autumn ahn
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Autumn Ahn’s sculptures, drawings, activations, and installations, explore the responsive conditions that construct reality within human experience. She studies the practical forms, structures, systems, and phenomena that organize human interactions with nature that are accompanied by the symbolic or emotional charge of time. Her contemplation of how the physical and mental experience of the world cultivates space and meaning,
Investigating phenomena entangled with human perception, including, landscape, dreams, movement, change, and consciousness, she studies the practical forms, structures, and systems, that organize human interactions with nature accompanied by the symbolic or emotional charge of time. Contemplating how the physical and mental experience of the world cultivates space and meaning, Ahn’s abstractions vary in degrees of duration or sensitivity and, ultimately, ask what natural forces might be, or look like.
Autumn Ahn (b.1986, USA) lives and works in rural Western Massachusetts.
Ahn holds an MFA in performance and critical studies, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA in oil painting, from Boston University College of Fine Arts. Ahn is a Visiting Artist-in-Residence in the Visual Arts Department at Bard College. She has been in residences at Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. She is the recipient of a 2025 CAA Professional Development Award for a Visual Artist, 2025 Martha Boschen Porter Fund Award, 2024 Puffin Foundation Grant, 2024 Mass Cultural Council Creative Individual Award, and was awarded a 2023 Arts, Science + Collaboration Initiative award to conduct research with Yerkes Observatory and the University of Chicago. Her work has been presented with lower_cavity, False Flag Gallery, Selebe Yoon Gallery, Howard Yezerski Gallery, The Chimney, Cinema Tonalá, Space Debris Istanbul, École du Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain Grenoble, AIDS Action Committee, amongst 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 MassMoCA and on the board of Boston Cyberarts Organization.
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