Zen Cohen
Zen Cohen is an intermedia artist whose practice engages video as a performative and sculptural medium across installation, object-making, and print media. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Davis and BFA in Film, Video and Performance from the California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including the de Young Museum, SFMOMA, The Philosophical Research Society, and Vanity Projects, and internationally at Museo de Arte Moderno and Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands, Spain. Her photographic work has been published in Hyperallergic, Art Practical, Artnet, Routledge, and Southern Illinois University Press. She is the founding director and curator of Open Air Media Festival, an outdoor media art program supported in 2024 by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. Zen presented an audio visual performance piece, Trangress in collaboration with artists [Zoey Vero](/artists/zoey-vero) and Colton Long at our [ART+TECH Festival](/orgs/codame/events/codame-art-tech-festival-2013) "MOVEMENT" .