Karen Dana Cohen b. 1982 in Mexico City is an artist, educator and independent curator based in Chicago, IL.

She has participated in national and international exhibitions, She teaches Professional Practices and Studio Courses as well as been a curator and organizer. Her must recent curatorial project Circularities showed the work of two contemporary female artist mothers that build paintings in a process that requires destruction and reconstruction. She is an active member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago. For the last five years she has been a leading mentor in a critique group of artists who are also caregivers.