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'''Liz Cohen''' is a ] and ]. Cohen has an ] in photography from ], now, California College of the Arts, where she has taught. She currently lives in ].
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}}
| birth_place = Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
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| known_for = performance art, photography, automotive design, educator
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'''Liz Cohen''' (born 1973) is an American artist, known as a ], photographer, educator, and ]er. She currently teaches at ] (ASU), and lives in ].
== Early life ==
Cohen grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, a first-generation American in a large n family She attended college at ] in ] as an economics major. She graduated with a dual major in philosophy and ethical theory and studio art. <ref name=PNT/>


== Bodywork project == == Early life and education ==
Cohen was born 1973 in ], Arizona and was raised there,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/liz-cohen/biography|title=Liz Cohen Biography|last=|first=|date=|website=www.artnet.com|access-date=2020-01-31}}</ref> a first-generation American of a ]n ] family.
Cohen is most notable for her ''Bodywork'' project to make an East German 1987 ] ] transform into a 1973 ] ] using gears and hydraulics. As part of that project, Cohen hired a ] and ]<ref>{{cite web

Cohen graduated with a dual major in 1996 with a ] degree in studio art from the ] and a ] degree in philosophy from ].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/liz-cohen-arizona-state-university-art-photography-cranbrook-9304172|title=Liz Cohen to Join ASU School of Art Faculty This Fall|last=Trimble|first=Lynn|date=2017-05-09|website=Phoenix New Times|access-date=2020-01-31}}</ref><ref name="PNT" /> At the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Cohen studied with photographer ].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://badatsports.com/2011/yes-that-is-a-car-seat-in-my-low-rider-an-interview-with-liz-cohen/|title=Yes, That is a Car Seat in my Low Rider: An Interview with Liz Cohen|last=Margolis-Pineo|first=Sarah|date=2011-11-03|website=Bad at Sports|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-31|quote=My motivation was more about how to become a part of a certain subculture...For the next piece, I wanted to take something where I could go from being on the outside-really being an outsider, to really being an insider, even if I was a freak insider. Different ways to become a part of that car culture are to build cars, to own cars, or to model for cars. So my motivation for doing the modeling was more to become a member-I never did it to make fun of that aspect of car culture. I wasn’t judging it, I was using it.}}</ref> After graduating in 1996, she travelled to ] and documented transgender sex workers. She eventually formed relationships with her subjects and started dressing up and performing, blurring the relationship between documentation and performance.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-liz-cohen/|title=An Interview with Liz Cohen|date=2007-11-01|website=Believer Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-31}}</ref>

Cohen received an ] in ] from ] (formally known as California College of the Arts and Crafts) in 2000.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== Career ==
In 2002, she was a fellow at ] in ], Germany.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/liz-cohen-trabantimino-58067/|title=Liz Cohens Car Culture|last=Walsh|first=Brienne|date=2010-11-04|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-31}}</ref> It was in Germany that she became interested in the ], a common car in East Germany during the ].<ref name=":2" /> This interest would go on to inform her work, including the ''Bodywork'' project.<ref name=":2" /> In 2004, Cohen moved to Phoenix, Arizona to be closer to her mother and to focus her efforts on learning about cars and car culture at ''Elwood Body Works,'' studying under mechanic Bill Cherry''.''<ref name=":4" />

In 2011, Cohen appeared as a guest judge on the Bravo television show '] (season 2, episode 7).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/work-of-art-the-next-great-artist-la-dolce-arte-1798170819|title=Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist: "La Dolce Arte"|website=TV Club|date=December 2011 |language=en-us|access-date=2020-01-31}}</ref>

Her work was included in the group exhibition ''Xican-a.o.x. Body'' at the ], in 2024. The show is a scholarly presentation on the experiences and contributions of Chicano artists to contemporary culture with artworks from the 1960s to today. The exhibition was curated by feminist art historian ], and curators Marissa Del Toro, and Gilbert Vicario. An accompanying catalog was published by the Chicago University Press.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami |url=https://www.pamm.org/en/exhibition/xican-a-o-x-body/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Pérez Art Museum Miami |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1373831827 |title=Xican-a.o.x. body |date=2024 |publisher=American Federation of Arts ; Hirmer Publishers |isbn=978-3-7774-4168-9 |editor-last=Fajardo-Hill |editor-first=Cecilia |location=New York, NY : Munich, Germany |oclc=on1373831827 |editor-last2=Del Toro |editor-first2=Marissa |editor-last3=Vicario |editor-first3=Gilbert |editor-last4=Chavez |editor-first4=Mike |editor-last5=Chavoya |editor-first5=C. Ondine |editor-last6=Salseda |editor-first6=Rose |editor-last7=Valencia |editor-first7=Joseph Daniel |editor-last8=Villaseñor Black |editor-first8=Charlene |editor-last9=Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum}}</ref>

=== Teaching ===
Between 2008 until 2017, Cohen was the Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Photography Department at ].<ref name=":1" /> In 2017, she joined ] (ASU) as an ] of Photography in the School of Art, within ].<ref name=":1" />

===''Bodywork'' project ===
Cohen is most notable for her ''Bodywork'' art project and the work ''Trabantamino'' (2002–2010) transforming an East German 1987 ] ] into a 1973 ] ] using gears and hydraulics.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2012/05/frieze-art-fair-car-art-bmw|title=Photos: cArt: BMW Makes Weird Noises at the Frieze Art Fair (& Bonus Car-Art Slide Show!)|last=Berk|first=Brett|date=14 May 2012|magazine=Vanity Fair|language=en|access-date=2020-01-31|quote=Liz Cohen, Trabantamino, 2002–10: This hydraulically powered, extendible, low-rider version of the universally derided Eastern European Trabant was a real show-stopper.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/arts/design/29galleries-06.html|title=Liz Cohen: 'Trabantimino'|last=Rosenberg|first=Karen|date=2010-10-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/liz-cohens-trabantimino-comes-to-bridgehampton-1404695456|title=Liz Cohen's 'Trabantimino' Comes to Bridgehampton|last=Heyman|first=Marshall|date=2014-07-07|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2020-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> As part of the project, Cohen transformed her body and hired a ] and ]<ref>{{cite web
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| accessdate = 2007-09-04 }}</ref> so she could appear in a ] to be the model for the car at ] shows and for a series of photographs used to promote and document the project. She had mentioned wanting to feel less like a performer and more like an "insider" of the masculine car subculture, and the female modeling aspect of the car photos were part of her membership.<ref name=":3" />
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so she could appear in a ] to be the model for the car at lowrider shows and for a series of photogaphs used to promote and document the project.


Photographs from the project have been shown at solo shows at Fargfabriken in Stockholm, Sweden and Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris, France<ref name=PNT>Megan Irwin, , ''Phoenix New Times'', October 5, 2006</ref> as well as numerous publications, including the cover of German culture magazine Sleek (winter 2006/2007 issue) and the Nov. 2007 issue of The Believer. The car will be outfitted with motion sensors, cameras, and projectors to create an ]. The project is financed primarily by grant money and includes the Trabant/El Camino as well as a music video and newspaper documenting the project. Photographs from the project have been shown at solo shows at Fargfabriken in ] and Galerie ] in ]<ref name=PNT>Megan Irwin, , ''Phoenix New Times'', October 5, 2006</ref> as well as numerous publications, including the cover of German culture magazine ''Sleek'' (Winter 2006/2007 issue) and the November 2007 issue of ''The Believer''. The car was outfitted with motion sensors, cameras and projectors to create an ]. The project and its documentation was financed primarily through a 2005 grant from ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://creative-capital.org/projects/bodywork/|title=BODYWORK|website=Creative Capital|language=en|access-date=2020-01-31}}</ref>

==Awards==
*2020: ] from the ]. for photography.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Lynn|last1=Trimble|accessdate=2020-04-27|title=A Phoenix Artist Has Been Named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow|url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/a-phoenix-artist-has-been-named-a-2020-guggenheim-fellow-11464959|date=13 April 2020|website=Phoenix New Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2020-04-27|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/liz-cohen/}}</ref>


==References== ==References==
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American artist (born 1973)
Liz Cohen
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Alma materSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Tufts University,
California College of the Arts
Known forperformance art, photography, automotive design, educator
Websitehttps://www.lizcohenstudio.com/

Liz Cohen (born 1973) is an American artist, known as a performance artist, photographer, educator, and automotive designer. She currently teaches at Arizona State University (ASU), and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Early life and education

Cohen was born 1973 in Phoenix, Arizona and was raised there, a first-generation American of a Colombian Jewish family.

Cohen graduated with a dual major in 1996 with a BFA degree in studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA degree in philosophy from Tufts University. At the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Cohen studied with photographer Bill Burke. After graduating in 1996, she travelled to Panama and documented transgender sex workers. She eventually formed relationships with her subjects and started dressing up and performing, blurring the relationship between documentation and performance.

Cohen received an MFA in photography from California College of the Arts (formally known as California College of the Arts and Crafts) in 2000.

Career

In 2002, she was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. It was in Germany that she became interested in the Trabant, a common car in East Germany during the Cold War. This interest would go on to inform her work, including the Bodywork project. In 2004, Cohen moved to Phoenix, Arizona to be closer to her mother and to focus her efforts on learning about cars and car culture at Elwood Body Works, studying under mechanic Bill Cherry.

In 2011, Cohen appeared as a guest judge on the Bravo television show 'Work of Art: The Next Great Artist (season 2, episode 7).

Her work was included in the group exhibition Xican-a.o.x. Body at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, in 2024. The show is a scholarly presentation on the experiences and contributions of Chicano artists to contemporary culture with artworks from the 1960s to today. The exhibition was curated by feminist art historian Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, and curators Marissa Del Toro, and Gilbert Vicario. An accompanying catalog was published by the Chicago University Press.

Teaching

Between 2008 until 2017, Cohen was the Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Photography Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2017, she joined Arizona State University (ASU) as an Associate Professor of Photography in the School of Art, within Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

Bodywork project

Cohen is most notable for her Bodywork art project and the work Trabantamino (2002–2010) transforming an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino using gears and hydraulics. As part of the project, Cohen transformed her body and hired a personal trainer and dieted so she could appear in a bikini to be the model for the car at lowrider shows and for a series of photographs used to promote and document the project. She had mentioned wanting to feel less like a performer and more like an "insider" of the masculine car subculture, and the female modeling aspect of the car photos were part of her membership.

Photographs from the project have been shown at solo shows at Fargfabriken in Stockholm and Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris as well as numerous publications, including the cover of German culture magazine Sleek (Winter 2006/2007 issue) and the November 2007 issue of The Believer. The car was outfitted with motion sensors, cameras and projectors to create an interactive exhibit. The project and its documentation was financed primarily through a 2005 grant from Creative Capital.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Liz Cohen Biography". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  2. ^ Trimble, Lynn (2017-05-09). "Liz Cohen to Join ASU School of Art Faculty This Fall". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  3. ^ Megan Irwin, "Hard Body: Liz Cohen's infiltrating the lowrider world — and calling it art", Phoenix New Times, October 5, 2006
  4. ^ Margolis-Pineo, Sarah (2011-11-03). "Yes, That is a Car Seat in my Low Rider: An Interview with Liz Cohen". Bad at Sports. Retrieved 2020-01-31. My motivation was more about how to become a part of a certain subculture...For the next piece, I wanted to take something where I could go from being on the outside-really being an outsider, to really being an insider, even if I was a freak insider. Different ways to become a part of that car culture are to build cars, to own cars, or to model for cars. So my motivation for doing the modeling was more to become a member-I never did it to make fun of that aspect of car culture. I wasn't judging it, I was using it.
  5. ^ "An Interview with Liz Cohen". Believer Magazine. 2007-11-01. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  6. ^ Walsh, Brienne (2010-11-04). "Liz Cohens Car Culture". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  7. "Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist: "La Dolce Arte"". TV Club. December 2011. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  8. "Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  9. Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia; Del Toro, Marissa; Vicario, Gilbert; Chavez, Mike; Chavoya, C. Ondine; Salseda, Rose; Valencia, Joseph Daniel; Villaseñor Black, Charlene; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, eds. (2024). Xican-a.o.x. body. New York, NY : Munich, Germany: American Federation of Arts ; Hirmer Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7774-4168-9. OCLC 1373831827.
  10. Berk, Brett (14 May 2012). "Photos: cArt: BMW Makes Weird Noises at the Frieze Art Fair (& Bonus Car-Art Slide Show!)". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-01-31. Liz Cohen, Trabantamino, 2002–10: This hydraulically powered, extendible, low-rider version of the universally derided Eastern European Trabant was a real show-stopper.
  11. Rosenberg, Karen (2010-10-29). "Liz Cohen: 'Trabantimino'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  12. Heyman, Marshall (2014-07-07). "Liz Cohen's 'Trabantimino' Comes to Bridgehampton". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  13. Keats, Jonathon (July 2003). "High-Performance Artist". Wired. Retrieved 2007-09-04.
  14. "BODYWORK". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  15. Trimble, Lynn (13 April 2020). "A Phoenix Artist Has Been Named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  16. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation". Retrieved 2020-04-27.

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