BIO

Image Credit: Ron Amato

b. 1949 Lancaster, PA
Lives and works in NY, NY and Provincetown, MA

Barbara E. Cohen received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with earlier studies in art history at Oxford University.  

Cohen is a multi-media artist whose artistic work spans five decades. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the country.

Cohens latest series of paintings Not Perfect will be on exhibit at Farm Projects, Wellfleet, MA September, 2024.

“After traveling the narrow, curvy mountainside roads of the Greek Islands for two months this past summer, the stonewalls and shack-like structures stayed with me back at my studio in Provincetown. The small houses and storage huts sprinkle over the hand made terraced farms and aid me in continuing my abstracted attraction to the square forms. The florescent colors of my paintings are the highlights of Greek culture and their vibrant activities shared with family and friends.”  - Barbara E. Cohen

Cohen has been the recipient of numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Artists Foundation Mass Fellowship Program Grant, Polaroid Artist Support Program Grant, Blanche E. Colman Award and Cambridge and Massachusetts Arts Council Grants.

Residencies include the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (2011, 2013),The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Virginia (Date), Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos Island, Greece (2023) and Cycladic Arts Residency, Paros Island, Greece (2024).

Published Books by Barbara Cohen include Woman's Best Friend, A Celebration of Dogs and their Women, (1989), Cats and their Women (1992), Horses and their Women (1993), published by Little Brown and Company, Dog in the Dunes,(1998) published by Andrews McMeel, Provincetown East West, (2002) published by University Press of New England, Dog in the Dunes Revisited, (2005), New York Love Affair, (2010), published by Fields Publishing, and Our Provincetown, Published by Provincetown Arts Press, (2021). Barbara’s latest book In Dog Time is pending publication.