EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts
Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
Studied with Grace Hartigan
Awarded the Henry Walters Traveling Scholarship for European Art Study
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cum Laude
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Major: Painting, Minor: Printmaking
TEACHING
Marymount Manhattan College, 1974-present
Associate Professor of Art and Chair, Art Department
Director, Hewitt Gallery of Art
AWARDS
First Place Award, Gramercy Neighborhood Associates Holiday Decoration, December 2003
First Prize for Sculpture (with artist Debby Jones), Art at the Dump,Cornwall, Connecticut, 2001
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Founding Member, Retrogarde, an independent artists’ group meeting monthly for studio visits, peer review, and exhibiting in alternative spaces in New York City
Advisory Board Member, Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, New York City 2006-2011
Editorial Advisory Committee, Philoctetes: The Journal of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, Vols. I & II, 2007-2008
Panel Participant, Creativity and Trauma, Philoctetes Center, New York City, February 2004
Panel Participant, The Process of Creativity, Philoctetes Center, New York City, December 2003
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Illustrator for Francis Levy’s book, The Kafka Studies Department
Published watercolors, drawings and prints
http://www.screamingpope.com
Group and Two-person:
Hallie Cohen & Jim Holl, Paintings and works on paper, Fox Gallery NYC, 2013
Multiples, Manhattan Borough President’s Gallery, New York, April 22- May 10, 2013
The Faces of Time, ArcheTime Project at NYU, December 6, 2012
Art Department Faculty Exhibit I, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York,
October 1- November 1, 2012
Art Department Faculty Exhibit, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York,
August 26 – September 28, 2011
Wish You Were Here 10, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 22-July 16, 2011
Wish You Were Here 9, A.I.R. Gallery, July 2010
6 Artists, Manhattan Borough President’s Gallery, New York, April 2- April 29, 2010
Art Department Faculty Exhibit, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York,
August 31- September 29, 2009
Retrogarde Painters & Guest Artists, Westbeth Gallery, New York, 2009
Art Department Faculty Exhibit, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York,
June 4 – September 19, 2007
Retrogarde Group Show, El Consulado General and the Venezuelan Center, Watercolor paintings, New York City, November 28, 2006 – January 5, 2007
Objects in Mind, The Philoctetes Center, New York City, April 1- June 10, 2006
Three-person show of paintings, drawings and watercolors
Exhibition of Works on Paper, Gregg Gallery, National Arts Club, New York City. April – May 2005
Honorable Mention for Creativity awarded by Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation
NOHO NY ARTWALK, New York City, January 2004
Grace Church School Art Auction, New York, March 2004
Group Show, at Big Cat Gallery, New York City, July 2004
In My Other Life… Faculty Art Exhibit, MMC Gallery, New York, 2002
Paintings at La Mama’s La Galleria, New York City. 1995
The Passion for Collecting, The Lotos Club, New York City, 1995
Issues of Identity, MMC Gallery, New York City, 1993
Faculty Art Show,MMC Gallery, New York City, 1992
Retrogarde Group Show, Terry Schreiber Studio Gallery, New York City, 1992
Fashion, Trenkman Gallery, New York City, 1992
Retrogarde 91, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, 1991
Retrogarde 90, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, 1990
…Who Laughs Last?,MMC Gallery, New York City 1990
Retrogarde 89, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, 1989
Retrogarde 88, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, 1988
A Room of Her Own, MMC Gallery, New York City, 1987
Jubilee Year MMC Faculty Art Show, MMC Gallery, New York City, 1985
12 at MMCFaculty Art Show, MMC Gallery, New York City, 1982
Illusion & Reality, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1981
Solo:
Hallie Cohen—Shoes & Humor, TSS Gallery, New York, June 1992
Hallie Cohen—Paintings, Marymount Manhattan Gallery, New York City, 1983
Curated Exhibitions:
Curator, The Mind’s Eye: Sight & Insight, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, November 3 – December 5, 2013
Curator with Samwell Freeman, Self-similarity in Math, Nature and Art, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, September 29 – Oct 31, 2013
Co-Curator with Maddy Rosenberg of Central Booking, Text Out of Context, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, March 18 – April 11, 2013
Curator, Art & Politics, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, January 30 – February 21, 2013
Curator, Portraiture: Old Masters and New, Philoctetes Center, New York City, February 26, 2011– April 26, 2011
Works Jenny Dubnau, Phyllis Herfield, Matthew Miller, Philip Pearlstein, David Pettibone
Curator, The Art of the Graphic Novel, Philoctetes Center, New York City, December 5, 2010– February 20, 2011
Works by Dan E. Burr, Sungyoon Choi, David Heatley, Ben Katchor, James Sturm, Alissa Torres, James Vance, Tracy White
Curator, Art in the Public Eye, Philoctetes Center, New York City, September 9 – November 14, 2010 Works by Béatrice Coron, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Eric Lindveit, Janine Menlove, Peter Sis, Janet Zweig
Curator, Hive/Web/Mind: Animal Nests and Human Networks, Philoctetes Center, New York City, April 30 – June 30, 2010
Works by Christy Ellis, Suzanne Kesler, Caitlin Masley, John Powers, Susan Wides
Curator, With or Without Permission: Appropriation, Assemblage and Collage, Philoctetes Center, New York City, February 20 – April 25, 2010
Works by Eric Edelman, Maureen Mullarkey, Mac Premo, Anne Sherwood Pundyk, Jonathan Talbot, Fred Tomaselli
Co-Curator with Olga Ast, The Matter of Time, Philoctetes Center, New York City, December 05, 2009 – January 30, 2010
Works by John Boone, Katherine Davis, Edward Johnston, Elliott Kaufman, Catherine Rutgers, Linda Stillman, Ellen Wiener
Curator, The Aesthetics of Math, Philoctetes Center, New York City, September 07 – November 18, 2009 Works by Sarah Ferguson, Haresh Lalvani, Devin Powers, Joan Waltemath
Curator, On Aggression, Philoctetes Center, New York City, February 28 – May 20, 2009 Works by Joy Garnett, Alexander Gibbons, Joyce Kozloff, Leah Poller, Margaret Roleke, Robin Tewes
Curator, Typograffica, Philoctetes Center, New York City, January 08- February 04, 2009 Works by Christopher Calderhead, Elinor Aishah Holland, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Alexander Norbom
Curator, The Body as Image, Philoctetes Center, New York City, September 04 – October 28, 2008 Works by Amy Caron, Katie Commodore, Sol Kjøk, Tarrah Kranjnak, Philip Pearlstein, Wilka Roig, Kristi Ropeleski, Diana Schmertz
Curator, The Architecture of Emotion: Interior and Exterior, Philoctetes Center, New York City, June 11 – July 31, 2008 Works by Vito Acconci, Saul Robbins and Julio Salcedo
Coordinator, The Art Seeing: Psycho-Neurology and Photography, Philoctetes Center, New York City, April 18 – June 06, 2008 Works by Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Burtynsky, Mark Citret, Bruce Davidson, Bedrich Grunzweig, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Keetman, William Klein, Eric Lindbloom, Robert Polidori, H.K. Shigeta, Minor White. Curated by Jeffery Levy-Hinte.
Curator, Self Reflection: The True Mirror, Philoctetes Center, New York City, March 01 – April 16, 2008 Works by Susanna Coffey, Jennifer Dubnau, Deborah Garwood, Phyllis Herfield, Haresh Lalvani, Robin Tewes, and John Walter
Part of the Brainwave Festival, held in conjunction with the Rubin Museum, Exit Art, The Graduate Center at CUNY, and the School of Visual Arts.
Curator, Pathetic Fallacy: Weather and Imagination, Philoctetes Center, New York City, January 07 – February 27, 2008 Works by Richard Bosman, Peter Brooke, Fernando Ferreira de Araujo, Malcolm Fenton, and Joy Garnett
Consulting Curator, Healing Through Art,an exhibition and silent auction to benefit the Kasisi Children’s Home for AIDS orphans in Lusaka, Zambia,Philoctetes Center, New York City, November 30 – December 15, 2007 Works by Mulenga Chafilwa, Stary Mwaba, James Nicholls, and the Children of the Kasisi Children’s Home.
Curator, Hyper Graphica, Philoctetes Center, New York City, October 16 -November 28, 2007 Works by Alice Attie, Marc Bell, Vivienne Koorland, Jane Laudi and Jon Sarkin
Curator, The Doctor’s Palette, Philoctetes Center, New York City, June 25 – October 15, 2007 Works by Susan Ball, Ann Beeder, Paul Rosenbaum, Ladd Spiegel and Martin Wilner
Curator, Eye of the Beholder, Philoctetes Center, New York City, April 14 – June 07, 2007 Works by Suzanne Anker, Andrew Carnie, David Silbersweig and Emily Stern
Consulting Curator with Rebecca Allan, Legacy and Recollection, Philoctetes Center, New York City, February 26 – April 12, 2007 Works by Ruth Weisberg, Joseph Santore, Michel Gerard and Rebecca Allan
Curator, BIG/little, Philoctetes Center, New York City, December 02, 2006 -February 22, 2007 Works & Images by Pat Adams, Millie Falcaro, Wendy Small, NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope
Curator, Pattern Recognition, Philoctetes Center, New York City, September 09 -November17, 2006 Works by Peter Barrett, Charles Benefiel, Zach Layton and Tristan Perich
Co-curator with Rebecca Allan (Director of Public Programs at The Bard Graduate Center), Objects in Mind, Philoctetes Center, New York City, April 01-June 10, 2006 Works by: Hallie Cohen, Elena Sisto and Robin Tewes
Co-curator with Phyllis Herfield, Issues of Identity, MMC Gallery, New York 1993
“The Art of Time.” Infinite Instances: Studies and Images of Time. Ed. Olga Ast.Mark Batty Publisher: New York, 2011
Illustrator for The Nadir of My Zenith, essay by Francis Levy in Steven Heller’s Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure and Lessons Learned (Allworth Press, October 2008)
Interview in Artfusion News by Adrienne Baxter Bell, “The World of Studio Art with Hallie Cohen,” Spring 2008
Feature in Dialog:The Newsletter of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, “The Curator’s Eye View,” (Volume 3 Issue 3 May/June 2008), p.11
Foreword for artist’s catalogue, The Storm Series by Fernando Ferreira de Araujo, Published by Transart, Inc. 2007
Photographer for Dialog: The Newsletter of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, published every two months in print and online formats, March 2006-2008