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. https://www.lizcohenstudio.com
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
Courses
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 621 | In Practice |
ART 303 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 303 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 591 | Seminar |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 403 | Senior Photographic Projects |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 404 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 205 | Photography II: Color |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 403 | Senior Photographic Projects |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
HDA 598 | Special Topics |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 680 | Practicum |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 301 | Alternative Processes I |
ART 404 | Portraiture Photography |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 403 | Senior Photographic Projects |
HDA 494 | Special Topics |
ART 494 | Special Topics |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
HDA 598 | Special Topics |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 621 | Studio Problems |
ART 598 | Special Topics |
ART 404 | Portraiture Photography |