Zoë Cohen is a research-based contemporary artist working with beeswax and outworn garments to address loss and repair, wonder and awe. Born and raised in Chicago, 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 across the U.S. in Albuquerque, Portland, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, including an exhibit curated by art critic and curator 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 and trees, dusk, dawn and in-between she seeks to unravel languages of internalized colonization and align with others interested in reviving reverential bonds with the land, the invisible, ourselves 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.