Bernard Cohen (painter)

Bernard Cohen ( born July 28, 1933, London ) is a British painter and printmaker. He is the younger brother of the painter and computer scientist Harold Cohen.

Life and work

Bernard Cohen first studied at St Martin's School of Art and then from 1951-54 art at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1954 he won a scholarship from the French government and spent a year in Paris, where he from under the artistic influence Jean Dubuffet stood.

His early works were heavily influenced by American Abstract Expressionism, particularly Jackson Pollock.

From 1959 he taught at the Ealing School of Art, 1966-1968 at the Chelsea School of Art, from 1967 to 1973 and from 1977 at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1975 to 1977 at the Royal College of Art in 1980 he became head of painting at the Wimbledon School of Art, where he remained until 1987. In 1988 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art and Chair of Fine Arts at the University of London. 1969/1970 he was Visiting Professor of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Cohen lives in London.

He has had solo exhibitions in 1960 at the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA ) and 1961 in the New Marlborough Gallery in London. His work gained international attention in the 1960s, and he was invited to take part in the documenta III in Kassel in 1964.

Retrospectives found in 1972 at the Hayward Gallery, London, and in 1995 at the Tate Gallery, London, instead. Ten of his works are part of the collection of the Tate Gallery.