Harold Cohen 1928-2016

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

2024  Refactoring (1966-74), Gazelli Art House, London, UK

2024 Harold Cohen: AARON, The Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY, USA

2022 The AARON Retrospective, Gazelli Art House, London, UK

2019 AARON, DAM Berlin, Germany

2011/12 Collaborations with My Other Self, UC San Diego, CA, USA

2011 New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

2009 Digital Prints, Art Gallery of the Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

2008 Colour Rules, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

2007 Harold Cohen/AARON, Large-scale Digital Works by Harold Cohen, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, USA

2007 AARON’s Garden, New Digital Works by Harold Cohen, Pacific Beach Public Library, San Diego, CA, USA

2007 AARON’s World, New Digital Works by Harold Cohen, Gallery Antonio Prates, Lisbon, Portugal

2004 Untouched by Hand, New Digital Prints by Harold Cohen, Pacific Beach Public Library, CA, USA

2001 AARON’s Creativity, Invited talk, Sendai, Japan

1999 South-Western College Gallery, Chula Vista

1995 The Computer Museum, Boston, MA, USA

1984 Buhl Science Center, Pittsburgh, KS, USA

1983 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

1983 The Tate Gallery, London, UK

1983 National Museum of Wales, UK 

1983 The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA

1982 deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA

1979 Drawing, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA

1979/78 An Artist’s Use of the Computer, Arts Council of Great Britain Exhibition Tour, UK

1977 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1976 Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

1976 Retrospective Exhibition, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

1974 New Drawings, The Art Gallery, Sacramento State University, CA, USA

1974 Drawings by Hand / Drawings by Machine, The Art Department Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

1973 Machine Generated Images, La Jolla Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diago, CA, USA 

1972 The Art Gallery, San Diego State College, San Diago, CA, USA 

1972 Three Behaviors for the Partitioning of Space, Los Angeles County Museum, CA, USA

1968 Curwen Gallery, London, UK

1968 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

1968 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

1968 Tapestries and textiles designed by Harold Cohen, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (with tour of British Museums), UK

1968 Art Studio Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark

1968 Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK

1967 The Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1967 Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1967 Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

1964 Retrospective, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

1963 Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1963 Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK

1962 Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK

1961 Alan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1959 Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK

1958 Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK

1956 Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK

1956 Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK

1954 Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK

1950 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2024 Patric Prince: Digital Art Visionary, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 

2023 GEN/GEN: Generative Generations, Gazelli Art House, London, UK

2021 Code of Arms, Gazelli Art House, London, UK

2009/10 Digital Pioneers, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

2007 Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London , UK

2006 20th Century Computer Art: Beginnings and Developments, The Work and Thought of Pioneers and Contemporary Practitioners of Algorithmic Art, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2006 Prints Now, Victoria Albert Museum, London , UK

2004 ARTWARE3 International, Lima, Peru

2002 A Good Impression: A Century of Print-making in San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, CA, USA

1997 Faculty Exhibition, UC San Diego, CA, USA

1989 Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, MA, USA

1989 Center for Science and Industry, Columbus, OH, USA

1989 Alternate Applications: Computer Technology in the Arts, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. UCSC

1989 Meet the Al, HARP Exhibition, Tokyo

1988 California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1988 Science Museum of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA

1988 Digital Visions, The IBM Gallery of Art and Science, New York, NY, USA

1987 Smart Machines, Boston Computer Museum, MA, USA

1987 Computers and Art, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, NY, USA

1987 Robots and Beyond: The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Boston Museum of Science, MA, USA

1987 The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1986 Taking Liberty, Exhibition of Images of the Statue of Liberty, New York State Museum, New York, NY, USA

1985 TSUKUBA-EXPO 85, US Pavilion, World Fair: represented the US with “AARON,” Tsukuba, Japan

1984 The Machine as a Young Artist, Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Canada

1981/83 Mapped Art, 1981-83, University of Colorado Art Gallery

1981 Arkansas Arts Center, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH,  USA

1980 Black and White American Drawing, 1970-80, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA

1980 Images of Ourselves, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1980 The Kelpra Studio: Artists’ Prints 1961-80, Tate Gallery. London, UK

1980 Master Weavers - Tapestry from the Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh Festival, UK

1980 Landscape: The Printmaker’s View, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1977 Artists at Curwen, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1977 Drawing Invitational Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA,  USA

1977 Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany

1972 Prints by Harold Cohen and Bernard Cohen, Marlborough Gallery, London, UK

1970 Recent Prints by Some British Painters and Sculptors, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1970 2nd British International Print Biennale, Bradford City Art Gallery, UK

1970 Prints from the KELPRA Studio, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

1969 Superlimited, Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

1968 Four Artists from Southern California, Reese Paley Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1968 Northern Ireland International, Belfast, Ireland

1967 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PN, USA

1967 Young British Painters, Brussels, Belgium

1967 The Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1966 Four Englishmen, Milan, Italy

1966 Two Decorative Works by Henri Matisse and Harold Cohen, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1966 33rd Venice Biennale, Italy

1965 IVth Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France

1965 London, the New Scene, Minneapolis; Washington; Boston; Seattle; Vancouver

1964 Profile III - Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Bochum, Germany

1964 Documenta III, Kassel, Germany

1964 Britische Malerie der Gegenwart, Dusseldort, Germany

1964 A Decade of Painting and Sculpture, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1963/64 Dunne International, London and Canada, touring exhibition

1963/64 British Painting, Australia and Japan, touing exhibition

1963 Premio de Lissone, Milan, Italy

1963 Milan Triennale, Milan, Italy

1963 British Painting in the Sixties, London, UK

1963 Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan

1961 New London Situations, London, UK

1961 Deuxieme Biennale de Paris, Paris, France

1961 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PN,  USA

1960 Abstract Impressionism, London, UK

 

Collections

 

Tate Gallery, London

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Arts Council of Great Britain

The British Council

The Gulbenkian Foundation

The Contemporary Art Society, London

Leicestershire Education Committee

University of London

University of Nottingham

University of Warwick

The Art Gallery of Toronto

The Peter Stuyvesant Foundation

The British Petroleum Company

Jews College, London

The National Gallery of Western Australia

The National Gallery of Northern Ireland

The National Museum of Wales

The Bristol Art Gallery

The Los Angeles County Museum

The City of Birmingham Art Museum

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

The City of Sheffield Art Museum

The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

The Digital Equipment Corporation

Muir College, UC San Diego

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Brooklyn Museum

Scottish Life Insurance Company

Glasgow City Art Gallery

The Arnolfini Trust, Bristol

Yale Center for British Art

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

 

Education

 

1951 Diploma in Fine Arts, University of London, UK

Abbey (Rome) Scholarship, Italy

1952/54 Lecturer in Art History, Camberwell School of Art, London, UK

1956/59 Fellow in Fine Art, University of Nottingham, UK

1959/61 Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund, New York, USA

1961/65 Lecturer in Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

1969/71 Professor and Chairman, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego, USA

1971/94 Professor, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego, USA

1973/75 Visiting Scholar, Computer Science Department, (Artificial Intelligence Lab) Stanford University, USA

1984 Artist in Residence, Ontario Science Center, Canada

1992/1998 Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, UC San Diego, USA

1992/1998 Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at University of California, San Diego,  USA

 

Awards/Nominations

 

2014 Receiver of the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement