Michael Cohn is a certified appraisal specialist and founder of Michael Cohn Fine Art Consultants LLC. He has extensive experience appraising Asian art and contemporary Asian art. Some of his accomplishments include being a faculty member at NYU, publishing chapters on art appraisal, and participating in panels at international art conventions and symposia. He regularly attends major international art fairs and has studied topics such as science in art evaluation and contemporary art in Cambodia.

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MICHAEL COHN
Cirriculum Vitae
Certified Appraisal Specialist, Appraisers Assoication of America
Founder, Michael Cohn Fine Art Consultants LLC, New York, NY
Faculty Member, Appraisal Studies, New York University, SCPS, NYC
Associations
• Certified Member, Appraisers Association of America
• Member, Salvador Dali Research Center
• Member, Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association
• Member, Vetting Committee,
Spring Masters New York international art and design fair
• Member, American Committee on South Asian Art
• Preferred Provider, Chubb Masterpiece ® Protection Network
• Trustee, Board of Directors, American Chai Trust, New York, NY
• Trustee, Hunter College Foundation, New York, NY
Certifications
• Certified specialist in Asian Art, Appraisers Association of America
• Certified specialist in Contemporary Asian Art, AAA
• USPAP compliant 2014-15
Select Publications
• Contributor, Appraising Art: The Definitive Guide, Chapter: “Asian
Art,” Hudson Hills Press: 2012
• Contributor, An Approach to the Advanced Problems Of Appraising
Art, Chapter: “Science and Art” 2012
Select Panel Member/ Lecturer
• Panel Member, Art Management, Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia
• Panel Member, Symposium: Use of Science in Evaluation and
Conservation of Art and Antiques,” National Convention, AAA
• Panel Member, Symposium: Gandhara and Southeast Asian Art,
National Convention, AAA

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Select International Art Fairs Regularly Attend
• Art Moscow, Russia
• Hong Kong Art Fair
• Friese NY and London
• FIAC, Paris, France
• Venice Biennale, Italy
• Armory Show, New York
• Art Basel Miami Basel and
Hong Kong
• Whitney Biennial, NYC
• New Museum Triennial
Select Symposia/Colloquia Attended
• The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art
in America, Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick, NYC
• Post-1945 Japanese Art History Now, PONJA-GenKon 10th
Anniversary
Symposium, Japan Society, NYC
• Dunhuang Project, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• Science and the Arts, Forbes Symposium, Freer and Sackler Galleries,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
• Conservation on Dunhauang, China, Getty Museum and Dunhuang
Academy, Dunhuang, China
• Contemporary Art in Cambodia: A Historical Inquiry, MoMA, NYC
• Colloquium on Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East and
South Asia, Institute of Fine Arts, New York City
Select Recent Lectures Attended
• Art + Politics in Chinese Contemporary Art, Melissa Chiu, NYU Institute of
Fine Arts, New York
• Research at the Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian, Suitland, MD
• Art Business Abroad,” DeWitt Stern Forum, New York
• News from Leonardo, International Foundation for Art Research, NY
• The Future of the Past–Collecting Ancient Art in the 21st Century, Asia
Society, New York
• Warhol Board Stops Authenticating: Issues and Fallout, International
Foundation for Art Research, New York
• Critial Information: Mapping the Intersection of Art and Technology, School
of Visual Arts, New York
Select Studio Visits/ Artist Talks
• Artist Talk/Lecture: Wade Guyton, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, NYC
• Artist Talk: “Danh Vo” Guggenheim / Sackler Center, NYC
• Artist Talk: Judith Bernstein & Paul McCarthy In Conversation, New
Museum, NYC
• Studio Visit: Matthew Schreibe, New York