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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Micci Cohan, a painter and graphic artist was born and raised in New-Rochelle, New York. She was selected to study printmaking at the N.Y. State Summer school of Visual Arts in Buffalo, N.Y. during high school where she received an Award of Merit. She moved to New York City's Lower East Side in 1984 to study painting and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and there studied under many influential artists such as the painter Sean Scully. During her school years she worked as an assistant for several professional painters among them, Miriam Schapiro, one of the founders of the, “Pattern and Decoration Movement”.

She has exhibited her paintings in Chicago, Richmond and several New York City galleries along with creating CD covers and curating art shows. She also has created posters for the prestigious Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater and her work has been auctioned off alongside such famous American and European Artists as Calder, Haring and Miro. Her work is in several private collections in the United States.

Cohan has made the Lower East Side her home base and frequently travels to those places which creatively inspire her most, particularly, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, and Mexico.

Micci Cohan Contemporary Art Online Gallery
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Micci Cohan Fine Art Gallery
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