autumn ahn
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Autumn Ahn is an interdisciplinary artist working with landscape. Her practice explores the unfixed, responsive conditions of material life and the structures that shape reality in human experience. Expanding conventions of drawing, sculpture, and painting, her work brings attention to the ambiguities inherent in embodiment, in representation, and in materiality. Ahn’s approach prioritizes the body’s intelligence and contemplates the way forms themselves stabilize knowledge, and therefore life. She relies on abstraction, moving through the ways it opens up, ruptures, and reveals, everything.
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Ahn was born in Philadelphia and is based in rural Western Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in performance and critical studies, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA in painting, from Boston University and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. She was most recently, a visiting artist at Bard College. She has been in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, a visiting fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University, and was awarded a 2023 Arts, Science + Collaboration Initiative award to conduct research between the Yerkes Observatory and the University of Chicago. She is the recipient of a 2025 CAA Professional Development Award for Visual Art and 2024 Puffin Foundation Grant, and supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her work has been exhibited widely, including Selebe Yoon Gallery, Dakar; Cinema Tonalá, Bogotá; False Flag Gallery, New York; The Chimney, New York; Sky High Farm Biennial, Germantown; Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain (CNAC), Grenoble; AIDS Action Committee; among others. Her work has been featured by ARTE (FR/DE), the Emergency Index, and Boston Art Review. She is an advisor for the Converging Liberations Residency at Mass MoCA and is on the board of Boston CyberArts.
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