Freddie Jen Cohen is a Canadian American artist living outside of Bellingham, Washington by way of Lake Charles, Louisiana and Los Angeles, California. She received a BFA from Loyola Marymount University in 2005 and an MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2008.

Articulated by depictions of space, light, and color within and between bodies, Freddie Jen's multidisciplinary art practice reflects felt or imagined emotion, fluctuating between enchantment and neurotic. Her work is comprised of photography, video, performance, painting, and sculptural installation. It is a meeting ground for the visceral, corporeal, emotions, and mind. She is interested in the development of structure and method as a route to seek safety, the letting go of control for sake of vulnerability. For her, each work is the holding of a visceral moment.

This holding, this pause, is an extension of her healing journey through immersion in nature, and slow, enriching life lessons through gardening and stewardship of land. Nature has served as inspiration, as caregiver, as collaborator. Freddie Jen has always been obsessed with dirt, fluid, shiny, darkness, and destruction. She incorporates earthen and plant pigments into paintings. She leaves food scraps and fabric out in the elements to mold and fade for use in photos and sculptures. She exposes film post development to the outdoors- stones and tree bark for scratching, rain and dirt for emulsifying, repeated heating and cooling through periodic sun and moon cycles. Through photography and video, she captures visual meditations on color, texture, light- layering differing bodies of natural surroundings.

At times riddled by obsession and resistance, and other times quite the opposite- moments of meditative, gentle, loving gestures, her current art practice is borne of intuition and spirituality. It hovers in the crossroads between the embrace nature and cynical love of the man-made. No matter the medium, what can be observed is her present fixation on negative space- the space for solitude, quiet, air, spillage… materiality finding its own way.