0B0BEducation

1990-94

1992-93

1992

BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art 

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Scuola di Leonardo da Vinci, Florence, Italy

1B1BSolo Exhibitions

2010

2008

2007

2006

2003

2002

"Childs Play" Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

"Love Street" Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Sugar & Spice" Anne Kittrell Gallery , University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AK

"Sew Good" Byron Cohen Gallery Kansas City, MO

"The Wonder of You" Steven Wolf Fine Arts, Contemporary San Francisco, CA .

"...and Don't Forget to rescue the Princess!" Projects Gallery Philadelphia, PA

“Tangled Up In You” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Loose Threads” One by One, installation, Jersey City Art Museum ,Jersey City, NJ

“Bachelor Girl,” Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2B2BFeatured Exhibitions

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2003

2000

"She Will Always Be Younger Than Us" & "If Women Ruled The World" Judy Chicago in Thread. The Art Gallery Museum of Calgary, Canada.

Sur Le Fil - three traveling museum exhibitions, France
2009 Lille, Maison Folie Wazemmes
2010 Sète, Musée International des Arts Modestes
2010 Blois, Musée de l'Objet

"I Want Candy" traveling exhibition, October 3, 2009-January 3

The Nicolaysen Art Museum ("The Nic"), Caspar, Wyoming

 Historic City Hall Arts and Cultural Center, Lake Charles, Louisiana

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin

"Contemporary Still Life" The Art School Gallery, Old Church NJ
 

"I Want Candy" Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau Wisconsin

"I Want Candy" traveling exhibition.
Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, California

"Pretty Tough: Contemporary Story telling" Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT

"It's Not Us, It's You" San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA

"imMaterial" Black and White Gallery site specific installation NYC.

“When Women Rule the World: Judy Chicago in Thread.” 

The Textile Art Museum of Canada, held in parallel with a survey exhibition.

"She Will Always be Younger Than Us"

"Undomestic" Peppers Gallery, University of Redlands,California

"Pricked: Extreme Embroidery" Museum of Arts and Design, New York NY.

“I Want Candy” Hudson River Museum of Art curated by Bartholomew F. Bland New York

Elizebeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art”

Brooklyn Museum of Art digital feminist art archive project

“Strangers to Ourselves” curated by Julia Tratta Kimmel Center Gallery NY, NY

“Softly Threatening” Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA

“Pandora’s Wink,” Paul Rodgers Gallery, New York, NY

LFL Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

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2007

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1993

1991

1989

"Sew Me Up" Dialog Gallery curated by Susan Jamison, Roanoke, VA

"Adoration / Objectification" The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, NJ

"In Stitches" Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody. Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery New York, NY

"True Self" Jonathan Levine Gallery curated by "Gary Baseman, NY, NY

Over and Under Yard Dog Gallery curated by Jenny Hart, Austin, TX

"Rubber Sheets" C.R.E.A.M. Projects curated by Nick Knight, NY

"Playing Around" Brattleboro Museum of Art Center, VT

"Seeds of the Wild" Puffin Room (a project of the Puffin Foundation)NYC

"The Figure" Hillard Gallery ,KC

"Raised in Craftivity" Wignall Museum:Rancho Cucamonga,CA curated by Maria Buszek

"Narrative Thread" co curated at Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery NYC.

"The Heart is a Lonely Traveler" 31 Grand, NYC

"Raised in Craftivity"Greenlease Gallery Rockhurst University

curated by Maria Buszek, Kansas City ,MI

"Girl on Guy: the object of my desire" A+D Gallery at Columbia College

curated by Marci Rae McDade, Chicago, IL

"Home Grown" David Krut Projects curated by Rene Ricardo New York .NY.

"Fresh Art" Karin Sanders Fine Arts Sag Harbor NY.

”Woman’s Work : Homage to Feminist Art”

Table Rosa Gallery curated by Cindy Nemser New York

“Material Girls” Riverside Art Museum California

“Stuff It” Shore Institute of Contemporary Art NJ

“Between Us” Newark Art Council ,NJ

“Material Abuse” Caren Golden Gallery, New York, NY

“Selections and Celebrations”- Irvine Contemporary , Washington DC

“Animalia” Irvine Contemporary , Washington DC

“Flight Plan”-Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York NY

“Uneasy Marriage” - Motel Gallery Portland, Oregon

“On Tenterhooks” - Christopher Henry Gallery, New York NY

“Softly Threatening” Bumber Shoot Seattle Arts Festival .curated by Yoko Ott

“Not your Grandma’s Doily”, Contemporary Museum & Gallery, Portland OR

“Threads of Memory”, Dorsky Gallery, New York

“All About Women”, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago ,IL

“Hanging by a Thread “, The Moore Space, Miami, FL

“The “O” show”, The Institute of the Contemporary Arts(SICA)Long Branch NJ

“Human Footprint,” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Extra/ordinary,” The Cube at Beco, Kansas City, MO

“Several Artists Consider Books,” Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California

“The Love Show,” Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT

“Shelter from a Storm,” Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA

“Sideshow,” Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Paisagens,” Leo Bahia Contemporary Art, Santa Lucia, BRAZIL

“NYC,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY

White Box Annual Benefit, Diane von Furstenburg Studio, New York, NY

Summer Show, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“Innocence Found,” DFN Gallery, New York, NY

“Sexy Beasts,” Ethan Cohen Fine Art, New York, NY

“A Notion of Time,” Ingrao Gallery, New York, NY

“Gifting,” Rare Gallery, New York, NY

“Fear of Flying,” Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY

“OnLine,” Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

“Slightly Sinister,” Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY

“Unframed First Look,” curated by Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, and Sue

Williams, Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

“The Summer of Lust,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

“One Hundred Artists One Hundred T-Shirts,” Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NYC

“Man and Beast Kingdom,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“Redo China,” Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY

“The “Burbs”” DFN Gallery, New York, NY

“The New Figurists,” Red Dot Gallery, New York, NY

”Works on Paper, DFN Gallery, New York, NY

“Sugar and Spice,” Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL

 “Some Are Paintings,” John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY

“Winter Paper,” Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York, NY

The Cow Parade, “Technicolor Dreamcow,” New York, NY

DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

“Yesterday Was Dramatic, But Today Is OK!” Spazio Condolo, Milan, Italy

“Size Matters,” Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

“Small Works,” Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

“Illuminations,” Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY

“On/of Paper,” Chowan College, Green Hall Gallery, Murfreesboro, NC

“Woman: In the Broader Sense,” St. Louis, MO

“Honoring the Feminine,” Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

“From Coast to Coast,” Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Voices from the East,” Intermedia Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, MI

The Cooper Union Spring Exhibit, New York, NY

Maryland Art Place Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Columbia University Teacher’s College Gallery, New York, NY

4B4BGrants / Awards

2009

2008

2006

2005

2002

1992

SuperCraft: The New Insider Folk Art .Artist Talk, The School of Visual Arts NYC. Moderator: Noah Sudarsky of NYPress
Panelists: Orly Cogan artist and David McFadden curator,Museum of Art and Design.

Power-point presentation and lecture at The Textile Study Group of New York.

Power-point presentation and lecture at The Center for Architecture to The Art Quilt Network of New York.

"A Stitch in Time: New Embroidery, Old Fabric and Changing Values" at The Textile Society of America's conference. Slide presentation presented by Annin Barrett of The Contemporary Craft Museum . The discussion considers historic and current social values as evidenced by the embroidered art of Orly Cogan, Ghada Amer and Louise Bourgeois.

Alumni Association ,The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Real Art Today,artist talk,Makor (92nd street Y)

Art in General Studio Tour with Knight Landesman

Painting and Works on Paper Grant, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation

American Artist Society Merit Scholarship (MICA)

5B5BSelected Bibliography

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2001

1996-97

1994-96

1993

 Juxtapoz Books "Handmade" Edited by: Saelee Oh Published by Gingko Press

Fiber Arts Magazine, April/May issue page #64

Textiel Plus Magazine, May issue 212 interview and visuals written by Dorothé Swinkels

www.textielplus.nl, 

ART XX magazine Issue 2 pages 66 through 69 interview & visuals

New York Times ART REVIEW September 11, 2009.
STORIES WITH BITE At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. 
“Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling,” the new show at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,CT. By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO .

Art Book "Iconographic and Iconologic Art Practices with the Hoover.Feminist Artistic Subversions Of The Female Body An The Household". by Evelin Stermitz. "Monitor,ZSA": Resistance,Subversion,Madness.
Volume XI published by Annales, Slovenia.

"When Women Rule The World"/"She Will Always Be Younger Than Us"  Exhibition Catalog Textile Museum of Canada.

Artpress magazine, cover art and article, "Embroidery Goes Contemporary"

American Art Collector magazine,"Art at the Crossroads" Jan 09

Surface Design Journal, Volume 33 "Emerging Voices - Stitching Statements" by Jessica Hemmings. pages 21-25

"Studio Visit", Volume 3.page 39.

"Contemporary Textiles" Book : The Fabric of Fine Art by Nadine Monem.

(Blag Dog Publishing)

Artnews February review of "Pricked:Extreme Embroidery" at The Museum of Arts and Design by Barbara A. MacAdam

"Pricked :Extreme embroidery" Museum of Arts and Design catalogue.

Arkansas Traveler ,Life & Style section"Love,Sex and

Cupcakes"

Black Book Magazine "Raw" Top 50 featured artists

Extreme Craft Magazine, Nov 5th

Time Out New York, "Pricking the Conscience: The

Political, Radical and Shocking"

The Journal News "Candy Art Is Not For Children" by Georgette Gouveia

Time Out Chicago "Boy Crazy" by Ruth Lopez

New York Sun Times "Sweet Seductions in Various Forms" by John Goodrich.

Art In America , June/July issue ,review "Girls, Girls, Girls"- Feminist art's phases and

philosophies? Let's count the ways..." by Carey Lovelace

Journal News "Sweet Exhibitions" June 25th by Georgette Gouveia

Rockland Journal News "Let Them Eat Cake" June 27th

Surface Design magazine, Spring Issue.Review "New Embroidery: Not your grandmother's

doily" by Sara Marcus at The Contemporary Craft Museum Portland, Or.

The New York Sun Times ,March 22 Arts & Letters

"Woman's Work" Tabla Rosa Gallery by Jennifer Riley

Feminist Art Journal, Spring "Woman's Work: Homage to feminist art" by Cindy Nemser

The East Hampton Star "Sex and the spiritual" at Karin Sanders

by Jennifer Landes ,June 29th

Surface Design magazine “Threads of Memory” ,Nov

The Stranger “Softly Threatening” (visual arts), Seattle OR Aug 24

New York Times,” Stuffed & Packing a Punch” by Benjamin Genocchio Nov,17

Chicago Sun Times”Cogan images expand view of Fabric of Life” by Margaret Hawkins

June 23, 2006

The Reader”Dirty Linens”by Fred Camper June 23 2006

ARTnews, February, “Top 10 Trends in Contemporary Art” by Elisabeth Kley

Elle, Magazine, March

New Times ,Miami "Loose Threads" by Alfredo Triff

Art in America, December “,Hanging by a Thread “show by Paula Harper

ArtNews review by Margey Gordon December issue,”Hanging by a Thread”

Miami New Times, September,”Loose Threads”by Alfredo Triff

Sundari Foundation catolue, Margulies Family Foundation

Miami Times,09/22/05 Loose Threads

Interior Design , issue 10 September

Animal, October, New York

Art in America, December (Hanging by a Thread show)by Paula Harper

Review ,May & October issues (for Kansas City)

Sarah Douglas, Reviews, ARTnews, October

Eileen Kennedy, “Provincetown Passions,” Arts Media, Summer

“Orly Cogan: Bachelor Girl,” by Ruth Lopez, Fiber Arts Magazine, Summer issue

“Today’s Visionary Artists Interpret Time,” Review, W Magazine, February Lauren David Peden, Review of “Gifting” exhibition, Time Out New York, Nov2

Margaret Hawkins, Review of “Bachelor Girl,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 2

Carrie Sandler, “Short & Sweet,” interview with Orly Cogan, UR Chicago,January

“Girls, girls, girls,” Review, New City Chicago Weekly, December 11

Reviews, Chicago Reader, December 12, 2003

Bald Ego, Second Edition, New York, NY, Artwork Featured, p.87-100

“NEWS: New York”, Contemporary Magazine, No. 53/54 2003, p.16

“The Scope L.A. Festival Trains its Gaze on the Cutting Edge“, by Susan

Carpenter, The Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2003, p. E13

“Self Portrait: Orly Cogan.” Tema Celeste 97, May -June 2003 p.68-69

Review of ’Fear of Flying,” The New York Times, Long Island Edition, December

Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review; Some (Are) Painting.” The New York

Times, June 29, 2001, p. E35

Icarus, New York University Literary Journal, Cover Art

Maryland Institute College of Art Catalogue

Radio Station WBAI, Live Interview