Haya Cohen is an arts practitioner that expresses and experiments with versatile mediums, including working with living art. After immigrating to Australia with her family, in 1997, she worked as a gemologist. Later, Haya added academic studies to her busy life. She completed her PhD in visual arts and cultural industries at Griffith University, Australia. As an arts practitioner, Haya’s main focus is on the continual processes of material thinking and thinking through materials and the relationships between body/self/environment. Her work draws from interdisciplinary areas focusing on intersections between philosophy, biology, cognitive science, anthropology and art. Haya has exhibited internationally and across Australia and published academic papers in interdisciplinary journals and books. Her teaching experience includes Griffith University and Queensland College of Art.
In recent years Haya experiments with printmaking. Her interest in exploring materials and connecting lines of thought are brought through her etchings, linocuts and much more.
MEET HAYA
Haya Cohen is an arts practitioner that expresses and experiments with versatile mediums, including working with living art.
After immigrating to Australia with her family, in 1997, she worked as a gemologist. Later, Haya added academic studies to her busy life. She completed her PhD in visual arts and cultural industries at Griffith University, Australia.
As an arts practitioner, Haya’s main focus is on the continual processes of material thinking and thinking through materials and the relationships between body/self/environment. Her work draws from interdisciplinary areas focusing on intersections between philosophy, biology, cognitive science, anthropology and art.
Haya has exhibited internationally and across Australia and published academic papers in interdisciplinary journals and books. Her teaching experience includes Griffith University and Queensland College of Art.
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In recent years Haya experiments with printmaking. Her interest in exploring materials and connecting lines of thought are brought through her etchings, linocuts and much more.
EXHIBITIONS
​2019 Stepping stones, DJCA studios,Northbeach, WA
2019 Circle of life and Touch,Atwel arts gallery, Alfred Cove, WA
2019 Mother earth, Tresilian arts centre, Nedlands, WA
2018 Let there be light-view to the top, Moors Art Gallery, Fremantle, WA
2018 Untitled, Tresillian arts centre, Nedlands, WA
2018 Untitled, Moors Gallery, Fremantle, WA
2015 Touching Layers, L.T.A.T gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Mending Kerala, group exhibition disturbance of direction, red gallery, Melbourne
2013 Connecting Threads, One street project for the Surfers Paradise Festival, Gold Coast
2013 Rhizoms, Threads , Robina Community Centre, Gold Coast
2012 Translation 1 and Translation 2 in refereed exhibition Progression , regional art gallery Towoomba QLD
2012 Cocooning-Street performance project: Sydney, Brisbane, Mudgeeraba, Currumbin, Surfers Paradise.
2011 Am Are I -Shared Vision | Wspolna Wizja | group exhibition (QCA) at the Academy of Art and design Wroclaw, Poland
2011 Woven Connections - Shared Vision | Wspolna Wizja | group exhibition (QCA) at the Stanco Gallery (jewellery) Wroclaw, Poland
2011 Am Are I - Here Now, group exhibition, Hubert Art Gallery, Eketahuna,New Zealand
2011 Textiled Becomings, group exhibition, Karen 19 art Gallery, Gold Coast
2010 Textiled becomings, Solo exhibition QACI art Gallery, QUT, Brisbane
2010 Translation, Am Are I, Alchemy, Beyond the Given group exhibition, Tweed Rivers Art Gallery Muwillumbah
2009 Textiled Becomings, Tokonoma Art Gallery Mudgeeraba
2008 Watch every drop, Robina Community gallery
2008 Translation, Corpoself, ‘Trace’ group exhibition, Counihan gallery, Melbourne
2008 One, everyone, anyone, Swell sculpture by the beach Currumbin
2007 Watch every drop, G*7 group exhibition, Logan
2007 Translation, Bowerbird group exhibition, substation, Brisbane
2006 Becoming, Swell sculpture by the beach, Currumbin
2006 Thickness of water. G*7 group exhibition, Bundaberg
2005 ‘O’ , Group exhibition, Metro arts Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Processing Narratives; Group exhibition, Gold Coast Arts Centre
2004 Knitting a corpoself, solo exhibition, Metro art gallery
2002 Drop, in Surge, website, Coast City Art Gallery
2002 Drop, Palace Gallery, Brisbane
2002 War = dead end, group exhibition, Griffith University, Gold Coast​​​
EDUCATION
2011 Graduated with PhD, School of Humanities,Griffith University, Gold Coast
2003-2005 Bachelor of Art with first class honors, School of Arts,Griffith University, Gold Coast majors: Creative Art and Arts Industry.
2000-2002 Bachelor of Art. School of Art, Griffith University, Gold Coast.
1981-1982 Jewellery Design and Gemmology Graduate Gemmological Institute of America, Santa Monica U.S.A
1980 Israeli Government Goldsmith Diploma at Umanit Jaffa, Israel.
AWARDS
2003 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, Griffith University, QLD.
2002 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, Griffith University, QLD.
2001 Golden Key International Honor Society award
2000 Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, Griffith University, QLD.
SCHOLARSHIP
2008 APA Griffith University.
GRANTS
2014 Arts Queensland -RADF Regional Arts Development Fund
2008 Moreland City Cultural exchange funding program.
2008 The Janet Holms a Court Artist Grant NAVA initiative.
2008 Rapid Response Cultural Development Fund Grant, Gold Coast City Council.
2005 Rapid Response Cultural Development Fund Grant, Gold Coast City Council.
RESIDENCIES
2013 Tasara, International textile workshop, Beypore, Kerala, India
2011 New Pacific Studios, Mount Bruce, New Zealand.
CURATORIAL
2007 Open: House, Arts Happening, (organised in collaboration with Joanne Chang) Old Post Office Gallery, Gold Coast.
2007 Open: Sesame, Arts Happening, (organised in collaboration with Joanne Chang) Old Post Office Gallery, Gold Coast.