faculty profile
Terri Cohn
Visiting Faculty
Interdisciplinary Studies
Terri Cohn is a writer, curator, art historian, and editor. Her research and writings focus on conceptual art, technology, public art, and socially engaged art practices. A Contributing Editor to Artweek magazine for 20 years, she currently writes for Public Art Review, Art in America, caa.reviews, and Art Practical. Terri edited and co-authored Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport (Heyday, 2012), and co-curated exhibitions of Rapoport’s work for Kala Art Institute and Mills College Art Museum (2011, 2012). Her many public talks include SFMOMA, Columbus College of Art of Design, University of London, and Oxford Brookes University, England.
Selected Exhibitions:
- Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, Mills College Art Museum, 2012
- Pairings of Polarities, Kala Art Institute, 2011
- Unexpected Reflections: The Portrait Reconsidered, Meridian Gallery, 2010
Selected Publications:
- Pairings of Polarities: The Life and Work of Sonya Rapoport, Heyday Press, 2012
- Silvia Poloto: Private Puzzles, Triton Museum of Art, 2012
- “Art, Environment, Politics: A Conversation with Platform; and Keeper of Water: A Conversation with Betsy Damon,” The New Earthwork, ISC, 2011
- Unexpected Reflections: The Portrait Reconsidered, Meridian Gallery, 2010
- The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, 2009
Education:
- MA with honors, Art History, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
- BA cum laude, Art History, University of California, Berkeley
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