ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born and raised in Chicago, Linda Cohn studied, worked and taught at the Museum and School of the Art Institute 

of Chicago. She credits these environments as the basis 

of her development as an artist.

She received an MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA, and MA in printmaking from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. She also studied at the New York Studio School and was an Artist-in-Residence at Ragdale Foundation and the Ox-Bow School of Painting & Sculpture.

She has taught at Chautauqua Center for the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia, and Lacoste, France, Ox-Bow School of Painting & Sculpture, Hinsdale Art Center, the Evanston Center for the Arts, Hyde Park Art Center, and she was a visiting artist at Midway Graduate Studios at the University of Chicago. Subsequently, she was hired to design and teach a full-time visual art program for a Chicago Public School for seven years.  

Linda Cohn was also hired as an archaeological draftsman-epigrapher for the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to document a New Kingdom temple in Luxor, Egypt.

Her work has been exhibited in over sixty group exhibitions and ten solo shows at venues that include the Pratt Graphics Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, the American University in Cairo, Department of Cultural Affairs in Savannah, Georgia, the Rockford Art Museum, and the Evansville Museum of Art, History, and Science. Linda Cohn's work is also in numerous public and private collections in the United States.