Education
She graduated with an Master of Fine Arts in 2003 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
She graduated with an Master of Fine Arts in 2003 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
"Using humor as a central device, Kahn combines storytelling with visceral performances, blurring the lines between the fictional and the real to show how language is forged out of trauma." "Kahn’s characters are contemporary flaneurs, and each is steadfast on a physical or linguistic dérive that takes the viewer through narratives of mortality, trauma, family, and the ethics of civic and ecological responsibility."
She has exhibited worldwide collaboratively with artist Harry Dodge in the last decade and has exhibited solo since 2010. Previous to and during her collaboration with Dodge, she made solo performance works and also collaborated with performers and choreographers Keith Hennessy, Congress of Racial Equality and Ishmael Houston Jones, touring live shows worldwide from 1992-2000. She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Los Angeles
She is represented with Dodge by Elizabeth Dee in New New York
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Goetz Collection, Munich. Kahn"s work has shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Artist The Museum of Modern Art, New New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Los Angeles
The Getty Center, Los Los Angeles Hammer Museum, Los Los Angeles Sundance Film Festival.
Center for Art and Media, Karlsrühe.
Process Status 1 Center for Contemporary Art, New New York Contemporary Center for Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. International Cooperation Administration, Philadelphia. Kunstalle, Bonn, German Democratic Republic. Brooklyn Museum, New New York
The Hayward Gallery, London.
Susanne Vielmetter, Los Los Angeles and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, among many others Her writings appear in journals and anthologies including Nothing Moments, Userlands (edited by Dennis Cooper), Soft Targets Journal of Art and Theory, LTTR and Movement Research.
She teaches as adjunct faculty in New Genres at University of California, Los Angeles, Photo/Media at Cal Arts, Visual Arts/Media and Critical Gender Studies at University of California, San Diego, and has taught in the Master of Fine Arts programs at University of Southern California and University of California, Los Los Angeles
Her solo performance works have toured nationally and internationally, and she was a founding member of the performance group/band Congress of Racial Equality.