Genevieve Cohn

About the artist:

Genevieve Cohn grew up in rural Vermont and earned her MFA in Painting from Indiana University. Her paintings draw from a past, present and future that is both historical and imaginative to depict communities of women. Cohn’s compositions use imagery and ideologies drawn from the Women’s Land Army of World War I and II (a civilian organization of women working in agriculture to replace men called up to the military), as well as female separatist communities, fairy tales, and literary fiction. Cohn’s work acknowledges a world—neither past nor future, but somehow both—where female power is derived from collaboration, self-endowed agency, and connection with the natural world.

Cohn has participated in residencies at the Fiore Art Center, The Vermont Studio Center, The Ragdale Foundation, and AiRGentum. She is a winning recipient of the Hopper Prize. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Create Magazine, and Art Maze Magazine. Cohn has exhibited work in New York City, Boston, Chicago, and London, among others. She is currently living and working in Boston, MA; she teaches at Wellesley College.

Artwork in exhibition:

Genevieve Cohn, Sowing Shadows, 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 in., Courtesy of the artist and Hashimoto Contemporary