Abstract painter and designer of textiles and furniture, born in London, elder brother of the painter Bernard Cohen. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1948–52, where he also taught, in the latter year winning an Abbey Travelling Scholarship which took him to Italy. He had his first solo show at Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 1951, followed by a series at Gimpel Fils, the first in 1954. While in America on a Harkness Commonwealth Fellowship, 1959–61, he had a show at Allan Stone Gallery in New York, about the time he was contributing to the Situation exhibitions. There was an important Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition in 1965. Cohen represented Great Britain in the Venice Biennale, Documenta 3, the Paris Biennale, the Carnegie International and many other important international shows in the 1960s.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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