Mark Cohen

Mark Cohen was born in 1943 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In 1969 he was chosen to take part in the Vision and Expression group exhibition at the International Museum of Photography in Rochester. In 1971 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his work in and around Wilkes-Barre, following which the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a solo show of his work in 1973.

In 1975, William Jenkins commissioned Cohen to produce a series of colour photographs, True Color, which was shown at the George Eastman House the following year. Also in 1975, he received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and, in 1976, a second Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mark Cohen's work has been widely shown, at institutions including the Light Gallery, Castelli Graphics, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Art Institute of Chicago, and recently the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

His work is the subject of three monographs: Grim Street (powerHouse Books, 2005), True Color (powerHouse books, 2007), and Italian Riviera (Punctum Press, 2008).

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