1935	Born to deaf parents; learned to spell on his fingers when he was one.
1964	Edited and published GNAOUA in Tangier featuring William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Jack Smith and Irving Rosenthal.
1966-1970	Started the Universal Mutant Repertory Company and became "The Father of Mylar Photography."
1966	Brought out The Hashish Cookbook under the name of Panama Rose, and Jilala, an LP record of Moroccan Trance Music. Wrote The Goblet of Dreams for Playboy Magazine.
1968	Directed and starred in the award winning film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Appeared in Jack Smith's Reefers of Technicolor Island. Produced Paradise Now in Amerika, a film of the Living Theater's historic 1968 American tour.
1970s	Went to Kathmandu and started the Starstreams Poetry Series under the Bardo Matrix imprint, publishing on rice paper the work of Gregory Corso, Charles Henri Ford, Angus MacLise and Paul Bowles (among others). Also published his own work including Poems From The Cosmic Crypt, Seven Marvels and Gilded Splinters.
1980 to present: Moved back to New York.
Select Exhibitions
	Kathmandu Portfolio, The Bandaged Poet Series, Kings with Straw Mats, Dangerous Visions, Retrospectacle, About Faces (with Carol Beckwith), New York Sling shots, From The Mylar Chamber, a two-man show at the Lessing Gallery in NYC with Man Ray, a two-man show at Space Time Light (New York) with Jack Micheline, etc.
Select Publications
	The London Sunday Times, Avant Garde, LIFE Magazine, Facade (Paris), Nexus, Nieuwe Revue (Amsterdam), Caliban, etc.
	Minbad Sinbad, a book of writings and photos dealing with Morocco published in French (Didier Devillez, Brussels, 1998).
He is represented in London by the October Gallery and in Tokyo by T B Design.
Photography:
	Mylar portrait of Jimi Hendrix Reflections, reproduced on The Ultimate Experience CD.
	John McLaughlin's Devotion and Spirit's The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus.
	Bill Laswell and Axiom Records, including Blues in the East.
	Photography for Pharoah Sanders' CD Message From Home (Verve) 1996
1986-1995	Uncountable poetry readings from Okinawa to San Francisco.
He has also been a featured reader in Paris (Paysage du Nord-Ouest, Brussels (John Cage Tribute), Prague, Portland Or. (Artquake) and Texas (Mandalay Poetry Festival).
He appeared in Dublin with the Burroughs-Gysin Here to Go Show.
Contributing Editor:
	Ins & Outs (Amsterdam), Third Rail (Los Angeles), Ignite (New York), Nexus (Dayton, OH),
	XPress (Bohemia, NY) 15 Minutes (St. Louis), Growing Hand (San Francisco). Edited Jack Smith's Historical Treasures for Hanuman Books. Co-edited The Great Society with Bobby Richkin. Published Petroleum Petroleum by Gustav Meyrink (Akashic Bulletin #1, 1991).
Books of Poetry:
	The Stauffenberg Cycle and Other Poems (Holland), From the Divan of Petra Vogt (Rotterdam), On Feet of Gold (Synergetic Press),
	Media Shamans Ratio 3 (with Gerard Malanga and Angus MacLise, Temple Press, England).
CDs of Readings:
	The Majoon Traveler (with music by Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Moroccan trance music, etc., Sub Rosa, Belgium). Kaliban und Andere Gedichte (Altaquito Press, Gottingen).
Bilingual Publication:
	Secret Milk, from Switzerland, translated by Florian Vetsch.
Film:
	Produced, Directed and wrote Kings with Straw Mats, video documentary of the Hardwar Kumbh Mela, 1986 (Mystic Fire Video, 1998).
1998	Regular live broadcast bi-weekly on Internet called The Majoon Traveler (www.psuedo.com).
1999	Photographic collaboration with Allan Graubard for his poem Fragments from Nomad Days.
	October 1999 screening of The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda at the Whitney Museum, NYC Release of Angus MacLise CD The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda sound track (Siltbreeze). Photographer & Akashic Director of second Angus MacLise CD, Brain Damage in Oklahoma City.
2000	He has a permanent growing exhibition of all his activities on www.bigbridge.com under the supervision of Michael Rothenberg.
	A feature interview in Goodie Magazine edited by Romy Ashby & Foxy Kidd. From The Akashic Record, a book of poems, to be also published soon by Goodie.
	Contributing editor for Cannon Hersey's Cross Path Culture, also hosting poetry events in New York City.
	Present at Gordon Campbell's great tree installation, planting 7,000 Oaks in the shape of a heart near the burial place of the Goddess Eru at Uisneach, Ireland
	A Retrospectacle of Photographic Works by Ira Cohen, solo exhibition of photography at Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC.
2001	Symposium on the work of Ira Cohen in Japan under the auspices of Electric Rexroth & High Moon Noon.
2003	October Gallery, London, England, UK: live poetry reading.
	Kill Your Timid Notions, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK: world premier screening of Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (original score by Angus MacLise), live poetry reading with screening of Kings with Straw Mats (sans soundtrack), and 4 channel screening of Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (live interpretive accompaniment by Acid Mothers Temple). organized by Barry Esson, Bryony McIntyre and the DCA.
Ira Cohen's prolific participation in the world wide creative arts scene is difficult to track; this resume was compiled during the Licking the Skull retrospective at Cynthia Broan Gallery in 2001. Ira is constantly offering live poetry readings throughout NYC and participating in other creative projects and publications. Please check our news section or call for more information.