Born UK, 1986
Lives and works in London and Athens, Greece
A – DASH Project Space, Athens, Greece
Associate Lecturer, Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Graduate Schools, University of the Arts London
Education
MA Fine Art – Central Saint Martins – 2O12 – ’14
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Curatorial Projects
2O17 – ’18
I Hope My Legs Don’t Break
Noemi Niederhauser / Benjamin Cohen
A – DASH Project Space, Athens, Greece
2O15
Promise of Palm Trees
Charlie Billingham, Benjamin Brett, Jack Brindley, Benjamin Cohen, Fiona Curran, Clem Crosby, Damien Flood, Aimeé Parrott
Breese Little Gallery
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Collaborative Projects
2O15
4O Years
Mixed media project spanning four decades
Majella Dowdican and Benjamin Cohen
2O15 – 55
The March That No One Saw
Mixed media
Noemi Niederhauser, James Lake, Roderick Laperdrix, Majella Dowdican, Maria Teresa Ribero, Benjamin Cohen
Brecon Beacons, Wales
2O14
Priprema, Pozor, Pad!: Still I’d Like to Try it Just One More Time
Film (duration 6’13”) and mixed media curatorial project
Noemi Niederhauser, James Lake, Sonja Vrkatić, Nikola Dordević, Jovana Vasić, Roderick Laperdrix, Benjamin Cohen
Belgrade, Serbia
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Education Projects
2O16
Space Revolution – A – DASH Project Space
Athens Biennale ’16, Athens, Greece
2O15
The Expanded Field of Painting – Promise of Palm Trees
Charlie Billingham, Benjamin Brett, Benjamin Cohen, Fiona Curran
Artist talk to Whitechapel Gallery Patrons
2O13
Tremors/ Thoughts of Terminal Refreshment
Benjamin Cohen and Tom Hackney
Artist talk chaired by Maggie Gray (Apollo Magazine)
2OO9
Corpus
Benjamin Cohen and Tom de Freston
Artist talk chaired by Jennifer Burris (Exhibitions Organiser at the ICA)
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2O13
Thoughts of Terminal Refreshment, Breese Little Gallery, London.
2O12
Benjamin Cohen: Recent Works, Breese Little Gallery, London
2O1O
Benjamin Cohen, Breese Little Gallery at The Old Truman Brewery, London
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2O15
Flick
Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon College of Arts staff exhibition of moving image,
Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts
#Utopia
Clapham Orangery, Notre Dame Estate, London
Promise of Palm Trees
Charlie Billingham, Benjamin Brett, Jack Brindley, Benjamin Cohen, Fiona Curran, Clem Crosby, Damien Flood, Aimeé Parrott.
Breese Little Gallery.
2O14
Stop it, The Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London
2O13
Manski, Cohen, de Freston, Breese Little Gallery, London
In-Transit, V22 The Biscuit Factory, London
2O11
Künstlerhaus – Lisa Kandhofer Contemporary, Große Mohrengasse 8, Vienna
2O1O
PAINT, Breese Little Gallery, Vyner St project space, London
– Irmak Canevi, Benjamin Cohen, Louise Thomas, Tessa Whitehead
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London.
Le Basse Projects in association with Gallery Nosco, Culver City, Los Angeles.
2OO9
London-Vienna, Vienna-London, WUK Projektraum, Vienna.
– Benjamin Cohen and Margot Sanders
Corpus, Breese Little at The Old Chapel, London.
– Helen Benigson, Benjamin Cohen, James Drew, Jack Lewis, Jessica Dreyfus, Kazuya Tsuji
The Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
Return to Reason! Part II, Breese Little at The Empire Gallery, London.
Return to Reason! Part I, Breese Little at Gallery 77, London
2OO8
BP Portrait Award touring exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Aberdeen Art Gallery.
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Selected Collections
Frank Cohen collection
Philipp Sachs collection
Hermann Eisenköck collection
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Selected Publications
Stop it, Central Saint Martins Graduate Show , 2O14.
5OO Portraits, Published by the National Portrait Gallery, London, 2O11.
Benjamin Cohen Solo Exhibition at The Old Truman Brewery, in association with Breese/Little Gallery, 2O1O.
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Annual Exhibition Catalogue, 2O1O.
BP Portrait Award 2OO8, Exhibition Catalogue, 2OO8.
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Contemporary Vision VI, Shortlisted – Beers Contemporary, 2O15
Saatchi’s New Sensations, Longlisted – 2O14
1OO Painters of Tomorrow, Longlisted – Beers Contemporary publication, 2O14
School of Saatchi
Cohen was one of the last 3O artists to be considered for the BBC2 programme School of Saatchi. Interviewed by: Tracy Emin, Kate Bush, Matthew Collings and Frank Cohen. 2OO9.