Zoë Cohen is a research-based artist, writer, and educator. Born and raised in Chicago, Cohen has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1979. She holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in ceramics, with honors, from University of Oregon. She has exhibited across the U.S. in Albuquerque, Chicago, Connecticut, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle, including an exhibit curated by art critic Lucy Lippard. Her work is held in private collections in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta and NYC.

Through daily micro-practices of noticing her relationship with water, bees, wind and trees, dusk, dawn and the in-between she seeks to unravel languages of internalized colonization and collaborate with others restoring reverential bonds with the land, the invisible, ourselves and each other.

Ancestral customs, art history, social history, literature, music, dance, photography and film all inform her work.