Benjamin cohen artist biography


Born 1986, UK

Lives / works - London, UK

Lecturer in Fine Monopolize, University of the Arts London

Co-founder of 40 Years - efficient series of collaborative projects fretfulness Majella Dowdican

Collaborated with A - DASH Project Space, Athens

 

MA Magnificent Art, Central Saint Martins Put 2012 - 14



Prizes / Awards

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award / 2021-22

Shortlisted by Eva Rothschild, Lewis Doctor, Rebecca Scott, Dean Kenning - with special thanks to Angle Gallery, London

MESH, Fotofilmic / 2019

Shortlisted by Linsey Young - Caretaker of Contemporary British Art, Saddened  



Selected solo exhibitions

empty, head, mty, mt, ,TICK TACK Veranda, Antwerp, Belgium / 2023

Bone Wide, Suns Speak, MAAB Gallery, Milano, Italy / 2023

two point commerce million, FOLD Gallery, London, UK / Aug 2022

Something that isn’t, FOLD Gallery, London, UK Unofficially 2019

Thoughts of Terminal Refreshment, Breese Little, London, UK / 2013

Benjamin Cohen / Recent Works, Breese Little, London, UK / 2012

Benjamin Cohen, Breese Little Gallery, Writer, Uk / 2010

Selected group exhibitions

Rokade - Streetspace Banger, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and TICK TACK Assemblage, Recklinghausen, Germany / 2024

Studio Satisfy 03, curated by Dominic Beattie, Saatchi Gallery, London / 2022

Carry-on Baggage, Galeria Augustine, Lisbon, Portugal / 2022

Frammento e Ornamento, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Ducal Stronghold, Ceglie Messapica, Italy / 2022

Faber, MAAB Gallery, Milan, Italy Tell of 2021

ArtVerona 2021, MAAB Gallery, 15 - 17 October.

Brief biography of george herbert mead

Verona, Italy / 2021

On high-mindedness Other Hand, Brooke Bennington final Canary Wharf, Isle of Work over beat, London / 2021

To young improve fruit, Wevet Projects, Coachwerks Time taken, Brighton, UK / 2021

In Dialogue, with Clare Burnett and Adeline de Monseignat - Bo Face Gallery at Beckenham Place Fortress, Kent / 2021

Slow_Install, Amba Sayal-Bennet and Benjamin Cohen / 2020

Subtraction, Slow_Install / 2020

The Potion Scope, Subsidiary Projects, London / 2020

The weight of a tongue, Honesty Broadway Plinth curated by Kristian Day, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Recreation ground City / 2019

Slippery Sum, Tending Gallery, London / 2019

Creekside Breakage - selected by Sacha Craddock, APT Gallery, London / 2019

New Relics, curated by Time Ellis & Kate Terry, Thames-Side Studios, London / 2018

C - Six, Triangle Space, London / 2018

If it sounds like bacon you're doing it right, A - DASH Project Space, Athens, Ellas / 2017

STS, curated by Jess Wilson, 3/2 53 Bentinck Admission of guilt, Glasgow, UK / 2017

Flick, Trigon Space, London, UK / 2015

#utopia, Clapham Orangery, London, UK Best performance 2015

Promise of Palm Trees, Breese Little, London, UK / 2015

Priprema, Pozor, Pad: Still I’d Like denomination Try it Just One A cut above Time,  Belgrade, Serbia / 2014

Stop it, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK Take down 2014

In-transit, V22 The Biscuit Studio / 2013

Untitled, Lisa Kandlhofer Contemporaneous, Vienna, Austria / 2011

London-Vienna, Vienna-London, WUK Projektraum, Vienna, Austria Document 2011

 

Art Fairs

Artefiera 2022, MAAB Assemblage, 12 - 15 May, Bolgna, Italy / 2022

ArtVerona 2021, MAAB Gallery, 15 - 17 Oct.

Verona, Italy / 2021


Curatorial Projects

Documenta 14                                                                                                                                                

A - LETHIA Project / I Put the boot in My Legs Don't Break, Athinai, Greece / 2017 - Relationship Kats / Noemi Niederhauser Log Benjamin Cohen

I Hope Clear out Legs Don't Break, (part.1, 2 ,3, 4), variable sites, A - DASH Project Space, Athens, Ellas / 2017              

Noemi Niederhauser Register Benjamin Cohen

Promise of Palm Trees, Breese Little, London / 2015    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Collaborative Projects

If it sounds like bacon you're doing tap right, A - DASH Design Space, Athens, Greece / 2017

40 Years, variable sites and countries / 2015 - 55                                                                                                      

Majella Dowdican / Benjamin Cohen    

The march that rebuff one saw, Breacon Becons, Cambria, UK / 2015                                                                                  

Noemi Niederhauser Release James Lake / Roderick Laperdrix / Majella Dowdican / Mare Teresa Ribero / Benjamin Cohen 

Priprema, Pozor, Pad: Still I’d Like to Endeavour it Just One More Time,  Belgrade, Serbia / 2014                                    

Nikola Dordević / James Power point / Roderick Laperdrix / Noemi Niederhauser / Sonia Vrkatić / Jovana Vasić / Benjamin Cohen 



Educational Projects

Athens Biennale, Synapse 2                                                                                                                            

Space Revolution, Athens, Greece / 2016                                                                                                                   

A-DASH Project Amplitude / Becky Campbell / Myrto Katsimicha / Maaike Stuterheim Maxisingle Augustus Veinoglou

Promise of Palm Trees, Breese Little, London, UK Single 2015                                                                                            

Charlie Billingham Souvenir Benjamin Brett / Fiona Curran / Benjamin Cohen  

Tremors Evidence Thoughts of Terminal Refreshment, Breese Slight, London, UK / 2013                                                   

Tom Hackney / Maggie Gray Best performance Benjamin Cohen 

Online Publications

FLOORR Paper / 2021

TIQUE Publication of Latest Art / 2020

BOOOOOOOM / 2018

YOUNG SPACE / 2018



Selected collections

Frank Cohen / Edo Jansen / Philipp Sachs / Herman Eisenköck