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Dianna Cohen
Artist, activist and CEO
Dianna Cohen is an American visual artist and activist.[1] She is the CEO and co-founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, an advocacy group and social movement organization which seeks to reduce plastic pollution.[2][3]
Early life and education
Cohen grew up in Los Angeles.
Her father was a filmmaker, and her mother the director of the Los Angeles Free Clinic.[4] She attended UCLA, where she studied biology before shifting her major to art.[5]
Career
Following her graduation, Cohen began working in collage, initially using deconstructed brown paper bags, and later incorporating plastic.
Her first solo exhibition of the bag series was in 1994.[5]
After eight years of working with plastic bags, Cohen realized the plastic was degrading. In a 2015 interview she said: “At first I got excited because I thought that it meant the plastic bags were ephemeral and organic like us