Brian D. Cohen is a printmaker, painter, educator, and writer. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with high honors from Haverford College and completed his MFA in Painting at the University of Washington. In 1989 he founded Bridge Press to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure.
As a printmaker, Cohen has shown in over forty individual exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Fresno Art Museum, and has participated in over 200 group shows. Cohen’s books and etchings are held by major private and public collections throughout the country, including Yale, Harvard, Brown, and Stanford Universities, Middlebury, Smith, Wellesley, Swarthmore, and Dartmouth Colleges, the University of Vermont, The New York Public Library, The Library of Congress, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Philadelphia and Portland (Oregon) Museums of Art, as well as the United States Ambassador’s residence in Egypt. Cohen was a winner of major international print competitions in San Diego, Philadelphia, Mexico City, and Washington, DC., was awarded the Best Book in Show at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair. He has received grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation.
Cohen was an art teacher at The Putney School from 1985 until 2011, where he was Dean of Faculty and founding director of The Putney School Summer Programs. In 2001 he helped found Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, Vermont as its artistic director. Cohen’s teaching experience has also included classes and workshops at schools and studios throughout New England.
Cohen is the illustrator of two popular natural science books, Reading the Forested Landscape and The Granite Landscape, and has contributed artwork to literary reviews and other publications, including the Paris Review. His writing on prints, books, and arts education have appeared in the Huffington Post, Art in Print, Parenthesis, and other print and online journals and magazines.
