autumn ahn
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Autumn Ahn’s practice brings attention to the responsive conditions that construct reality in human experience. Her work focuses on the themes of landscape, embodiment, and their relationship to the inherently non-linear origins of our becoming. Through drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, and abstraction, she explores the practical forms, systems, and structures that organize the body’s encounters with nature. Fascinated by the way physical experience shapes thought, emotion, and perception, her work often incorporates degrees of activation to unfix the idea of meaning from a cognitive or mental way of knowing. It centers the body’s intelligence and proposes instead, an open-endedness to the ways that forms stabilize knowledge, and therefore life.
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Autumn 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, 2024 Puffin Foundation Grant, supported by the Rasuchenberg Foundation, and 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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