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Autumn Ahn (b. Philadelphia, based in rural Western MA) is an artist whose work interweaves the notion of landscape with the unknown and the lived experience through formal abstraction. Exploring the responsive conditions that shape reality in human perception, she is guided by conceptual and body-centered principles found in Western and non-Western art histories of painting, drawing, avant-garde action and experimental gestures. Ahn works instinctively through use of line, ink, color, activation, natural forces, and installation while reflecting on the complexities of the liberatory state produced by sublime experiences with nature, death and the beyond. Drawing upon personal and cultural encounters with instability and transformation, she confronts the contradictions and immediacies within their existential constraints. Her diverse approach alludes to the paradoxes between physical dimensions of presence and the demands made by lingering or non-linear psychogeographies upon material life. Organized by the structures foundational to composition, Ahn contemplates how these multitudes within form itself stabilize 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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