Charles Cohan received a BFA in Printmaking from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has held professorships at Florida State University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is currently Professor of Art and Printmaking Program Chair at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His work is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI; Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI; Kennedy Museum of American Art, Athens, OH; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Grinnell College Permanent Art Collection, Grinnell, IA; University of North Dakota Art Museum, Vermilion, ND; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA; Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA; Florida State University Art Museum, Tallahassee, FL; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; City of Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA; California State University, Long Beach, CA; Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA; and the State Art Museum of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Russia. Recent research and teaching projects have taken him to Whanganui Polytech in New Zealand, Hard Ground Printmakers in Cape Town, South Africa, the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington, and the Fundacion Ludwig in Havana, Cuba, for which he received a U.S. Department of State research travel grant.