KAREN DANA COHEN

b.1982 in Mexico City

1700 W Irving Park 304

Chicago, IL 60613

www.karendanacohen.com
karendanas@gmail.com
Instagram: @karendanacohen

EDUCATION

MFA, Visual Arts | Hunter College, City University of New York, 2011
BFA, Studio Art | ENPEG, INBA, Mexico City, 2006
Post-baccalaureate | Columbia College Chicago, 2008

SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Make sure I'm there when you open your eyes | Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL, 2023
Las tierras del Cielo | Estudio Marte, Mexico City, 2022
Longing Compass | Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL, 2021
How lonely does it get? | The Foster Gallery, Noble and Greenough, Dedham, MA, 2021
Off Hours | Material Art, Chicago, IL (curated by Ionit Behar), 2020
Resemblance | PROXYCO Gallery, Manhattan, NY, 2019
A woman is a woman | Geometrica, Corporativo Constituyentes, Mexico City, 2017
In search of stones | Gallery Sensei, New York, NY, 2014

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Beneath the Visible | Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2024
Tender Edge | Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH (curated by Miranda Holmes), 2023
Maternal Perspectives | Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest, IL, 2023
LatinXAmerican | DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, 2021
Extended self: transformations & connections | Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2020
Making (It) Work | Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, 2019
Contemporary Mexican Women Artists | Mexican Senate, Senado de la Republica, Mexico City, 2018
XVI Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial | Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 2017
XV Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial | Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 2013
(Traveled to: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca; Museo Chihuahuense de Arte Contemporáneo; Instituto Tamaulipeco para las Artes y Culturas; Galería del Sistema Municipal, Guanajuato)
Time in Action | Haunch of Venison, New York, NY, 2012
Espacios Quebrantados Colectiva de Pintura | Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 2012
Arte Vivo | Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2011
Re-Cover | Coordinacion de Difusion Cultural UNAM Casa del Lago, Mexico City, 2011

AWARDS & HONORS

Honorable Mention | XVI Mexican Painting Biennial, INBA, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, 2014
Honorable Mention | XV Mexican Painting Biennial, INBA, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, 2011
Programa de Becarios Jóvenes Creadores FONCA | CONACULTA, Mexico, 2008

RESIDENCIES

The Center Program | Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2024
Interlude Artist Residency | Hudson, NY, 2023
BOLT Artist Residency | Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL, 2020
The Bridge Program | Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2019
Field/Work Residency | Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL, 2018
ChaNorth Residency | Chashama, Pine Plains, NY, 2011

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Thin Times | Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL, 2026
Circularities | Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL, 2022
Borderless | Immigrant Artist Initiative, Slow Down Projects, Chicago, IL, 2022
Bounce Back (co-curated with Emily Lindskoog) | Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2021
Breathing House | Multiple locations across USA, Canada, and Spain, 2021

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS

Hidalgo Nera, "Destruye para crear," Reporte Indigo, 2022
Francisco Morales, "Estudio Marte: Un hogar para artistas," Periodico Reforma, 2022
Mauricio Romo, "Las tierras del Cielo," Once Noticias, Mexico, 2022
"Las tierras del Cielo," Time Out Mexico, 2022
Carla Rippey y Rocio Montoya, "Tu de mi yo de ti," Mujeres Artistas en Red, 2021
Ally Fouts, Sixty Inches from Center, 2021
Catalina Restrepo, LARR Magazine, 2018

SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES

North Park University, Chicago, IL, 2023
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, 2023
Lehman College, CUNY, New York, NY, 2022
El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, 2022
Centro de Las Artes, Mexico City, 2016