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Bernard Cohen    (British, 1933)

 Bernard Cohen - Mutation (Paintings) h: 40 x w: 50 in / h: 101.6 x w: 127 cm
Bernard Cohen
Mutation 1960
 
  

Biography
1933 Born in London
1951 - 1954 Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
1958 First solo exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
1988 Appointed as Slade Chair of Fine Art at London University, as Slade Professor and Director of the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
1968 - 1998 Regular visits to New Mexico
Currently living and working in London

Exhibitions
2007 Paintings from the Sixties, Flowers East, London
2007 Flowers Graphics, London
2006 Flowers, New York
2005 Flowers Graphics, London
2004 Bernard Cohen, Flowers Central, London
2004 Six from the Sixties, Flowers East, London
2003 Flowers One, Flowers Central, London
2001 British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
2000 Bernard Cohen, Flowers Central, London
1999 Bernard Cohen: Paintings of the Nineties, Flowers West, Santa Monica, USA
Ten New Abstract Paintings, Flowers East
1995 Bernard Cohen: Artist in Focus, six paintings from the Tate Gallery Collection, The Tate Gallery, London
1994 - 1995 35 Years of Drawing, Ben Uri Gallery, London and touring to Norwich, Bristol and Birmingham
1994 British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London
1993 The Sixties: The London Scene, Barbican Gallery, London
1992 Ready Steady Go, Royal Festival Hall, London
1991 British Art Since 1930, Waddington Galleries, London
1977 The Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy, London
1976 Tate Gallery, London (print retrospective)
1974 Waddington Galleries, London
Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London
1973 Galleria Annunciata, Milan
La Peinture Anglaise d'Aujourd'hui, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1972 Drawings and prints retrospective, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Prints retrospective, Waddington Galleries, London; Paintings and Drawings retrospective organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain touring from Hayward Gallery, London to Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and City Art Gallery, Leeds
1967 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Kasmin Gallery, London
1966 Exhibited as one of five artists in British Pavilion in XXXIII Biennale, Venice
1964 Three-year drawing retrospective at Kasmin Gallery, London
1963 Kasmin Gallery, London
1961 New London Situation, New London Gallery; 2nd Biennale des Jeunes, Paris
1960 Situation, F.B.A. Galleries, London
1958 - 1960 Gimpel Fils, London
1958 Abstract Impressionism, University of Nottingham and Arts Council Gallery, London
1957 DimensionsHana Gallery, London
1953 Young Contemporaries, London from which he was selected by Gimpel Fils to be included in the exhibition, Young Contemporaries

Literature
1998 Paintings of the Nineties, Flowers East, London, catalogue, Dr David Alan Mellor
1993 The Sixties Art Scene in London, catalogue, Dr David Alan Mellor, (Phaidon Press), London
1990 Dealing with the Maelstrom of Reality, Waddington Galleries, London, catalogue introduction, Eric Shanes
1973 Bernard Cohen, in From Henry Moore to Gilbert and George, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, catalogue, Anne Seymour
Bernard Cohen, Arts Counil of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Retrospective
1972 Cohen Country, Nigel Gosling, The Observer
White is the Colour of Bernard Cohen, in Bernard Cohen, Studio La Citta, Verona, catalogue, Alessandro Mozzambani
The Work of Bernard Cohen, Basil Bernstein, Studio International, pp. 261-262, June 1972
Bernard Cohen, Andrew Forge, The Listener, p. 530, 20 April 1972
Vantage Point, John Russell, The Sunday Times, 9 April 1972
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