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Maxi Cohen is a video artist, independent filmmaker, photographer and writer. 

Her works have been exhibited and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (video), the Metropolitan Museum of Art(film), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (photography), and the Israeli Museum of Art(photography). Her video installations, video works and photography have also been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, the New Museum, the Jewish Museum and Queens Museum in New York City, Everson Museum in Syracuse, the High Museum in Atlanta, and other museums, galleries, and festivals around the world, where she has won several first prize awards.  Solo gallery shows of photography include Sandroni-Rey Gallery in Los Angeles, O.K. Harris and the Kitchen in New York City, among others.

MAXI COHEN

Born: Vineland, New Jersey,  Lives: New York City

Education: New York University, BA. MA.

Selected Photographic Exhibitions:

 2006

Scope Hamptons , Hamptons,

NY “Ladies Rooms” and “Water”

2004

Maximus, New York, NY “Ladies Rooms”                       

Red Box Gallery, Barjols, France “ Season 1”

Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Ultra Chrome”

2003

Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, FL “Miami Basel”

First Person Festival, Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, PA

“Ladies Rooms Around the World” (solo show)

The Work Space, Soho, New York “Celestial”

Lyonswier Gallery, Chelsea, New York “Trespassers”

2002

The Work Space, Soho, New York “Waves”

1998 

Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, California “TV Nightscapes”

1990

The New Museum, New York “From the Receiver to 

Remote Control: The TV Set”

1986

Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, New Jersey “

Television’s Impact on Contemporary Art”

1984

The Kitchen, New York, NY; “TV Landscapes”

1981

OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY “TV Landscape”

Museum Collections:

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 Selected Film and video works (screenings):

“Joe and Maxi” (Restored 35mm print, Women’s Film Preservation Fund, Collection MoMA Film Archive) Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2007

“Anger”;  screened: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2000; International Center for Photography, New York, 1989 (PRIZES: Montreal Festival of New Film, 1st Prize, Tokyo Film Festival, 1st prize, San Francisco Festival Golden Gate Award, 1987) Nylon Film Festival, Switzerland, 1986

 “Cape May: End of Season”, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2000

“Happy Birthday America”, screened: Museum of Modern Art, New York 2000; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978

“How Much is Really True” screened: Berlin Film Festival, 1990, Rotterdam Film Festival, Videonalle, Bonn Germany, 1990, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1992, I.C.A. Boston, 1992, Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum, 1992 (PRIZES: Chicago International Film Festival, 1991, Silver Bear, 1991, Black Maria Film Festival, 1991, Thomas Edison Media Arts Award, 1992)

“My Bubi, My Zada”, screened: West Virginia Art Museum, 1991; Jewish Museum, New York, 1982, The Kitchen, 1975

“Nature Morte Aux Fruits”, Boston Museum of Fine Art, 1991; Metropolitan Museum of Art (permanent collection), screened 1990

“The Edge of Life”, screened: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1990;Showcase, 1985, Video Bienalle, Vienna, Italy, 1985, The Kitchen, New York, 1984, San Francisco Women’s Video Art, (PRIZES: American Film Festival, red ribbon, 1985, Monitor Awards, 1985)

“Intimate Interviews: Sex in Less than Two Minutes”, screened: Global Village Documentary Film and Video Festival, New York, 1985

“Ozone Stories”, screened: Venice Bienalle, 1984, (PRIZES: American Film Festival red ribbon 1984, Video Cultural International 1985, Utah Film and Video Festival, 1st prize)

“Boney”, screened: LACE, Los Angeles, 1984

“Paper Roses”, screened: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981

 “A-Lone Some, I Make All the Noise”,  screened: Museum of Modern Art, 1977,  Memorial Gallery, Rochester, 1977 Belgian Television, 1978

“Five Day Bicycle Race”, screened: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977

Feature Films:

“South Central Los Angeles: Inside Voices”, ZDF, screened: German TV, 1994, ARTE French TV, 1994, Huairou Cinema, Beijing, 1995, Moscow Film Festival, 1995, SBS Australia, 1996, San Francisco Film Festival, 1996, Showtime, 1996 (PRIZES: New Orleans Urban Film and Video Festival, Best Documentary, 1998, National Education Media Network, Silver Apple Award, 1996, San Francisco International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit, 1998)

“Seven Women, Seven Sins”, screened: Walker Art Center ,Minneapolis, 1986, Nu Art Theater, Los Angeles, 1987, Toronto Film Festival, 1988, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1989

“Joe And Maxi”, screened: Greenwich Theater, New York, 1980, Berlin Film Festival, 1978, Nu Art Theater, Los Angeles,  1978, German Television, Israeli Television, 1982,  University of Nebraska, Sheldon Art Gallery, 1983 (PRIZES: American Film Festival, Blue ribbon, John Muir Film Festival, 1st prize)

Artist in Residence:

1998  Edward Albee Foundation

1995  MacDowell Artists Colony

Selected Grants:

2005            

Eastman Kodak Company

2004            

Women in Film Preservation Fund

2004   

Karen-Weiss Foundation

1993           

Rockefeller Foundation

California Council for the Humanities

Ms. Foundation for Education

1991   

New York Foundation for the Arts

1989  

Art Matters

New York State Council on the Arts

1987   

New York State Council on the Arts

1985   

New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship

New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship

1983           

N.E.A. Video Fellowship

1982  

American Film Institute for Video Production

1980   

N.E.A. Fellowship for writing

N.E.A. Video Fellowship

Creative Artists Public Service program for video

1977   

N.E.A. Video Fellowship

Jerome Foundation

1976   

N.E.A. Individual Artists Grant

1975   

Joint Foundation Support, grant for film

Books:

Cohen, Maxi. “The Art of the Pendulum”, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003

Cohen, Maxi.” Women of Courage”, New World Library, Spring, 1999Seger, Linda. “When Women Call the Shots”, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., 1996

Pierson, John. “Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes”, The New York Times Company, 1994

Selected Articles:

Vogue Espana, Spain, “Invadir La Intimidad”, January, 2001

Independent’s Sunday Reality Magazine, London, “Toilet Humor”, September, 2000

Vanity Fair, USA, “Flush Life”, August, 2000

LA Times Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles, “Broadcast Hues”, Novemeber, 1998