The Bronx Museum 2025 AIM Fellow
Noga Cohen
ARTIST STATEMENT
Noga Cohen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the ways the human body and natural ecosystems bear the imprints of trauma. Through sculpture, installation, printmaking, and video, she examines cycles of decay and transformation, revealing the blurred boundaries between the body and natural world.
Cohen experiments with biodegradable plastics, preserved flowers, and industrial mass-produced objects, subjecting them to heat, pressure, and gravity. By allowing materials to break down and reform, she reflects on their fragility as a parallel to the body’s own vulnerabilities. Her sculptural installations juxtapose synthetic and organic elements, addressing human impact, environmental instability, and shifting states of being.
Grounded in material research, Cohen’s work invites viewers to consider how transformation—both human and ecological—manifests through marks and traces. She foregrounds the tension between resilience and deterioration, examining the lasting impact of cumulative damage and slow violence. Her work offers a critical lens on trauma, healing, and the interwoven relationship between humans and ecology.
Biography
Noga Cohen (1994, Haifa, Israel) is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, printmaking, and video. She is a 2025 resident artist at the LMCC Arts Center Residency on Governors Island. Cohen was also selected as a 2025 National Arts Club Fellow and received a 2025 AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum.
In 2024, she received the Artis Contemporary Residency Grant and was an Artist in Residence at Centrum (WA). From 2023 to 2024, she was the Lead Artist at ProjectArt Residency (NY). She was a NYFA Immigrant Artists Program fellow in 2021–2022. Cohen holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Berg Foundation Fellowship and the Brevoort-Eickemeyer Fellowship from 2019 to 2021. In 2018, she received the Gross Foundation Prize, the Adams Prize, and the SBY Grant for emerging artists.
Her work has been exhibited at The Jewish Museum (NY), A Space Gallery (Brooklyn), Amos Eno Gallery (NY), RIVAA Gallery (NY), New York Live Arts Gallery (NY), Border Project Gallery (Brooklyn), ChaShaMa (NY), and Wallach Gallery (NY), among others. It has also been featured in publications such as ArtForum, Art and Education, Pearl Press, Maake Magazine, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and more.
