curriculum vitae
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Feather, Fieldmouse Press
2023 "It's Time to Face the Change," 836M Gallery Residency
2023 "Diane Noomin & Aline Kominsky-Crumb," SF Examiner Comics Showcase, Jan. 9, 2023
2022 "Semantic Shift," MuthaMagazine.com, finalist for Best of the Net 2024, Art
2021 "Back-to-School: Uncovering Knowledge," MuthaMagazine.com
2020 "Mothership," MuthaMagazine.com
2019 “She Bites Back,” in Drawing Power, ed. Diane Noomin, Abrams ComicArts
2018 “Day & Night for It,” Pen America: Illustrated Pen.
2017 "Evident Truths," in State of Emergency, PEN Illustrated/PEN America
2016 Primahood: Magenta, Stacked Deck Press
2016 illustrator, Girl Trouble, by Kerry Cohen, Hawthorne Books
2016 "Your Life is Going to Change," in Alphabet T. Avery & J. Macy, eds., Stacked Deck Press
2014–2016 ongoing contributor to MuthaMagazine.com
2015 contibutor to The Feminist Utopia Project A. Brodsky & R. Kauder Nalebuff, eds., Feminist Press
2015 "Walking Sideways," in What's Your Sign, Girl? Robert Kirby, ed., Ninth Art Press
2015 "Ashke-nosy," in the comics insert to Nat. Brut Magazine, issue 6. Whitney Taylor and Kayla AE, eds.
2015 Primahood 4 Ever! Primazonia Press
2014 "Flux," in Ignatz-Award winning QU33R, Robert Kirby, ed., Northwest Press
2013 Primahood: Three Times the Charm, Primazonia Press
2012 Primahood: The Second Album, Primazonia Press
2012 "Unnatural History," in Hand Job, Anne Elizabeth Moore, ed., Pressing Concern Books
2011 Primahood, Book 1, Primazonia Press
2011 Primazon Paper Dolls, expanded edition, Primazonia Press
2011 Illustrations and essay, "Artist Mama," in Rad Dad #19, Microcosm Publishing
2010 Box Book 1, self-published
2009 Primazon Paper Dolls, set 1, Primazonia Press
2008 Primer 1, self-published
2003 "Because," in True Porn, K. Nelson and R. Chapman, eds., Alternative Comics
2002 "Get Your Freak On," in Penny Dreadfuls Guide to the Bay, L. McCubbin, ed., Penny Dreadful Press
1997–2002 Self-published mini-comics, including Possum #1-7 and Tattooed Woman
REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, & PRESS
2023 836M’s New Residency Is All About Cartoonists, in Marin Living
2018 Tyler Cohen's Primahood: Magenta, by Elizabeth Block, The Brooklyn Rail
2017 A Graphic Novel Considers How to Raise a Feminist, by Elena Goukassian, Hyperallergic
2017 Primahood: Magenta—Slice-of-Life Storytelling with a Surreal Sideline in Tyler Cohen’s Warm Exploration of Modern Parenting, by Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
2017 PRIMAHOOD: Rebecca Fish Ewan Reviews Tyler Cohen's Excellent New Book, Hip Mama Magazine
2017 'Primahood: Magenta' by Tyler Cohen, by Cathy Camper, Lambda Literary
2017 Tyler Cohen's Primahood Magenta, by Rob Clough, High Low Comics
2017 Conference takes serious look at queer comics, by Matthew S. Bajko, Bay Area Reporter
2017 8 New Political Comics From PEN’s ‘State of Emergency’, by Megan Purdy.
2016 Rob’s 6th Annual Top 20 Comics List: The 2016 Edition, by Robert Kirby
2016 The Rumpus Interview with Kerry and Tyler Cohen, by Jamie Herndon
2012 Interview, Art Animal Magazine
2011 Comic Book Resources: Review Time with Primahood!
SOLO SHOWS
2017 Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
2013-14 Small Press Spotlight, Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2005 Anno Domini gallery, San Jose, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2023 Cartoonists@836M, 836M Gallery, May 25–Sept. 28.
2023 Mutha—Decade: 10 years/10 artists, Fantagraphics Bookstore, Seattle, WA
2019 Sex, Death, and Visceral Honesty Exhibition, The Front Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA (nolafront.org)
2018 Sex, Death, and Visceral Honesty Exhibition, Central Conneticut State University Art Gallery, New Britain, CN
2014 Doing Your Dirty Work III, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
2012 Doing Your Dirty Work, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
2008 Experimental Cartoon and Drawing Exhibition, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 WAR: An International Art Exhibition, Queer Cultural Center/Somarts, San Francisco, CA
2004 Juried Annual, juried by Rene de Guzman, Pro-Arts, Oakland, CA
2004 Fresh Produce, Anno Domini gallery, San Jose, CA
2004 Post-It Show, CCA PlaySpace gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Selections, juried by Arnold Kemp, CCAC North/South galleries, Oakland CA
2003 Bay Area Zine & Mini-Comic Show, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
AWARDS & HONORS
2024 "Semantic Shift" listed as Finalist for Best of the Net
2017 Winner, Bisexual Book Award for Graphic Memoir
2015 Communicator Award of Excellence, The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. Winning project: PSM Rogue’s Gallery, Nonprofit Magazine, Creative Coordinator—art direction and comics layout.
2012 Artist-in-Residence (July), Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
2004 Honorable Mention, Jurors Commendation Award, Juried Annual, juried by Rene de Guzman, Pro-Arts, Oakland, CA
TEACHING
2024 The Psychology of Color workshop, California College of the Arts—MFA in Comics program, San Francisco, CA
2023 The Psychology of Color workshop, California College of the Arts—MFA in Comics program, San Francisco, CA
2023 Queer Comics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2022 Graphic Memoir, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2021 Making Comics—Fall, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2021 Making Comics—Summer session, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2021 Queer Comics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2020 Memoir Comics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2019 Making Comics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2019 San Francisco Underground & Wimmen's Comix, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2017 Drawing Teacher (gesture drawing, drawing faces, drawing hands), Berkeley Public Library
2013 Teaching Artist, cartooning, San Francisco Children's Art Center
2012 Mistress at the Adventure School for Ladies Comics Intensive, Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
2002–2004 California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA: Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting
1986–1990 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: Bachelor of Art, G.S. Hum—an acceptance-only program of interdisciplinary study. Disciplines studied: anthropology, literature, visual art.
