PHILO
COHEN
Philo Cohen is an artist, publisher, curator and archivist based in New York. Constantly shifting between image collection, drawing, photography, moving image and installation, Philo looks at themes of solitudes and the bodily. She visits and revisits concepts of home and belonging through both physical and digital realms.
Philo was born in Paris, France in 1998. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2020 with a BA in Photography and Comparative Literature. She is the founder and director of Speciwomen, a non-profit organization and independent press and archive dedicated to shifting representation in the arts.
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Education
2016-2020 BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Comparative Literature & Visual Studies
2017 Temple University Japan in Tokyo - Spring Semester 2018
Publications
This Long Century: An anthology of artist interventions, Speciwomen, Forthcoming Fall 2024 - Editor-in-chief.
Miss.Tic: À la vie à l’amor, Art dans la ville, poétique de la révolte (1985-2022), Speciwomen, 2024 - Publication Director.
Eléonore: Safe Travel, An exhibition curated by Philo Cohen at Justine Kurland Studio, Speciwomen, 2024 - Publication Director.
The Dictionary of Home, Matarile Ediciones, 2024.
Speciwomen, Volume 5, 2023 - Editor-at-large and Artistic Director.
The Dictionary of Movement, Dashwood Books, 2022.
Speciwomen, Volume 4: I Belong To This, 2022 - Editor-in-chief and Artistic Director.
Speciwomen, Volume 3: Fluidity, 2021 - Editor-in-chief and Artistic Director.
Speciwomen, Volume 2: Transnational Narratives, 2019 - Editor-in-chief and Artistic Director.
Speciwomen, Volume 1: First Interviews, 2018 - Editor-in-chief and Artistic Director.
Exhibitions
Eléonore: Safe Travel at Justine Kurland Studio, New York, May 2024.
Group exhibition at The Lumber Room, curated by Justine Kurland, 2023.
A Magazine Show at Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, 2021.
Daughters, a postcard edition at Daughter, New York, 2021.
Misty, print edition benefit for Shala Miller at MATTE HQ, Brooklyn, 2021.
Fluidity, a group show curated around the launch of Speciwomen, Volume 3: Fluidity at Speciwomen HQ, Paris, 2021.
Speciwomen in print, a group show regrouping all artists from Speciwomen, Volume 1: First Interviews at Chinatown Soup in New York, 2018.
Workshop & Seminars
Guest lecturer at ESMOD, Paris on fundraising practices in the arts, June 2024.
Guest artist and speaker, Mother/Daughter Double Bill at Film Coop, New York, May 2024.
In conversation with Kate Zambreno at 192 Books on Heroines, May 2024.
In conversation with Anaïs Ngbanzo on Julius Eastman's legacy, Beaux Arts de Paris, Chaires Troubles, alliances et esthétiques, October 2023.
In conversation with Amandine Nana on archives in the exhibition space, Salon D'Été, July 2023.
Moderator, Penny Slinger and Polly Borland at Lyles & King Gallery, New York, June 2023.
Guest lecturer, Marathon Reading of Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at The Whitney Museum, New York, 2022.
Speaker at Sciences Po Paris conference, Rethinking Vulnerability-ies in Art and International Relations, 2021.
Speaker at TEDxHewitt on Female Artists in the Future, 2016.
Writing Contributions
“Theater, Film and The Realm of Collaboration in Penny Slinger’s Practice” in Penny Slinger, A Muse Unto Herself, Hat & Beard, Forthcoming Fall 2024.
The Book Art Review
BOMB Magazine
Adolescent
Speciwomen
Press
For inquiries – philomenecohen@icloud.com