Lauren Cohen is a multidisciplinary artist whose works explore how personal history, cultural memory, and American myth-making shape the stories we live inside. Raised in a historic New England coastal town, once known as Old Salem Village, she draws from the psychological imprint of place, family, and trauma to build surreal worlds where past and present collapse into one another. Through characters like The Fisherman, Brian, and Gallerina, as well as fictional interiors, maritime symbolism, and objects sourced from domestic life, Cohen reimagines familiar narratives and creates new ones, examining the unstable boundaries between identity, inheritance, and reinvention.

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Cohen received her MA from Royal College of Art, London, UK and her BFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Her work has been exhibited at Marinaro Gallery, New York; The Hole, New York; Ace Hotel, New York; KinoSaito, New York; Powerhouse Arts, New York; Raynham Hall Museum, New York; Ghost Machine Gallery, New York; Felix Art Fair Presented by Voloshyn Gallery, Los Angeles; Future Fair Presented by LoftProjects, New York; Westbeth Gallery, New York; Wassaic Project, New York; Spring/Break Art Show, New York; The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, New York; Van Der Plas Gallery, New York; Trestle Gallery, New York; The Maine Jewish Museum, Portland; Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco; The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, California; The London Institute of Contemporary Art; The Blyth Gallery, London; and Goldsmiths College of London.

She has been an Artist in Residence at MacDowell, NARS, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and MASS MoCA. Previous juried exhibitions include Bloomberg New Contemporaries, The Catlin Guide, and Saatchi New Sensations. 

Cohen has forthcoming exhibitions and residencies at Vermont Studio Center in December 2026 and Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA in October 2026.