public art network council

Charlotte Cohen
Regional Fine Arts Officer
General Service Administration
New York City, New York
E-mail: charlotte.cohen@gsa.gov

Charlotte Cohen is an arts administrator with many years of experience working in the field of public art. Currently, she is a fine arts officer with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), managing new commissions and the collection in the New York region. Prior to joining GSA in 2005, Cohen directed the New York City Percent for Art Program for nine years. She has also worked for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in Washington, DC, and was program director at Maryland Art Place, a nonprofit contemporary art center in Baltimore. Cohen has lectured about public art nationally and internationally. She curated a team of artists and public art experts to travel to different cities in Russia to lecture and set up projects, and she established the Public Art in Public Spaces program at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. Cohen has served on juries and panels across the United States, and is an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s master's program in visual arts administration.