Gabriel Cohen is an artist, writer and curator, currently based in Los Angeles, CA
He is an alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA), the Vermont Studio Center residency program, and the Robert Overby Foundation’s Alternative Worksite Artist Residency.
From 2017-2019 Cohen had a short-format radio program broadcast weekly on NYC's WFMU. Archived broadcasts can be found on WFMU's website.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Where the Hours Go - Gattopardo, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Silver Screen - curated by Bella Moore, Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Last Notice - Seasons LA, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Eden - organized by Emily Lucid, Los Angeles, CA
2022 American Architecture - SPY Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Semi-Meta - organized by Ezequiel Olvera, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Hyperspace Lexicon Volume 6 - organized by Nicholas Campbell, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Marble Mouth Oracle - Below Grand, New York, NY
2021 Nearly Natural - Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, curated by Nathaniel Hitchcock, Dallas, TX
2020 Got What I Got, organized by Lauren Quin, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Heaping - curated by Eliza Doyle for Olympia, Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Handmade - organized by Gabrielle Johnson, New York, NY
2019 (solo exhibition) First Separation Meditation - Queens, Los Angeles, CA
2019 GIFC: Velvet Ropes - 0-0 LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Both Sides Now - ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL
2019 Rotating exhibition of the collection of Jason Pickleman - Lawrence & Clark, Chicago, IL
2018 PLS - White Columns Online, New York, NY
2018 (solo exhibition) On the Construction of the Heavens - New Works, Chicago, IL
2018 Mouth as is a kiln - Obst, Chicago, IL
2018 Prairie Auction - Prairie, Chicago, IL
2018 (solo exhibition) 88888888: The Possibility of Meaning in an Entropic Universe - In Lieu, Los Angeles, CA
2017 The Invisible Would Continue to Turn a Deaf Ear - Kings Leap, Brooklyn, NY
2017 New Contemporaries - Gelman Gallery, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2017 Graphite VII: Manual - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Get Ready - 24 Hour Charlies, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Art Speaks (lecture + exhibition) - The Wurks, Providence, RI
CURATORIAL WORK
2020 - Present Organizer of the Guest Curator series at Foundwork.art
2018 The Belly & the Members, MX Gallery, New York, NY
In association with FRI-ENDS
2017 Permanent Parabasis, Gallery 99, Providence, RI (In collaboration with Lee Pivnik)
Curator in residence at Trade Pop-Up Gallery, Providence RI (In collaboration with Max Simon)
2016 BYOW (Bring Your Own Whatever)
2016 Thursdays at Trade, March
2016 Thursdays at Trade, February
2015 WET
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
The Dallas Morning News, Dark side of the hedge: Curator brings his take on artificial landscapes to West Dallas, by Christopher Mosley, 2021
AQNB, Crisis as portal: Catalina Ouyang talks cosmic flesh, the concomitants of trauma & unravelling the myth safety & security in the aftermath, interview by Gabriel Cohen, 2020
Montez Press Radio, Primary Source 01, interview with Miller Robinson by Gabriel Cohen, 2019
Artillery Magazine, From Flowers to Flat Files, 2019
Artemis Journal, 2019
WNTT Magazine, 2018
Kings Leap, Even the gorgeous royal chariots wear out (work print), 2017
Graphite Journal, Even the gorgeous royal chariots wear out (Excerpt), 2017
Mesh Magazine, Reformatting Our Lens: Drawing With Motion, 2015