KRISTEN COCHRAN
kristencochran.com / IG: @cathedrals_of_jelly, @pppublicstorage
EDUCATION
MFA, Sculpture Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2010
BFA, Painting University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BA, English University of Washington, Seattle, WA
LMP, Therapeutic Massage The Brian Utting School, Seattle, WA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES (selected)
2025 H(earts) grant (emerging art and technology grant) - in support of ‘Sculptures for The Birds’ from
the University of Texas at Dallas
2024 AxH convergence grant: The Ear Reading project
2022 Dozier Travel Grant, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (Private Islands Project)
2021 Acquisition: The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (fare well neon)
2021 Residency: Corsicana Artist and Writer’s Residency, Corsicana, TX
2021 Residency: NARS Foundation International Arts Residency, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Finalist: Artpace fellowship (Marcela Guerrero, Whitney Museum of American Art)
2019 Finalist: Artpace fellowship (Natalie Bell, MIT List Center)
2017 Resident: The Center for Art & Medicine, Sammons Cancer Research Center,
Baylor Hospital, Dallas, TX
2013 Resident: Jentel, Banner Wyoming, May-June 2013
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 To Store my Grief, @pppublicstroage, Dallas, TX 2024
2023 Life Support, PRP agency, Dallas, TX
2022 brb, Moudy Gallery, TCU University, Fort Worth, TX (part II)
Retrospectator, Moudy Gallery, TCU University, Fort Worth, TX (part I)
2020 fare well, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (Nasher Windows, curator:
Catherine Craft) *work acquired
2019 Chroma Soma, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
GOALS, Robert and Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2017 Architectures of Aspiration (r.i.p.), Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 Perfect Sunset (there’s nothing sad about it), Front Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Surfacing, two person exhibition, HF Johnson Gallery, Carthage College, Milwaukee, WI
2015 soak stain bleed bloom, The Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University (curator
Noah Simblist), Dallas, TX
2013 Declared Impasse (two person show with Lucia Simek), The Dallas Contemporary
Museum, Dallas, TX (curator Lilia Kudelia)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2025
MORTADELLA No.1: binder, publication as site, (curated by Evie Marie and JMB)
Sculpture/ Observing 25:11, New Media Contemporary, Dallas, TX , 3 person show w/ David
Challier and Mac Pierce
No Jugglers. No Mimes. No Musicians. No Rock Bands, Nature of Things TX, Dallas, TX
LONDON FIX at East Dock, curated by F. Alvarez and Jesse Morgan Barnett
The Shed Show, garden party - @The_shed_show, Denton, TX (Jillian Wendel, curator)
2024
Tailgate, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (Fernando Alvarez, Jesse Morgan Barnett)
New American Paintings West #168, Juror: Vivian Li, Curator, The Dallas Museum of Art
2023
Chateau Show, Le Chateau, Dallas, TX (upcoming)
Moon of a Moon, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX (curator Jonathan Hopson and VLM)
CAR WASH summer show, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
2022
for the time being, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX (w/ Annette Lawrence, Alicia
Eggert, Betelhem Makonnen)
Borgen Wolfe, E909 roster, curated by Jesse Morgan Barnett
Print in the expanded field, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
2021
Denotes, @PRPagency, Dallas, TX (curator: Greg Meza)
To Sometimes Disappear, The NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (curator Elisa Guiterrez)
After Carolee: Tender and Fierce, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi)
2020
work from home, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX (curated by Hannah and Hilary Fagadau)
Continuum, Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX (curator Katerina Sokolovskaya)
2019
Intermediate (short films), The Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Tenuous (three person show), Cliff Gallery, Dallas, TX
Material Intension (three person show), ex-ovo, Dallas, TX (curator Alison Klion)
Sandwich Show (pop up), New York Subs, Dallas, TX (curator Julia Jaloweic)
2018
Fold In, with Katy Heinlen and Marcelyn McNeil, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
Holding Pattern Vol. 2, publication as site, (supported by DADE collective), Dallas, TX
2017
Interstate, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX (curators Luke Harnden and Paul Winker)
The LINE, Site 131, Dallas, TX, (curators Joan Davidow and Pablo Sebastian Morales)
2016
I Have This Thing: An Exercise in Extension (w/ Kelly Kroener & Lucy Kirkman), Lillian
Bradshaw Gallery, Dallas, TX
Drawing Quote/Unquote, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
2015
AMoA Sculpture Biennial, Amarillo, TX, (curator Leigh Arnold) *prize winner
And they papered the walls, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014
(in)translation, University of Arizona, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
SEARCH RESULTS, A Slender Gamut, Brooklyn, NY (curator Olivia Smith)
2013
Texas Biennial 2013, San Antonio, TX
Amarillo Entropy, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (curator Greg Ruppe)
Pleased to Meet Me, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012
SNAFU, Oliver Francis Gallery, (curator Kevin Ruben Jacobs)
Fallas Dart Air, Shamrock Studios, Dallas, TX (curator Ludwig Schwarz)
2011
TEXAS Biennial 2011, Austin, TX, (curator Virginia Rutledge)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (recent)
2025
MORTADELLA magazine, Fall Edition: binder
2024
New American Paintings West #168, Juror: Vivian Li, Curator, The Dallas Museum of Art
Tekhne Collective podcast, guest artist - episode aired December ‘23/ January ‘24
2023
Artist Talk: Kristen Cochran & Lilia Kudelia talk Life Support and the Ukraine War, PRP agency
Atheneum Review: Folio: Life Support, Summer 2023 (Editor: Benjamin Lima)
White Hot Magazine: "Chateau Chateau" Intervenes at the Historic Aldredge House, Oct. 4,
2023, Melissa Elif Gerecci
2022
Nasher Sculpture Center Magazine: Issue: The Body, Fall 2022, Preventative Care: Kristen
Cochran offers remote support for sculpture under threat in war-torn Ukraine
Mushrooms, T-Shirts and Doors: A conversation between Kristen Cochran and Magali
Reus, Glasstire July, 2022
Artists on Art: Kristen Cochran on Nairy Bagrhamian’s Misfits at Nasher Sculpture Center
Kristen Cochran’s Retrospectator at Moudy Gallery, January 2022, Colette Copeland for
Glasstire
Panel discussion: for the time being, at TWU visual arts
2021
Corsicana Artists and Writers Residency studio interview, December, 2021
After Carolee, going strong, Lindsay Reynolds, Sightlines Magazine, June 23rd, 2021
Women’s Work: After Carolee, Tender and Fierce, Lauren Moya Ford, Glasstire, Jan 30,Glasstire Writing Residency Review, week 2, Colette Copeland, Glasstire, Jan 8, 2021
2020
The Nasher Sculpture Center Acquires Works by Xxavier Edward Carter and Kristen
Cochran, Glasstire, Christopher Blay, August 31, 2020
Art World/ Industry News: Nasher Acquires Window Series Art, Artnet.com, September
1, 2020
The Nasher Sculpture Center Windows Are Transformed For a Touching Tribute, Paper
City, July
The Nasher Sculpture Center Windows Panel Discussion, July 24, 2020
Nasher Windows exhibit tributes Donald Fowler, The Dallas Voice, July 9, 2020
Kristen Cochran with Emily Edwards, The Dallas Contemporary virtual studio visit
2019
Pockets of Meaning: Dallas artist fascinated with stain-laden work clothes, by Danielle
Avram, Dallas Morning News, Oct. 3, 2019
Stein Gallery explores themes of daily work, Bob Mihalek, WSU News, August 28, 2019
Texas Studio: Kristen Cochran, Arts and Culture Texas, April 29, 2019
A Material Intension in Trinity Groves: Ex Ovo, by William Sarradet, Glasstire, April 22, 2019
2018
Glasstire Top 5 for Fold In at Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, TX
The Dallas Observer for Interstate at Beefhaus, Dallas, TX by Danielle Avram
2017
Holding Pattern, A curated publication of works funded by female-identifying artists
Valediction in White, Informality Art and Culture Blog KCMO, Emily Cox, January 17, 2017
Lucia’s choice: New Collection at The Adolphus Hotel, PaperCity, April 2017.
2016
Glasstire, Top 5: I Have This Thing: An exercise in Extension with Kelly Kroener, Kristen
Cochran and Lucy Kirkman Allen, Christina Rees, May 5, 2016.
Surfacing, exhibition catalog & essay by curator Christopher Willey, with HF Johnson Gallery
2015
‘soak stain bleed bloom’ with Kristen Cochran, interview with Danielle Avram,
Meadows School of the Arts, January 28th, 2015
Meadows School of the Arts New and Events press release, soak stain bleed bloom,
January 2018
Eutopia Contemporary Art review, soak stain bleed bloom at The Pollock Gallery, by RyderRichards
2013
Semigloss., Volume I, Issue III: FAILURE curated by Sally Glass and Bradly Brown
Pleased to Meet Me: Six Artists Circling Around A Search for Self, The Dallas Observer, July 10, 2013, Peter Simek.
SMU Meadows School of the Arts: Dallas Contemporary Features two Meadows Artists,
Nov. 4, 2013
2013
Talley Dunn: Six Bold Artists, The Dallas Morning News, July 16, 2013, Michael Granbury.
Georg Herold, Kevin Todora, Lucia Simek and Kristen Cochran at The Dallas
Contemporary, moderndallas.net, Fall 2013, Todd Camplin.
stutter slip stack, Arts + Culture Magazine Texas, Andy Amato, May 16, 2013
2012
Merkin-Clad Commies want to sell you Art, Maybe Lasagna, The Dallas Observer,
Brentley Hamilton, April 13, 2012.
2011
Temporary Occupants, Arts & Culture Magazine Texas, Terranova, Charissa, May, 2011.
2010
Brick by Brick, for The Dallas Observer, Martin, Aja, December 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “ Tasteful, a Happening”, Peter Simek, Dec
3, 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “SMU Artist/Professor Launches the Free
Museum of Dallas…”, Peter Simek, April 21, 2010.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023
Artist Talk, PRP agency: Kristen Cochran and Lilia Kudelia talk Life Support and the
Ukraine War
2022
Mushrooms, T-Shirts and Doors: A conversation between Kristen Cochran and Magali
Reus, Glasstire July, 2022
Artists on Art: Kristen Cochran on Nairy Bagrhamian’s Misfits at Nasher Sculpture Center
Artist Talk: Retrospectator, Moudy Gallery, TCU
Interviewer: Art This Week: Shirin Neshat @The Modern, Niki St. Phalle @The Menil
2021
Teaching Artist/ Independent Educator: (Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Museum of Art,
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth)
Art Handling, The Box Company, Dallas, TX
2020
Writer: Paul Winker 7II essay and image-text publication, February, 2020
Interviewer: Art This Week, Texas Made Modern The Art of Everett Spruce
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX (Teen Program, Hrair Sarkissian)
2019
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX (Jr. High Art Camp, Robyn O’Neill)
2018
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2017
Artist in Residence, Center for Art & Medicine, Baylor Hospital, Sammons Center for
Cancer Research, Dallas, TX (summer 2016 - 2017)
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, 125 years of works on paper, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
2016
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist (summer teen institute), The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Dallas Observer: Two Ecosystems in Piero Golia’s Chalet Dallas, February, 2016
2015
Gallery educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, The DMA, Center for Creative Connections, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Arts & Culture Texas: Room For Failure, The Rough Hospitality of Phyllida Barlow, August 2015
Teaching Artist, Summer Art Camp, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Artist, The Great Create, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2014
Visiting artist, Texas A&M Commerce, (Fall)
Contributing writer, Eutopia Contemporary Art Reviews, eutopia.us
Contributing writer, Glasstire Texas, Romp, Stomp and Monster Trucks Deep Ellum Windows, May 2014
TEACHING
2022-present Assistant Professor of Instruction, The Bass School of Arts, Humanities and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas
2022: Teaching artist: Corsicana HS ‘car casting’ workshop via the 100W residency
Teaching artist: Dallas Museum of Art and Heart House workshop (middle school)
2021 Teaching artist: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (workshops include: Drawing
from the Collection, Teen Artist Project Focus Frances Stark and The Repeat Visit Program
Focus: Jenny Holzer
2020 Teaching artist: Writing to Look, FOCUS: Hrair Sarkissian, MAMFW, Fort Worth, TX
Lecturer, Art Appreciation, Dallas College (Eastfield), Mesquite, TX
2019 Visiting Professor of Sculpture, (sabbatical replacement), TCU, Fort
Worth, TX (Instructor of record: 3D Design, Sculpture I, Advanced Sculpture, Graduate
Critique, Seminar, Graduate studio hours, Graduate Professional Practice Seminar,
Graduate Committees)
2018 Lecturer, Drawing Foundations and Advanced Drawing Concepts, University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, TX
Lecturer, Sculpture I, Advanced Drawing, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2017 Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
2013-2016 Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas
2012 Lecturer, Foundations Drawing, Advanced Drawing Concepts, Sculpture I, University of
Texas at Dallas (Fall/Spring)
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Kristen Cochran
From Portland, OR, Lives and works in Dallas, TX
kristencochran.com
EDUCATION
MFA - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
BFA - Interdisciplinary Studio, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BA - English (Creative writing), University of Washington, Seattle, WA
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHBITIONS
2021
After Carolee: Tender and Fierce, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (curator: Annette DiMeo Carlozzi)
2020
• fare well, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (Nasher Windows Projects, curator: Catherine Craft)
2019
• Chroma Soma: Photographs and Sculpture, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
• GOALS, Robert and Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2017
Architectures of Aspiration (r.i.p.), Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016
• Perfect Sunset (there’s nothing sad about it), Front Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• Surfacing, two person exhibition, HF Johnson Gallery, Carthage College, Milwaukee, WI
2015
soak stain bleed bloom, The Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University (curator Noah Simblist),
Dallas, TX
2014
Residual acts, Amazon Storefronts (supported by The Shunpike Foundation), Seattle, WA
2013
• Declared Impasse (two person show with Lucia Simek), The Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, TX (curator Lilia Kudelia)
• stutter slip stack, REgallery, Dallas, TX
2012
Light Work, sponsored by Oak Cliff Community Arts, Dallas, TX
2010
• Brick by Brick, The Free Museum of Dallas, (curator Michael Corris), Dallas, TX
• Undercover, UTD Central Trak Gallery (corridor), Dallas, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHBITIONS
2021
• After Carolee: Tender and Fierce, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (curator: Annette Carlozzi)
• Yet to be Titled (group show), Nars Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020
• Naked in fur, SP/N Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Aug-Sept, 2020
• wfh, Galler 12.26, Dallas, TX
• Continuum, Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX upcoming (curator Katerina Sokolovskaya)
2019
Intermediate, The Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, film screening, Fort Worth, TX
Tenuous (three person show), Cliff Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Big Summer T-Shirt Show, ex-ovo, Dallas, TX
Material Intension (three person show), ex-ovo, Dallas, TX (curator Alison Klion)
The Sandwich Show (pop up), New York Subs, Dallas, TX
2018
Fold In, with Katy Heinlen and Marcelyn McNeil, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
Holding Pattern Vol. 2, publication as site, (supported by DADE collective), Dallas, TX
2017
Holding Pattern Vol. 1, publication as site (supported by DADE collective), Dallas, TX
Interstate, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX (curators Luke Harnden and Paul Winker)
The LINE, Site 131, Dallas, TX, (curators Joan Davidow and Pablo Sebastian Morales)
2016
I Have This Thing: An Exercise in Extension (with Kelly Kroener & Lucy Kirkman), Lillian Bradshaw Gallery,
Dallas, TX
Drawing Quote/Unquote, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
2015
AMoA Sculpture Biennial, Amarillo, TX, (curator Leigh Arnold) *second place prize winner
And they papered the walls, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014
(in)translation, University of Arizona, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
SEARCH RESULTS, A Slender Gamut, Brooklyn, NY (curator Olivia Smith)
2013
Texas Biennial 2013, San Antonio, TX
Amarillo Entropy, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (curator Greg Ruppe)
Pleased to Meet Me, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012
SNAFU, Oliver Francis Gallery, (curator Kevin Ruben Jacobs)
Monstrous Coupling (collaboration with Kevin Todora), University of Texas at Dallas, TX
Fallas Dart Air, Shamrock Studios, Dallas, TX (curator Ludwig Schwarz)
2011
TEXAS Biennial 2011, Austin, TX, (curator Virginia Rutledge)
2010 Indignation, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX (curator Dr. Charissa Terranova)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020
Teaching Artist: Writing to Look Program, FOCUS: Hrair Sarkissian, MAMFW, Fort Worth, TX
Lecturer: Art Appreciation, Dallas College, Spring 2020
2019
Visiting Professor of Sculpture, (sabbatical replacement for Cam Schoepp), TCU, Fort Worth, TX
(Instructor of record: 3D Design, Sculpture I, Advanced Sculpture, Graduate Critique Seminar, Graduate
studio hours, Graduate Professional Practice Seminar, Graduate Committees)
2018
Lecturer, Drawing Foundations and Advanced Drawing, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Lecturer, Sculpture I, Advanced Drawing, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2017
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
2016
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2015
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2014
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2013
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2012
Lecturer, Foundations Drawing, Intermediate Drawing, Sculpture I, University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, TX (Fall/Spring)
2011
Lecturer, Foundations (2D design and digital co taught with Noah Simblist), Southern Methodist
Univeristy, Dallas, TX
Lecturer, Introduction to Sculpture, Univeristy of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2010
Lecturer, Introduction to Drawing, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (Fall)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020
Contributor: Art This Week
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (Teen Program, Hrair Sarkissian) Visiting Artist Lecture, Southern Methodist University Sculpture, Dallas, TXImage - Text collaboration with Paul Winker: Kristen Cochran XX XX / Paul Winker XII (publication)
2019
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (Jr. High Art Camp, Robyn O’Neill)
Organizer and Moderator: “About Public Art”, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX (with Tamara Johnson and Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX)
2018
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2017
Artist in Residence, Center for Art & Medicine, Baylor Hospital, Sammons Center for Cancer Research,
Dallas, TX (summer 2016 - 2017)
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, 125 years of works on paper, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
2016
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist (summer teen institute), The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Dallas Observer: Two Ecosystems in Piero Golia’s Chalet Dallas, February, 2016
2015
Gallery educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, The DMA, Center for Creative Connections, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Arts & Culture Texas: Room For Failure, The Rough Hospitality of Phyllida Barlow, August 2015 Teaching Artist, Summer Art Camp, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Artist, The Great Create, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2014
Visiting artist, Texas A&M Commerce, (Fall)
Contributing writer, Eutopia Contemporary Art Reviews, eutopia.us
Contributing writer, Glasstire Texas, Romp, Stomp and Monster Trucks Deep Ellum Windows, May 2014
Teaching artist, Gallery & Studio Connections, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Teaching artist, Teen Week Art Camp, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Visiting Artist, Eastfield College, Dallas, TX, (Spring)
Artist-Instructor, The Big Drawing Class, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2020
NARS Foundation International Arts Residency, Brooklyn, New York
2017
Artist in Residence, The Center for Art & Medicine, Sammons Cancer Research Center, Baylor Hospital,
Dallas, TX
2013
Jentel, Banner Wyoming, May-June 2013
2010
Juvenal Reis Studio Residency (grant funded residency), New York, NY
Free Museum of Dallas, Exhibition Grant, The Free Museum of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2009
Jones Fund project grant, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Rigsby Fund Travel Grant, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Les-Subsistances International Arts Festival, artist-in-residence, Lyon, FR
2008
The Meadows School of the Arts, Graduate Fellowship, SMU, Dallas, TX
Visual Arts Teaching Assistantship, The Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Pockets of Meaning: Dallas artist fascinated with stain-laden work clothes, by Danielle Avram, Dallas
Morning News, Oct. 3, 2019
Stein Gallery explores themes of daily work, Bob Mihalek, WSU News, August 28, 2019
Texas Studio: Kristen Cochran, Arts and Culture Texas, April 29, 2019
A Material Intension in Trinity Groves: Ex Ovo, by William Sarradet, Glasstire, April 22, 2019
2018
Glasstire Top 5 for Fold In at Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, TX
The Dallas Observer for Interstate at Beefhaus, Dallas, TX by Danielle Avram
2017
Holding Pattern, A curated publication of works funded by female-identifying artists
Valediction in White, Informality Art and Culture Blog KCMO, Emily Cox, January 17, 2017
Lucia’s choice: New Collection at The Adolphus Hotel, PaperCity, April 2017
2016
Glasstire, Top 5: I Have This Thing: An exercise in Extension with Kelly Kroener, Kristen Cochran and Lucy Kirkman Allen, Christina Rees, May 5, 2016.
Surfacing, exhibition catalog and essay by curator Christopher Willey, published by HF Johnson Gallery
2015
Talking ‘soak stain bleed bloom’ with Kristen Cochran, interview with Danielle Avram, Meadows School
of the Arts, January 28th, 2015
Meadows School of the Arts New and Events press release, soak stain bleed bloom, January 2018
Eutopia Contemporary Art review, soak stain bleed bloom at The Pollock Gallery, by Ryder Richards
2013
Semigloss., Volume I, Issue III: FAILURE curated by Sally Glass and Bradly Brown
Pleased to Meet Me: Six Artists Circling Around A Search for Self, The Dallas Observer, July 10, 2013,
Peter Simek.
SMU Meadows School of the Arts: Dallas Contemporary Features two Meadows Artists, Nov. 4, 2013
Talley Dunn: Six Bold Artists, The Dallas Morning News, July 16, 2013, Michael Granbury.
Georg Herold, Kevin Todora, Lucia Simek and Kristen Cochran at The Dallas Contemporary,
moderndallas.net, Fall 2013, Todd Camplin.
stutter slip stack (exhibition review), Arts + Culture Magazine Texas, Andy Amato, May 16, 2013.
2012
Merkin-Clad Commies want to sell you Art, Maybe Lasagna, The Dallas Observer, Brentley Hamilton,
April 13, 2012.
2011
Temporary Occupants, Arts+ Culture Magazine Texas, Terranova, Charissa, May, 2011.
2010
Brick by Brick, for The Dallas Observer, Martin, Aja, December 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “Two Notable Dallas Art Openings: Tasteful, a Happening”,
Peter Simek, Dec 3, 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “SMU Artist/Professor Launches the Free Museum of Dallas…”, Peter Simek, April 21, 2010.
REFERENCES
Cam Schoepp, Professor of Art, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, c.schoepp@tcu.edu | 817-257-6701
Greg Metz , Artist, Senior Lecturer and Gallery Facilitator at The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. glmetz@utdallas.edu | 9728832774
Anna Smith , Curator of Education, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. asmith@nashersculpturecenter.org | 214.242.5184
Noah Simblist, Chairperson: Painting and Printmaking department, VCU School of The Arts, nsimblist@vcu.edu
kristencochran.com / IG: @cathedrals_of_jelly, @pppublicstorage
EDUCATION
MFA, Sculpture Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2010
BFA, Painting University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BA, English University of Washington, Seattle, WA
LMP, Therapeutic Massage The Brian Utting School, Seattle, WA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES (selected)
2025 H(earts) grant (emerging art and technology grant) - in support of ‘Sculptures for The Birds’ from
the University of Texas at Dallas
2024 AxH convergence grant: The Ear Reading project
2022 Dozier Travel Grant, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (Private Islands Project)
2021 Acquisition: The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (fare well neon)
2021 Residency: Corsicana Artist and Writer’s Residency, Corsicana, TX
2021 Residency: NARS Foundation International Arts Residency, Brooklyn, New York
2021 Finalist: Artpace fellowship (Marcela Guerrero, Whitney Museum of American Art)
2019 Finalist: Artpace fellowship (Natalie Bell, MIT List Center)
2017 Resident: The Center for Art & Medicine, Sammons Cancer Research Center,
Baylor Hospital, Dallas, TX
2013 Resident: Jentel, Banner Wyoming, May-June 2013
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 To Store my Grief, @pppublicstroage, Dallas, TX 2024
2023 Life Support, PRP agency, Dallas, TX
2022 brb, Moudy Gallery, TCU University, Fort Worth, TX (part II)
Retrospectator, Moudy Gallery, TCU University, Fort Worth, TX (part I)
2020 fare well, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (Nasher Windows, curator:
Catherine Craft) *work acquired
2019 Chroma Soma, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
GOALS, Robert and Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2017 Architectures of Aspiration (r.i.p.), Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 Perfect Sunset (there’s nothing sad about it), Front Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Surfacing, two person exhibition, HF Johnson Gallery, Carthage College, Milwaukee, WI
2015 soak stain bleed bloom, The Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University (curator
Noah Simblist), Dallas, TX
2013 Declared Impasse (two person show with Lucia Simek), The Dallas Contemporary
Museum, Dallas, TX (curator Lilia Kudelia)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2025
MORTADELLA No.1: binder, publication as site, (curated by Evie Marie and JMB)
Sculpture/ Observing 25:11, New Media Contemporary, Dallas, TX , 3 person show w/ David
Challier and Mac Pierce
No Jugglers. No Mimes. No Musicians. No Rock Bands, Nature of Things TX, Dallas, TX
LONDON FIX at East Dock, curated by F. Alvarez and Jesse Morgan Barnett
The Shed Show, garden party - @The_shed_show, Denton, TX (Jillian Wendel, curator)
2024
Tailgate, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (Fernando Alvarez, Jesse Morgan Barnett)
New American Paintings West #168, Juror: Vivian Li, Curator, The Dallas Museum of Art
2023
Chateau Show, Le Chateau, Dallas, TX (upcoming)
Moon of a Moon, Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston, TX (curator Jonathan Hopson and VLM)
CAR WASH summer show, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
2022
for the time being, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX (w/ Annette Lawrence, Alicia
Eggert, Betelhem Makonnen)
Borgen Wolfe, E909 roster, curated by Jesse Morgan Barnett
Print in the expanded field, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
2021
Denotes, @PRPagency, Dallas, TX (curator: Greg Meza)
To Sometimes Disappear, The NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (curator Elisa Guiterrez)
After Carolee: Tender and Fierce, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi)
2020
work from home, Gallery 12.26, Dallas, TX (curated by Hannah and Hilary Fagadau)
Continuum, Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX (curator Katerina Sokolovskaya)
2019
Intermediate (short films), The Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Tenuous (three person show), Cliff Gallery, Dallas, TX
Material Intension (three person show), ex-ovo, Dallas, TX (curator Alison Klion)
Sandwich Show (pop up), New York Subs, Dallas, TX (curator Julia Jaloweic)
2018
Fold In, with Katy Heinlen and Marcelyn McNeil, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
Holding Pattern Vol. 2, publication as site, (supported by DADE collective), Dallas, TX
2017
Interstate, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX (curators Luke Harnden and Paul Winker)
The LINE, Site 131, Dallas, TX, (curators Joan Davidow and Pablo Sebastian Morales)
2016
I Have This Thing: An Exercise in Extension (w/ Kelly Kroener & Lucy Kirkman), Lillian
Bradshaw Gallery, Dallas, TX
Drawing Quote/Unquote, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
2015
AMoA Sculpture Biennial, Amarillo, TX, (curator Leigh Arnold) *prize winner
And they papered the walls, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014
(in)translation, University of Arizona, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
SEARCH RESULTS, A Slender Gamut, Brooklyn, NY (curator Olivia Smith)
2013
Texas Biennial 2013, San Antonio, TX
Amarillo Entropy, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (curator Greg Ruppe)
Pleased to Meet Me, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012
SNAFU, Oliver Francis Gallery, (curator Kevin Ruben Jacobs)
Fallas Dart Air, Shamrock Studios, Dallas, TX (curator Ludwig Schwarz)
2011
TEXAS Biennial 2011, Austin, TX, (curator Virginia Rutledge)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (recent)
2025
MORTADELLA magazine, Fall Edition: binder
2024
New American Paintings West #168, Juror: Vivian Li, Curator, The Dallas Museum of Art
Tekhne Collective podcast, guest artist - episode aired December ‘23/ January ‘24
2023
Artist Talk: Kristen Cochran & Lilia Kudelia talk Life Support and the Ukraine War, PRP agency
Atheneum Review: Folio: Life Support, Summer 2023 (Editor: Benjamin Lima)
White Hot Magazine: "Chateau Chateau" Intervenes at the Historic Aldredge House, Oct. 4,
2023, Melissa Elif Gerecci
2022
Nasher Sculpture Center Magazine: Issue: The Body, Fall 2022, Preventative Care: Kristen
Cochran offers remote support for sculpture under threat in war-torn Ukraine
Mushrooms, T-Shirts and Doors: A conversation between Kristen Cochran and Magali
Reus, Glasstire July, 2022
Artists on Art: Kristen Cochran on Nairy Bagrhamian’s Misfits at Nasher Sculpture Center
Kristen Cochran’s Retrospectator at Moudy Gallery, January 2022, Colette Copeland for
Glasstire
Panel discussion: for the time being, at TWU visual arts
2021
Corsicana Artists and Writers Residency studio interview, December, 2021
After Carolee, going strong, Lindsay Reynolds, Sightlines Magazine, June 23rd, 2021
Women’s Work: After Carolee, Tender and Fierce, Lauren Moya Ford, Glasstire, Jan 30,Glasstire Writing Residency Review, week 2, Colette Copeland, Glasstire, Jan 8, 2021
2020
The Nasher Sculpture Center Acquires Works by Xxavier Edward Carter and Kristen
Cochran, Glasstire, Christopher Blay, August 31, 2020
Art World/ Industry News: Nasher Acquires Window Series Art, Artnet.com, September
1, 2020
The Nasher Sculpture Center Windows Are Transformed For a Touching Tribute, Paper
City, July
The Nasher Sculpture Center Windows Panel Discussion, July 24, 2020
Nasher Windows exhibit tributes Donald Fowler, The Dallas Voice, July 9, 2020
Kristen Cochran with Emily Edwards, The Dallas Contemporary virtual studio visit
2019
Pockets of Meaning: Dallas artist fascinated with stain-laden work clothes, by Danielle
Avram, Dallas Morning News, Oct. 3, 2019
Stein Gallery explores themes of daily work, Bob Mihalek, WSU News, August 28, 2019
Texas Studio: Kristen Cochran, Arts and Culture Texas, April 29, 2019
A Material Intension in Trinity Groves: Ex Ovo, by William Sarradet, Glasstire, April 22, 2019
2018
Glasstire Top 5 for Fold In at Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, TX
The Dallas Observer for Interstate at Beefhaus, Dallas, TX by Danielle Avram
2017
Holding Pattern, A curated publication of works funded by female-identifying artists
Valediction in White, Informality Art and Culture Blog KCMO, Emily Cox, January 17, 2017
Lucia’s choice: New Collection at The Adolphus Hotel, PaperCity, April 2017.
2016
Glasstire, Top 5: I Have This Thing: An exercise in Extension with Kelly Kroener, Kristen
Cochran and Lucy Kirkman Allen, Christina Rees, May 5, 2016.
Surfacing, exhibition catalog & essay by curator Christopher Willey, with HF Johnson Gallery
2015
‘soak stain bleed bloom’ with Kristen Cochran, interview with Danielle Avram,
Meadows School of the Arts, January 28th, 2015
Meadows School of the Arts New and Events press release, soak stain bleed bloom,
January 2018
Eutopia Contemporary Art review, soak stain bleed bloom at The Pollock Gallery, by RyderRichards
2013
Semigloss., Volume I, Issue III: FAILURE curated by Sally Glass and Bradly Brown
Pleased to Meet Me: Six Artists Circling Around A Search for Self, The Dallas Observer, July 10, 2013, Peter Simek.
SMU Meadows School of the Arts: Dallas Contemporary Features two Meadows Artists,
Nov. 4, 2013
2013
Talley Dunn: Six Bold Artists, The Dallas Morning News, July 16, 2013, Michael Granbury.
Georg Herold, Kevin Todora, Lucia Simek and Kristen Cochran at The Dallas
Contemporary, moderndallas.net, Fall 2013, Todd Camplin.
stutter slip stack, Arts + Culture Magazine Texas, Andy Amato, May 16, 2013
2012
Merkin-Clad Commies want to sell you Art, Maybe Lasagna, The Dallas Observer,
Brentley Hamilton, April 13, 2012.
2011
Temporary Occupants, Arts & Culture Magazine Texas, Terranova, Charissa, May, 2011.
2010
Brick by Brick, for The Dallas Observer, Martin, Aja, December 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “ Tasteful, a Happening”, Peter Simek, Dec
3, 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “SMU Artist/Professor Launches the Free
Museum of Dallas…”, Peter Simek, April 21, 2010.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023
Artist Talk, PRP agency: Kristen Cochran and Lilia Kudelia talk Life Support and the
Ukraine War
2022
Mushrooms, T-Shirts and Doors: A conversation between Kristen Cochran and Magali
Reus, Glasstire July, 2022
Artists on Art: Kristen Cochran on Nairy Bagrhamian’s Misfits at Nasher Sculpture Center
Artist Talk: Retrospectator, Moudy Gallery, TCU
Interviewer: Art This Week: Shirin Neshat @The Modern, Niki St. Phalle @The Menil
2021
Teaching Artist/ Independent Educator: (Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas Museum of Art,
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth)
Art Handling, The Box Company, Dallas, TX
2020
Writer: Paul Winker 7II essay and image-text publication, February, 2020
Interviewer: Art This Week, Texas Made Modern The Art of Everett Spruce
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX (Teen Program, Hrair Sarkissian)
2019
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX (Jr. High Art Camp, Robyn O’Neill)
2018
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2017
Artist in Residence, Center for Art & Medicine, Baylor Hospital, Sammons Center for
Cancer Research, Dallas, TX (summer 2016 - 2017)
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, 125 years of works on paper, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
2016
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist (summer teen institute), The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Dallas Observer: Two Ecosystems in Piero Golia’s Chalet Dallas, February, 2016
2015
Gallery educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, The DMA, Center for Creative Connections, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Arts & Culture Texas: Room For Failure, The Rough Hospitality of Phyllida Barlow, August 2015
Teaching Artist, Summer Art Camp, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Artist, The Great Create, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2014
Visiting artist, Texas A&M Commerce, (Fall)
Contributing writer, Eutopia Contemporary Art Reviews, eutopia.us
Contributing writer, Glasstire Texas, Romp, Stomp and Monster Trucks Deep Ellum Windows, May 2014
TEACHING
2022-present Assistant Professor of Instruction, The Bass School of Arts, Humanities and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas
2022: Teaching artist: Corsicana HS ‘car casting’ workshop via the 100W residency
Teaching artist: Dallas Museum of Art and Heart House workshop (middle school)
2021 Teaching artist: The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (workshops include: Drawing
from the Collection, Teen Artist Project Focus Frances Stark and The Repeat Visit Program
Focus: Jenny Holzer
2020 Teaching artist: Writing to Look, FOCUS: Hrair Sarkissian, MAMFW, Fort Worth, TX
Lecturer, Art Appreciation, Dallas College (Eastfield), Mesquite, TX
2019 Visiting Professor of Sculpture, (sabbatical replacement), TCU, Fort
Worth, TX (Instructor of record: 3D Design, Sculpture I, Advanced Sculpture, Graduate
Critique, Seminar, Graduate studio hours, Graduate Professional Practice Seminar,
Graduate Committees)
2018 Lecturer, Drawing Foundations and Advanced Drawing Concepts, University of Texas at
Dallas, Richardson, TX
Lecturer, Sculpture I, Advanced Drawing, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2017 Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
2013-2016 Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas
2012 Lecturer, Foundations Drawing, Advanced Drawing Concepts, Sculpture I, University of
Texas at Dallas (Fall/Spring)
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Kristen Cochran
From Portland, OR, Lives and works in Dallas, TX
kristencochran.com
EDUCATION
MFA - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
BFA - Interdisciplinary Studio, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
BA - English (Creative writing), University of Washington, Seattle, WA
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHBITIONS
2021
After Carolee: Tender and Fierce, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (curator: Annette DiMeo Carlozzi)
2020
• fare well, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (Nasher Windows Projects, curator: Catherine Craft)
2019
• Chroma Soma: Photographs and Sculpture, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
• GOALS, Robert and Elaine Stein Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2017
Architectures of Aspiration (r.i.p.), Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016
• Perfect Sunset (there’s nothing sad about it), Front Space Gallery, Kansas City, MO
• Surfacing, two person exhibition, HF Johnson Gallery, Carthage College, Milwaukee, WI
2015
soak stain bleed bloom, The Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University (curator Noah Simblist),
Dallas, TX
2014
Residual acts, Amazon Storefronts (supported by The Shunpike Foundation), Seattle, WA
2013
• Declared Impasse (two person show with Lucia Simek), The Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, TX (curator Lilia Kudelia)
• stutter slip stack, REgallery, Dallas, TX
2012
Light Work, sponsored by Oak Cliff Community Arts, Dallas, TX
2010
• Brick by Brick, The Free Museum of Dallas, (curator Michael Corris), Dallas, TX
• Undercover, UTD Central Trak Gallery (corridor), Dallas, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHBITIONS
2021
• After Carolee: Tender and Fierce, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (curator: Annette Carlozzi)
• Yet to be Titled (group show), Nars Foundation Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020
• Naked in fur, SP/N Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas, Aug-Sept, 2020
• wfh, Galler 12.26, Dallas, TX
• Continuum, Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth, TX upcoming (curator Katerina Sokolovskaya)
2019
Intermediate, The Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, film screening, Fort Worth, TX
Tenuous (three person show), Cliff Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Big Summer T-Shirt Show, ex-ovo, Dallas, TX
Material Intension (three person show), ex-ovo, Dallas, TX (curator Alison Klion)
The Sandwich Show (pop up), New York Subs, Dallas, TX
2018
Fold In, with Katy Heinlen and Marcelyn McNeil, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
Holding Pattern Vol. 2, publication as site, (supported by DADE collective), Dallas, TX
2017
Holding Pattern Vol. 1, publication as site (supported by DADE collective), Dallas, TX
Interstate, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX (curators Luke Harnden and Paul Winker)
The LINE, Site 131, Dallas, TX, (curators Joan Davidow and Pablo Sebastian Morales)
2016
I Have This Thing: An Exercise in Extension (with Kelly Kroener & Lucy Kirkman), Lillian Bradshaw Gallery,
Dallas, TX
Drawing Quote/Unquote, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
2015
AMoA Sculpture Biennial, Amarillo, TX, (curator Leigh Arnold) *second place prize winner
And they papered the walls, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014
(in)translation, University of Arizona, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
SEARCH RESULTS, A Slender Gamut, Brooklyn, NY (curator Olivia Smith)
2013
Texas Biennial 2013, San Antonio, TX
Amarillo Entropy, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (curator Greg Ruppe)
Pleased to Meet Me, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012
SNAFU, Oliver Francis Gallery, (curator Kevin Ruben Jacobs)
Monstrous Coupling (collaboration with Kevin Todora), University of Texas at Dallas, TX
Fallas Dart Air, Shamrock Studios, Dallas, TX (curator Ludwig Schwarz)
2011
TEXAS Biennial 2011, Austin, TX, (curator Virginia Rutledge)
2010 Indignation, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX (curator Dr. Charissa Terranova)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020
Teaching Artist: Writing to Look Program, FOCUS: Hrair Sarkissian, MAMFW, Fort Worth, TX
Lecturer: Art Appreciation, Dallas College, Spring 2020
2019
Visiting Professor of Sculpture, (sabbatical replacement for Cam Schoepp), TCU, Fort Worth, TX
(Instructor of record: 3D Design, Sculpture I, Advanced Sculpture, Graduate Critique Seminar, Graduate
studio hours, Graduate Professional Practice Seminar, Graduate Committees)
2018
Lecturer, Drawing Foundations and Advanced Drawing, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Lecturer, Sculpture I, Advanced Drawing, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2017
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX
2016
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2015
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2014
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2013
Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, Sculpture I, Drawing I, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2012
Lecturer, Foundations Drawing, Intermediate Drawing, Sculpture I, University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, TX (Fall/Spring)
2011
Lecturer, Foundations (2D design and digital co taught with Noah Simblist), Southern Methodist
Univeristy, Dallas, TX
Lecturer, Introduction to Sculpture, Univeristy of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2010
Lecturer, Introduction to Drawing, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (Fall)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020
Contributor: Art This Week
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (Teen Program, Hrair Sarkissian) Visiting Artist Lecture, Southern Methodist University Sculpture, Dallas, TXImage - Text collaboration with Paul Winker: Kristen Cochran XX XX / Paul Winker XII (publication)
2019
Teaching Artist, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (Jr. High Art Camp, Robyn O’Neill)
Organizer and Moderator: “About Public Art”, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX (with Tamara Johnson and Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX)
2018
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2017
Artist in Residence, Center for Art & Medicine, Baylor Hospital, Sammons Center for Cancer Research,
Dallas, TX (summer 2016 - 2017)
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, 125 years of works on paper, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
2016
Gallery Educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist (summer teen institute), The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Dallas Observer: Two Ecosystems in Piero Golia’s Chalet Dallas, February, 2016
2015
Gallery educator, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Teaching Artist, The DMA, Center for Creative Connections, Dallas, TX
Contributing Writer, Arts & Culture Texas: Room For Failure, The Rough Hospitality of Phyllida Barlow, August 2015 Teaching Artist, Summer Art Camp, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Artist, The Great Create, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2014
Visiting artist, Texas A&M Commerce, (Fall)
Contributing writer, Eutopia Contemporary Art Reviews, eutopia.us
Contributing writer, Glasstire Texas, Romp, Stomp and Monster Trucks Deep Ellum Windows, May 2014
Teaching artist, Gallery & Studio Connections, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Teaching artist, Teen Week Art Camp, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Visiting Artist, Eastfield College, Dallas, TX, (Spring)
Artist-Instructor, The Big Drawing Class, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2020
NARS Foundation International Arts Residency, Brooklyn, New York
2017
Artist in Residence, The Center for Art & Medicine, Sammons Cancer Research Center, Baylor Hospital,
Dallas, TX
2013
Jentel, Banner Wyoming, May-June 2013
2010
Juvenal Reis Studio Residency (grant funded residency), New York, NY
Free Museum of Dallas, Exhibition Grant, The Free Museum of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2009
Jones Fund project grant, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Rigsby Fund Travel Grant, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Les-Subsistances International Arts Festival, artist-in-residence, Lyon, FR
2008
The Meadows School of the Arts, Graduate Fellowship, SMU, Dallas, TX
Visual Arts Teaching Assistantship, The Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Pockets of Meaning: Dallas artist fascinated with stain-laden work clothes, by Danielle Avram, Dallas
Morning News, Oct. 3, 2019
Stein Gallery explores themes of daily work, Bob Mihalek, WSU News, August 28, 2019
Texas Studio: Kristen Cochran, Arts and Culture Texas, April 29, 2019
A Material Intension in Trinity Groves: Ex Ovo, by William Sarradet, Glasstire, April 22, 2019
2018
Glasstire Top 5 for Fold In at Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, TX
The Dallas Observer for Interstate at Beefhaus, Dallas, TX by Danielle Avram
2017
Holding Pattern, A curated publication of works funded by female-identifying artists
Valediction in White, Informality Art and Culture Blog KCMO, Emily Cox, January 17, 2017
Lucia’s choice: New Collection at The Adolphus Hotel, PaperCity, April 2017
2016
Glasstire, Top 5: I Have This Thing: An exercise in Extension with Kelly Kroener, Kristen Cochran and Lucy Kirkman Allen, Christina Rees, May 5, 2016.
Surfacing, exhibition catalog and essay by curator Christopher Willey, published by HF Johnson Gallery
2015
Talking ‘soak stain bleed bloom’ with Kristen Cochran, interview with Danielle Avram, Meadows School
of the Arts, January 28th, 2015
Meadows School of the Arts New and Events press release, soak stain bleed bloom, January 2018
Eutopia Contemporary Art review, soak stain bleed bloom at The Pollock Gallery, by Ryder Richards
2013
Semigloss., Volume I, Issue III: FAILURE curated by Sally Glass and Bradly Brown
Pleased to Meet Me: Six Artists Circling Around A Search for Self, The Dallas Observer, July 10, 2013,
Peter Simek.
SMU Meadows School of the Arts: Dallas Contemporary Features two Meadows Artists, Nov. 4, 2013
Talley Dunn: Six Bold Artists, The Dallas Morning News, July 16, 2013, Michael Granbury.
Georg Herold, Kevin Todora, Lucia Simek and Kristen Cochran at The Dallas Contemporary,
moderndallas.net, Fall 2013, Todd Camplin.
stutter slip stack (exhibition review), Arts + Culture Magazine Texas, Andy Amato, May 16, 2013.
2012
Merkin-Clad Commies want to sell you Art, Maybe Lasagna, The Dallas Observer, Brentley Hamilton,
April 13, 2012.
2011
Temporary Occupants, Arts+ Culture Magazine Texas, Terranova, Charissa, May, 2011.
2010
Brick by Brick, for The Dallas Observer, Martin, Aja, December 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “Two Notable Dallas Art Openings: Tasteful, a Happening”,
Peter Simek, Dec 3, 2010.
Front Row, A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, “SMU Artist/Professor Launches the Free Museum of Dallas…”, Peter Simek, April 21, 2010.
REFERENCES
Cam Schoepp, Professor of Art, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, c.schoepp@tcu.edu | 817-257-6701
Greg Metz , Artist, Senior Lecturer and Gallery Facilitator at The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX. glmetz@utdallas.edu | 9728832774
Anna Smith , Curator of Education, The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX. asmith@nashersculpturecenter.org | 214.242.5184
Noah Simblist, Chairperson: Painting and Printmaking department, VCU School of The Arts, nsimblist@vcu.edu