California at Davis; BFA, Film, Video and Performance, California College of the Arts
Courses
Digital Media (ART 2250, 3250, 4250) Select Topics: Media Art Fest
Research Interests
Video Art, Installation Art, New Media, Art Curation, Art Organizing, Fluxus
Zen Cohen received an MFA in Art Studio at the University of California at Davis and BFA in Film, Video and Performance at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Her work has been exhibited at the deYoung Museum (CA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (CA), SFMOMA (CA), ARTSpace New Haven (CT), Vanity Projects (NY), Public Space One (IA), and internationally at the Museo de Arte Moderno (CDMX, Mexico), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (CDMX, Mexico) and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Canary Islands, Spain). Her photographs have been published in Hyperallergic, Art Practical, Routledge and Southern Illinois University Press. She is the founder and director of Open Air Media Festival, an outdoor media arts program in Iowa City. This program recently received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to support the 2024 festival.
Awards
National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) - Grants for Art Projects, Individual Artist Commission Grant in Media Arts - San Francisco Arts Commission, CAAC Faculty Research Development Program Collaborative Grant, Clemson University
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Enter new publication text here. Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Lane Harwell, “How Can Grantmakers Support Artists of Color?” Hyperallergic, article cover image hyperallergic.com/915372/how-can-grantmakers-support-artists-of-color/ May 19, 2024
Julia Steinmetz, “103 Shots: Listening to Orlando” World premiere of film 103 Shots, directed by Cassils. HuffPost, 2016. https://bit.ly/36ENhtq
Creative Works (Published)
Lori Waxman, “How essential is art? 29 MacArthur ‘geniuses’ answer that question in ‘Toward Common Cause’” Chicago Tribune, digital portrait of the artist, Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Sep 24, 2021 How essential is art? 29 MacArthur 'geniuses' answer that question in 'Toward Common Cause'
"Gómez-Peña Unplugged. Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)." Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Routledge, December 31, 2020. book cover and multiple photo images
“Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas.” Jimmy A. Noriega, Analola Santana. Southern Illinois University Press, 2018. book cover and multiple photo images
