Stanya Kahn

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Stanya Kahn
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Kahn at the IFFR 2023
Born1968 (age 5657)
Education San Francisco State University Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College
Website StanyaKahn.com

Stanya Kahn (born 1968) is an American artist. She graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University and received an MFA in 2003 from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Kahn lives and works in Los Angeles, California. [1]

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Artwork

Kahn was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. She was a contributing writer and actor in the feature film By Hook or By Crook.

Films and videos

Kahn has made two feature films and multiple shorts and animations, including:

Early work

From 1988 to 1999 Kahn made multidisciplinary performance works, both solo and collaborative, in San Francisco, New York, and touring nationally and internationally. [2]

Collaborations with Harry Dodge

In the early 1990s, Kahn met Harry Dodge, a video artist. The two began collaborating in the late 1990's on performance and on the film By Hook or By Crook and continued making short videos until 2008, co-writing, directing and editing. Kahn improvised most of the language in the videos while Dodge often operated the camera. [3]

Their comedic videos satirize the awkwardness of artmaking, video, and gender. Beyond their humor, Kahn and Dodge's videos touch upon the darker seriousness of trauma, privilege, and politics. [4]

Among several other museums and events, Kahn and Dodge's work has been shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including: [5]

Achievements

References

  1. 1 2 "Stanya Kahn | Artists". VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  2. "Stanya Kahn".
  3. Calif.), J. Paul Getty museum (Los Angeles; Gonzalez, Rita; Seid, Steve; Yonemoto, Bruce (2008). California Video: Artists and Histories. Getty Publications. ISBN   978-0-89236-922-5.
  4. Volk, Gregory (2008). "Spring in Dystopia". Art in America. 5: 158 via EBSCO.
  5. "Electronic Arts Intermix : Stanya Kahn : Biography". Eai.org. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
  6. "Stanya Kahn – 2012 – US & Canada Competition Creative Arts – Film – Video". Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
  7. "Stanya Kahn". Artadia. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  8. "2015 Artist-in-Residence: Stanya Kahn2015 Faculty Head, Low-Residency MFA Program: Laura Richard – Announcements – Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  9. Durón, Maximilíano (2023-12-14). "Anonymous Was A Woman Names 2023 Winners, Including Artists Dindga McCannon, Carolina Caycedo, Barbara Kasten, Amanda Ross-Ho". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-12-24.

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