Su san Cohn

  • Su san Cohn

    Way Past Real, 1994
    105 dough­nut bracelets on tiles
    fine gold plate, brass, anodised alu­mini­um, nat­ur­al alu­mini­um, fine gold leaf, Dutch gold leaf, gold dust, gold paint
    instal­la­tion: 520 x 240 cm; each bracelet: 3.2 x 13 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Su san Cohn

    Way Past Real, 1994
    (detail) 105 dough­nut bracelets on tiles
    fine gold plate, brass, anodised alu­mini­um, nat­ur­al alu­mini­um, fine gold leaf, Dutch gold leaf, gold dust, gold paint
    instal­la­tion: 520 x 240 cm; each bracelet: 3.2 x 13 cm

  • Su san Cohn

    Cohn­dom box (pro­to­type), 1999
    sil­ver and gold
    5.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 cm
    Queens­land Art Gallery | Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Brisbane

  • Su san Cohn

    Sur­vival Kit #3 and Sur­vival Kit #4, 2000
    anodised alu­mini­um, 750 gold, high impact poly­mer styrene, Oak­ley sunglasses

  • Su san Cohn

    Black Inten­tions: Susan Cohn, 2003
    The Ian Pot­ter Cen­tre, Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Melbourne
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    The Ring Cycle, 2002-03
    81 fin­ger rings: 2.4 x 2.4 x 1 cm to 3 x 3 x 1 cm
    alu­mini­um poles: 420 x 90 x 90 cm
    The Ian Pot­ter Cen­tre, Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Melbourne
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    Catch Me, 2003
    sil­ver bolt catches
    dimen­sions variable
    The Ian Pot­ter Cen­tre, Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Melbourne
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    sec­ond thoughts, 2008
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    New Pre­cious: Water #1, 2008
    water, glass pipettes, 750 sil­ver, silas­tic tub­ing, ABS plas­tic dough­nut, silk cord
    vari­able dimensions
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    Waste Not Want Not: Rosette #1, 2008
    Grange wine caps, 750 gold
    22 x 12.5 cm
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    Waste Not Want Not: Rosette #2, 2008
    Comtes­sa wine caps, 750 gold
    12.5 x 8.5 cm
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    New Pre­cious: Airbag #1, 2008
    polyurethane, auto­mat­ic infla­tor, oral infla­tor, press studs
    185 x 11 cm
    Pho­to: Shan­non McGrath

  • Su san Cohn

    All Wel­come: Gate, Paper trib­utes, Lectern, 2015
    Tar­raWar­ra Bien­ni­al, 2016
    Pho­to: Andrew Curtis

  • Su san Cohn

    Wrong way, 2000
    anodised aluminium
    30 x 30 cm

  • Su san Cohn

    All Wel­come: Gate, Paper trib­utes, Lectern’, 2015
    Tar­raWar­ra Bien­ni­al, 2016
    Pho­to: Andrew Curtis

  • Su san Cohn

    Iden­ti­ty Humdrum, 2017
    (detail) 925 sil­ver, card table, 49 bracelets
    card table: 64 x 73 x 73 cm
    Pho­to: Heather McDonald

  • Su san Cohn

    Again and Again, 2017
    Mole­skin plain jour­nals, fine sil­ver book­marks, video text projections
    dimen­sions variable
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley

  • Su san Cohn

    Vanil­la Repeats, 2017
    alu­mini­um, sil­ver, cop­per, dia­mond, string, gold leaf, wood, stain­less steel, paint
    11 dough­nuts, vari­able dimensions
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley

  • Su san Cohn

    This is So Boring, 2017
    alu­mini­um sug­ges­tion box, sound
    90.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley

  • Su san Cohn

    This is So Boring, 2017
    (detail) alu­mini­um sug­ges­tion box, sound
    90.5 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
    Pho­to: Zan Wimberley

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Biography

Born Syd­ney, Aus­tralia 1952


Su san Cohn is a jew­eller and artist who utilis­es tech­nol­o­gy to mod­ernise her craft. Her work explores the val­ue and typol­o­gy of jew­ellery, draw­ing from a range of influ­ences includ­ing elec­tron­ic and dig­i­tal media, med­ical media, street and youth cul­ture, and futur­is­tic visions of cyber­space. With a his­to­ry of work­ing across art, craft, and design, Cohn’s approach to her work is eru­dite. Su san Cohn has exhib­it­ed exten­sive­ly in Aus­tralia and inter­na­tion­al­ly, and the work is held in major pub­lic and pri­vate col­lec­tions such as the Vic­to­ria & Albert Muse­um, Lon­don, Eng­land; The Shang­hai Muse­um, Chi­na; Musée des Arts Déco­rat­ifs, Paris, France; The Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia, Can­ber­ra; and the Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Melbourne.

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Bib­li­og­ra­phy

Exhibitions

Su san Cohn

Pieces of Peace

20th May – 24th June 2023
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Su san Cohn

Bor­ing, very boring

12th August – 2nd September 2017
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Su san Cohn

UNcom­mon moments

27th August – 3rd October 2015
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Su san Cohn

sec­ond thoughts

7th March – 5th April 2008
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Su san Cohn

1 protest / 1 object

25th May – 5th June 2004
Biennale of Sydney
Available Works

Su san Cohn

What are they doing in there?, 2023
sin­gle chan­nel, high-def­i­n­i­tion video 
colour, silent
dura­tion: 20 minutes
Su san Cohn with Fred Kroh

Su san Cohn

Bor­ing Beige, 2017
HIPS plas­tic dough­nuts, plinth, Perspex
49 dough­nuts: 3.4 x 13.3 cm diam­e­ter (each); plinth: 151 x 50 x 50 cm

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News

Susan Cohn: Artists own up to being bor­ing in a brave show of self-deprecation

Jew­eller Susan Cohn decid­ed to have some fun with her crit­ics. Susan Cohn leans in […]

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Su San Cohn elect­ed ​‘Hon­orary Fel­low’ to the Aus­tralian Acad­e­my of the Humanities

Su San Cohn has been elect­ed to the Aus­tralian Acad­e­my of the Human­i­ties as […]

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Emi­ly Floyd, Louisa Bufarde­ci & Su san Cohn, ​‘We Change the World’ The Ian Pot­ter Cen­tre: NGV Aus­tralia, Lev­el 3

Works by Emi­ly Floyd, Louisa Bufarde­ci & Su san Cohn will be on dis­play as […]

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Su san Cohn | Pieces of Peace | Per­for­mances | NGV Mel­bourne Design Week

Su san Cohn​’s exhi­bi­tion Pieces of Peace at Anna Schwartz Gallery from 20 May […]

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