Bruce Cohen (b. 1953) is a Santa Monica based artist who evolved out of the contemporary realism movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s in reaction to the rising popularity of abstraction. His most iconic subjects are domestic interiors with signs of inhabitation. Cohen attributes his sense of composition and surface to the study of Indian miniature painting, but is perhaps most influenced by Dutch still life painters and the Surrealists. He is represented by the Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco and Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monic. Cohen's work is represented in public and private collections such as Phillip Morris, New York, Pacific Bell, Los Angeles, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.