He was recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Award.
National Science Foundation | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | New York Foundation for the Arts | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Esther Williams | Apache Software Foundation | foundation | Make-A-Wish Foundation | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Konex Foundation | Foundation series | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation | McKnight Foundation | Japan Foundation | Ingram Merrill Foundation | Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year | Free Software Foundation | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |
Cohen has been a Yaddo Foundation Fellow and the recipient of awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the NEA, the New York State Council for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Space Program, and recently, the Edward F. Albee Foundation.