email: kristenoelle@gmail.com
phone: 206.353.5332
IG: @cathedrals_of_jelly
Kristen Cochran is an artist living in Dallas, TX. Originally from Portland, OR, she moved to Texas to complete her MFA at Southern Methodist University (2010). In addition to exhibiting her work, she has been awarded residencies in NY, Austria and Wyoming and completed a year-long residency at The Center for Arts and Medicine at Baylor Hospital (2018). Ms. Cochran is a newly appointed Associate Professor in the school of Arts, Humanities and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas and has taught extensively in the Dallas-Fort Worth community at local museums including The Nasher Sculpture Center, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Dallas Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Life Support @PRPagency, fare well at The Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, TX, *work acquired), to sometimes disappear at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Tender and Fierce (Artpace, San Antonio,TX) and chromasoma at Barry Whistler Gallery (Dallas, TX) among others (see CV). Ms. Cochran was recently awarded The Dozier Travel grant from The Dallas Museum of Art (2022) in support of her project Private Islands, an ongoing body of work she began in residence in Brooklyn in the Spring of 2021.
Statement Through sculpture, print, video and installation my practice points to the traces and residues of humans’ best efforts, the tragicomic nature of daily laboring and the passage of time. Socio-economic disparities, workplace politics and the relationship between basic needs and transcendent desires are embedded in the materials with which I work.
Fruitfulness and futility, making a living and being on the clock are conceptual interests related to human performance, identity, perceived value and access to resources. ‘Dreamtime’, bodycare and mental health are additional points of research that reflect my studies in anatomy, physiology and therapeutic massage.
These interests have materialized variously as ink blot ‘lounger’ paintings, suspended time chimes, island slideshows and sausage sculptures dangling in suspended states. My work is often site responsive and humor is used as a framework for more serious psycho-spiritual and socio-political concerns.
phone: 206.353.5332
IG: @cathedrals_of_jelly
Kristen Cochran is an artist living in Dallas, TX. Originally from Portland, OR, she moved to Texas to complete her MFA at Southern Methodist University (2010). In addition to exhibiting her work, she has been awarded residencies in NY, Austria and Wyoming and completed a year-long residency at The Center for Arts and Medicine at Baylor Hospital (2018). Ms. Cochran is a newly appointed Associate Professor in the school of Arts, Humanities and Technology at The University of Texas at Dallas and has taught extensively in the Dallas-Fort Worth community at local museums including The Nasher Sculpture Center, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Dallas Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include Life Support @PRPagency, fare well at The Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas, TX, *work acquired), to sometimes disappear at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Tender and Fierce (Artpace, San Antonio,TX) and chromasoma at Barry Whistler Gallery (Dallas, TX) among others (see CV). Ms. Cochran was recently awarded The Dozier Travel grant from The Dallas Museum of Art (2022) in support of her project Private Islands, an ongoing body of work she began in residence in Brooklyn in the Spring of 2021.
Statement Through sculpture, print, video and installation my practice points to the traces and residues of humans’ best efforts, the tragicomic nature of daily laboring and the passage of time. Socio-economic disparities, workplace politics and the relationship between basic needs and transcendent desires are embedded in the materials with which I work.
Fruitfulness and futility, making a living and being on the clock are conceptual interests related to human performance, identity, perceived value and access to resources. ‘Dreamtime’, bodycare and mental health are additional points of research that reflect my studies in anatomy, physiology and therapeutic massage.
These interests have materialized variously as ink blot ‘lounger’ paintings, suspended time chimes, island slideshows and sausage sculptures dangling in suspended states. My work is often site responsive and humor is used as a framework for more serious psycho-spiritual and socio-political concerns.