TEACHING ARTIST

Zen Cohen is an intermedia artist working with video, digital imaging, installation and performance. She received an MFA in Art Studio at the University of California at Davis and BFA in Film, Video and Performance from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Her work has been exhibited throughout the San Francisco Bay Area at the deYoung Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA, SOMarts, The Lab, The Montalvo Center, and nationally at ARTSpace New Haven in CT, Vanity Projects in NY, Public Space One in Iowa City, and internationally at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands. Her photographs have been published in Hyperallergic, Art Practical, Routledge and Southern Illinois University Press. Since moving to Iowa City in 2018, she formed a curatorial project called the Open Air Media Festival and teaches as Assistant Professor of Art and Film Studies at Coe College. https://www.zencohenprojects.com/