Orly Cogan
Education
1990-94 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
1992-93 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
1992 Scuola di Leonardo da Vinci, Florence, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2006 “Tangled Up In You” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Losse Threads” One by One, Jersey City Art Museum ,installation ,NJ
2003 “Bachelor Girl,” Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Featured Exhibitions
2006 “Strangers to Ourselves” curated by Julia Tratta Kimmel Center Gallery NY.NY
“Softly Threatening” Bumbershoot, Seattle OR
2003 “Pandora’s Wink,” Paul Rodgers Gallery, New York, NY
2000 LFL Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 “Material Girls” Riverside Art Museum California
“Stuff It” Shore Institute of Contemporary Art NJ
“Between Us” Newark Art Concil ,NJ
“Material Abuse” Caren Golden Gallery, New York, NY
“Selections and Celebrations”- Irvine Contemporary , Washington DC
“Animalia” Irvine Contemporary , Washington DC
“ Flight Plan”-Morgan Lehman Gallery
New York NY
“Uneasy Marriage” - Motel Gallery Portland, Oregon
“On Tenterhooks” - Christopher Henry Gallery, New York NY
“Softly Threatening” Bumber Shoot Seattle Arts Festival .curated by Yoko Ott
“Not your Grandma’s Doily”, Contemporary Museum & Gallery, Portland OR “Threads of Memory”, Dorsky Gallery, New York
“All About Women”, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago ,IL
“Hanging by a Thread “, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
“The “O” show”, The Institute of the Contemporary Arts(SICA)Long Branch NJ
2005 “Human Footprint,” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Extra/ordinary,” The Cube at Beco, Kansas City, MO
“Several Artists Consider Books,” Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“The Love Show,” Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
“Shelter from a Storm,” Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
“Sideshow,” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 “Paisagens,” Leo Bahia Contemporary Art, Santa Lucia, BRAZIL
“NYC,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
White Box Annual Benefit, Diane von Furstenburg Studio, New York, NY
Summer Show, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Innocence Found,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
“Sexy Beasts,” Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY
2003 “A Notion of Time,” Ingrao Gallery, New York, NY
“Gifting,” Rare Gallery, New York, NY
“Fear of Flying,” Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
“OnLine,” Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
“Slightly Sinister,” Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY
“Unframed First Look,” curated by Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, and Sue
Williams, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
“The Summer of Lust,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“One Hundred Artists One Hundred T-Shirts,” Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NYC
“Man and Beast Kingdom,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Redo China,” Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
“The ‘Burbs,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “The New Figurists,” Red Dot Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
“Sugar and Spice,” Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “Some Are Paintings,” John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
“Winter Paper,” Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York, NY2000 The Cow Parade, “Technicolor Dreamcow,” New York, NY
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Yesterday Was Dramatic… But Today Is OK!” Spazio Condolo, Milan, Italy
1999 “Size Matters,” Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998 “Small Works,” Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Illuminations,” Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
“On/of Paper,” Chowan College, Green Hall Gallery, Murfreesboro, NC
“Woman: In the Broader Sense,” St. Louis, MO
“Honoring the Feminine,” Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
1997 “From Coast to Coast,” Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
1993 “Voices from the East,” Intermedia Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, MI
The Cooper Union Spring Exhibit, New York, NY
1991 Maryland Art Place Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1989 Columbia University Teacher’s College Gallery, New York, NY
Installations / Art Fairs
2006 Aqua Miami, Irvine Contemporary ,Washington DC
Aqua Miami, Motel Gallery, Portland OR
Art LA, Byron Cohen Gallery
2005 Pulse Miami ,Byron Cohen Gallery
Scope Miami Carl Hammer Gallery
Scope New York, Carl Hammer Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Lifeboat, installation ,Miami Basel, Miami Beach
LA Art Fair, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
NADA Art Fair, Volume Gallery, Miami, FL
Pierogi Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY
Peekskill Project ,Hudson Vally Contemporary Arts Peekskill, NY
2003 Scope Miami, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Miami, FL
Scope New York, Marella Gallery, Milan, ITALY
Scope Los Angeles, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Scope Miami, Marella Gallery, Milan , ITALY
Grants & Awards
2006 Alumni Association ,The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005 Real Art Today,artist talk,Makor (92nd street Y)
2002 Art in General Studio Tour with Knight Landesman
1992 Painting and Works on Paper Grant, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
American Artist Society Merit Scholarship (MICA)
Selected Bibliography
2006 Surface Design magazine “Threads of Memory” ,Nov
The Stranger “Softly Threatening” (visual arts), Seattle OR Aug 24
New York Times,” Stuffed & Packing a Punch” by Benjamin Genocchio
Nov,17
Chicago Sun Times”Cogan images expand view of Fabric of Life” by Margaret Hawkins June 23, 2006
The Reader”Dirty Linens”by Fred Camper June 23 2006
ARTnews, February, “Top 10 Trends in Contemporary Art” by Elisabeth Kley
Elle, Magazine, March
2005 Art in America, December “,Hanging by a Thread “show by Paula Harper
ArtNews review by Margey Gordon December issue,”Hanging by a Thread”
Miami New Times, September,”Loose Threads”by Alfredo Triff
Sundari Foundation catolue, Margulies Family Foundation
Miami Times,09/22/05 Loose Threads
Interior Design , issue 10 September
Animal, October, New York
Art in America, December (Hanging by a Thread show)by Paula Harper
Review ,May & October issues (for Kansas City)
2004 Sarah Douglas, Reviews, ARTnews, October
Eileen Kennedy, “Provincetown Passions,” Arts Media, Summer
“Orly Cogan: Bachelor Girl,” by Ruth Lopez, Fiber Arts Magazine, Summer issue
“Today’s Visionary Artists Interpret Time,” Review, W Magazine, February Lauren David Peden, Review of “Gifting” exhibition, Time Out New York, Nov2
2003 Margaret Hawkins, Review of “Bachelor Girl,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 2
Carrie Sandler, “Short & Sweet,” interview with Orly Cogan, UR Chicago,January
“Girls, girls, girls,” Review, New City Chicago Weekly, December 11
Reviews, Chicago Reader, December 12, 2003
Bald Ego, Second Edition, New York, NY, Artwork Featured, p.87-100
“NEWS: New York”, Contemporary Magazine, No. 53/54 2003, p.16
“The Scope L.A. Festival Trains its Gaze on the Cutting Edge", by Susan
Carpenter, The Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2003, p. E13
“Self Portrait: Orly Cogan.” Tema Celeste 97, May –June 2003 p.68-69
Review of “Fear of Flying,” The New York Times, Long Island Edition,
December
2001 Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review; Some (Are) Painting.” The New York
Times, June 29, 2001, p. E35
1996-97 Icarus, New York University Literary Journal, Cover Art
1994-96 Maryland Institute College of Art Catalogue
1993 Radio Station WBAI, Live Interview