Biography
Andrea Mindell Cohen is a Spanish/Canadian multidisciplinary artist born in Vancouver, B.C, based in Barcelona. She worked as a fashion, textile designer and owner of her design-label in the fashion industry for many years in Los Angeles. Later Andrea moved to Barcelona where she worked designing graphics and textile-prints for various local and international fashion brands.
Subsequently she transformed her art designs into backgrounds and installations for stands at fashion and textile fairs such as Première Vision in Paris and Bread and Butter in Barcelona and Berlin. Andrea combines, collage, drawing, painting, photography and various techniques of printmaking as well digital and hand-printed textiles to create immersive installations.
Cohen´s art is deeply inspired by stories of women, combined with traditional and contemporary cultural influences from her Spanish/Judeo-Moroccan ancestry. She is interested in the connection between cultural heritage and personal identity, her practice draws from nuanced, gender, family, religion and personal experiences.
Cohen received her BFA from Otis/Parsons College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Ca. and a degree in fashion-textile design from the International Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto, Canada, along with her studies abroad in art history and photography at Lorenzo de Medici School in Florence, Italy. She continued her art practice upon immigrating to Tel Aviv, Israel at Zaritsky Artists House of Printmaking and Surface Design. Three years later Andrea moved back to Barcelona where she took on a studio-residency program in lithography and printmaking at Quadrat 9 taller litografia gravat, Barcelona.
Currently she is working in her own studio space in Badalona, a municipality next to Barcelona, Spain
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EDUCATION
2018-2021 Course in Lithography and Printmaking, Quadrat 9, Barcelona, Spain. 2018 Contemporary Architecture and Venice Biennale Program, Venice, Italy.
2010-2012 Zaritsky Artists House, Printmaking and Surface Design, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1992-1996 Otis Parsons College of Art and Design, BFA, Los Angeles, Ca.
1991-1992 Lorenzo de Medici School, Art History and Photography, Exchange Studies, Firenze, Italy.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Eixample Art Project, 1st Edition group show, Ocean Drive Barcelona hotel, Barcelona, Spain.
2023 - Only Connect, selection of artwork for the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK.
2023 - Triptych & Sound, selection of artwork for 3-person show, Art Lover Ground, Raima, Barcelona, Spain.
2023 - The Story of Us, selected artwork for group show, curated by Haylee Barsky, Visionary Projects, NYC, New York.
2023 - Emerging Artists 2023, selected artwork for online group show, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
2023 - Procreate Project Archive, selected artwork for group onsite installation, Make Space Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
2022 - Misonny Art Festival- Edition No.4, selected artworks, Catalina Gavá Mar, Gavá, Catalunya.
2022 - Hey, she´s got superpowers!, 2-person exhibition, curated by Andrea Mindell Cohen, Art gallery Bien Cuadrado, Barcelona, Spain.
2021 - Cleopatra´s Obsession, solo exhibition, Centro Cultural de Cotxeres Borrell, Barcelona, Spain.
2021 - Hope, selected work for juried online exhibition, Roaring Artist Gallery, International online gallery.
2021 - Springing Forward Exhibition, virtual group show, curated by Gita Joshi with Create Magazine.
2021 - She/ Her/ They/ Them, selected works group show, IncuArts Gallery, International online gallery.
2021- You are not wonderful just because you are a Mother, juried Group Exhibition, Artist/Mother Podcast.
2020 - Unlock, selected art for group show, Espacio88, Barcelona, Spain 2020 - Community, group show, Maison 10, Manhattan, New York 2019 - Winter Show, Galeria VK, Barcelona, Spain.
2019 - The Surface In Between, two-person show, Touchon & Co. Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2019 - The Canvas Project, collaboration of international artists to create an art encyclopedia, Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, New York.
2019- Open House Studio, Zaritsky Artist House, Tel Aviv, Israel.
RESIDENCES
2023 – Joya-Air, Sierra Maria-Los Vélez, Andalucia, Spain.
2019-2021 in Lithography and Printmaking, Quadrat 9, Barcelona, Spain.
ARTFAIRS
2022 – FIA- Fira International d´Art de Barcelona, Museu Maritim de Barcelona, Spain.
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
PAC Plataforma de Arte Contemporáneo Detector de Artistas -Interview by Sara Torres Sifón. March 2024
Friend of the Artist Volume 17 Publication, Pages 177-179. February 2024 Chapter89 online magazine Volume 4 No.10 Interview April 2023 Addition Art Magazine Issue #1 March 2023
Suboart Magazine, All Eyes on International Rising Stars, January 21,2023 New Visionary Magazine for artists + educators. Selected by Danielle Kyrsa (Aka) Jealous Curator Issue #3 July 2022 Page 68 & 69
New Visionary Magazine for artists + educators. Issue #2 March 2022 Page New Visionary Magazine for artists + educators. Issue #1 January 2022 Page105
Plastikcomb Magazine. Issue #3.5 Winter 2021/22, Interview spread. Pages 102-115. Friend of the Artist. Showcased in website for Studio Project (Europe) 2021
Art Seen. The Curator´s Salon. Issue #1 Spring/Summer 2021. Pages 66-67 & 80/ In the Studio.
“You are not wonderful just because you are a Mother.” Artist/Mother Podcast virtual
exhibition catalogue. Winter 2020-2021
“Women.” Create Magazine. Issue #20, April 2020. Pages 186-189/ Back-cover.
“Britain’s Hot talent / Art Edit.” House & Garden. June 2019. Page 286.
“Escape and Unwind / Art Edit.” House & Garden. August 2019. Page147.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
March 2023 – Purple Octopus Art “The Cancer Feminine 2022”, Silver Award Art November 2022 – FIA Barcelona, Premio International d´ Art de Barcelona, First Prize in Figurative art.
MEMBER OF FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS
Art Girl Rising, International Female Artists Directory.
