Bruce Cohen (b. 1953)
Lives and works in Santa Monica, CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Bruce Cohen, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Bruce Cohen, Interiors and Stilll Lifes, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2020 Bruce Cohen 2020, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Bruce Cohen, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Bruce Cohen, Studies, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Bruce Cohen, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Bruce Cohen Recent Paintings, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Inside Out Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, CA
2013 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Recent Work, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
2009 Imago Galleries, Palm Springs, CA
2008 Recent Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Preserves, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Imago Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2004 Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 New Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 New Paintings, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 New Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 New Paintings, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY
1990 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Ruth Siegel Ltd., New York, NY
Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
1984 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 The Artists of U.C.S.B, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 Still Life, Capturing the Moment, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
Portraits and Still Lifes, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Small Works: Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 Selected Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Small Works, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
The Art of Giving, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Real; Realism in Diverse Media, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert
2003 The Not-So Still Life: A Century of California Still Life
Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA
2002 The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Summer in the City, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recent Works: Paul Wonner and Bruce Cohen, Michael Kohn Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
1993 Interiors, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings III, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Still Life 1963 - 1993, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1992 Group Exhibition, The I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
1991 Not On Canvas, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
New Horizons in American Art, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint,
1989 Images of American Pop Culture Today, La Fouret
Museum, Hurjuku,Tokyo, Japan
Small and Stellar, Ruth Siegel Contemporary Art, New York
1987 Review-Preview, Ruth Siegel Contemporary Art, New York
1986 24 Square and …?, Ruth Siegel Contemporary Art, New York
1985 Harvest, Ruth Siegel Contemporary Art, New York
1984 Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Palm Springs Desert Museum,
Palm Springs, CA
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis, IN
1983 New Perspectives in American Art: 1983 Exxon National Exhibition,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
West Coast Realism, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna, CA
1981 Portraits in Miniature, University Art Galleries,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Selected Bibliography
2001 David Pagel, Review, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2001
1989 Cathy Curtis, The Galleries, Los Angeles Times, March 31, 1989
1987 Ronnie Cohen, Bruce Cohen, Ruth Siegel, Artforum, Dec 1987, pp 117-118
1985 Suzanne Muchnic, The Galleries, Los Angeles Times, Jan 18, 1985, p. 17
1983 William Wilson, The Galleries, Los Angeles Times, Jan 21, 1983, p. 10
1981 Robert L Pincus, Cohen, Michelson Exhibit Paintings,
Los Angeles Times, Aug 28, 1982, p. 4
Selected Public Collections
Atlantic Richfield Company
Foote, Cone and Belding, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Pacific Bell
Pacific Telesis
Palm Springs Desert Museum
Phillip Morris
Collection of Lynda and Stewart Resnick
River Forest State Bank
Security Pacific Bank
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation
Southern California Gas Company
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
San Diego Museum of Art
San Jose Museum of Art