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Autumn Ahn (b. Philadelphia, currently based in rural Western MA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work interweaves the notion of landscape with the unknown and the lived experience. Drawing upon personal and cultural encounters with instability and transformation, she explores the responsive conditions that shape reality in human perception that reveal scales of experience and bodily relation to the earth’s forces. Originally studying painting, she works instinctively with line, ink, paper, color, and light to engage with the environment or to speak to the paradoxes between physical dimensions of presence and the demands made by lingering or non-linear psychogeographies upon material life. Her expanded surfaces include the use of natural forces and installation relating to conceptual and body-centered principles found in Western and non-Western art histories of drawing, avant-garde action, performance and experimental gestures. Engaging with the contradictions, immediacies, and transcendent possibilities of an unfixed state of being, Ahn’s practice contemplates the range of how form itself stabilizes knowledge and therefore life.
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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 Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Puffin Foundation, and a 2025 CAA Professional Development Award for Visual Art. She has been in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Cittadellarte, the Studios at MassMoCA, and also many informal community supported residencies. Ahn was most recently a visiting artist at Bard College and a visiting fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University. In 2023 she was awarded a Arts, Science + Collaboration Initiative award to conduct research between the Yerkes Observatory and the University of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely, including 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; Cinema Tonalá, Bogotá; 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.
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