DAVID COHEN

David Cohen is publisher and editor of artcritical.com, the online magazine of art and ideas; Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute; and a freelance writer, curator and educator. From 2001-2010 he was Gallery Director at the New York Studio School and from 2003-2008 he was art critic for the New York Sun. He is the author of several books on art, including Alex Katz Collages (2005), and numerous exhibition catalogue essays and articles in learned journals and the popular press. He has lectured extensively and moderated panel discussions, dialogues, symposia and debates with artists and with fellow critics, including The Craft of Criticism series at the New York Studio School and The Review Panel at the National Academy Museum.

Born, London 1963 HIGHER EDUCATION: 1982-85 University of Sussex, England

BA Hons (History of Art) Upper Second Class (2.1)

1986-87 Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

MA (History of Art)

PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS AND MUSEUM CATALOGUES)

• Spaces Between: Time, Duality, and Cinema in the Paintings of Marc Desgrandchamps in Marc Desgrandchamps [exhibition catalogue], Musée d’Art Moderne de al Ville de Paris. Paris. 2011

• Serban Savu (co-author Rozalinda Borcila) (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011)

• Alex Katz Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné (Colby College Mueum of Art, Waterville,

Maine, 2005) • Who’s Afraid of Henry Moore? in Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century

(Dallas Museum of Art/Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001)

• The Rising City: Urban Themes in the Art and Writings of C.R.W.Nevinson in C.R.W.Nevinson: The Twentieth Century (Imperial War Museum, London, 1999)

• Freud’s Probity in Lucian Freud: Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection

(Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1999)

• Identité nationale et différances: immigrés et émigrés in Un siecle de sculpture anglaise (Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1996)

• "Grand, Quirky and Living Forms": Six Painters of the School of London

The main essay in From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj (British Council, London, 1995)

• Herbert Read and Psychoanalysis in Malcolm Gee [ed] Art Criticism since 1890:

Authors, Texts, Contexts (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1993)

• Henry Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris (Lund Humphries,, London/Overlook Press, New York, 1993)

• Henry Moore's Sculpture in the Open Air: Landscape, Community and Metaphors of

Universal Form in Henry Moore in Scotland (Burrell Collection, Glasgow, 1990) JOURNALISM

- 1990 to 2000, a contributor of art reviews and feature articles to leading national newspapers in the UK, including the Independent, the Guardian, the Times, and the New Statesman.

- 2000 to 2003, contributor of a series of reviews to the New York Times Book Review.

- 1988 to 2000, and again from 2011: a regular contributor to Modern Painters magazine from its launch issue.

- 1990-1991 books editor, The Art Newspaper, in first year of publication - contributor to Art in America, Sculpture, Art International, the Burlington

Magazine, Apollo, RA Magazine, Galleries, Print Quarterly, Art e Dossier, Art Press etc

- pioneer of online art criticism, writing for Slate, Artnet, W’burg.

- contributor to literary magazines including Jewish Quarterly, London Magazine, Charleston, the New Criterion

- 2002-2003 art critic of Slate.com - 2003- 2008 art critic of the New York Sun, responsible for the weekly

“Gallery Going” column and frequent interview profiles of contemporary artists, and museum reviews. From 2006, contributing editor

- Present: Founder editor and publisher of the online magazine, artcritical.com, which launched in 2001, became a fully-fledged magazine with multiple contributors in 2003, and restructured with a design overhaul in 2010.

A complete bibliography can be consulted at http://www.artcritical.com/DavidCohen/BIBLIOGRAPHYOFDAVIDCOHEN.2012.pdf Writings at artcritical.com are indexed at http://artcritical.com/author/david/ CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE From July 2001 to November 2010, David Cohen served as Gallery Director at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York where he was responsible for organizing over forty exhibitions; projects there included:

- 2001: Académie Matisse: Henri Matisse and his Nordic & American Pupils, an international survey of students at the Académie Matisse, 1908-12, the first organized in the United States;

- 2002: exhibitions of William Tucker and Ruth Miller, and survey of contemporary use of watercolor, co-curated with Susan Shatter;

- 2003: drawing retrospective of Thomas Nozkowski, and group exhibition, “American Cutout”;

- 2004: exhibitions of Lois Dodd, Alain Kirili, Rackstraw Downes; - 2005: exhibitions of Martha Diamond, Mernet Larsen, George Nick; - 2006: exhibitions of Milton Resnick, Frank Galuszka, Sandra Fisher,

Frances Barth; - 2007: produced digital exhibition with music historian Olivia Mattis about

Morton Feldman, Edgard Varese and their artist friends; exhibitions of Melissa Meyer, Merlin James, Eric Holzman, and Françoise Gilot.

- 2008: exhibitions of Ariane Lopez-Huici, Peter de Francia, Norman Turner, Jilaine Jones and Nick Miller

- 2009: exhibitions of Pat Steir, Carl Plansky, John Newman and Jack Bush

- 2010: exhibitions of Lino Mannocci, Dorothea Rockburne, Rebecca Smith and Liliane Tomasko.

independent curatorial projects:

- 2000: Between Gesture and Glyph, David Brody and Drew Lowenstein, at Makor Cultural Center, New York

- 2002: The Tipping Point, a group show of 18 New York artists at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

- 2005: The Collages of Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

- 2011: The Fitting Room, three person exhibition of David Brody, Mernet Larsen and Nicole Wittenberg at Vogt Gallery, New York

- 2012: co-curator of an exhibition of drawings by Leo Steinberg (forthcoming)

LECTURER AND PANELIST David Cohen has lectured at institutions around the world, including:

- London: Tate Gallery, Imperial War Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, Courtauld Institute of Art

- New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York Studio School, National Academy of Design, Parsons School of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, Queens College, School of Visual Arts, State University of New York at Albany

- California: San Francisco Studio School, University of California at Davis - Connecticut: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven - Florida: University of South Florida, Tampa - Ohio: Cleveland Institute of Art, University of Ohio at Akron - Illinois: Knox College, Galesburg - Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, University of the Arts,

Haverford College, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Washington DC: The Phillips Collection - Copenhagen: Gammel Stand Galerie - Jerusalem: Jerusalem Studio School

The Craft of Criticism In 1999 Cohen instigated a series at the New York Studio School of public dialogues with leading American art writers, all of which he hosted. His more than two dozen guests included Peter Schjeldahl (New Yorker), Roberta Smith (New York Times), Hilton Kramer (New York Observer), Jed Perl (New Republic), Peter Plagens (Newsweek), Katy Siegel (Art Forum), Mark Stevens (New York Magazine), independents Dave Hickey, Michael Brenson, Barry Schwabsky, Karen Wilkin, and Robert Storr, and art historians Linda Nochlin, Rosalind Krauss, Donald Kuspit, Klauss Kertess, Robert Rosenblum, Svetlana Alpers, and Michael Fried; and David Carrier and Michael Kimmelman (New York Times). The Review Panel

In 2004 David Cohen instigated the Review Panel, a series at the National Academy, New York where each month three other critics are led by him in a live review of four contemporary art exhibitions. Guests have so far included Svetlana Alpers* (asterisk denotes mutliple appearances in the series), Dore Ashton, Colleen Asper, R.C. Baker, Bill Berkson, Robert Berlind, Carly Berwick*, Michael Brenson*, David Brody, Becky Brown, Stephanie Buhmann, Phong Bui, Johanna Burton, Leslie Camhi, David Carrier*, Michèle Cone, Arthur Danto,* Ben Davis, Carol Diehl, David Ebony, Lance Esplund,* Charlie Finch, Ana Finel Honigman, Joe Fyfe*, James Gardner,* Deborah Garwood,* Bridget Goodbody,* John Goodrich, Blake Gopnik, Nora Griffin, David Grosz, Eleanor Heartney, Faye Hirsch, Ken Johnson*, James Kalm, Vincent Katz, Carol Kino, Daniel Kunitz, Michele Kuo, Donald Kuspit, David Levi-Strauss, Kim Levin, Greg Linquist, Joshua Mack, Stephen Maine,* Robert C. Morgan, Maureen Mullarkey, Mario Naves*, Linda Nochlin*, Peter Plagens,* Barbara Pollack, Nancy Princenthal,* Joao Ribas*, Jennifer Riley, Walter Robinson, Ben LaRocco, Raphael Rubinstein, Jerry Saltz, Irving Sandler, Elizabeth Schambelan, Barry Schwabsky*, Martha Schwendener,* Andrea Scott,* Katy Siegel,* Roberta Smith,* Deborah Solomon, Elena Sorokina, Mark Stevens*, Nick Stillman, Robert Storr,* Sarah Valdez, Christian Viveros Faune, Gregory Volk,* Joan Waltemath*, Lilly Wei,* Stephen Westfall, Karen Wilkin,* Alexi Worth,* Linda Yablonsky,* John Yau*, John Zinsser*. Symposia David Cohen has organized and moderated several symposia, including:

- 1998: A one day meeting on Alex Katz at the Royal College of Art, London, where speakers included Robert Storr, David Sylvester, Kevin Power, Merlin James and Beat Streuli;

- 1998: A panel on Alex Katz at the New York Studio School with Chuck Close, Rackstraw Downes, David Salle and Ena Swansea, 1998;

- 2000: a “Ruskiniad” to mark the centenary of the death of John Ruskin at the National Arts Club, New York, where participants included Donald Kuspit, Laurie Schneider Adams, Leonard McComb, Hilton Kramer, Robert Berlind, Jed Perl, Deborah Rosenthal, Timothy Barringer, Alexi Worth, Rackstraw Downes and Harold Bloom

- 2004: American Cutout, to accompany the exhibition he curated at the New York Studio School, where particpants included Jack Flam, Carter Ratcliff, Robert Rosenblum, Irving Sandler, Katy Siegel, Robert Storr, Richard Tuttle, and Karen Wilkin.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

- 1990 to 1991: books editor of the Art Newspaper for its first year of publication, commissioning and editing reviews from a roster of critics;

- 2001 to the present: launched artcritical.com where he publishes his own column and commissions articles from over three dozen regular

contributors, including Robert Morgan, David Carrier, David Brody, Greg Lindquist, Bill Berkson, Joe Fyfe, Deven Golden, Abbe Schriber, Hilarie Sheets, Eric Gelber, Sandra Sider and others and has received guest contributions from Sean Scully, Graham Nickson, Amy Sillman, Merlin James, Irving Sandler and others.

- 2005 to 2008, contributing editor at the New York Sun, where he advised on coverage of modern and contemporary art, assigned articles to a roster of critics, and recruited new writers to the newspaper.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1990s: Visiting Tutor, Royal College of Art, London,

Painting School and Sculpture School; Winchester College of Art; Exeter College of Art

1998: Critic in residence,

Triangle International Workshop, World Trade Center, New York;

2000: Adjunct professor, State University of New York, Albany: • courses for MFA and other graduates: Issues in

Contemporary Art, and Art criticism 1900-1970 since 2000: visitor at various American institutions, including University of the

Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Bennington College, Dartmouth College, Maryland Institute College of Art, Muhlenberg College, Pratt Institute, University of California at Davis.

2004: Visiting professor at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC:

teaching criticism to MFA painting students since 2009: Associate lecturer at the New York Studio School teaching an

elective on contemporary art in New York since 2010 Visiting associate professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in

departments of Fine Arts and Humanities • Contemporary Art Since 1960; • Thesis Statement; • Short Form Art Criticism

from 2012 Adjunct professor, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), State University of New York (forthcoming, Fall)

• Writing About Art in the MA Program in Art Market

ADJUDICATION Served as judge or juror for various exhibitions and prizes, including:

- 1994: Ben Uri Art Society Open, London; - 1998: Kunstlerhaus, Vienna; - 2002: Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois - 2004: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Alumni Exhibition - 2006: National Arts Club, New York - 2007: College of Charleston, South Carolina - 2010: Rogue Arts Space, New York - 2011: NURTUREart juried benefit exhibition - 2012: artKudos: International Juried Art Competition & Exhibition

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS Member of the International Association of Art Critics (formerly Secretary of the UK section; currently a member of the US section) Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities of New York University