Maria Cohen

The main objective of my research is to speculate about sexuality through process, as a permanent process of producing art to express sexual energy as pain, anger or anxiety. Feminism informs my identity as a woman the politics of this allows me to be free to explore sexuality in my practice which is in itself the function of legacy. I do not usually think about the result it is more about addiction or obsession to overcome through embarrassment or defeating fears in itself. Process through time is an erotic accumulation in something more structured and logical through continuous proceedings of art. Sexuality is a powerful energy which impacts on a total of aspects of life such as the political, the personal and identical.
I am a multidisciplinary artist, working primarily in graphics and animation, painting, video and sound. This methodology aims to capture the importance, sensuality, vulnerability and uniqueness of my reality. My art practice is a never-ending experiment; it is a personal diary with multitude of erasures, blots, strikes and amendments. My visual language is poetry and reporting, furtive gesture, sexual catharsis and both an affirmation and a negation of the self. As full of ambiguity as life itself, I am using t...

2020-2021 Camberwell College of Arts, London, MA Painting
2019-2020 ICA Moscow
2010-2016
V. Surikov State Academy Art Institute, Moscow, Russia Master of Fine Art
2004- 2009
College of Performing Arts, Moscow, Russia Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons)

2021
Copeland Gallery London
“Unmuted”
MAFA Interim Group Show London
2020
The 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art
2020
Baseless, Winzavod, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art
2020
Online exhibition “#ямогуговорить”
2020
Sokol Residence
Solo exhibition “The Event”
2019
MOMMA
Dismorphophobia, or the war within your mind
2019
WINZAVOD, Moscow Center for Contemporary Art
The exhibition of “Communities and Spaces”
2019
Residence Chekhov IPI
2018
International Residence Kyrgyzstan
2017
The exhibition in the World Festival of Youth and Students; Sochi, Russia 2016
“The Youth of Russia”, All-Russian Bienale for Young Art;
Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
2016
The Art Show, The Russian Academy of Arts; Moscow, Russia
2016
The exhibition “The Russian Academy of Arts”; Vologda, Russia
2015
Art Fair Vernissage, Inception Gallery; Moscow, Russia
2015
Art Fair “Sorry, it’s not all”, Total Art Gallery; Moscow, Russia
2015
Solo exhibition “Privato”, Chagall Gallery; Moscow, Russia
2015
The exhibition Young Art, Central House of Artist; Moscow, Russia
2014
The exhibition Young Art, Central House of Artist; Moscow, Russia