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Bernard Cohen Biography
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1951 - 1954 |
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Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
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1958 |
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First solo exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
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1988 |
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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
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1968 - 1998 |
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Regular visits to New Mexico
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Currently living and working in London
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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Paintings from the Sixties, Flowers East, London
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2007
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Flowers Graphics, London
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2005
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Flowers Graphics, London
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2004
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Bernard Cohen, Flowers Central, London
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2004
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Six from the Sixties, Flowers East, London
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2003
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Flowers One, Flowers Central, London
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2001
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British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
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2000
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Bernard Cohen, Flowers Central, London
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1999
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Bernard Cohen: Paintings of the Nineties, Flowers West, Santa Monica, USA
Ten New Abstract Paintings, Flowers East
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1995
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Bernard Cohen: Artist in Focus, six paintings from the Tate Gallery Collection, The Tate Gallery, London
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1994 - 1995
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35 Years of Drawing, Ben Uri Gallery, London and touring to Norwich, Bristol and Birmingham
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1994
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British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London
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1993
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The Sixties: The London Scene, Barbican Gallery, London
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1992
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Ready Steady Go, Royal Festival Hall, London
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1991
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British Art Since 1930, Waddington Galleries, London
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1977
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The Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy, London
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1976
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Tate Gallery, London (print retrospective)
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1974
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Waddington Galleries, London
Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London
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1973
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Galleria Annunciata, Milan
La Peinture Anglaise d'Aujourd'hui, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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1972
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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
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1967
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Betty Parsons Gallery, New York; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Kasmin Gallery, London
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1966
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Exhibited as one of five artists in British Pavilion in XXXIII Biennale, Venice
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1964
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Three-year drawing retrospective at Kasmin Gallery, London
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1963
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Kasmin Gallery, London
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1961
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New London Situation, New London Gallery; 2nd Biennale des Jeunes, Paris
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1960
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Situation, F.B.A. Galleries, London
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1958 - 1960
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Gimpel Fils, London
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1958
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Abstract Impressionism, University of Nottingham and Arts Council Gallery, London
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1957
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DimensionsHana Gallery, London
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1953
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Young Contemporaries, London from which he was selected by Gimpel Fils to be included in the exhibition, Young Contemporaries
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| Literature |
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1998
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Paintings of the Nineties, Flowers East, London, catalogue, Dr David Alan Mellor
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1993
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The Sixties Art Scene in London, catalogue, Dr David Alan Mellor, (Phaidon Press), London
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1990
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Dealing with the Maelstrom of Reality, Waddington Galleries, London, catalogue introduction, Eric Shanes
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1973
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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
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1972
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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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