Maxi Cohen is an award-winning artist and filmmaker based in New York City. Her films, photographs and multimedia installations have been exhibited internationally and are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Her films have played in movie theaters, film festivals and television around the world.
She was a co-founder of the Independent Feature Project and First Run Features (the first company to distribute indie films theatrically), a board member of Women in Film, the first administrator of Electronic Arts Intermix (the preeminent distributor for video art), as well as a participant of a number of historic production/distribution events.
