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Mark Cohen

Personal Information

Born August 24, 1943, in Wilkes-Barre, PA

Attended Forty Fort High School, 1958 – 1961

Attended Penn State University, 1961 – 1963

Attended Wilkes College, 1963 – 1965

Opened commercial photo studio in Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1966

Lives in Wilkes-Barre, PA

Individual Exhibitions

1962 Penn State University, University Park, PA

1965 Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

1967 Spanish National Tourist Office, NYC

1968 William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA

1973 The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

1974 International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester,

NY(circulating)

1975 Art Institute of Chicago

Light Gallery, NYC

1976 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

1977 Castelli Graphics, NYC

1978 University of Colorado, Boulder

1979 Castelli Gallery, NYC

1980 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Marlborough Gallery, NYC

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1984 Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington , DC

1986 Zabriskie Gallery, NYC

1987 Galerie Zabriskie, Paris

1989 Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA

1990 Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

Zabriskie Gallery, NYC, 1990

1991 Drew University, Madison, NJ

1992 Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

2001 TRESSPASS Bruce Silverstein Gallery,NY

2002 INVISIBLE new work Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NY

2005 Grim Street Bruce Silverstein Photography, NY

2005 Rose Gallery, TRUE COLOR Santa Monica

2010 Philadelphia Museum of Art STRANGE EVIDENCE

2011 Blue Sky Gallery, GRIM STREET Portland ,OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

1969 “Vision and Expression”, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

1970 “Photography: New Acquisitions”, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

“New American Photography”, American Arts Documentation Centre, Exeter, England

1971 “Split Focus” [Mark Cohen; Jerry Uelsmann], University of Maryland

“Photography Invitational”, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

1972 “60’s Continuum”, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

“Documentary Photography”, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

“Sharp Focus Realism”, Pace Gallery, NYC

“Women, Photographic Insights”, Zone V Photographer’s Workshop, Watertown, MA

“Nine Photographers Look Beyond”, American Greetings Gallery, NYC

1973 “Light and Lens”, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Fotografi Oggi: gli americani, Documenta, Turin, Italy

1974 “Photography in America”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

“New Images in Photography: Object and Illusion,” Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL

“Photography U.S.A.”, United States Information Agency, Washington, DC

1975 “New Directions in Photography,” Northeastern University Art Museum, Boston, MA

1976 “Peculiar to Photography”, Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

“Through Other Eyes”, Arts Council of Great Britain, London

“Spectrum: An Exhibition of Color Photography”, Rochester Institute of Technology,

Rochester, NY

“American Photographs”, Loretta Yarlow Fine Arts, Toronto

1977 “10 Photographes /contemporains”, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris

“Unposed Portraits”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

“Twenty American Photographers”, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

“Flash”, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

1978 “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960”, Museum of Modern Art, NYC

“23 Photographers: The Kirklands International Photography Exhibition”, Walker Art

Gallery, Liverpool, England

1979 “Attitudes: Photography in the 70’s”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

1980 “Aspects of the 70’s”, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

“Twenty American Artists”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1981 “Couches, Diamonds, and Pie”, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY

“Color Photography: 5 New Views”, Marlborough Gallery, NYC

“Flash Photography Past and Present”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London

1982 “Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

NYC

“Flash”, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

“Form, Freud, and Feeling”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

“New Color”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1983 “Fragments”, University of Cincinnati Gallery

“Trends in Color”, Focus Gallery, San Francisco

“Color in the Streets”, California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, CA

1984 “Eloquent Light”, American Photography 1945 –1980,” Barbican Art Gallery, London

“American Photography Today”, University of Denver, CO

“The Dog Observed”, Dog Museum, NYC

1985 “Images of Excellence”, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

“Contemporary Photographers See Pittsburgh”, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

“Weird Beauty”, Palladium, NYC

1986 “Theatre des Realites”, Centre National de al Photograhie, Metz, France

1987 “Of People and Places”, Milwaukee Art Museum, MN

1989 “Women/Men”, Photographs from the Seagram Collection, NYC

“The Indomitable Spirit”, Photographers and Friends United Against AIDS, NYC, LA

1993 “A la Recherche du Pere”, Espace Photographique, Paris

“Mexico through Foreign Eyes”, Museo de Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo,

Mexico City

1996 “25th Anniversary LIGHT GALLERY”, International Center of Photography, NYC

“A Sense of Place” [Williams, Meyerowitz, Perrot, Cohen], Westmoreland Museum of Art,

1999 “Through A Glass Clearly”, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA “Recontres Internationales de la Photographie”, Arles, France

Awards

2009 photoSPEAKS Korean Society of Photography

2010 photoSPEAKS Korean Society of Photography

AWARDS:

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1971

National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1975

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1976

Hazlett Memorial Award, Commonwealth of PA, 1982

Public Collections :

Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

Chase Manhattan Art Collection, NYC

Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, NY

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Milwaukee Art Museum

The Minneapolis Institute of Art

Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA

Princeton University Art Museum

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Seagram Collection, NY

Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, PA

The Arts Council of Great Britain

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

Lectures / Teaching

King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 1973 – 1977

Princeton University, NJ, 1975

Public Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1976

Public Lecture, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL, 1977

Public Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1977

Public Lecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1978

Public Lecture, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1979

Public Lecture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 1979 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1979

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, NYC, 1980

Visiting Artist, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, 1980

Visiting Artist, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1981

Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, 1982

Visiting Artist, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, 1984

New School for Social Research, NYC, 1984

Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art, NYC, 1989

Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 1990 – 1994

International Center of Photography, NYC, 1993

Parsons School of Design, NYC, 1995