autumn ahn
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Autumn Ahn’s work speaks to the responsive conditions that shape reality in human perception. Reflecting upon scales of experience and the bodily relation to earth’s forces, she interweaves notions of landscape with the unknown and the lived dimensions of material life. Originally studying painting, Ahn works instinctively with line, ink, paper, color, and space to explore the paradoxes between physical dimensions of presence and the demands made by lingering or non-linear psychogeographies upon landscapes seen and unseen. Her expanded approach includes the use of natural forces and installation relating to conceptual and body-centered principles found in Western and non-Western art histories of drawing, painting, avant-garde action, performance and experimental gestures. Engaging with the contradictions, immediacies, and transcendent possibilities of the unfixed state of our being, Ahn’s practice contemplates how form itself questions the stability of knowledge and therefore life.
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Ahn holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BFA from Boston University and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. She is the recipient of grants from the 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 Pistoletto Foundation, the Studios at MassMoCA, and 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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b.1986 (Philadelphia)
Lives and works in Western MA, USA
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
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 line: edge self horizon, site-specific performance-lectures with 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 Trees Never End and Houses Never End, Sky High Farm Biennial, Germantown, NY
2025 The Summit Show, Mundus Press, Holyoke, MA
2024 Convocatoria, Salon Acmé, CDMX, Mexico
2022 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), NADA
2021 Boomshakalaka, False Flag Gallery, NYC, NY
2021 Mots de neige, Histoires en sable, Selebe Yoon Gallery, Dakar, Senegal
2017 CASTLEDRONE CORRAL, Boston City Hall, Government Center, MA
2017 Space Debris & Exhibist Magazine for 15th Istanbul Biennial, a good neighbor, Surp Yerrotutyun Ereni Kilisesi, Istanbul, TR
2016 The Host, Cinema Tonalá, Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá, CO
2015 Take You There Radio, Streaming Radio Intervention, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, FR
2013 SEVEN, Montserrat Art Galleries, Boston, MA
Teaching
2026 Clark MFA/MassMoCA
2023-2024 Department of Visual Arts, Bard College
Art 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
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
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, Robbins Library, 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 tribute book, ‘AH Allen’, 55 eds. 45 Artists from Beat Generation, 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, Special Projects, 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
2011
Chain Letter Show, Sampson Projects, Boston, MA
2008
Pilchuck Glass School, Einar & Jamex de la Torres