Jeane Cohen is an artist based in New York City and Maine. Her paintings are charged with immediacy and vitality. They record her process of integrating perceptions, imaginal experiences and emotions into the picture plane. Cohen’s recent solo exhibition at Slag Gallery was reviewed in the New York Times by Seph Rodney, who said, “Waxing Glimmer, Shedding Beams, deserved the time you should want to take with this show.” “Cohen’s paintings...teach me about seeing, as a necessary act of carefully parsing out her visual abundance.” Cohen is currently a 2022-23 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Resident and has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, won first place in the Yeck Young Painters Competition, and is completing a Prison Education Teaching Fellowship at the University of Maine. She has held residencies at Ox-Bow School of Art, Monson Arts, the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, and the 40th Street Artist-in-Residence Program. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018, and her BA from Hampshire College in 2011. Cohen has recently taught in the Painting and Drawing Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at Maine College of Art and Design, and with the Second Chance Pell Prison Program.

 Selected Artworks