He earned a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He was a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Cohen's work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and The Portland Art Museum. His work has been published in several books, including Digital Art by Christiane Paul (Thames & Hudson, London, 2003), CURVE: The Female Nude Now by Dailey, Meghan et al, (Universe, NY, 2003), 100 New York Photographers by Cynthia Dantzic (Schiffer Publishing, PA, 2009), Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching by Kelly Dennis (Berg Publishers. Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2009) and most recently, the January 2015 issue of FLAUNT magazine.