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Lynne Cohen

Lynne Cohen
Lynne Cohen, winner, 2005 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (photo: Martin Lipman)

Artist Profiles and Success Stories

Lynne Cohen is one of the most important artists working today in photography. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London, the Ox-Bow Summer School of Painting in Michigan and the University of Michigan, and has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. from Eastern Michigan University. She has been in countless solo and group exhibitions around the world and is represented in 47 public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Australian National Gallery, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Canada Council Art Bank. Lynne Cohen has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Ryerson University, the École des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Ottawa (1974 to present).  Born in Racine, Wisconsin, she lived in Ottawa for many years, and now resides in Montreal.