Karen Dana Cohen b. 1982 in Mexico City is an artist, educator and independent curator based in Chicago, IL. She received a BFA from The National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City (2005) and earned her MFA degree at Hunter College, New York (2011), where she based her art studio up until 2017.
Her practice acts as process-based research inviting a space for vulnerability and attentiveness to the problems of the modern world. Art allows to voice the multiplicity of stories and give solutions.
She has participated in national and international exhibitions, showing her own art practice 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 and teaches Professional Practices and Studio Courses at Lillst Art Center. For the last five years she has been a leading mentor in a critique group of artists who are also caregivers.