autumn ahn
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Autumn Ahn (b. 1986, Philadelphia) is an artist based in Western Massachusetts whose work investigates the way forms produce time. Ahn uses line, color, mark, grids, primary shapes, and state change, to open a sensory field where form becomes an event that occupies thresholds of meaning. Through installation, sculpture, performance, and drawing, the elements of her work anchor or collapse the movements of time, suggesting that order itself is an abstraction. Her current work draws on the conceptual and physical structure of landscape to explore non-linear time in relation to the body. It traces the provisional and reflexive exchanges that echo across matter, mechanical and natural systems, and genealogies of transcultural avant-garde practice. Recent exhibitions and performances include: ‘line: edge self horizon’ presented by the estate of Gordon Matta-Clark at Fall River MoCA (2026); ‘no sun’ at Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston (2025); ‘Horizon (fata morgana)’ in Trees never end and Houses never end, Sky High Farm Biennial, NY (2025).
Ahn 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 is the recipient of grants from the Artist Resource Trust, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Puffin Foundation, and the College Art Association. She has been in residence at Cittadellarte Pistoletto Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, lower_cavity, the Studios at MassMoCA. Ahn was a visiting fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University and a visiting artist at Bard College. She has presented workshops at Aalto University, Helsinki, and École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Her work has been exhibited at the 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul; Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain (CNAC), Grenoble; Selebe Yoon Gallery, Dakar; Cinema Tonalá, Bogotá; False Flag Gallery, New York; Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston; The Chimney, New York; Sky High Farm Biennial, Germantown; AIDS Action Committee; among others. Her work has been featured by ARTE (FR/DE), the Emergency Index, and Boston Art Review.
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Education
2021-2023
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
2004-2008
Boston University, College of Fine Arts, BFA
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, IT
Scuola Abate Zanetti, Glass School, Murano, IT
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 line: edge self horizon, site-specific performance-lectures presented by estate of Gordon Matta-Clark
2025 no sun, Anthony Greaney Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 on the genealogy of forms, lower cavity, Holyoke, MA
2019 surfaces, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 a tall action is not a height, The Chimney, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Sky High Farm Biennial, Germantown, NY / Trees Never End and Houses Never End, curated by Dan Colen
The Summit Show, Mundus Press, Holyoke, MA / curated by Charlotte Kohlmann
2024 Salon Acmé, CDMX, Mexico / Convocatoria, curated by Ana Castella, Pati Hertling, Anais Lepage, Dario Escobar, Alex Romero, Santiago Villanueva, Benedicta Badia
2022 NADA / Like a child or I go on the playground swings when no one’s around or giggle is such an embodied word (For Eloise Greenfield), curated by Daonne Huff
2021 False Flag Gallery, NYC, NY / Boomshakalaka, curated by Mike Mosby
Selebe Yoon Gallery, Dakar, Senegal / Mots de neige, Histoires en sable, curated by Jennifer Houdrouge
2017 Boston City Hall, Government Center, MA / CASTLEDRONE CORRAL, curated by Bathaus
15th Istanbul Biennial, a good neighbor, Surp Yerrotutyun Ereni Kilisesi, Istanbul, TR / Space Debris & Exhibist Magazine
2016 Cinema Tonalá, Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá, CO / The Host, curated by Anissa Touati
2015 Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, FR / Take You There Radio, curated by Martina Margini & Asli Seven
2013 Montserrat Art Galleries, Boston, MA / SEVEN, curated by Alter Projects
2008 Samson Projects, Boston, MA/ Chain Mail Show, curated by Camilo Alvarez
Teaching/ Visiting Critic
2026 Clark MFA/MassMoCA - Seminar ‘Elastic Time’
2025 Department of Visual Arts, Williams College
Department of Visual Arts, Bennington College
GSAPP, Columbia University
2023-2024 Department of Visual Arts, Bard College - Course ‘Experimental Drawing II’
Awards, Residencies, Special Projects
2026
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant
Artist Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
2025
CAA Professional Development Award for Visual Art
Cittadellarte Pistolletto Foundation, Residency
Martha Boschen Porter Fund
Documentation as Poetic-Witness, Belding Memorial Library, Association for Rural & Small Libraries
2024
Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants for Creative Individuals
Puffin Foundation Grant
lower_cavity, Residency
2023
Municipal Art League Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Vermont Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, New Roads Full Scholarship
George, Memorial Exhibition for New Media Curator & Art Historian, George Fifield, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Co-Curator
Arts, Science + Culture Graduate Collaboration Grant, UChicago/SAIC
Documentation as Poetic-Witness, at Louis Place
2022
Headlands Center for the Arts, Residency
Documentation as Poetic-Witness, Performance Philosophy Conference, Aalto University
2021
New Artists Society Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Full Tuition Merit Scholarship
2019
Wesleyan University, ICPP mini-intensive
Createwell Artist Grant
Documentation as Poetic-Witness, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
Documentation as Poetic-Witness, Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Superieure
2018
Harvard University Department of Philosophy, Visiting Fellow
The Studios at MassMoCA, Residency
Evidence of a Signal, Crowley Theater, Marfa, TX
2017
Allen Ginsberg first edition tribute book, ‘AH Allen’, 55 eds. 45 Beat Generation artists, Archivist
2016
Louise Bourgeois Documentary, Robert Coen & Jean-Louis Bourgeois, Researcher/Assistant
Galerie Ofr., 20th Anniversary Salon Exhibition, Paris, FR
2015
ICA Boston, John Cage’s ‘Theater Piece No.1’, Black Mountain College Exhibition
Latent Lavender, Ryan Lee Gallery, NYC
2014
Voy(age)ur, STREAM Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Untitled (Chamber), AIDS ACTION COMMITTEE & Alter Projects, Miami, FL
2013
KSAT, Maison du Portugal, Paris, FR
Les Douches, Paris, FR