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Autumn Ahn is an American artist whose work explores genealogies of form and meaning across the creation and reinterpretation of sculpture, performance, and drawing. Inspired by the responsive conditions that construct reality within human experience, Ahn experiments with unconventional strategies of installation that reimagines broad art historical and philosophical understandings of site, liveness, and nature. Looking to the immediacies of material and sensory life, she investigates how the physical body encounters landscape and the ways that meaning materializes in time and space. She invites diverse gestures from forces such as the wind, gravity, tension, and memory to her processes that often result in forms existing with varying degrees of duration or sensitivity. Informed by vast histories of practical knowledge, these abstractions address the immediacies of material and sensory life that are mitigated by the body, and accompanied by the symbolic or emotional charge of time. Through this expansive abstraction of familiar forms, she invites reflection around the human desire to make sense of existence under the contemporary, untethered conditions of time that define it, asking what natural forces might be, or look like.
Autumn Ahn (b.1986, USA) lives and works in rural Western Massachusetts.
Ahn has been a Visiting Artist in Residence in the Visual Arts Department at Bard College, 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 and 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. 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.
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