EDUCATION
2000 Master of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California
1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1996 Bachelor of Arts, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Trabantimino, Salon 94, New York
2010 Liz Cohen: Zwickau Routine, Joseph Gross Gallery, Univerisity of Arizona, Tucson
2009 Liz Cohen: The Builder and the Bikini Model, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso
2008 No Room for Baggage, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas, El Paso
2008 La Cuatro de Julio: Photographs of the Transgender Sex Workers of Panama, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, Washington
2006 Liz Cohen, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
2005/6 Liz Cohen: Bodywork, The Gender Turntable, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Bikini Carwash, Modern Culture, New York, New York
2003 Magically Yours, Manolo Garcia Gallery, San Francisco, California; in collaboration with Catalina Rodriguez
2002 Neurotic Transbant (The Beginning), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Magically Yours, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; in collaboration with Catalina Rodriguez
2002 Bikini Carwash, Spanganga, San Francisco, California
2001 Interview 9802: Liza Minelli, A Problem In Translation, Detour 888, San Francisco, California
2000 Canal, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000 Canal, Paulette Long and Shepard Pollack Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Liz Cohen.Brittany Nelson.Lauren Semivan., David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2011 here., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA
2011 Autobody: Featuring North of South West of East, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2010 There's a way in which..., PLAySPACE, San Francisco, California
2010 Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, New York
2010 SMFA Traveling Scholars, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2010 Drive, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2009 Second Skin, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida
2009 Hall of Mirrors, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
2008 ‘18', Center, Berlin, Germany
2008 The Terrible Twos: A Lawrimore Project Biennial, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, Washington
2008 Teleport Färgfabriken, Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund, Sweden
2008 Car Culture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2007 Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2007 Body Double, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, California
2007 Chopped, Chromed, and Customized, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2007 No Distance Is More Awesome, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, California
2007 50,000 Beds, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut
2006/7FUORI USO 2006 - ALTERED STATES: Are You Experienced, Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy; TRAFO, Budapest, Hungary; Noua Gallery, Bucarest, Romania
2006 www dot creative-capital dot org, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York
2006 Haunted, Disjecta, Portland, in collaboration with Jackie Sumell as Pizzeria Chinois
2006 This Is Gallery, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, Washington
2006 Tina b.: The Prague Contemporary Art Festival (Same Same But Different), Veleterzní Palác/National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2006 Joint Venture: Selections from the Dr. Barry S. Ramer Collection and Other Photographs, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis and Pence Gallery; Davis, California
2005 Eau, Water, and Wasser, Quang Gallery, Paris, France
2005 SCAR, Parkeergarage De Appelaar, Haarlem, The
Netherlands
2005 Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, San Francisco, California
2005 Boost In the Shell (The Pursued), De Bond, Brugge, Belgium
2003 Viology, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
2003 Connections, Balazo Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002 Parallel Worlds, Galerie K & S, Berlin, Germany
2002 Viology, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, California
2002 Openings, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001 GenArts EMERGE, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
2000 Corpus Carnaval, Balazo Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000 Projections: Intermission Images IX; Before and After, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, California
2000 Points Of Departure: California College of Arts and Crafts MFA Exhibition, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California
1999 Recent Fellows, American Photography Institute, New York, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Print Media [Newspapers and Magazines])
"Liz Cohen: ‘Trabantimino'," The New York Times, Karen Rosenberg, October 29, 2010
"Liz Cohen, Trabantimino," Time Out New York, Michael Wilson, October 28 - November 3, 2010
"Leaves Fall as Bowery Art Scene Experiences Renewal," The Villager, Stephanie Buhmann, October 14 - 20, 2010
"On Tools and Bikinis, or the Voyage of Liz Cohen," Fantom Photographic Quarterly, Fabienne Stephan, Issue 03 - Spring 2010
"Why Amelia Jones Is Wrong About Liz Cohen - Regarding Bikinis and Feminism: a rebuttal," The Stranger, Jen Graves, September 9, 2008
"Auto Erotic," Make Magazine, Eric Smillie, Volume 14
"Funk-tional Transformation," Latino Perspectives, January 2008
"Car Culture at SMoCA," Java, Scott Andrews, January 2008
"Art Review: Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA," Piedmont Post, Isabelle Ringer, November 14, 2007
"Where ‘Art' Has Met ‘Craft' for 100 Years," The New York Times, Christopher Hall, November 11, 2007
"Liz Cohen Interviewed by Jen Graves," The Believer, Jen Graves, November/December 2007
"Lowrider Exhibit Just Doesn't Quite Get Revved Up in Cavernous Exhibit Space," Albuquerque Journal, Hollis Walker, September 28, 2007
" ‘Body Double': Through a Lens Starkly," Los Angeles Times, Holly Myers, September 12, 2007
"Chrome Becomes Canvas," Albuquerque Journal, Kathaleen Roberts, August 24, 2007
"Getting Low and Arty," Paul Weideman, Pasatiempo, August 24 - 30, 3007
"Transformers!," The Santa Fe Reporter, Zane Fischer, August 29, 2007
"Hotel Rooms Set the Scene, and 45 Artists Star," The New York Times, Benjamin Genoccio, August 5, 2007
"Behind Closed Doors," The Hartford Courant, Adrian Brune, July 22, 2007
"Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars," The New York Times, Linda Yablonsky, July 8, 2007
"In Paradise: Art Abounds, and So Do Artists," Paradise Valley Independent: At Home in Paradise, Todd Hoover, Spring of 2007
"Balazo KO?," San Francisco Bay Guardian, Kimberly Chun, April 5 - 11, 2007
"It Sure Beats the NEA," Fast Company, Lisa LaMotta and Alex C. Pasquariello, May 2007
"Saying the F-Word," ARTnews, Jori Finkel, February 2007
"Bodywork," Sleek (Germany), Friederike Güsefeld, Winter 2006/2007
"Knockout Work by a Trio of Young Artists," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Regina Hackett, October 27, 2006
"My Lowrider - Liz Cohen," Intersection Magazine, Marilena Astrapellou, Fall 2006
"Hard Body," Phoenix New Times, Megan Irwin, October 5 - 11, 2006
"Intervju: Bilbyggande bikinibrud," Femkul (Stockholm), Maria Milén, 2/2006
"Bodyshop," Readymade, David Spataro, Aug/Sept 2006
"Location? Location? Location? Scouting public-art venues with Anne Pasternak," ARTnews, June 2006
"pimp my ride: Liz Cohen takes a torch to the macho world of lowriding," Tank (London), Xerxes Cook, v4 issue 5, 2006
"Bil - Och Kroppsbyggareiett," Motor Magasinet (Stockholm), Klas Ringdahl, January 25, 2006
"REPORT FROM SAN FRANCISCO II: New and Now," Stephanie Cash, Art in America, January 2006
"Nelson and Pence Unite for Exhibit," Daily Democrat (Woodland, California), January 5, 2005
"Pimp My Ride: Artist Liz Cohen's ‘Bodyworks',"Java (Phoenix monthly), Lara Taubman, December 2005
"Arbete, Kropp, Subkultur," Aftonbladet (Stockholm), Ulrika Stahre, November 30, 2005
"Biltillverkning i könsperspektiv," TT Spectra (Sweden), November 21, 2005
"Bay Area Now 4," Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Aimee Le Duc, Fall/Winter 2005
"Review: Cross Section of Bay Area Artists' Work Highlights the Chasm Between Creators and the Crowd," San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, July 30, 2005
"Community Drift," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Glen Helfand, July 27 - August 2, 2005
"Lil' 'Now' Wow," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Clark Buckner, July 13- 19, 2005
"Here and 'Now,'" The San Francisco Examiner, Bill Picture, July 12, 2005
"Liz Cohen," Venus, Jessie Nelson, Winter 2004 - 2005, p. 25
"Portland Ups Its Art Ante," The Portland Tribune (Portland, Oregon), Joseph Gallivan, October 8, 2004
"Get a Room," The Portland Mercury (Portland, Oregon), Ryan Dirks, September 30, 2004, p. 14
"New York: Les 'autos portraits' de Liz Cohen," Photo (France), Eve Thérond, September 2004
"Art: Women and Cars," Label (Italy), "Zucca Alessandelli, Winter 2003/2004
"High-Performance Artist," Wired, Jonathan Keats, July 2003
"San Francisco," Contemporary, Kate Fowle, June/July/August 2002
"Gente: 'Personaje: Liz Cohen Ibanez'," El Heraldo (Barranquilla, Colombia), Claudia Cuello, September 22, 2001
"Operation Puta," Shades Of Contradiction, Summer 2001
"Liz Cohen and Sandra Wong At the San Francisco Commission Gallery," Artweek , Mark Van Proyen, February 2001
"In the Margins: Two Faces Of Panama City In Liz Cohen's Photo Show," East Bay Express, Lindsey Westbrook, January 12, 2001
"Eight Days a Week: Two To Watch," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 6 - 12, 2000
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Electronic Media):
"Liz Cohen's Car Culture," Art in America, Brienne Walsh, November 4, 2010; http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2010-11-04/liz-cohen-trabantimino/
"The Amazing Collapsable Family Muscle Car," T Magazine Blog: Artifacts, Linda Yablonsky, October 29, 2010; http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/artifacts-the-amazing-collapsible-family-muscle-car/
"Liz Cohen's Car Is Finally Finished, and Showing," SLOG, Jen Graves, October 29, 2010; http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/10/29/5358640-liz-cohens-car-is-finally-finished-and-showing
"The Well Photographed Tool," Dinosaurs and Robots, October 29, 2010; http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2010/10/5-ps-x-beauties-of-common-tool.html
"Trabantimino," Mark Lamster Blog, Mark Lamster, October 25, 2010; http://blog.marklamster.com/?p=2565
"At Salon 94, the East German Trabant Gets a Stretch in Liz Cohen's Trabantimio," Artforum Video, Liza Bear; http://artforum.com/video/id=26713&mode=large&page_id=0
"On the Road: London's Frieze Week," Art Market Views, Lindsay Pollack, October 21, 2010; http://lindsaypollock.com/news/on-the-road-londons-frieze-week/
"Liz Cohen: Trabantimino," BOMBLOG, Liza Bear, October 15, 2010; http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/3678
"The Trabantimino: The Art of Building a Trabant Lowrider," Tamara Warren, The New York Times Wheels Blog; http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/the-trabantimino-the-art-of-building-a-trabant-lowrider/
"Liz Cohen: Zwickau Routine," Hearsight; http://hearsight.com/articles/snapshots/Zwickau_Routine.html
"Close It, Sell It, Make Something New," Pedro Velez, artnet, May 2010; http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/velez/close-art-chicago5-12-10.asp
"Seattle in Miami," SLOG, Jen Graves, December 13, 2007; http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/seattle_in_miami
"bodywork," Men's Vogue, David Knowles, August 29, 2007; http://www.mensvogue.com/arts/articles/2007/08/liz_cohen
"Studio Visit: Lara Taubman visits Liz Cohen in Phoenix, AZ," artcritical.com, Lara Taubman, July 14, 2007; http://artcritical.com/studiovisit/liz%20cohen/LTCohen.htm
"Liz Cohen: Transformational Art," Behance, Florencia Varela, April 13, 2007; http://behance.com/Featured/Articles/Liz-Cohen-Transformational-Art/5540
"Auto-Metamorphosis," artnet.com Magazine, Lara Taubman, November 21, 2006; http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/taubman/taubman11-21-06.asp
"Liz Cohen, Bodywork," Paris Art, Anne-Lou Vincente, September 2006; http://www.paris-art.com/expo_detail-3505-cohen.html
"Regional Roundup: Seattle," Artinfo, Jen Graves, August 21, 2006; http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=19364&c=19
"The AI Interview: Liz Cohen," Artinfo, Eva-Lotta Jansson, December 29, 2005; http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=9317&c=253
"Familar Audio Tour (YBCA Visitors Listen To Don Barsollotti Talk About the Work Of Liz Cohen,)" Helena Keeffe, July 2005; http://www.helenakeeffe.com/archives/000019.html; audio essay
"Bay Beats: Bay Area Now 4," The San Francisco Chronicle, Reyhan Harmanci, July 13, 2005; http://sfgate.com/cgibin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=5&entry_id=223; audio"podcast"
"Art News," artnet.com Magazine, February 22, 2005; http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/artnetnews2/artnetnews2-22-05.asp
"Marketing the Mission: Commodifying San Francisco's Art, The 'Mission School,' and the Problem Of Regionalism," Stretcher, Leah Modigliani, October 2004, http://www.stretcher.org/features/f1.php
"Douglas Weathersby At the Green Street Gallery, Car Wash and More," Some Other Magazine, Josh Greene, October 2004; http://www.someothermagazine.com
"Cheap Thrills," artnet.com Magazine, Charlie Finch, September 2, 2004; http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/cfinch/finch9-2-04.asp
BIBLIOGRAPHY (Print Media [Books]):
Rita Gonzalez, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega, Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008)
Jan Åman and Carlmichael Von Hauswolf, Teleport Färgfabriken: We Did Everything Wrong, (Stockholm: Färgabriken, 2008)
Liz Cohen, Radical Mod Magazine, (Scottsdale: Scottsdale Public Art, 2008)
Nicolas Bourriaud and Paolo Falcone, FUORIUSO"06 Altered States: are you experienced, (Pescara: Arte Nova, 2007)
Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, (San Francisco: Wilsted and Taylor)
50,000 Beds, (Connecticut: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Artspace, and Real Artways)
Pierre Denan, 1680 Grams of Art, (Paris: M19, 2007)
Liz Cohen, The 5 P's: Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance, (Paris: onestar press, 2007)
Edward Booth-Clibborn and Nan Ellin, Phoenix: 21st Century City (United Kingdom: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2006)
Liz Cohen, lizcohenbodywork, (Paris: onestar press and Galerie Laurent Godin, 2006)
Boost in the Shell: The Persued, (Brugge: Culturcentrum BRGGE)
Bay Area Now 4, (San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center For the Arts, 2005)
Miriam Bers, Parallel Worlds, (Berlin: Fine Arts Unternehmen Books, 2002)
RADIO COVERAGE
Freestyle, CBC Radio One (Vancouver, Canada); Cameron Phillips and Kelly Ryan; December 22, 2005; radio interview
HONORS
2011 Kresge Grant Recipient, Michigan
2007 2007 Artist's Project Grant, Arizona Commission for the Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
2005 2005 Creative Capital Foundation Project Grant, Creative Capital Foundation For the Arts, New York, New York
2002 2002 San Francisco Award To Visual Artists, Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, New York
2002 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; studio fellowship
2001 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire; studio residency
1999 The Photography Institute, New York, New York; fellowship
