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Nadia Lee Cohen
Born (1992-11-15) 15 November 1992 (age 32)
Essex, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materLondon College of Fashion
Occupations
Websitenadialeecohen.com

Nadia Lee Cohen (born 15 November 1992)[1] is a British artist, photographer, filmmaker, and model.[2][3] She works inside popular culture, citing inspiration from cinema, commercials, and consumerism, which then re-enters the mass media in the form of magazine covers, music videos and Instagram posts.[4][5]

Early life

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Cohen was born in Essex in 1992, to an Moroccan father, and a British mother of Ukrainian descent.[6] She was raised on an isolated farm in the English countryside.[7][8]

Career

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Early work

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Lee Cohen's parents helped her build sets in their garage for her earliest film and photographic projects while she attended the London College of Fashion, where she graduated with BA (Hons) in fashion styling and photography and MA in fashion photography.[9][10][11] In 2012, she won the Taylor Wessing prize at the National Portrait Gallery.[1] She relocated to Los Angeles in search of the Hollywood scenery that inspired her, only to find the real Hollywood Boulevard was one of trashy stores and broken dreams.[12][13] This became her new source of inspiration for her project, Women, that would be published six years later. Her photographs and films are character-driven visions of saturated and surreal dreamscapes that capture the manifest pleasures and visceral terrors of the urban environment.[14][11]

Photography and literary work

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In 2020, Lee Cohen published her first book, Women, with IDEA; a major monograph six years in the making; the book featured 100 previously unseen portraits.

As a film director, Lee Cohen has worked with Tyler, the Creator, Kali Uchis, A$AP Rocky and Katy Perry, among others.[15][16] Commercially, she has worked in fashion with campaigns for Balenciaga, Mac, Maison Margiela, Adidas, Schiaparelli, Gucci, Miu Miu, and Valentino.[17][18] As a photographer, Nadia has shot iconic women including Rihanna, Billie Jean King, Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian, and Sophia Loren.[19][20]

Lee Cohen's second book, Hello My Name Is, was published by IDEA in December 2021. It saw Lee Cohen physically manifest herself into 33 characters (both female and male) imagined from 33 found name badges.[21] Alongside each portrait is a still-life of found objects associated with each persona.[22]

In 2021, Lee Cohen hosted the opening of The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, a night in collaboration with Vanity Fair, where she wore Daniel Roseberry’s iconic gold Schiaparelli design.[23]

In May 2022, Lee Cohen opened her first solo art exhibition in the United States at Jeffrey Deitch gallery in Los Angeles.[24] The gallery presented a thematic showcase of Cohen's photographic works from her monographs (Women and HELLO, My Name Is), in addition to an immersive installation featuring video works and life-like sculptures.

Modeling and acting

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In 2019, Lee Cohen was cast as Danny Trejo’s girlfriend in the movie Black Licorice. In 2021, she was selected by Couture house of Schiaparelli to be the face of their new campaign,[25] with Vogue magazine donning Nadia ‘The Schiaparelli muse we’re all obsessed with’.[26]

Lee Cohen was previously featured as a model for Maison Margiela,[27] appeared in Calvin Klein's campaign, and walked for Rihanna's Savage X Fenty Show.[28][29] In 2021, she was the cover of C41 magazine, Rollacoaster Magazine and Numéro.

Filmography

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2018

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2019

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References

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  1. ^ a b "CONTEMPORANEA SHOP ON LINE | 'NADIA LEE COHEN. NOT A RETROSPECTIVE' | MUSEO DE LA PASION | VALLADOLID". www.contemporanea.org. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  2. ^ Torres, Mylan (2015-01-30). "12 Powerful Photos of Nude Women Styled Like Vintage Heroines (NSFW)". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  3. ^ Wilson, Antonia (2015-02-04). "Taking Pictures #4: Photography from Nadia Lee Cohen, Gallimore by Rankin, Uldus Bakhtiozina and more". Creative Review. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  4. ^ Zas, Raquel (2021-01-13). "A look at the histrionic characters of Nadia Lee Cohen". i-D. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  5. ^ Evans, Niamh. "Nadia Lee Cohen's Hyper-Real Americana". Juxtapoz Magazine. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  6. ^ Ramsdale, Suzannah (12 February 2024). "Meet fashion's new muse — Nadia Lee Cohen". The Standard. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Nadia Lee Cohen on how she became Nadia Lee Cohen". Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  8. ^ Wik, Paula. "In conversation with | Nadia Lee Cohen". Artefact. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  9. ^ SJAIRATH (8 November 2013). "Nadia Lee Cohen exhibition to open in Brighton". London College of Fashion News. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  10. ^ Weinstock, Tish (November 12, 2015). "100 naked women with nadia lee cohen". i–d. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  11. ^ a b McLaughlin, Aimée (2021-03-01). "How I Work: Nadia Lee Cohen". Creative Review. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  12. ^ Hazlehurst, Beatrice (2020-06-25). "The world according to Nadia Lee Cohen". i-D. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  13. ^ AnOther (2021-12-14). "Inside Nadia Lee Cohen's New Book of Chameleonic Self-Portraits". AnOther. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  14. ^ Metro.co.uk, Tamara Hardingham-Gill for (31 January 2015). "100 Naked Women: The nude photo series celebrating the beauty of real women". Metro. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  15. ^ "Tyler, the Creator Plays House in Kali Uchis' "After the Storm"". Highsnobiety. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  16. ^ Ramsdale, Suzannah (2022-03-21). "Meet fashion's new muse — Nadia Lee Cohen". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  17. ^ "Wie viele Facetten hat Femininität?". Vogue Germany (in German). 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  18. ^ Dunn, Frankie (2021-11-17). "An exclusive look inside the new Heaven by Marc Jacobs zine". i-D. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  19. ^ "Watch GCDS's Beautifully Grotesque SS18 Film With Pamela Anderson". Highsnobiety. 2018-02-23. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  20. ^ "GCDS Reinvents Barilla Pasta In Delicious New Campaign". V Magazine. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  21. ^ Hutton, Belle (2021-12-15). "Photographer Nadia Lee Cohen cosplays as 33 different characters". i-D. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  22. ^ "Step Into Nadia Lee Cohen's Imagined Worlds in 'HELLO, My Name Is'". HYPEBEAST. 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2022-07-03.
  23. ^ Malkin, Marc (2021-09-15). "Robert Pattinson and H.E.R. Co-Chairing Academy Museum Party Ahead of Opening". Variety. Retrieved 2022-04-17.
  24. ^ Dazed (2022-05-10). "Art shows to leave the house for this May". Dazed. Retrieved 2022-07-04.
  25. ^ "Maison Schiaparelli – News". www.schiaparelli.com. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  26. ^ "Nadia Lee Cohen Is The Schiaparelli Muse We're All Obsessed With". British Vogue. 2021-12-05. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  27. ^ "Five Artists Interpret Margiela's Mutiny Manifesto". PAPER. 2019-09-16. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  28. ^ "40 Killer Looks From The Savage X Fenty Show That Require Your Immediate Attention". British Vogue. 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  29. ^ Charuza, Nikita (2020-10-01). "Nadia Lee Cohen at the Savage x Fenty Show Presented by Amazon Prime". POPSUGAR Fashion. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
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