Zoë Cohen is a research-based contemporary artist working with outworn garments to address themes of loss and repair. Born in Chicago in 1961, Cohen has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1980. 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 in Albuquerque, Portland, Chicago, Connecticut, the SF Bay Area and Seattle, including an exhibit curated by art critic Lucy Lippard. Her work is held in private collections in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta and NYC.

Through daily micro-practices of noticing her relationship with water, bees, wind, trees, dusk and dawn and in-between she seeks to unravel languages of internalized colonization and to align with others re-membering reverential bonds with the earth and each other.

Art history, social history, illustration, literature, theater, music, dance, photography, and film all inform her work.

She continues to be inspired by contemporary art of all kinds.