Educated at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in NYC and The Maryland Institute College of Art, Cogan has spent her career in both painting and textiles. Cogan has been exhibiting her work throughout the US and in Europe for over two decades and has been at the forefront of the fiber arts movement with an emphasis on Feminism in contemporary art.
Cogan has been included in a number of notable national and international museum and university exhibitions, including The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, The Museum of Arts & Design, NY, which holds her work in its permanent collection in addition to The MIT collection and others, Riverside Museum, Riverside, CA, The Hudson River Museum, NY, The Textile Museum of Toronto, Canada, with Judy Chicago, The Brattleboro Museum VT, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, Fresno Metropolitan Museum,CA, The Musee International Des Arts Modeste, Sete, France, The Rijswijk Textile Biennial in The Museum Rijswijk and at The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Oslo among others. Cogan’s work is found in various public and private collections and she has also curated several acclaimed group exhibitions in NYC.