Theodore Cohen (designer)

Theodore H. Cohen (April 27, 1928 – June 29, 2021) commonly known as Ted Cohen, was an American exhibition designer. He was named the American Craft Council's Honorary Fellow in 2000.[1]

Life and career

Theodore H. Cohen was born April 27, 1928, in Oakland, California.[2] He graduated in 1945 from Castlemont High School in Oakland.[2] After high school he joined the United States Army at the end of World War II, he was posted in Japan as a sign-painter.[2] He was color blind.[2]

Cohen studied fine art on the G.I. Bill at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in Oakland.[2] Cohen worked as exhibition designer at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) for more than 50 years.[2]

Cohen died at age 93 from an undiagnosed case of leukemia on June 29, 2021, in a hospice in California.[2] He was the subject of the posthumous retrospective exhibition, The Object In Its Place: As Designed By Ted Cohen (2022), curated by Carol Covington at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Ted Cohen's 50 Year Legacy of The Art of Display". Cottages & Gardens. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Whiting, Sam (July 16, 2021). "Ted Cohen, museum exhibition designer, dies at 93. Left unfinished: the retrospective of his own career". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 5, 2022. Retrieved 2025-10-13.
  3. ^ "The Object In Its Place: As Designed By Ted Cohen". Museum of Craft and Design (MCD). Retrieved 2025-10-13.


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