Nancy Cohen’s work in handmade paper and glass examines resiliency in relation to the environment and the human body. Current and recent exhibitions include “Nancy Cohen: The State We’re In” at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea, New York, “Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves” at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York, and “Transgressing Lands: Eleven Contemporary Artist Reimagine a Horizon” at The Boiler in Brooklyn, New York. Upcoming exhibitions include “Legacies in Paper: Nancy Cohen, Sara Garden Armstrong and Helen Heibert” at the Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, Georgia. “Between Seeing & Knowing,” her collaborative installation with Anna Boothe, is now in the collection of the Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah, Wisconsin. Cohen’s work was featured in NJ PBS’s State of the Arts.
Cohen is a 2024 recipient of the Jersey City Artists & Culture Trust Fund. In Spring of 2024, Cohen had a collaborative residency with Anna Boothe at WheatonArts in Millville, New Jersey, and last fall she was a fellow at MacDowell. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Murray Reich Distinguished Artist Award from New York Foundation for the Arts, a Works on Paper Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Denbo Fellowship in papermaking from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and a Studio Residency grant in papermaking from Women’s Studio Workshop.