Terri Cohn is a writer, a curator, and an art historian, and considers these facets of her career to be intertwined through her research and writings in the areas of conceptual art, gender, social sculpture, and current public art practices. She is the author of hundreds of essays, interviews, reviews, and catalogue essays, and has been a contributing editor to Artweek for almost two decades. She has contributed to such books as The Practice of Public Art (2008); A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980 (the essay “David Ireland: Art Meets Life Again”) (2006); Letters from Linda M. Montano (an interview) (2005); and Women Artists of the American West (the essay “In Which It Stands: Nature, Culture, Public Space”) (2003).

During 2005, Cohn was interim Matrix curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and is presently working as an independent curator. She also teaches in the Critical Studies, Exhibition and Museum Studies, and First-Year programs at SFAI. In Spring 2008, she conducted research and gave a series of talks in Oxford at the Social Sculpture Research Unit (Oxford Brookes University) and in London at Birkbeck College. Cohn is also a trustee of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.