Curriculum Vitae
MARCIA R. COHEN
EDUCATION University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
M.A. painting and drawing, 1974
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
B.F.A. painting and drawing, 1972
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2009 Nominee: United States Artists (USA) Fellow
2008 MOCA Ga Working Artist Project [Carter Foster, juror]
2008 Footpaths to Creativity Artist Residency
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia “Multiples”
2007 Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta
2005 Fulton County Arts Council Hambidge Center Residency Stipend
2003 Commission: ING Group "A
Fresh Idea"
2001 King Baudouin Foundation US Cultural Exchange Fellowship
1997 Georgia Women in the Visual Arts
1996 "Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta: Public Art Commission”
1995 City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs: Artist Project Grant
1992 City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs: Artist Project Grant
1991 Fulton County Arts Council: Independent Artist Grant
1991 Georgia Council for the Arts: Individual Artist Grant
1990 Travel Stipend (anonymous): Israel
1988 National Endowment for the Arts /Southern Arts Federation Regional Fellowship
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta,
Georgia
• Hunt Institute for Botanical
Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• CGR Advisors Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
• SCAD Atlanta Artists Book Collection (ACA),
Atlanta, Georgia
• The University of New Mexico Museum,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
• United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.
• Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque,
New Mexico
VISITING ARTIST
2009 Panel Participant: Reviewing Black Mountain College, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC
2009 Guest Lecturer: "Pick A Color ... Any Color," Petcha Kutcha, Atlanta, GA
2008 Panel
Participant: “Colour Effects and Affects” AIC 08, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Guest Lecturer: “Info
Demo 2.6: Skin/Color” Eye Drum Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
2006 Panel
Participant: "Color : The Medium is the Message," SECAC, Nashville, TN
2006 Panel
Participant: "Camouflage: Art Science & Popular Culture," UNI, Cedar Falls, Iowa
2005 Panel Participant:
AIC Colour 2005: "Artist and Colorist," Granada, Spain
2004 Panel Participant:
ISCC: "More Interactions of
Color," FIT, NYC, NY
2004 Guest Lecturer:
"Color is the Medium and the Message," Lebanon Valley College, Anneville, Pa.
2003 Panel Participant: National
Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, "As the Wheel
Turns: Shades of a Global Color Theory," SVA, NYC, NY
2003 Guest Lecturer:
San Diego State University, San Diego, California
2003 Guest Lecturer: "On the
Nature of Color," Northern Light Studio, St. Louis, Missouri
2002 Guest Lecturer: "The Sounds of Yellow: Musings on
the Paradox of Color," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2002 Guest Lecturer: "From Strength to Strength:
Freidl Dicker-Brandeis and the Influence of Bauhaus Education," William Breman Jewish Museum, Atlanta,
Georgia
2001 Panel Participant: National Conference
on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, "The Arts and the
Spiritual," School of the Visual Arts, New York, New York
2000 Panel Participant: AICAD Conference "Picturing Nature," Sarasota, Florida
2000 Panel Participant: INCS Conference "Ways of Seeing," Universite Paris-X, Nanterre, France
2000 Panel
Participant: "Stripes, Circles & Spots: A Discussion of Abstract
Painting,"
2000 Post Hypnotic Exhibit, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Sight Specific,” MOCA GA Working Artist
Project, MOCA GA, Atlanta , GA
2005 "Un-Seen
Color," Callanwolde Fine Arts
Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2005 "Selections," Studio 859, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 "Studio: In Process," Studio 859, Atlanta, Georgia
1995 "Ot Ha-Kalon (Badge of Shame)," Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1993 "Hortus Botanicus Unique," Drawings 1990 - 1992, Atlanta
Botanical Garden,
Atlanta, Georgia
1990 "Paintings and Drawings: 1986 - 1990," Delaware County
Community College,
Media, Pennsylvania
1989 "Recent Work," Nexus Contemporary Art Center (Healey
Building), Atlanta, GA.
1987 "Natural Studies," Georgia State University Art Gallery, GSU,
Atlanta, Georgia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 "Certain Artists", curated by Susan Cofer, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2009 “Polaroid: End of an Era”, juried, Center Gallery, Wichita, KS
2008 “Paperworks 2008,” juror: Samantha Rippner, B.J. Spoke
Gallery, Huntington, NY
2008 “19th Annual
Interntional Exhibition” juror: Elisabeth Sussman, Virdian Artists Gallery, NY
2008 “Magic Silver,” juror: Joyce Tenneson, Eagel Gallery, Murray State Univ.
Murray, KY.
2008 “Unbound,” juror: I.
Bruggeman, Cannon Gallery, Western
Oregon Univ. Monmouth, OR.
2008 “The Possibility of Framing
Infinity,” Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA.
2006 “Drawn In Georgia,”
curator: Lisa Thrower, MOCA Ga., Atlanta, GA.
2005 "Photography," jurors: E.Fleurov, L. Kurzner, S. Todd-Raque, MOCA Ga, Atlanta, GA.
2004 "Spectra'04 National Photography Triennial," juror: Barbara Hitchcock, New Canaan,
CT.
2004 "Printmakers Collect," University of Texas at San Antonio, San
Antonio, TX.
2004 "Exploring
Identity," invitational, University of Virginia Art Museum,
Charlottesville, VA.
2003 "Faber
Birren Color Award Exhibition," juror: Dana Miller, SAA, Stamford, CT.
2002 "Color, Culture,
Complexity," juror: Dan
Talley, MOCA Ga., Atlanta, GA.
2002 "Re:Vision,"
invitational, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX.
2001 "Book Unbound,"
curator: Cathy Byrd, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA.
2000 "Hypnotic Post:
Atlanta Abstraction Now," curator: Michael Pittari, Swan Coach House
Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
1999 "Documenting Inspiration: The
Artists’ Sketchbook," invitational, Public Library of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
OH.