Oreen Cohen
Board Director
Oreen Cohen grew up between the Rust Belt of the United States and Israel, currently living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture in 2014 from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with a minor in Art History at the University at Buffalo. She has been active over the past sixteen years participating in exhibitions, residencies and public commissions nationally and internationally. Most recently, she was invited to create site-specific works for projects like: “When Artists Enter the Factory” at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. FIGMENT Sculpture Project (Governors Island, NYC); Flint Public Art Project (Flint, MI); CerCCa Casamarles Residency in Catalonia, Spain as well as participated in the class of 2013 at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is co-owner a public art design company, OOA Designs LLC, which is currently working with the Pittsburgh Department of City Planning for a permanent public artwork to be installed in Wightman Park, Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh in April of 2020. Her interdisciplinary art practice spans the potentiality of material, body and space in sculpture, painting, drawing, public art, intervention and video performance.
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