Dorothy Cochran's Bio
Dorothy Cochran is a well known East Coast printmaker, acknowledged for her expertise and broad command of multiple print methods. She was a two time recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and honored for her dedication to teaching and curatorial work for other artists. She is represented in both private and corporate art collections such as The New York Public Library, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Bristol Myers Squibb and Prudential Life Insurance Company and several museum collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, Georgia Museum of Fine Art, and the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University.
Ms. Cochran has exhibited extensively throughout the country in museums, universities and galleries including the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts (selected by David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at The Whitney Museum of Art), Provincetown Museum of Art, UMA Gallery, New York City and currently at Franklin54+Projects in Chelsea. A major solo exhibition of recent work was held at the Art Museum of the Southwest State University in Minnesota in 2010. In 2011 she was represented at Montclair University’s, George Segal Gallery as part of Art Connections 7 and is currently exhibiting at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut in the 8th Biennial of International Miniature Prints Exhibition juried by Judith Brodsky, founder of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University.
In June of 2011 she was a panelist at the Fifth International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts discussing the topic, “What a Juror Sees”. Other art activities have included collaborative artist book projects, a visiting artist residency in San Antonio, Texas and several corporate commissions. Ms. Cochran has taught at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, the City University of New York in Staten Island, Bergen Community College and Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro, Massachusetts. She is a popular lecturer and workshop leader throughout the country.
Ms. Cochran has an MFA in Printmaking from Columbia University and a MA and BA from Montclair University in New Jersey. She was the Director/Curator of the Galleries at The Interchurch Center in New York City for 23 years and is the current Chair of Printmaking at the Art School in Demarest, New Jersey and is a faculty member at The Montclair Art Museum, Yard School of Art. She was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Artists, NYC.
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