Residencies & Awards

2022 New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS), Season I
2021 New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS), Season IV
2020 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Nominee
2019 MacDowell Fellowship
2012 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2010 School of Visual Arts Summer Residency Program

Selected Performances 

2022 MOUTHBRAIN, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2021 MOUTHBRAIN, JDJ, New York, NY
2020 Soup & Tart, curated by Sarah Cooper (Getty Museum), Los Angeles, CA (postponed)
2020 Approach Gesture Response, REDCAT/Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2019 SOMETHINNNGISALWAYSSSWRONGGG, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Relax Into The Invisible, LAXART w. Emily Mast, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Channels For Mystery, Mast on Fig, Los Angeles, CA 
2019 congrats & condolences, The VDL House, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Urgency of Quiet, Pieter Space, Los Angeles, CA
2018 People Performing Words, House of the Book, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Fault Lines w. Jules Gimbrone, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

2021 Solo Exhibition, JDJ, New York, NY
2016 A Person, A Thought, An Interruption w. Jules Gimbrone, City Limits, Oakland, CA
2015 Barnett Cohen & Kim Ye, Venice 6114, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Sad Last Days, A gallery, Seattle, WA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 International Waters, Brooklyn, NY (forthcoming)
2022 Cute Gloom, Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Principles of Existence, NARS, Brooklyn, NY 
2021 Utterances, NARS, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Family Business, JDJ, New York, NY
2020 How Are We, curated by Emily Mast & Vallejo Gantner, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece
2019 Home/Work, JDJ, Garrison, NY
2018 Activatar, Mobile Platform
2017 Amplify Compassion, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Sibling Rivalries, The Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
2015 Live Action, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 Surf Club, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Atomic Pictures, La Galerie SEE Studio, Paris, France
2014 Motion Tracking, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Shrink it, Pink it, Cathouse FUNeral, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Dons of Civilization, Beverly’s, New York, NY
2012 Small Prints, Flash Forward, Boston, MA
2011 Macabre & Mysticism, Red Roots Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Provocation, NY Photo Festival, powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Moment of Recognition, International Center of Photography, NY NY

Selected Readings & Conversations & Publishing

2022 Simone Forti & Barnett Cohen w. Megan Metcalf in Conversation, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2021 poems poems, Open Space, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA
2021 MOUTHBRAIN Reading,1329, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Poetry Reading with Simone Forti & Barbara T. Smith, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Nervous, Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Reading & Artist Talk with Simone Forti, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Conversation on Non-Citizen Artists, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Reading with Rod Roland & Cliff Engst, City Limits, Oakland, CA 

Selected Curatorial Projects

2018 An Afternoon of Performances at the House of the Book: Dan Levenson, Odeya Nini, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, Jmy James Kidd, House of the Book, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Everybody! Come Stand At The Altar: Anna Betbeze, Jesse Flemming, Luis Flores, Deana Lawson, Keaton Macon, K.r.m Mooney, Litia Perta, Barb Smith, Dorian Wood, PSSST, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Brand New Second Hand: Bridget Batch, Danny Escalante, Ali Kheradyar, Josh Petker, Arden Surdam, Sometimes, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Press

Simone Forti & Barnett Cohen with Megan Metcalf at The Box, LA Weekly, January 19, 2022
Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar, Arnet, December 15, 2021
Seven Standouts at NADA Miami 2021, Whitewall, December 5, 2021
How Artists Have Been Phone Banking for the Election, Artnet, November 3, 2020
Want to Help Artists Phone Bank for Tuesday’s Election? Here’s How, Hyperallergic, November 2, 2020
NADA Supports Dealers and Artists with Digital Fair, Barron’s, May 22, 2020
A Reimagining of a 1974 Performance of Art and Food, Hyperallergic, March 11, 2020
Hannah Spears & Asha Bukojemsky on SOMETHINNNGISALWAYSSSSWRONGGGG, Riting, Feb 28, 2020
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon Has Been Shaking Up Design for Seven Decades, Hyperallergic, August 7, 2019
Barnett Cohen Entrusts The Viewer To Interpret, Art of Choice, July 23, 2019
A Gallery That Feels Like a Friend’s Upstate Cabin, T Magazine, The New York Times, July 12, 2019
Samara Kaplan on congrats and condolences by Barnett Cohen, Riting, April 25, 2019 MacDowell Colony Awards Fellowships to Eighty-Six Artists, Artforum, Jan 22, 2019
MacDowell Colony Awards Fellowships to 86 Artists, Artnews, Jan 22, 2019
Performances About Learning, Set in a Fictional Classroom, Hyperallergic, January 22, 2018
Everybody! Come Stand on The Altar!, Artforum Critics Pick, June 24, 2016
The Agenda: This Week in Los Angeles, Art in America, January 13, 2016
Dan Levenson Interview, CARLA, September 2015
#studio#visit#withdevin#kenny, CARLA ISSUE I , March 2015
Barnett: Cohen: Artist of the Week, LVL3 Media, March 2015
Irena Jurek talks Honesty and Sex with Barnett Cohen, nyartsmagazine.com , January 2014
Scrapped, Volume 2, August 2013
Taking Up Residency, The School of Visual Arts Magazine, Fall 2011, Volume 19, Number 2

Education

California Institute of the Arts, M.F.A., Art
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
Vassar College, BA, English