Berlin Collective Group:

NICOLE COHEN, Artist/ Creative Director/ Founder, was born in Cape Cod and grew up in Washington, D.C. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and her MFA  from the University of Southern California. She has exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art, the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum, American University Museum, and the New York Public Library. She has also shown internationally in Germany, Norway, New Zealand, and in France.  In Sept. 2011, she unveiled a new public art sculpture at the Pacific Design Center (LA). This spring, 2012, she will exhibit a commissioned work by the Brooklyn Museum. She will have a solo museum exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts. www.nicolecohen.org

MIRA O’BRIEN, Artist & Berlin Director, was born in New York and grew up in the Bay Area, California. She received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from Yale. Research for her work has led Mira on some unusual adventures: exploring the abandoned factory buildings along the shore of Connecticut, searching for the vanished shore of the Aral Sea in the desert of Uzbekistan, and admiring ancient mosaics in Istanbul. Her work has notably been exhibited in: the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, as a solo exhibition in Vierter Stock supported by a grant from the US Embassy in Berlin, La Viola Bank Gallery in NY, and in the historic former East- Berlin theatre the Volksbühne. Three years ago she moved to Berlin where she currently is still based. www.miraobrien.com

CAROLINA PUENTE, Curator & NYC Director, was born in New York and raised in Northwest Florida.  She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida and is currently completing her MA in Arts Management at American University.  Her curatorial origins began at a Natural History Museum and further developed through advanced studies in contemporary art history.  Carolina worked with the co-founders of Exit Art in NYC, where she provided assistance with curatorial research in performance and new media works. Notably, Carolina curated the exhibition “Driving in Circles,” at the Katzen Arts Center at American University Museum in Washington, D.C.  Carolina also served as the project manager for the National Endowment for the Arts: International Arts Journalism Institute in the visual arts and served as a teacher assistant for Johns Hopkins Museum Studies program and new media technology courses at Cooper Union. She is currently curating exhibitions with contemporary artists in D.C. and in NYC.

 
DENEESHA LAWRENCE, Marketing Director of the Berlin Collective, was born in Trinidad and Tobago and raised in NYC! She studies Marketing and Graphic design at Baruch College. She is a former accountant with a focus in the arts. Besides art, she has a strong interest in education and works with low-income students. She is new and excited to join the Berlin Collective and is ready to add to the success of the business.

ADAM RAYMONT/ Artist, born in New York and a RISD graduate, has been an active member in Berlin’s lively and influential contemporary art scene over the last three years. Adam has exhibited in numerous shows throughout the US, Europe and South America. “I’ve lived in Berlin since 2008 after living in New York for 15 years. I studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. My work is primarily drawing and painting, with various mechanical and digital techniques used as tools in the process. Making things by hand is very important to me even when evidence of it is suppressed, often painstakingly rendering something so it looks like it was stamped, printed or otherwise made. I consider each work part of a whole as well as being a singular creation.” – ADAM RAYMONT

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