1943 Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA

1958 – 1961 Attended Forty Fort High School

1961 – 1963 Attended Penn State University

1963 – 1965 Attended Wilkes College

1966 Opened commercial photo studio in Wilkes-Barre, PA

2014 Moved to Philadelphia

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

1974 Light Gallery, NYC

1975 Art Institute of Chicago

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

1980 Marlborough Gallery, NYC

1980 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1984 Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington , DC

1985 Robert Klein Gallery Boston

https://www.robertkleingallery.com/artists/81-mark-cohen/works/

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

1990 Zabriskie Gallery, NYC

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

https://brucesilverstein.com/artists/44-mark-cohen/

2005 TRUE COLOR, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica

2008 Italian Riveria. Rapallo, Italy. Andrea Botto, Curator.

2010 Strange Evidence. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Peter Barbarie, Curator.

2011 GRIM STREET, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

2013 DARK KNEES, Le Bal, Paris Diane Dufour, Curator

2014 DARK KNEES. Nederlands Fotomuseum , Rotterdam Frits Gierstberg, Curator

2016 Mark Cohen. Leica Gallery. London. Lou Proud, Curator

2016 Danziger Gallery NYC

https://www.danzigergallery.com/artists/mark-cohen

2019 TRUE COLOR Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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

1970 “New American Photography”, American Arts Documentation Centre, Exeter, England

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

1971 “Photography Invitational”, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

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

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

1972 “Documentary Photography”, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1972 “Nine Photographers Look Beyond”, American Greetings Gallery, NYC

1972 “Sharp Focus Realism”, Pace Gallery, NYC

1972 “Women, Photographic Insights”, Zone V Photographer’s Workshop, Watertown, MA

1973 "Fotografi Oggi: gli americani, Documenta, Turin, Italiy

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

1974 “New Images in Photography: Object and Illusion,” Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL

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

1974 “Photography U.S.A.”, United States Information Agency, Washington, DC

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

1975 "Documenta Fotographia," Palazzo Villanis, Turin, Italy

1976 “American Photographs”, Loretta Yarlow Fine Arts, Toronto

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

1976 “Spectrum: An Exhibition of Color Photography”, Rochester Institute of Technology,

1976 “Through Other Eyes”, Arts Council of Great Britain, London

1977 “Unposed Portraits”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

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

1977 “Flash”, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

1977 “Twenty American Photographers”, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

1977 “Unposed Portraits”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

1978 “23 Photographers: The Kirklands International Photography Exhibition”, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

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

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

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

1980 “Twenty American Artists”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1981 “Color Photography: 5 New Views”, Marlborough Gallery, NYC

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

1981 “Flash Photography Past and Present”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London

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

1982 “Flash”, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

1982 “Form, Freud, and Feeling”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1982 “New Color”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1983 “Color in the Streets”, California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, CA

1983 “Fragments”, University of Cincinnati Gallery

1983 “Trends in Color”, Focus Gallery, San Francisco

1984 “American Photography Today”, University of Denver, CO

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

1984 “The Dog Observed”, Dog Museum, NYC

1985 “Contemporary Photographers See Pittsburgh”, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

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

1985 “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 “The Indomitable Spirit”, Photographers and Friends United Against AIDS, NYC, LA

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

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

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

1996 “A Sense of Place” [Williams, Meyerowitz, Perrot, Cohen], Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA

1996 “Mexico through Foreign Eyes”, Museo de Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City

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

2009 photoSPEAKS Korean Society of Photography

2010 photoSPEAKS Korean Society of Photography

2014 100 Years of Leica

2017 "States of America" Nottingham Contemporary; Aristizabal and Spinks

2019 O'Toole, Isabel. (24 September 2019). "Dark Knees – The Devil is in the detail" Independent Photographer

2022 "Childhood in the agnès b. collection" Collection agnes b. Paris

2022 Reframed: The Woman in the Window. Dulwich Picture Gallery. London

2023 Corps a corps … Centre Pompidou

Aletti, Vince. (2007) Introduction. In True Color (New York: Powerhouse Books)

Aletti, Vince. (2013). Introduction. In Dark Knees: Exhibition, France: Editions Xavier Barral.

Allen, J. and McNear S. (2016) The Photographer in the Garden, Apeture Books

Astrom, Caterina. (2015 Nr. 3). "Mark Cohen" FOTO. Sweden.

Carr, Carolyn (May-June 1979), “An Interview with Photographer Mark Cohen,” Dialogue. (Akron: Akron Art Institute) pp.13-16, illus.

Cohen, Mark. (1989). Five Minutes in Mexico (Wilkes-Barre: Sordoni Gallery of Art)

Cohen, Mark., Southall, T., Tucker, A. (2005). Grim street. New York: PowerHouse Books.

Cohen, Mark. (2007). True Color. United States: powerHouse Books.

Cohen, Mark. (2008). Italian Riveria. Italy: Punctum.

Cohen, Mark. (2015). Frame: A Retrospective. United States: University of Texas Press.

Cohen, Mark. (February 2014). Youth Crouching and Red Glove (illus.). Harper's Magazine

Cohen, Mark. (October 2015). Shirtless Boy with Chain (illus.). Harper's Magazine

Cohen, Mark. (2016). Mexico: Photographs by Mark Cohen. United States: Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris.

Cohen, Mark. (2019) Bread in Snow.  Japan: SUPER LABO.

Cohen, Mark. (2021). Cotton. Japan: SUPER LABO.

Coleman, A. D. (26 January 1974). “From Repetitious to Monotonous and Distorted”, The New York Times

Collins, James. (March 1974). Art Forum, vol. 12, no. 6., p.76, illus.

Doty, Robert. (Ed.). (1975). “Photography in America”, Random House, New York City, Introduction by Minor White, illus., p. 244, Exhibition Catalogue.

DuFour, Diane. (Ed.). (2014) Dark Knees. EDITIONS XAVIER Barral, Paris

Eauclaire, Sally. (1981). “The New Color Photography, Abbeyville Press, NY.

Eauclaire, Sally. (May-June 1979). “Mark Cohen at Castelli Graphics” (Review), Art in America, vol. 67, no.3, p. 147, illus.

Engler, Michael. (1982). “American Photography”, Cinoki Productions NOR-TV, Hamburg, West Germany, (Documentary Film).

Esders, Viviane. (1993). “A la Recherche du Pere”, Paris, Audiovisuel, 1993.

Estrin, James. (7 December 2021). "Bright Flash, Small City" The New York Times.

Florence,Yanni. (May 2016 ). Pataphysics Magazine, MIRAGE ISSUE , Melbourne, Australia

Frackman, Noel. (April 1977). “Mark Cohen” (Review), Arts Magazine, vol. 51, no. 8, p. 29, illus.

Frailey, S. (2020). Looking at Photography. Italy: Damiani.

Fulford, Jason. (2021). Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph. United States: Aperture.

Galassi, Peter. (2020). Proof: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet, from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz. United Kingdom: Cleveland Museum of Art.

Garner, G. (2003). Disappearing witness : change in twentieth-century American photography. United Kingdom: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Gibson, D. (2021). Street Photography: A History in 100 Iconic Photographs. Germany: Prestel Verlag GmbH & Company KG..

Gruber, L. F., Gruber, R. (1982). The Imaginary Photo Museum: With 457 Photographs from 1836 to the Present. United States: Harmony Books.

Grundberg, A. (2021). How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age. United States: Yale University Press.

Hagen, Charles. (January 1979). “Mark Cohen: an Interview”, Afterimage, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 12-16, illus.

Hartwell, Ted. (1979). “Photography in collection of Minneapolis Institute of Arts”

Heiferman, Marvin (1989). Introduction. In Five Minutes in Mexico. (Wilkes-Barre: Sordoni Gallery of Art)

Hosoe, Eikoh. (1996) Kobe Aid Fund. Japan: Asahi Shimbum

Jones, Tiffany. (March 2011). fLIP Magazine, London Independent Photography

Koetzle, Michael Editor “100 Years of Leica”

Lifson, Ben. (18 December 1978). "Wilkes-Barre Visitation," Village Voice.

Livingston, Jane. (1981). “Mark Cohen”, Exhibition Catalogue. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Livingston, Jane. (2015) Introduction. In Frame: A Retrospective. (2015). United States: University of Texas Press.

Longwell, Dennis. (October 1974). “Mark Cohen’s Works”, Camera Mainichi, no. 252, pp. 243-249, illus.

Lyons, Nathan. (Ed.). (1968). “Vision and Expression”, Exhibition Catalogue, Horizon Press, New York City, p.56, illus.

Maddow, Ben. (Ed.). (1977). “Faces”, Chanticleer Press, New York City, 1977, pp. 378-379.

Melamed, Samantha. (28 October 2016). "Mark Cohen Brings His Aggressive Brand of Street Photography to Philly". Philadelphia Inquirier

Mobilio, A. (June/July/Aug, 2015). Mark Cohen's Dark Knees (review) Bookforum.

Naef, Weston. (1981). “Counterparts and Affinities”, Exhibition Catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Naggar, Carol and Ritchin, Fred. (1990). “Mexico through Foreign Eyes”, Exhibition Catalogue, Norton, NY

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Park, Soonki [Sign and Photography ] SAJINYESUL

Paz, Octavio. (2013). Poem in Mexico. University of Texas Press.

Perloff, Stephen. (Ed.). (Winter 1981). “Portfolio”, The Philadelphia Photo Review, vol. 5 no. 2 & 3m, pp. 12-13, illus.

Poli, Kenneth. (April 1977). “Persistence of Vision”, Popular Photography, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 104-105, 134-137, 141, illus.

Porter, Allan. (Ed.). (November 1977). “Photographis Interruptus”, Camera, pp. 6, 35, pp. 7-14, illus

Porter, Allan. (Ed.). (October 1974). “A Concise Chronology of Instant Photography, 1947 – 1974”, Camera, no.10, October 1974, p. 57, p. 43. Illus.

Power, Mark. (14 March 1987). “Street Shots”, the Washington Post, (G2)

Rufinfien, Leo. (April 1977). “Mark Cohen: Leo Castelli Uptown…” (Review), Artforum, vol. 15, no. 8, pp.69 –70, illus.

Scully, Julia and Andy Grundberg. (November 1979). “Currents: American Photography Today”, Modern Photography, vol. 43, pp. 110 – 113, 187 – 194 illus.

Sigrin, Michael. (March 1980). “Mark Cohen Photographer, a Monograph”, Camera, no. 3, illus.

Sobieszek, Robert A. (1985). “Masterpieces of the Eastman House Collection”, Abbeville Press, NY

Squiers, Carol. (7 March 1978) “Mark Cohen: Recognized Moments”, Artforum, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 22-25, illus.

Szarkowski, John. (1978). “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960”, Exhibition Catalogue, The Museum of Modern Art, distributed by New York Graphic Society, Boston, MA

Thorton, Gene. (1 April 1973). “They Must Mean Something”, The New York Times, sect. 2, p.18.

Thorton, Gene. (13 February 1977). “How Display Selection May Distort Artistic Intent”, The New York Times, sect, 2, p. 3.

Tucker, Anne and Southall, Thomas. (2005). Introduction in Grim Street (2005) United States: powerHouse Books.

Weiss, Marta. (2019). Autofocus: The Car in Photography. United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson.

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Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

Art Institute of Chicago

Agnes b. Art Museum Par

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

Fotomuseum Nederlands

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

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Milwaukee Art Museum

Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA

Princeton University Art Museum

Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, Netherlands

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

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

The Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

The Philadelphia Museum of Art

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

1971 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

1975 National Endowment for the Arts Grant

1976 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

1982 Hazlett Memorial Award, Commonwealth of PA

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

1975 Princeton University, NJ,

1976 Public Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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

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

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

1979 Public Lecture, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

1979 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1980 Public Lecture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

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

1980 Visiting Artist, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

1981 Visiting Artist, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

1982 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC

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

1984 New School for Social Research, NYC

1989 Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art, NYC

1990-94 Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

1993 International Center of Photography, NYC

1995 Parsons School of Design, NYC