James Cohan Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for James Cohan Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Byron Kim "New Work"
[6][1]- Media: Painting
- 2011-11-04 - 2011-12-22
Byron Kim presents his recent series of paintings of the night sky. His minimalist-inspired paintings approach abstraction from a conceptual idea that typically gets worked out over the course of an ongoing...More »
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Tabaimo "New Work"
[8][3]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-09-09 - 2011-10-29
Following her exhibition in the Japanese Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale this summer, Japanese video artist Tabaimo returns to James Cohan Gallery for her third solo show of recent installation works....More »
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"Catch the Moon in the Water: Emerging Chinese Artists" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2011-06-16 - 2011-07-29
Over the past decade, while the West anticipated and consumed new art from China, a young generation of Chinese artists began re-imagining New York as the center of today's contemporary art discourse....More »
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Simon Evans "Shitty Heaven"
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2011-05-12 - 2011-06-11
Evans meticulously assembles prosaic materials, such as scraps of paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings and correction fluid into diagrams, maps, flowcharts and diary entries that obsessively catalogue the...More »
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"Cabinets of Curiosity" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Other
- 2011-05-06 - 2011-06-01
James Cohan Gallery presents "Cabinets of Curiosity", featuring over 50 objects ranging from 6,000 B.C. to 2011 A.D. Collected together, these seemingly unrelated objects from around the world collapse...More »
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Folkert de Jong "Operation Harmony"
[3][0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-04-01 - 2011-05-07
James Cohan Gallery New York welcomes the return of Dutch sculptor Folkert de Jong for the artist’s third solo exhibition Operation Harmony. Following his solo exhibition last year at the Groninger Museum,...More »
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Hiraki Sawa "O"
[10][4]- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2011-02-17 - 2011-03-26
James Cohan Gallery presents second solo exhibition by Japanese-born, London-based artist Hiraki Sawa. The centrepiece of this exhibition is a video and sound installation entitled O (2009), originally...More »
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Peter Matthews, Katie Paterson, Karen Seapker "Continuum"
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Installation
- 2011-01-07 - 2011-02-05
James Cohan Gallery presents Continuum, an installation of three solo exhibitions by emerging artists Peter Matthews, Katie Paterson, and Karen Seapker. While formally distinct, these artists’ works share...More »
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Roxy Paine "Distillation"
[8][4]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-10-16 - 2010-12-11
James Cohan Gallery presents the artist’s new large-scale installation Distillation. A single continuous piece, the artwork begins at the gallery’s front door and pierces its walls to travel all the way...More »
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Ingrid Calame "Swing Shift"
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2010-09-10 - 2010-10-09
James Cohan Gallery presents the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition by California-based artist Ingrid Calame. This exhibition of new work entitled Swing Shift opens on September 10th and runs through October...More »
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"The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 2)" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-06-24 - 2010-08-13
"TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense of...More »
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Alison Elizabeth Taylor "Foreclosed"
[2][0]- Media: Other - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-05-07 - 2010-06-19
American artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor returns to James Cohan Gallery for her third solo gallery exhibition, Foreclosed. Taylor has become well-known for reinvigorating the Renaissance craft of marquetry,...More »
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Erick Swenson Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-04-01 - 2010-05-01
James Cohan Gallery presents a new exhibition by American artist Erick Swenson, opening April 1st and running through May 1st, 2010. This is the artist's third exhibition at the gallery. The centerpiece...More »
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Beatriz Milhazes "Gold Rose Series"
[1][0]- Media: Prints
- 2010-04-01 - 2010-05-01
In September of 2009, Beatriz Milhazes returned to Durham Press to create a series of seven prints, entitled the Gold Rose Series. This series is comprised of two singles, a diptych and a triptych and...More »
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Yun-Fei Ji "Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts"
[3][1]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2010-02-19 - 2010-03-27
James Cohan Gallery announces their second gallery exhibition by Chinese expatriate artist Yun-Fei Ji. The exhibition will include new works on paper as well as Ji's artist's book, Migrants from the Three...More »
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"Banners of Persuasion DEMONS, YARNS & TALES: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists" Exhibition
[2][1]- Media: Prints - Other
- 2010-01-08 - 2010-02-13
James Cohan Gallery presents the exhibition Demons, Yarns & Tales featuring hand-woven tapestries created by thirteen internationally renowned artists, including avaf, Peter Blake, Gary Hume, Jaime...More »
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Bill Viola Exhibition
[10][3]- Media: Video installation
- 2009-10-22 - 2009-12-19
American artist, Bill Viola will be returning to James Cohan Gallery with his fifth solo exhibition. Viola, who has been working with video since 1970, is well-known for creating immersive environments...More »
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Xu Zhen "New Work"
[2][1]- Media: Installation
- 2009-09-10 - 2009-10-10
A leading figure among the youngest generation of Chinese artists, Xu Zhen is a chameleon of concept; one who's art-making has crossed over various disciplines. His work often takes the form of theatrical...More »
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White Noise Exhibition
[9][4]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-06-18 - 2009-08-12
James Cohan Gallery announces White Noise, a group exhibition featuring works that exist at the intersection of visual art, music and sound by artists of different generations. In the exhibition, there...More »
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Roxy Paine "Dendroid Drawings and Maquettes"
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- 2009-05-01 - 2009-05-30
James Cohan Gallery presents ROXY PAINE: Dendroid Drawings and Maquettes. The exhibition will include a scale model of Maelstrom as well as drawing studies from the artist's well-known series of stainless...More »
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Nam June Paik "Live Feed: 1972 -1994"
[3][2]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Digital
- 2009-04-14 - 2009-05-30
James Cohan Gallery presents an exhibition of important works by the late pioneer of video art, Nam June Paik. The exhibition consists of a number of works dating from 1972 to 1994, among them are Paik's...More »
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"Congo/Women Portraits of War" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2009-03-16 - 2009-03-16
James Cohan Gallery hosts a one-night only gallery preview of CONGO/WOMEN Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo, an international photography exhibition and educational campaign that will...More »
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A Benefit for African Services Committee
[0][0]- Media: Art Party
- 2009-03-12 - 2009-03-12
James Cohan Gallery partners with African Services Committee to host a benefit cocktail party for their Pediatric HIV Program in Ethiopia. The event will take place at the gallery on Thursday, March 12th...More »
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Simon Evans "Island Time"
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Other - Installation
- 2009-02-20 - 2009-04-04
James Cohan Gallery introduces Simon Evans, a London-born artist, who currently lives and works in Berlin. Former pro-skateboarder and writer, Evans found his voice as a visual artist and has been exhibiting...More »
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"Shaping Space" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-01-16 - 2009-02-14
James Cohan Gallery announces the opening of a new group exhibition, Shaping Space. This selection of works examines how artists literally and conceptually shape the object and its environment. With nineteen-sixties...More »
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Trenton Doyle Hancock "Fear"
[2][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2008-11-20 - 2009-01-10
James Cohan Gallery presents the fourth gallery exhibition by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. Hancock is well known for evolving his absurdist narrative of the battle between good and evil executed across...More »
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Beatriz Milhazes Exhibition
[2][1]- Media: Painting - Prints - Installation
- 2008-10-10 - 2008-11-15
As one of the most celebrated Brazilian artists working today, Milhazes' exuberantly-colored and rhythmically-constructed abstract paintings, collages, prints and architectural installations are well-known...More »
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Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong and Martha Colburn Exhibition
[4][5]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Film
- 2008-09-06 - 2008-10-04
James Cohan Gallery opens their fall season with three separate exhibitions. Chinese conceptualist Xu Zhen will transform the front gallery into a replica of a Shanghai convenience store, as he did previously...More »
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Bill Owens Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-06-26 - 2008-08-01
James Cohan Gallery presents an exhibition by California-based artist, Bill Owens. This is the artist's second solo show at the gallery. Owens' work has gathered a cult following since the 1960s by exploring...More »
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Roxy Paine 'Scumak"
[1][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2008-06-26 - 2008-08-01
Roxy Paine and James Cohan Gallery announce a special exhibition of Paine's Scumak sculptures to benefit Human Rights First. This is the third collaboration between James Cohan Gallery and Human Rights...More »
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"Made in China" Panel Discussion
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-06-19 - 2008-06-19
James Cohan Gallery partners with Human Rights First to present a panel discussion for the Made in China campaign. This event is free and open to the public. A cocktail reception and viewing of the current...More »
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Alison Elizabeth Taylor Exhibition
[2][2]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2008-05-22 - 2008-06-21
James Cohan Gallery announces an exhibition of new works by Alison Elizabeth Taylor, whose marquetry, or wood-inlay, figurative works reveal the hidden histories of everyday lives. In her use of wood veneer,...More »
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Yinka Shonibare, MBE "Prospero's Monsters"
[3][1]- Media: Photography - Sculpture
- 2008-04-17 - 2008-05-17
James Cohan Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by Yinka Shonibare, MBE. Shonibare's three-part installation of sculpture and photography revisits the collision between irrational mysticism and...More »
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Tabaimo Exhibition
[0][1]- Media: Illustration - Video installation
- 2008-03-14 - 2008-04-12
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Japanese artist, Tabaimo, opening March 14 and running through April 12, 2008. This second gallery exhibition follows the artist's highly...More »



