Freddie Jen Cohen is a Canadian American artist living in the forest 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. Not long after completing her MFA she abandoned a formal art practice, the art world, and committed to living a life of experiential research on the fringe of society for many years. Over time, she experienced frustrated fits and starts with art projects; all along writing poetry and taking photographs, but stashing notebooks and negatives away.

A long bout of vertigo between 2018-2019 led Freddie Jen to make a series of small meditative paintings from a place of stillness and desperation. That marked a beginning- the revival of her absolute need to create. Slowly she began to cultivate and spend time in her studio, toying with art projects while running her small business digitizing, restoring, archiving, and printing film and photographs. Since late 2022 she rededicated herself fully to her art practice, having reestablished a new relationship with her process and work.

Driven by the intangible, she considers herself to have evolved as an artist by dying multifariously- emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, cellularly, narrowly escaping physical death. She has always sought adventure with an intrinsic desire to grow and experience life fully. This journey can be seen through her multidisciplinary art practice comprised of photography, video, performance, painting, and sculptural installation. It is a meeting ground for the visceral, corporeal, emotions, and mind. Every idea or work takes on its own life and calls for its own materiality.

Articulated by depictions of space, light, and color within and between bodies, her work reflects internal conflict of felt or imagined emotion and neurosis. She develops structure and method as a route to seek safety, and opposes it with the practice of letting go- an act of vulnerability. This all while playing with her long-held obsessions with dirt, fluid, shiny, and destruction.