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Deville Cohen is a New York City based non•disciplinary artist. He studied sculpture at the KHB Berlin from 2002-2007 and received his MFA in film/video from Bard College NY in 2010. His videos and installations have been shown internationally in museums and galleries such as International Objects, MoMA PS1;  SFMoMA; The CCA Tel-Aviv; PS122 Gallery; and The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. He began creating for the stage during a residency at the Wooster Group Performance Garage in the summer of 2014. His creation, underline, in collaboration with the composer Hugo Morales, was commissioned and co-produced by the Deutsche Oper Berlin and The Munich Biennale for New Music Theater in 2016. In 2018 he co-created MENAGERIE with choreographer Shamel Pitts for Gibney Dance Company in NYC. In 2019 his new creation McGuffin was commissioned and produced by The Center of The Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was an artist in residence at Recess Art; EMPAC Troy, NY; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) workspace, NYC; Fountainhead in Miami; LMCC Process-Space NYC, Kinosaito Art Center, and Bates Dance Festival. In 2020 Deville Founded Hand To Mouth, a collaborative project with the support of PS122 Gallery in NYC, their first Project DE-SUICIDE was presented as a Gallery installation at PS122, and as a live performance at Kinosaito in 2022. Hand to Mouth received a MAP Fund grant for a new performance in 2025. Deville is also a founding member of Artists Commit, an NYC-based artist-run initiative invested in advocating for a climate-conscious, equitable, and resilient future. As a platform, the group has provided tools and resources to support artists catalyzing climate action, in particular through the impact of the work we make and how it travels through the art world.