Image Credit: Ron Amato

b. 1949 Lancaster, PA
Lives and works in NY, NY and Provincetown, MA

Barbara E. Cohen received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with earlier studies in art history at Oxford University.  

Cohen is a multi-media artist whose artistic work spans five decades. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums across the country.

Cohen has been the recipient of numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Artists Foundation Mass Fellowship Program Grant, Polaroid Artist Support Program Grant, Blanche E. Colman Award and Cambridge and Massachusetts Arts Council Grants.

Residencies include the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy (2011, 2013),The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Virginia (Date), Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos Island, Greece (2023) and Cycladic Arts Residency, Paros Island, Greece (2024).

Published Books by Barbara Cohen include Woman's Best Friend, A Celebration of Dogs and their Women, (1989), Cats and their Women (1992), Horses and their Women (1993), Little Brown and Company, Dog in the Dunes,(1998) Andrews McMeel, Provincetown East West, (2002) University Press of New England, Dog in the Dunes Revisited, (2005), New York Love Affair, (2010), Fields Publishing, Our Provincetown, Provincetown Arts Press, (2021) and DOG TIME, Jane O’Hara Projects, (2025).