Michael Talley bio available here.
Elizabeth Cohen
EDUCATION
1992 Fellow, studio program, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, N.Y.C.
1991 MFA Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design
1986 BFA Sculpture, California College of Arts and Crafts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001 "Splice", Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, solo exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia
2001 "Random Access", Sideshow Gallery, solo exhibition, collaborative project, Brooklyn NY
2000 "Flesh + 1", performance, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1995 "Pillars of Salt", solo exhibition, collaborative project, Franklin Furnace Archive, N.Y.C.
1995 "Stolen Goods", solo exhibition, collaborative project, Southern Exposure Gallery, SF CA
1994 "Maryland On View", solo exhibition, collaborative project,, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1991 "Doubled Vision" solo exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2002 "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice…", Nikolai Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "The Culture of Violence", University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Mass. traveling to Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick Maine and Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida.
2001 "Holiday Show", Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2001 "21st" Suffragettes", Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2000 Open House Exhibition, Cimelice Castle, Center for Contemporary Art, Czech Republic
1999 "Tele Vision: Man-Machine: Interfaces and Technological Discourses", Film Festival, Bogota Columbia
1999 Five 29 Ninety 9, St Ann’s Church, Brooklyn NY
1999 Basel Art Fair, Zingmagazine NYC, Basel Switzerland
1999 "Hot Lunch", Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester
1998 "Fuzzy Logic", video program, Art in General, N.Y.C.
1997 "No Small Feat" Investigations of the shoe in contemporary art, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
1997 "Reality Check", video program, Apex Art, N.Y.C.
1997 "GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!", Tricia Collins Grand Salon, N.Y.C.
1997 "Chiarenza, Cohen, Topolski, Mertin, Walsh", Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
1997 "Kimchee Xtravaganza", Korean American Museum, Los Angeles CA
1997 Gramercy Park Art Fair, NYC, The Spot Gallery, NYC
1995 "Telling Tales", Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY
1995 "1945", Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
1994 "From Head To Toe: Hair and Shoes", Longwood Arts Project, Bronx NY
1994-95 "Between", Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron Ohio, traveling to the Bowman, Penelec and Megahan Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville PA
1994 "The Body as Measure", Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
1994 "Who Chooses Who", chosen by Mary Kelly, group exhibition & auction, New Museum, N.Y.C.
1994 "Telling . . . Stories", Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago IL
1994 "Examining Room", Ceres Gallery, N.Y.C.
1993 "Uber-Leben" (On Life - On Survival), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
1993 "Memories, Facts and Lies", Blum Helman Gallery, N.Y.C.
1993 "Songs Of Retribution", Richard Anderson Gallery, N.Y.C.
1992 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Exhibition, N.Y.C.
1991 MFA Exhibition, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
1990 Summer Faculty Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design
1989 "Continental Drift"The Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 "Bay Arts '88" juried group exhibition, Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont, CA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONS
2001 ArtsLink Project Award, ArtsLink, a program of CEC International Partners
2000 Funded Artist’s Residency, Cimelice Castle, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague Czech Republic, Sculpture Space NY, Trust For Mutual Understanding
1998 Artist in Residence, Dept. of Visual and Performing Arts, St. Bonaventure University, Olean NY
1997 Artist's Residency, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside CA
1996 Funded Residency, Sculpture Space, Utica NY
1992 Van Lier Foundation Grant, Whitney Museum, N.Y.C
1991 Award of Excellence, Graduate Studies Division, Rhode Island School of Design
1990 Award of Excellence, Graduate Studies Division, Rhode Island School of Design
1985 Bronze Sculpture Commission, commissioned by the High Commissioner, Clan Donald U.S.A.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002 Martina Pachmanova, "Random Access", exhibition review, Zingmagazine, Issue 16, Winter 2002
2002 Larry Parnass, "Into Harm’s Way", exhibition review, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Feb 5, 2002
2001 "Elizabeth Cohen’s Strap-Ons", "Splice" exhibition catalogue, Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, catalogue essay by Iva R. Jankovic
2001 Silva Kalcic, "Moda je ono sto ce izaci" (Fashion is what will go out of fashion), exhibition review, Zarez, Sept. 27, pg. 19, Zagreb Croatia
2001 Marina Tenzera, "Tijela Bez Buducnosti" (Bodies Without Future), exhibition review, Vjesnik, Sept. 14, pg. 15
2001 Interview Segment and story on "Splice" exhibition on Transfer (television show on contemporary art and culture), production of the HRT III Program (National Croatian TV Station), interview by Olga Majcen
2001 Radio 101, (daily cultural show in Zagreb), interviewed about Splice exhibition
2001 Art Aske, "Elizabeth Cohen and Michael Talley at Sideshow", exhibition review, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2001
2000 artbrain.org, Electronic Journal, Issue 1, 12/2000
1999 In[ ]visible Culture, Electronic Journal, Issue 1, 4/1999, www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture
1997 Mary Kelly, Imaging Desire, MIT Press, 1997
1997 Carol Kino, "Girls! Girls! Girls!" exhibition review, Time Out NY, July 31, 1997, pg.41
1997 "Kimchee Xtravaganza", Korean American Museum, Los Angeles CA, exhibition catalogue
1995 Mason Klein, "Pillars of Salt" exhibition review, World Art, Dec. 1995
1995 Vicky A. Clark, "Between", The New Art Examiner, Summer 1995
1995 Karen Hershenson,"Kleptomania as art", Contra Costa Times, Feb. 24, 1995
1994 Vivien Raynor, "Puerto Rican Artists Bridge Two Worlds Apart", NY Times Westchester Ed., Dec. 4, 1994
1994 Mary Sherman, " 'Body looks at how we measure up". Boston Herald, Sept. 30, 1994
1994 Christine Temin, "Wellesley's 'Body' also has a brain", The Boston Globe, Sept. 23,1994
1994 M. Darise Alexander, "The body as metaphor", The Wellesley TAB. Oct. 25, 1994
1994 "The Body As Measure", Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, exhibition catalogue essay by Judith Fox
1989 Anemona Hartocollis, "Our Bodies Our Art", NY Newsday, February 15, 1994
1994 "Telling Stories", Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago IL, 1994, exhibition catalogue essay by Lynne Brown and Angela Kelly
1994 "Between", Allegheny College, PA, and Universtiy of Akron, OH, 1994, exhibition cataologue essay by Robert Raczka
1993 "Uber-Leben", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany 1993, exhibition catalogue essay by Annelie Pohlen
1989 Television interview, Bay Cablevision, El Cerrito CA
PUBLICATIONS
1999 "Phantom", curated section of Zingmagazine exploring ideas of the phantom, including my own text and visual work, and the work of 2 writers, Winter 1999.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1997-present Assistant Professor of Art, Dept of Art and Art History, University of Rochester, NY
1994-97 Visiting Part-time Lecturer, begin. and advanced studio art, Visual Arts Dept., Rutgers University, NJ
1995 Instructor, Film/Video Installation Class, Sculpture Dept., RI School of Design
1994 Instructor, Welding and Metal Fabrication, Sculpture Dept., RI School of Design
1992 Visiting Lecturer, spring term, begin. and intermediate/advanced studio art, University of Chicago
1990-91 Instructor, sculpture studio - metal, Continuing Education Division, RI School of Design
1989-90 Instructor, Welding and Metal Fabrication, Sculpture Dept., RI School of Design
1988-89 Drawing and Sculpture Fundamentals, Studio One Art Center, Oakland, CA
1988-90 Sculpture for children ages six through nine, Nomura School, Richmond, CA
1988-90 Drawing, painting, printmaking workshop, grades 1-3, 4-6, Berkeley Art Center Youth Art Program, Berkeley, CA
1988 Art workshop for children six through eight, St. Paul's Extended Day Program, Oakland, CA
1986-88 Junior high school and high school sculpture, Oakland Arts Magnet, Oakland, CA
LECTURES & PANELS
2002 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Dept., University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
2001 Project go_home, Transitory Cases: Language, Media and Migration, ArtsLink Special Project,
Location One, NYC
2001 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Dept, Fairfield Universtiy, Fairfield CT
1998 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Dept., St. Bonaventure University, Olean NY
1997 Visiting Artist Lecture, Dept. of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
1997 Visiting Artist Lecture, Dept of Art and Art History, University of Rochester, NY
1997 Visiting Artist Lecture, Dept. of Art, University of Florida,Gainesville FL
1996 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Dept., University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
1996 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Dept., University of Connecticut, Storrs CT
1993 Panelist for "Jewish Women in the Visual Arts", Jewish Women's Resource Center, N.Y.C.
1993 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Dept., University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
1987 Visiting Artist Lecture, Art Dept., College of Marin, Kentfield CA
1987 Visiting Artist Lecture, MICA Art School, San Francisco, CA
