Philo Cohen, founder of SpeciWomen, talks the absence of female representation in the art world and the importance of empowering women and girls.

Philo Cohen is a 17 years old junior in high school at the Professional Children’s School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She moved from Paris to New York City a year and a half ago and now lives in Brooklyn. Philo is the creator and artistic director of the website SPECIWOMEN, which she first imagined after realizing how minor the representation of female artists was. SPECIWOMEN’s goal is to put forward young women from all around the world to prove how the next generation of artists could shape a world of equality and power. Philo’s goal is to help creative women to make it in History and become big.
Philo’s parents being filmmakers, she grew up on movie sets and has therefore always been familiar with an artistic environment. She draws, paints and has been in the Advanced Art Studio classes of the different schools she went to. She worked on several of her dad’s movies as an actress and a set photographer.
She did internships at the Gagosian Gallery in New York City.

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