Roger Kohn Biography
Roger Kohn is an author and designer. He studied with Rowan Gillespie at the York School of Art and is the biographer of the Irish sculptor.
How old is Roger Kohn? – Age
He is 71 years old as of 2022. He was born in 1951 in York, United Kingdom.
Roger Kohn Education
Marton Hall Preparatory School and Pocklington School were where Kohn received his education. After a year at York School of Art, he graduated with honors from Chelsea School of Art, where he studied with Edward Bell, among others (artist).
Roger Kohn Wife
He is married to Karen Kohn.
Roger Kohn Looking for Orion
Looking for Orion, a biography of Rowan Gillespie, Sculpting Life (Moondance Productions 2007), was released in Ireland to coincide with the unveiling of the Irish sculptor’s latest work Proclamation. Previously, he worked as a style and design consultant for the family of Vanilla Beer, a Czech belle epoch artist, and designer, and produced her book Mangez et Vivez (2006).
Roger Kohn Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Roger Kohn Career
After a year at York School of Art, he graduated with honors from Chelsea School of Art, where he studied with Edward Bell, among others (artist). Kohn studied at Chelsea under Edward Wright, Dennis Bailey, and Susan Einzig, and became friends with Ivor Cutler, a Scottish surrealist poet and musician. Cutler had a subtle influence on Kohn, which can be seen in his art.
Kohn spent a lot of time in Latin America. He began his career with the Diagram Group, a London-based cooperative group of designers, writers, artists, and editors led by Bruce Robertson and Bob Chapman that supplied visualized information to publishers in the UK and US; and was Art Editor on the definitive encyclopedia Musical Instruments of the World, which was featured in Eduardo Paolozzi’s 1985 “Lost Magic Kingdoms” exhibition at the Museum of Mankind in London. After a brief stint at Hamlyn Publishing Group, he joined Octopus Books as Art Editor. He left in 1983 to start his own design firm and pursue his interest in art and photography, visiting over 60 countries and amassing an extensive photographic library.
He cites album sleeve designer Cal Schenkel’s imagery as possibly his greatest visual influence. Following his participation in the Art Attack exhibition at Cuts Gallery in Kensington with Vanilla Beer and Jane Jackson, Kohn held his first one-man show, “Hung, Drawn, and Slaughtered,” at the Zillah Bell Contemporary Art Gallery in Thirsk in October 2003.
Among other things, Kohn has done filmography for Verónico Cruz and designed and produced promotional materials for African Revival, a UK-based charity that provides aid to self-sustaining projects in Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia. He is a product designer for Fruity Faces, a Dragons’ Den fruit case company that promotes healthy eating and donates profits to charity.
Kohn also designs the magazine British Artists in Glass, which is produced for the Contemporary Glass Society and was founded by David Reekie as British Artists in Glass. The Contemporary Glass Society is an Arts Council-funded organization that promotes and supports glass art in the United Kingdom. He was one of many artists, including Sir Paul McCartney, David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Edward Bell, and Damien Hirst, who created postcards for Christie’s Art of Care Auction in Edinburgh in 2005.