Sylvia Cohen

Based in Montreal, Canada. After graduating from Concordia University with a BFA in studio Art/Art Education, I studied Fashion Design and Illustration.
A career in Fashion design and Illustration has allowed me to satisfy my urge to sketch and create.

My work merges several worlds, with art and fashion colliding. As seen in the portraits and figures my paintings are a study in energy and colour.
I work mostly with Acrylic paint and watercolour.

As I start a painting, my mind is blank. Although my starting point is often a photograph, I have no preconceived idea of what it will look like.
I work with the feeling of the moment, I let my hands do the thinking until the material speaks to me.
This way what emerges is something totally honest and personal, with no interference from the judging conscious part of me.

Only after the main flow of the piece has been established, do I start to look at it and work on its formal aspect. The image seems to emerge by itself, smoothly.

I am always amazed at the outcome, as each work is a reproduction of some intricate part of my psyche.

Concordia University Montreal
LaSalle College Montreal

Montreal Raw Artists Signatures Show
April 21, 2016
Club Soda Montreal

MTL Exposed art exhibition.
May 24, 2016
Gallerie 203, Montreal

Festival des arts et lumières de Rosemère
June 2, 3, 4, 2016
Gallerie M, Rosemere

Art Au Féminin
Le centre culturel Marocain a Montreal
July 21 to August 21, 2016

Up Close
Solo Show
Galerie Meubles Reno
March 21 to April 15, 2017

Black & White
Group show
Union Box Design
240 Rue St Jacques Ouest, Montreal
November 23 to 29,2018

Art Palm Beach
Convention Center, Palm Beach, Florida
Jan 16 to 20th, 2019

Art Palm Springs
Palm Springs convention Center,
Feb 14 to 18th, 2019

Large works
Group Show,
Union Box Design, Montreal
March 8 to 15th, 2019

Small works
Group Show,
Union Box Design, Montreal
March 22 to 29th, 2019


Collective 2
Le HangArt St denis
April 4 to 13th, 2019

SHE
Solo Show
Galerie 203
203 Notre Dame O.
Old Montreal
October 10 to 25, 2019