2026 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Zen Cohen is an intermedia artist making installations, objects and prints from moving images. She received her MFA in Art Studio at the University of California at Davis. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the deYoung Museum, SFMOMA, The Philosophical Research Society, Vanity Projects, and internationally at the Museo de Arte Moderno and Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City and Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands, Spain. Her photographs have been published in Hyperallergic, Art Practical, Artnet, Routledge and Southern Illinois University Press. She is the founding director and curator of Open Air Media Festival, an outdoor media arts program. The festival received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts to support the 2024 festival. She teaches as Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Clemson.