DREA COHANE
Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. Her works have been exhibited in Canada, United States, and the UK and are held in private collections worldwide including Canada, United States, Mexico, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Netherlands and Finland.
Like Alice Neel's approach to painting, Drea does not think of herself as a portrait painter but rather a painter of people. She is fascinated by human nature; more specifically, by the interior lives we carry within us. These enigmatic inner landscapes are mostly kept hidden from a passerby, but will sometimes - and often fleetingly, reveal themselves in a passing gesture or look. In her portraits, Drea looks to capture a quality or expression through the use of colour and contour that distills something of the interior life of a person. Whether it's just a mere glimpse of what's going on under the surface, there is always an acute sense of a passing mood playing out before the viewer.
Education
TURPS, 2024-2025
Galleries
Exhibitions
2026
Gallery 1065, Toronto, Canada - National Portrait Gallery of Canada of Bloorcourt Exhibit
Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada - Portrait Exhibit
Gallery at Green & Stone, London, UK - Works on Paper 2026
Tacit, Toronto, Canada - IWD Broken Telephone
Janey, Cambridge, Canada - Softening
Plural, Montreal, Canada - Janey
2025
Bankside Gallery, London, UK - RWS Open
Gagne Contemporary, Toronto, Canada - Murmurations
Blue Shop Cottage, London, UK - Works on Paper 2025
Janey, Cambridge, Canada - The Empress
Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada - Janey
2024
Bankside Gallery, London, UK - RWS Open, Winner of The Shoosmith Gallery Prize
Bankside Gallery, London, UK - Jackson's Art Prize
Galerie ERGA, Montreal, Canada - Art sur Papier
2023
ARTWRK, Canada - Holiday Art Guide
Matilda Gallery, Stratford, Canada - Christmas Exhibit
2022
ARTWRK, Canada - The Lives of Others, Solo Exhibit
Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, Canada - Group Exhibit
2021
Gagne Contemporary, Toronto, Canada - Winter Parade
Starving Artist x Hello Art, Toronto, Canada - Solo Exhibit
Carbonic x Hello Art, Toronto, Canada - Solo Exhibit
Esperanto Gallery, Markham, Canada - Papier
The Holy Art, London, UK - INFINITY
Gallea, Montreal, Canada - Women in Art Collection
Las Lagunas Art Gallery, California, USA - Painterly