Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Water Ways - Noyes Museum of Art - Oceanville, NJ
2006
Heidi Cho Gallery - New York, NY (catalog)
2004
Jersey City Museum - Jersey City, NJ (brochure)
 
Kouros Gallery - New York, NY
2003
Haas Gallery - Bloomsburg University - Bloomsburg, PA
2001
Objects and Intentions - Douglass College - New Brunswick, NJ (catalog)
1999
Hunterdon Museum of Art - Clinton, NJ
 
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Indiana, PA
1998
Kouros Gallery - New York, NY
1996
New Jersey State Museum - Trenton, NJ
1993
Trans Hudson Gallery - Jersey City, NJ
1990
Susan Schreiber Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (catalog)
1985
Jing An Cultural Center, Shanghai, China
Commissions and Large Scale Installations
2006
Sensation: Interior View - Collaboration with Shirly Tilghman, Jim Sturm and A.R. Willey - Quark Park Sculpture Garden - Princeton, NJ
2005
Going Places: Skyway to Wow! - Percent for Art Commission - Ross-Woodward School- New Haven, CT
2003
Inside-Out (Adentro/Afuera) - Mountain Development Corp - 100 Hamilton Plaza - Paterson, NJ
1996
Only Connect - Staten Island Botanical Garden - Staten Island, NY
1992
Community of Shelter - Thomas Paine Park, New York, NY
1986
Taking Form - Windows on White Street, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Holland Paper Biennale 2008 - Museum Rijswijk - Rijswijk, NL - CODA Museum - Apeldoorn, NL (catalog)
2008
Trellis - Rupert Ravens Fine Art - Newark, NJ
2007
The Outdoor Gallery: 40 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks - The Arsenal Gallery - New York, NY
2007
Per Square Foot - The Gallery at Dieu Donne - New York, NY
2006
Out There - 2006 New Jersey Arts Annual - The Newark Museum - Newark, NJ (catalog)
2005
Plane + Form - Minnesota Center for Book Arts - Minneapolis, MN
2005
Art Athina Contemporary Art Fair - Helexpo Exhibition Center - Athens, Greece
2004
Material Witness - Heidi Cho Gallery - New York, NY
 
Self Evidence - Gallery 31 North - Glen Gardner, NJ
 
Music in Art - Anchorage Museum of History & Art - Anchorage, AK (catalog)
2003
Correspondences: Poetry and Contemporary
 
Art - Hunterdon Museum of Art - Clinton, NJ (catalog)
 
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Sculpture Project - New Brunswick, NJ (catalog)
 
Paper & Metal - Minnesota Center for Books Arts - Minneapolis,
 
MN
2002
Material Passage - JP Morgan Chase Project Space - Jersey City, NJ
 
500 Drawings - Gary Snyder Fine Art - New York, NY
 
Magnitude - An exhibition of poet/artist collaborations - The Educational Alliance - NY, NY
 
100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints: 15 Years of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper - New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ - Travels to The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ & The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ (catalog)
2001
Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Done Papermill - Kresge Art Museum- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
 
Travels through 2003 to: Maryland Institute College of Art - Baltimore, MD Beach Museum of Art - Manhattan, KS, Heckscher Museum - Huntington, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI & Fort Wayne Museum of Art - Fort Wayne, IN (catalog)
 
Paper, Rock, Stone - Elaine Benson Gallery - East Hampton, NY
 
Revenge of The Pussy - Barbara Ann Levy Gallery - Fire Island, NY
 
Installed Collections/Collections Installed - Mason Gross Galleries - New Brunswick, NJ
 
Nancy Cohen & Robert Gutierrez - PS122 Gallery, New York, NY
 
Performance & Art by Women - Sideshow - Brooklyn, NY, NY
2000
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture - Exit Art - NY, NY
 
Displacement: Art + Suitcase, Will Travel - Gallery: Gertrude Stein, New York, NY
1999
A Common Thread - New Art Center - Newton, MA (catalog)
 
Size Matters - GAle GAtes et al. - Brooklyn, NY
 
Souvenirs/documents: 20 years - PS122 Gallery - New York, NY (catalog)
 
Three Artists - Three Stories - NJ Center for Visual Arts - Summit, NJ (catalog)
1998
Wild - Exit Art - New York, NY
 
Memory & Transformation - Painted Bride Art Center - Philadelphia, PA
 
In Touch - Elsa Mott Ives Gallery - New York, NY
 
Form & Space: A Dialogue - Hunterdon Museum of Art - Clinton, NJ
 
Drawings - ChiMeat - Brooklyn, NY
1996
Balancing Act - Room - New York, NY
 
Objects & Delusion - Smack Mellon Studios - Brooklyn, NY
1996
Innovations & Explorations in Handmade Paper - Dieu Donne Papermill - New York, NY (catalog)
1995
Four X-Change - Het Kunst Keldertje - Rotterdam, NL
 
Light Inspirations - San Francisco Jewish Museum - San Francisco, CA (catalog)
 
Workspace Program: 5 Years - Dieu Donne Papermill - New York, NY (catalog)
 
In Making it Actual - Wheeler Gallery - Providence, RI
 
What's the Connection - Trans Hudson Gallery - Jersey City, NJ
1994
Fabricated Nature - Boise Art Museum - Boise, ID (catalog) Travelled to University of Wyoming Art Museum, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts
 
Small Works - The Sculpture Center - New York, NY
 
Passages in Sculpture: Six Sculptors - Jersey City Museum - Jersey City, NJ
 
Biomorphosis - Miami-Dade Community College - Miami, FL (catalog)
 
Rough Cuts - Henry Street Settlement - New York, NY
 
Natural Histories - Pyramid Atlantic - Rivervale, MD
1993
93NY50 - Socrates Sculpture Park - Long Island City, NY
 
Object Lessons - Police Building - New York, NY
1992
Environmental Sculpture - Kouros Sculpture Center - Ridgefield, CT
 
Drawings and Sculptures by Sculptors - Kouros Gallery - New York, NY
1991
Six East Coast Sculptors - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
 
Disjunctive - Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL (catalog)
 
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood - Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA (catalog)
1990
Sculptors' Drawings - East Hampton Center For Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY (catalog)
 
Positive Actions: Visual AIDS 1990 - Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Material Forms - NJ Center For Visual Art, Summit, NJ (catalog)
1988
Sculpture 1988 - White Columns, New York, NY
 
Invitational Exhibition - 55 Mercer Street Gallery - New York, NY
1987
Taking Form - Windows on White Street, New York, NY (installation)
 
Three Sculptors - A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
 
Biomorphic Sculpture - Art In General, New York, NY
1986
The Figure Abstracted: Intimated Presences - Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (catalog)
Public and Museum Collections
 
Citibank, New York, NY
 
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
 
DHR International, Newark, NJ
 
Hillwood Art Museum, C. W. Post College, Brookville, NY (catalog)
 
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
 
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
 
Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ
 
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
 
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
 
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Trenton, NJ
 
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
 
New York University, New York, NY
 
Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
 
Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ
 
TIAA/CREF, New York, NY
 
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
 
William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ (catalog)
 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
 
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Awards and Residencies
2006
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Works on Paper Fellowship
2004, 1993
Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Fellowship
1996
The Greenwall Foundation, award in support of "Only Connect"
1993, 89, 86
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship
1992
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY, Workspace Artist
1991
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1989
Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant
1986, 81
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough
1982
The Archie Bray Foundateion, Helena, MT
1981
The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
Selected Bibliography
 
T. Ginzberg, "Paper in Public: Handmade Paper in Public Art Installations," Hand Papermaking, Summer 2008
 
M. Takahashi, "Noted Exhibitions," Hand Papermaking, Winter 2006
 
J. Capuzzo, "Science Comes to Life in a Park Full of Surprises," The New York Times, 10/22/06
 
J. J. Devoe, "Anatomy of a Princeton Park," New Jersey Monthly, October 2006
 
K. MacPherson, "It's a lot of Inspiration," The Sunday Star-Ledger, 9/17/06 (photo)
 
K. Searle, "Plane & Format Minnesota Center for Book Arts," Hand Papermaking, Summer 2006
 
P. Summers, "Bristol-Myers Squibb Sculpture Project," Sculpture Magazine on line, March 2005 (photo)
 
D. Cleveland, "Nancy Cohen at Kouros Gallery," ARTnews, November 2004 (photo)
 
Corning Museum of Glass, "New Glass Review 25," Corning, NY 2004
 
M. Anderson & C.Krezell "Inside-Out in Paterson," (documentary film) 2003
 
D. Stein, "Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art . . .," Dieu Donne Papermill, NY 2001
 
W. Zimmer, "Life Stories in an Artistic Framework," The New York Times, 12/26/99 (photo)
 
D. Bischoff, "Sculptor demonstrates grasp . . ." The Sunday Star Ledger, 4/25/99 (photos)
 
M. Carlock, "A Common Thread in Newton Exhibit," The Boston Globe, 3/7/99
 
R. Selekman, "Nancy Cohen at Kouros Gallery," New Art Examiner, 10/98 (photo)
 
K. Johnson, "Nancy Cohen," New York Times, 7/10/98
 
E. Shales, "Wild, " Review, 2/15/98
 
A. Raven, "New York Story," Sculpture Magazine, 1/98 (photo)
 
New York Views, "Papermaking and Sculpture," WABC-TV, 1/18/97
 
H. Cotter, "Sculpture that Basks in Summer," New York Times, 8/9/96
 
R. Kahn (ed.), Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists, Creative Time, NY, 1995
 
A. C. Faxon, "In Making it Actual," Art New England, 8/95
 
H. Cotter, "In New Jersey," New York Times, 7/8/94
 
M. Kimmelman, "Sculpture's Season in the Sun," New York Times, 5/6/93
 
"Postscript," Sculpture Magazine, 9-10/93 (photo)
 
G. Melrod, "Object Lessons," Art News, 5/93
 
V. Raynor, " Best Work Turns Out to be Three-Dimensional," New York Times, 4/18/93
 
E. Broadrup, "Commissions," Sculpture Magazine, 9-10/92 (photo)
 
B. McAdam, "Other People's Stuff," Art News, 9/92 (photo)
 
M. Kimmelman, "Sculpture, Sculpture Everywhere," New York Times, 7/31/92
 
A. Raven, "The Great Outdoors," Village Voice, 8/4/92 (photo)
 
J. Sapers, "Goings On About Town," New Yorker, 7/13/92
 
C. Twardy, "VCC Show: Compelling Social Comment," Orlando Sentinel, 8/28/91
 
C. Polesi, "Artistas de Nova York Ocupam Fabrica," Ciaro do Grande ABC, Brazil, 11/19/90
 
P. Broaff, "Sculptors' Drawings Produce a Special Dynamic," New York Times, 11/4/90
 
R. Slivka, "From the Studio," East Hampton Star, 11/15/90
 
V. Raynor, "'Intimations' of Figures at Robeson Center Gallery," New York Times, 10/12/86
 
V. Raynor, "Sculptures that Test the Idea of Opposites," New York Times, 10/1/89
 
V. Raynor, "Group Show with Side Dish," New York Times, 11/6/88
 
E. Watkins, "Bergen Gallery Bears 'Form,Substance' of Work," Newark Star Ledger, 10/12/86
 
W.M. Tu, "American Sculptor Exhibits Work," XinMin WanBaio, Shanghai, China, 7/1/85
Education
1984
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1982-1984
Columbia University, New York, NY, MFA
1977-81
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, BFA