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 is a two time recipient of the 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 Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University.  Recently a number of pieces were purchased by The Valley Hospital.

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 recently held at the art museum of Southwest State University in Minnesota in 2010.

Related activities have included several collaborative artist book projects, a visiting artist residency in San Antonio, TX, 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, The Art School at Old Church in Demarest NJ, and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Truro, MA.  She is a popular lecturer and workshop leader throughout the country.

Ms. Cochran holds an MFA in Printmaking from Columbia University and an 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; is the current Chair of Printmaking at The Art School at Old Church in Demarest, NJ and is an instructor at The Montclair Art Museum, Yard School of Art.  She is now on the Board of Directors of NAWA (the National Association of Women Artists).  Listed in Who's Who in American Art.
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