b. New York, NY, 1939

Jane Kogan has worked with a variety of mediums and in many styles, returning often to the female figure as a site of interest. Her Amazon series from the 1960s and 1970s is a unique body of work which investigates the feminism of the period and Kogan’s own identity within the singular format of larger-than-life vertical canvases that are rich with symmetry and symbolism.

Kogan graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1956 and Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis in 1960 before studying in Rome from 1961-62 under a Fulbright Fellowship. She studied etching with Harry Stenberg at the Art Students League and completed graduate school at Columbia University. In 1968 she was awarded a fellowship to be a resident of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, where she studied with Leo Manso. She still lives and works in Provincetown today.

Kogan’s style is ever evolving. As a student, she was making Cezanne-influenced paintings which engaged with color and tilted perspective. Kogan later worked on a series of small realist street scene paintings of Provincetown, and for a period in the 1990s, she worked exclusively with colored pencil, attaching mixed media objects like buttons and coins to works on paper. Her oeuvre also includes textured etchings and a series of photo collages titled Embedded in which images of her own nude body are “embedded” into public scenes in the town.

Kogan’s Interiorized Self Portrait was critically reviewed by Linda Nochlin, April Kingsley, and Rosalyn Drexler as part of the group show Women Choose Women at the New York Cultural Center in 1973. She has also participated in group shows at Palazzo Venezia, Rome (1962); the Brooklyn Museum(1966); Pratt Graphic Center (1966 and 1968); and Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum (1970), the Fine Arts Work Center (1978 and 1982) and multiple galleries in Provincetown. Her work is also held in numerous public and private collections, including The Art Students League, Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie MellonInstitute, and Museum of Modern Art Loan Collection, among others