KAREN DANA COHEN
b.1982 in Mexico City
Pronouns: She | Her | Hers
2233 S Throop St studio 617
Chicago, IL 60608
Instagram @karendanas
EDUCATION
2011 MFA, Combined Media, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY
2008 Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 BFA, Studio Art, ENPEG, INBA, Mexico City
EXHIBITIONS
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Make sure I’m there when you open your eyes, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL
2022 Las tierras del Cielo, Estudio Marte, Mexico City
2021 Longing Compass, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2021 How lonely does it get? The Foster Gallery, Noble and Greenough, Dedham, MA
2020 Off Hours, curated by Ionit Behar, Material Art, Chicago, IL
2019 Resemblance, PROXYCO Gallery Manhattan, NY
2017 A woman is a woman, Geometrica, Corporativo Constituyentes, Mexico City
2014 In search of stones, Gallery Sensei, New York, NY
2010 Daily Cloud No Eyes Viewing Wall, Brooklyn Zen Center, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Art Partly, Main Street, Evanston, IL
2005 Rainbow at Pegol Art Gallery, Casa Athos, Mexico City
2003 Pasatiempos at Pedro Guerson Art Gallery, Mexico City
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Beneath the Visible, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Daily Specials, Philip J Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO
2023 Tender Edge, curated by Miranda Holmes, Dream Clinic Project Space, Columbus, OH
2023 Fruit, curated by Tonya Whitlock, Arrowhead Room, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL
2023 Maternal Perspectives, Sonnenschein Gallery Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest, IL
2022 Taking up Space, Lillst Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
2022 LatinXAmerican, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
2021 LatinXAmerican, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2021 Bounce Back, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Common Thread, South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI
2021 La Banda, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn, NY
2021 The Growing Edge, Casa Otro, Las Cruces, NM
2021 Breathing House, Multiple Locations across USA, Canada and Spain
2020 A Show of Hands, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
2020 Extended self: transformations & connections, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2020 Hope/Revolution, Stay/Home Gallery, Paris, TN
2020 Preview 9, BOLT, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2019 Making (It) Work, Oliver Art Center, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, CCA, Oakland, CA
2018 Contemporary Mexican Women Artists, Mexican Senate, Senado de la Republica, Mexico City
2017 XVI Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
2014 Soccer Mom “Faculty Office” Gallery, CUNY Lehman College Art Department, New York, NY
2013 Openings, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, NY
2013 New Group, Novella Gallery, New York, NY
2013 XV Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City. The Biennial traveled to the following venues in Mexico:
2013 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca
2013 Museo Chihuahuense de Arte Contemporáneo Casa Redonda
2012 Instituto Tamaulipeco para las Artes y Culturas
2012 Galería del Sistema Municipal de Arte y Cultura de Celeya, Guanajuato
2012 Group Exhibition, Brenda Taylor Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
2012 Espacios Quebrantados Colectiva de Pintura, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
2012 Time in Action, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
2012 XV Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 Re-Cover, Coordinacion de Difusion Cultural UNAM Casa del Lago, Mexico City
2011 Arte Vivo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
2011 MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Temporary Antumbra Zone, Curated by Udora Hajimik, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 ChaNorth, Chashama North, Pine Plains, NY
2010 Hunter MFA, Crane Arts, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Dance Ghost, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Duality, 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY
2009 Jovenes Creadores 2007-2008, CNA, FONCA, Mexico City
2009 Segunda Edition, 4th Annual NY Art Book Fair by the Mexican Cultural Institute, New York P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY
2009 NRDC’s NY Council, Greenhouse - Studio IMC, New York, NY
2007 Synthetic Life, Yellow Trapezoid Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Bridge Art Fair Chicago A + D Gallery Stand 2007, Chicago, IL
2007 World Enigma, Columbia College Chicago Library, Chicago, IL
2007 Pougialis Award Show A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Better Than Sex, Better Than Disneyland at Ramis Barquet Gallery, curated by Acopilco Workshop, New York, NY
2006 Islas - Casino Metropolitano Art Space, Mexico City
2006 Talleres De Produccion, ENPEG La Esmeralda Gallery CENART, Mexico City
2005 Lapiz HB Colectiva de Dibujo- Pegol Art Gallery, Casa Athos, Mexico City
2005 Killinmesoftly - Ramis Barquet Art Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Cooperativa De Arte En Video (Maraton Mexicano de arte en video en el marco de la clausura de la exposicion Douglas Gordon), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Tamayo, Mexico City
RESIDENCIES, AWARDS AND HONORS
2024 The Center Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2023 Interlude Artist Residency, Hudson, NY
2020 BOLT Artist Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2019 The Bridge Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2018 Chicago Artists Coalition Field/Work Residency, Chicago, IL
2014 Honorable Mention, XVI Mexican Painting Biennial, INBA, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo; MACO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 Honorable Mention, XV Mexican Painting Biennial, INBA, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo; MACO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 ChaNorth Residency, Chashama Pine Plains, NY
2010 Joan Jonas Choreography Workshop, Hunter College, New York, NY
2008 Programa de Becarios Jóvenes Creadores FONCA, CONACULTA, Mexico
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 Circularities, Tiguer Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL
2022 Borderless, Immigrant Artist Initiative, Slow Down Projects, Chicago, IL
2021 Bounce Back co-curated with Emily Lindskoog, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Breathing House, Multiple Locations across USA, Canada, and Spain
2019 Sunday Talks: An Art and Feminism Lecture Series
2005 Lapiz HB Colectiva de Dibujo- Pegol Art Gallery, Casa Athos, Mexico City
WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS
2022 Destruye para crear, Hidalgo Nera, Reporte Indigo
2022 Estudio Marte, Un hogar para artistas, La obra convive, Francisco Morales, Periodico Reforma
2022 Time Out Mexico, Las tierras del Cielo
2022 Las tierras del Cielo, Mauricio Romo, Once Noicias, Mexico
2021 Tu de mi yo de ti, Carla Rippey y Rocio Montoya https://mujeresartistasenred.blogspot.com/2021/04/karen-dana.html
2021 Ally Fouts, Sixty inches from Center, https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/one-half-digs-deeper-the-other-extends-further-a-review-of-longing-compass/
2021 Emanuel Aguilar, How Lonely does it get?
2019 Ionit Behar, Material, Off Hours
2018 Michel Otayek, Resemblance, Proxyco Gallery
2018 Catalina Restrepo, LARR Magazine
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2023 Visiting Artist Workshop and Studio Visits, North Park University, Chicago, IL
2023 Studio Visiting Artist, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, Lehman College, CUNY, New York, NY
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
2022 Segundo Piso, Open Conversation with fellow artist Susy Bielak, Chicago Artist Coalition Chicago, IL
2022 Mentor/Facilitator for Critique Group Artist/Mother Network
2022 Leading Mentor/Facilitator of Studio Intensive Cohort program at Thrive Together Network
2020 Guest Speaker, Field-Work Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2019 Art scholarship jury and Visiting Artist Lecture, North Park University, Chicago IL
2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Centro de Las Artes, Mexico City
2014 Moderator, Focus and Motivation Panel, Hunter College BFA, New York, NY
2010 Panelist, Artist talk No eyes viewing wall: Brooklyn Zen Center, Brooklyn, NY