About The Artist
Sausalito Artist Claudia Cohen has been creating since early years.
After studies at the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, in Washington, DC she obtained her Bachelor’s of art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in conjunction with Tufts University.
At the time and for many years her focus was in sculpture. Now it’s figurative and narrative painting, with the help of studies with COM’s acclaimed teacher, Chester Arnold.
Her creations are multilayered and reflect her life and inspirations. Renaissance portraiture also underpins her work. Claudia takes her audience on a narrative journey filled with interpretative reflections and fantasies.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and internationally. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the George Sugarman Foundation, and several Marin Arts Council Grants. Her painting “Nevermore” was part of the 2024 DeYoung Museum Open.
Like Beauty, truth lies in the eye of the beholder – and in the mind of the artist. The bronze and ceramic creations of sculptor and painter, Claudia Cohen are not realistic in any strict sense of the term, but they are precise renditions of her imagination; engaging articulations of the ruminations of her subconscious. With her dazzling style of meticulous detail and feeling for form, the work brings to life a magical cast of characters – human, animal, and are a fantastical progeny from a different and inviting universe.
In the book Humor in Art, Nickolas Roulks described the work as Comic Surrealism which aptly sums up the artist’s feel for humor and pathos. Magic Realism is another term often used to characterize her narrative creations. There are few artists today who inhabit such an intriguing unified private world and have such an immediate gift in of inviting everyone else into it…
ICB Artist Claudia Cohen has been creating since early years.
After studies at the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, Washington, DC she obtained her bachelors of art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in conjunction with Tufts University. At the time and for many years her focus was in sculpture. Now it’s figurative and narrative painting, with the help of studies with COM’s reverend teacher Chester Arnold.
Her creations are multilayered and reflect her life and inspirations. Renaissance portraiture also underpins her work. Claudia takes her audience on a narrative journey filled with interpretative reflections and fantasies.
Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the US and internationally. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the George Sugarman Foundation, and several Marin Arts Council Grants.
In 2023, her painting Nevermore was part of the De Young Open.
Selected Resume
2024 Dualities Exhibition O’Hanlon Center Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2020 Spotlight Sausalito, featured artist, Sausalito Center for the Arts
2023 the 2023 DeYong Open
2020 Solo Show, The Secret Language of Dreams, The Galley at 48 Natoma, Folsom, CA
2022 Spotlight Sausalito Exhibition Sausalito center for the Arts
2019 Bay Area Women Artists, O’Hanlon Center
2012 Solo SF ?
2011 The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky gallery SF,CA
2008 Invited Artist, ‘IL GRAN TEATRO CERAMICO’ “the grand ceramics theater”
at Museo IntIernazionale delle Arti applicate Oggi, Turin – ITALY 2009
2007 George Sugarman Foundation, National Award
2008 Solo, George Natsoulas, Davis
2009. invited Artist, International Ceramic Exhibition and Conference, Faenza, Italy
2008 Grant Recipient, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
2005 Sculpture Award, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ
2005 Sculpture Award, Palo Alto Festival of the Arts, Palo Alto, CA
Past Galleries Walton Gilbert Gallery ,SF, The Grand Waialua Gallery, Maui, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA,
The Pence Gallery, Davis CA, Hanson’s Gallery, Carmel, CA, Imagine gallery, Santa Fe ,Electra, Sausalito, InterArt Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY, The Garden Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA, Denise Roberge Gallery Palm Desert
Oil Paint, Sculpture
Contact Information
415 302 8577
Exhibitions & Press
Last year the art of Claudia Cohen was featured in ” Spotlight Sausalito” at the Sausalito Center for the Arts.
750 Bridgeway, Sausalito
Recently her oil painting Nevermore was part of the 2023 DeYoung Open.
Currently the Fabulous Butterfly Twins, oil is part to the 2024 Dualities Exhibition at the O’Hanlon Gallery, Mill Valley
2023 Exhibited as part of the DeYoung Open
2008 Invited Artist, “the grand ceramics theater” or ‘IL GRAN TEATRO CERAMICO’ at MIAAO –
Museo Internazionale delle Arti applicate Oggi, Turin – ITALY
2005 George Sugarman Foundation, National Award
2005 Invited artist, Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2004 First Prize in Sculpture. Scottsdale Center for the Arts . AZ
2003 Grant Recipient, Marin Arts Council, San Rafael, CA
2001 Sculpture Award, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ
2001 Sculpture Award, Palo Alto Festival of the Arts, Palo Alto, CA
1998 Invited Artist, International Ceramic Exhibition and Conference, Faenza, Italy
Humor in Art, a Celebration of Visual Wit, by Nicholas Roukes
