Mexico, 1956.
Laura Cohen studied photography at RISD and since 1980, has been dedicated to art photography. She has had collective and individual exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, which include: The II Mexican Colloquium of Photography in 1981, 17 Artists of Today in Museo Tamayo in 1985, The Woman in Mexico presented in New York in 1990, A Shadow Born of Earth, exhibited in several American cities in 1993, Material World in 1998 in Austin, Texas, and two exhibitions in Holland at the Noorderlicht Photofestival in 1999 and 2001. Some of her solo shows are: PhotoEspaña in 1999, the OMR Gallery in Mexico City in 1987, 1992 and 1997, and a retrospective exhibition called The Sense of Order at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City in 2005.
Cohen maintains a strong and highly respected career in Mexican photography. Working exclusively in black and white, she carries out conceptual exercises in each of her photos, abstracting everything that disturbs her, and through abstraction, encountering communicative metaphors for what she lives and feels.
Collections · Her photographs are part of both private and public collections including: Jumex Collection; Televisa Foundation; Mexican Council of Photography, Mexico City; Sprint Corporation; Wellesley University; Lehigh University; Bundeskultur, Germany; Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Collection; University Museum of Chopo; UNAM, Mexico; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Wellsley University Museum of Art, Massachusetts; Photographic archive of Pachuca, Mexico; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, A.C. Mexico; Banker's Trust, Mexico, as well as in different private collections.
Awards · Medal for photographic merit of the 19th National Encounter of Photographic Libraries.
