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Photographer and performance artist Liz Cohen (American, b. 1973) is best known for her project BODYWORK, in which she transformed an aging East German Trabant into an American El Camino lowrider, and herself into a car customizer and bikini model. Cohen’s earlier work CANAL, a series of black and white photographs and performances, documents sex workers on the fringe of the Panama Canal Zone. In her more recent work, HIM, she depicts an ostracized poet through black and white photographs, weavings, and collaged textiles. Cohen’s work has been characterized as examining immigration, nonconformity, and resistance.
Cohen has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the Kresge Foundation. She has exhibited work at Site Santa Fe, Ballroom Marfa, the Cranbrook Art Museum, Färgfabriken, and Museum Tinguely. Her projects have been written about in the New York Times, Art in America and Lowrider Magazine. Cohen received her MFA degree in Photography from the California College of the Arts. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA in Philosophy from Tufts University.
Cohen’s work is interdisciplinary, bringing together inquiry in women’s studies, literature, poetry, and auto mechanics as well as expertise in documentary photography, performance, video, installation, and sculpture.
MFA, Photography, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA - 2000
BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1996
BA, Philosophy, cum laude with high thesis honors, Tufts University, Medford, MA - 1996
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ART 680 | Practicum |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 205 | Photography II: Color |
ART 404 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 680 | Practicum |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 403 | Senior Photographic Projects |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
HDA 598 | Special Topics |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 680 | Practicum |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 301 | Alternative Processes I |
ART 404 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 680 | Practicum |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 403 | Senior Photographic Projects |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
HDA 598 | Special Topics |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 404 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 621 | Studio Problems |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 205 | Photography II: Color |
ART 403 | Senior Photographic Projects |
ART 592 | Research |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ART 404 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 501 | Cross-Practice Critique |
ART 598 | Special Topics |