Liz Cohen was born on 1973 and is an American artist, known as a performance artist, photographer, educator, and automotive designer.
12 Facts About Liz Cohen
1.
2.
Liz Cohen currently teaches at Arizona State University, and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
3.
Liz Cohen graduated with a dual major in 1996 with a BFA degree in studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA degree in philosophy from Tufts University.
4.
At the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Liz Cohen studied with photographer Bill Burke.
5.
Liz Cohen eventually formed relationships with her subjects and started dressing up and performing, blurring the relationship between documentation and performance.
6.
Liz Cohen received an MFA in photography from California College of the Arts in 2000.
7.
In 2004, Liz Cohen moved to Phoenix, Arizona to be closer to her mother and to focus her efforts on learning about cars and car culture at Elwood Body Works, studying under mechanic Bill Cherry.
8.
In 2011, Liz Cohen appeared as a guest judge on the Bravo television show 'Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.
9.
Liz Cohen's work was included in the group exhibition Xican-a.
10.
Between 2008 until 2017, Liz Cohen was the Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Photography Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
11.
Liz Cohen is most notable for her Bodywork art project and the work Trabantamino transforming an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino using gears and hydraulics.
12.
Liz Cohen had mentioned wanting to feel less like a performer and more like an "insider" of the masculine car subculture, and the female modeling aspect of the car photos were part of her membership.