Biography

Andrea Mindell Cohen is a Spanish/Canadian multidisciplinary artist born in Vancouver, B.C, based in Barcelona. She worked as a fashion, textile designer and owner of her design-label in the fashion industry for many years in Los Angeles. Later Andrea moved to Barcelona where she worked designing graphics and textile-prints for various local and international fashion brands.

 Subsequently she transformed her art designs into backgrounds and installations for stands at fashion and textile fairs such as Première Vision in Paris and Bread and Butter in Barcelona and Berlin. Andrea combines, collage, drawing, painting, photography and various techniques of printmaking as well digital and hand-printed textiles to create immersive installations.

Cohen´s art is deeply inspired by stories of women, combined with traditional and contemporary cultural influences from her Spanish/Judeo-Moroccan ancestry. She is interested in the connection between cultural heritage and personal identity, her practice draws from nuanced, gender, family, religion and personal experiences.

 Cohen received her BFA from Otis/Parsons College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Ca. and a degree in fashion-textile design from the International Academy of Design and Technology in Toronto, Canada, along with her studies abroad in art history and photography at Lorenzo de Medici School in Florence, Italy. She continued her art practice upon immigrating to Tel Aviv, Israel at Zaritsky Artists House of Printmaking and Surface Design. Three years later Andrea moved back to Barcelona where she took on a studio-residency program in lithography and printmaking at Quadrat 9 taller litografia gravat, Barcelona.

Currently she is working in her own studio space in Badalona, a municipality next to Barcelona, Spain