Adam Cohen is a New York City born filmmaker and photographer. Working in a territory somewhere between film, painting, and photography; he takes the city as a place to explore themes of memory and forgetting, history and entropy.

Selected Solo Photography exhibitions

Gallery 59 Rue de Rivoli Paris—2010
B>Gallery Rome—2009
Galleries FNAC—Milan, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Turin—2009
Espace Photo St.Cyprien, Toulouse—2008
Alchemia Gallery, Krakow—2007
Gallery Vu Paris with Michael Ackerman—2005
Galapagos-Occularis, Brooklyn—2003

Film and print work has been aquired by various museums including:

Museum of Image and Sound—Sao Paulo, Brasil
La Caixa Foundation—Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona—Spain
Australian Centre for the Moving Image—Melbourne, Australia
Centre de Cultura Contemporania Barcelona
Houston Museum of Fine Arts

Selected Film Screenings

Gallery 59 Rue de Rivoli, Paris—2010
Espace Photo St.Cyprien, Toulouse—2008
Ronald Feldman Gallery, N.Y.—2003
Sundance Channel—[television] usa—2002
Public Broadcasting Service—[television] usa—2001
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art—2000
Brooklyn Museum of Art—2000
Brooklyn Academy of Music—2000
Cherbourg-Octeville Saison Photographique—2000
Rotterdam Film Festival—2000
New York Film Festival—2000
Argos Short Film Festival Vevey, Switzerland—2000
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art USA—1998
Pratt Institute—Program for Art on Film—97’
Museu d’Art Contemporania de Barcelona—1996
Pacific Film Archives, UCLA Berkley—1995
Oberhausen Short Film Festival Germany—1994
WDR Television Cologne, Germany—1994
British Short Film Festival, London—1994
American Film Institute National Video Festival—1994
Villa do Conde International Short Film Festival Portugal—1994
American Film Institute Film Festival—1994
Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona—1994
Whitney Museum Downtown, New York City—1993
Sao Paulo Museum of Image & Sound—1993
London Film Festival—1993
Dallas Video Festival/Dallas Museum of Art—1993
International Festival of Video & Electronic Art Montreal—1993
Dia Center for the Arts NYC—1992

Grants and Awards

Creative Capital Foundation 2008
L. Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2003
NYSCA Media Production Grant 2002
Creative Capital Foundation 2000
Argos-Vevey Short Film Festival 1st. Prize 2000
New York State Foundation for the Arts—Film 1997
NYFA—Video 1997
Jerome Foundation—film 1996
NYFA—Photography 1989

Adam's films Blind Grace and Fire of Time are available on DVD and VHS tape. To inquire about purchasing, contact him at adam@blindgrace.com.