Marcia R Cohen, visual artist and educator, has exhibited and lectured on her
artwork nationally and internationally and has received numerous grants,
fellowships and commissions. Her impressive interdisciplinary oeuvre includes painting, drawing, photography, enamel arts, installation work, puppetry and multimedia works in film. Cohen's art work and scholarly research is broadly based in topics as diverse as color phenomena, Jewish history and the confluence of nature and culture.
In 2026, Cohen received The Atlanta Contemporary Nexus Fund Andy Warhol Visual Arts Award for her multimedia project "Episodes in Hauntology." In 2019 she was awarded
a Duke University Jewish Studies Department Research Award to study antisemitic caricatures in the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. In 2012, she was awarded an Affiliated Fellowship to The American Academy in Rome and in 2011 with
the award of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship she traveled to in Morocco and Tunisia.
The 2009 a “Working Artist Project Fellowship” culminated in her solo exhibition “Sight Specific” at MOCA Ga. and in 2017, a SCAD Presidential Award for her solo exhibition "Locale Color" in Anchorage Alaska. She has been awarded numerous artist in residence fellowships in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Reykjavik, Iceland, the Azores, Archipelago and in 2019 the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency in Bethany, CT. During her travels Cohen created installations and color interventions based on atmospheric phenomena and color in the indigenous landscape. Marcia Cohen’s work is included in
numerous private and public collections including the High Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
A native of Detroit Michigan, she graduated from Wayne State University and the University of New Mexico and presently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Marcia R Cohen
is a Professor Emerita from both The Atlanta College of Art and SCAD Atlanta.
© 2026 by Marcia R Cohen