Genevieve Cohn

Genevieve Cohn grew up in rural Vermont and received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University. She has been awarded residencies at The Golden Foundation, Wassaic Projects, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Ragdale Foundation. She is the winning recipient of the Hopper Prize and was a finalist for the Women United Art Prize. Her work has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, New American Paintings, Create Magazine, Art Maze Magazine, and Booooooom!. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with notable solo exhibitions at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami and Hashimoto Contemporary Gallery in New York City and San Francisco. She currently lives in Boston, MA, where she has her studio and teaches at Wellesley College.


Artist Statement

My paintings project possible communities of women by drawing from both a historical and imaginative past, present, and future. Utilizing imagery and ideologies drawn from The Women’s Land Army from World War I and World War II, as well as female separatist communities, fairy tales, and literary fiction, my paintings acknowledge and reflect a world where female power is derived from collaboration, self-endowed agency, and connection with the natural world. I consider ideas of collection, adornment, beauty, and choice as the figures within the worlds of my work construct spaces that engage ideas of ritual and practice.


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