Education
2013 MFA, Art & Technology Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Full graduate school Trustee scholarship
2003 Graduate Certificate, Spatial Information Architecture, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art/Art History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Residencies
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2023
Member artist, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, 2019-20
The Studios at Mass MOCA, 2020
Pioneer Works, Tech Artist Residency, NY, 2019
Trestle Projects, NY, 2018
Signal Culture, NY, 2018
Ace Hotel, NY, 2017
Artist in residence, Dept of Interdisciplinary Arts and Media, Columbia College, Chicago, 2014
NARS Foundation, 2014
Open Studio residency, Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, NY, September-December 2010
EMPAC (Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center), Rensselaer Polytechnic, NY, 2009
Tokyo Studio Residency, Australia Council for the Arts, 2008
Studio Artist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2003-5
Selected exhibitions (solo where indicated)
2023
Art Students League of New York/NYC Parks Department: commission of a life sized sculpture for Riverside Park North, Manhattan, via the Works in Public Program
2022
Corporate commission of a 21 ft, 2 storey bas relief sculpture, for a building interior in lower Manhattan (details under NDA until Fall 2023)
The Sensation of a Juicy Peach, ENTKUNSTUNG , Berlin
Doppelganger , Feral File, online
2021
CHAPEL(2-person), Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
The New Flesh, Local Project Space, New York, NY
Dematerialized, SVA CP Project Space, New York, NY (also online)
Synthetic Corpo-realities, MEET Digital Culture Center, Milan (online)
The Bardo: Unpacking The Real, Feral File, online
Sound Becomes Sight, Synthesis Gallery, The Wrong Biennale, online
2020
A Language for Intimacy, Boston Arts Center/Abrons Art Center (online)
Mirror/Image (online)
Get Real, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, VA
Synthesis, Masur Museum, LA
2019
Transfigured, C24 Gallery, New York, NY
Machines for Suffering, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI (solo)
Conditions of Exchange, 80 Nassau St Gallery, New York, NY
Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
2018
Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography, bitforms gallery, New York, NY
Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2-person)
Machine Language, LEAF Festival, Lafayette, CO
2017
Temporal Topologies, NY Media Center, New York, NY
Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative Tradition, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
2016
Anthropocene, Pearl Conard Gallery of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
the real-fake.org.2.0, Bronx Art Space, New York, NY
Visualaries, NY Media Center, New York, NY
Mind-Machine-Material – Digital Technology & Sculpture Today, NAU Art Museum, AZ
Phantom Limb, Dose Projects, New York, NY
2015
+/-, Joseloff/Silpe galleries at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
5 in 3D, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania East Strasbourg, PA
TechNoBody (collaborative piece with Claudia Hart et al), Pelham Art Center, NY
2014
New Romantics, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York, NY
Currents New Media Festival: New Media Transforms Tradition, Santa Fe, NM
Ten, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
Paddles On!, Philips Auction House, London, UK
Lumos Gallery, Columbus, OH
Women In Digital, The Hospital Club, London, UK
2013
Artifact, Leroy Neiman Center Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (solo)
Shards, Connecticut College Cummings Galleries,CT (2-person)
Technoromaticism, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
Re:Formed, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Improbable Objects, What It Is Gallery, Chicago, IL
People vs. Space, Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago
2010
Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Armory Show, VSA, New York City, NY
Revealing Culture, Smithsonian Institution: International Gallery, Washington DC
2009
The Armory Show, VSA Arts booth, New York City, NY
Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia, Performance Space,
Sydney, Australia & Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Bowness Photography Prize Shortlist, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2008
Australie: Mythe et Realité, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
Derivative Composition, Kennedy Center, Washington DC
2006
Bitmap, Loop Alternative Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2005
The Waxen and the Fleshy, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
As curator
2018
Dreamspace.net – online exhibition of 13 artists
Festivals and screenings
Zero1 Biennale, San Jose, CA, 2012
Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, 2012
Cyborg Alarm, Big Screen Plaza, NY; touring to urban screens in Australia, Asia and the Middle East in 2012-13
Trampoline, UK, 2011
Frequency, Lincoln, UK, 2011
Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2010
Conference presentations
International Sculpture Center conference, panel discussion, Portland, OR, 2019
International Sculpture Center conference, panel discussion, Pittsburgh, PA 2016
LISA Salon, New York, NY 2016
Visualaries artist lecture, NY Media Center, New York, NY
Digital Art Salon, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL, 2014
Labino Lecture (with Norwood Viviano), Glass Art Society Conference, Chicago, IL, 2014
3d printing panel discussion, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 2013
LISA Conference, Guggenheim Museum, NY, 2013
Awards and Honors
Share Prize winner, Torino, Italy, 2019
Electric Objects Commission, 2016
Lumen Prize shortlist, 2012
NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Digital/Electronic Arts Fellow, 2011
Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Recommended Work, 2010
William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Shortlist, 2009
Collections
Private and institutional collections in Britain, the US and Australia
Teaching experience
Visiting instructor, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Media, Columbia College, Chicago, 2014
Visiting Artist, Connecticut College, CT, 2013
Visiting Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, NY, 2010-11
Other professional experience
Owner, Scannerworks NY (providing 3D scanning services to artists and designers in the tri-state area), 2013-19
Selected Bibliography
2020
Contrada, Amanda, “A Language for Intimacy: Sophie Kahn,” Catalogue: A Language for Intimacy, 2020, Boston Center for the Arts and Abrons Art Center (PDF)
2019
Moulon, Dominique, “Art, Technology and Trends.” Ats@50: Art and Technology Studies 1969-2019, edited by Eduardo Kac, 40-47. Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (PDF)
Glassman, Amanda, “Unstable Object:: In Corpore Sano Presents Sophie Kahn,” The Operating System, March 22
2018
“Celebrating Women Artists on Sedition,” Sedition Art, March 6
Bate, Dana, “Philly exhibit explores idea of technology as 21st-century phantom limb,” WHYY, April 12 (PDF)
“Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography at Bitforms Gallery,” Sedition, October 22, 2018 (PDF)
Hoskins, Stephen, “Case Study: SOPHIE KAHN,” 3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers, pgs. 91-94, 2018, 2nd edition, London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. (PDF)
2017
Kahn, Sophie, “On Preserving Glitch,” The Addivist Cookbook, edited by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke, pgs. 327-329. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016 (PDF)
“Sophie Kahn Curates Online Exhibition That Lets Viewers Explore Artists’ Dreams,” Sedition Art, November 30
2016
“Artifact,” GUP Magazine, #48 - Mixing it Up, February 17, 2016 (PDF)
“Interview with Sophie Kahn,” Electric Objects, April 14
Moron, Rachel, “Revealing the Gaps of Reality: An Interview with Sophie Kahn,” GUP Magazine, #48 - Mixing it Up, June 3, 2016 (PDF)
Hosner, Katie, “Sculpting and 3D Printing Combined to Create Fragmented Female Forms,” My Modern Met, June 16
Hedges, Frances, “Tomorrow’s World,” Harper’s Bazaar Art, UK, November 2016, pgs. 32-33 (PDF)
Speer, George, “Mind 2 Machine 2 Material: Digital Technology and Sculpture Today,” Mind 2 Machine 2 Material: Digital Technology and Sculpture Today, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, exhibition catalog, 2016 (PDF)
Toure, Nora, “Sophie Kahn – "I Struggle With The Assumption That The Technology Is More Advanced Than It Is,” Fabbaloo, December 14
2015
Matisons, Michelle, “A Poetics of Failure: Sophie Kahn Uses 3D Printing to Challenge the Digital Era,” 3DPrint.com, January 26
Johnston, Lucy, “Sophie Kahn: Seeking the Perfect Imperfections of a Contemporary Maker’s Tool,” Digital Handmade: Craftsmanship and the New Industrial Revolution, pgs. 130-133, London: Thames and Hudson (PDF)
Dale, Brady, “The Business of Digital Art Needs to Catch up to the Making of it: Sophie Kahn,” Technical.ly, March 5
Dunne, Susan, “Cutting-Edge Tech Sculpture Exhibit At University of Hartford Gallery,” Hartford Courant, September 9
2014
Johnston, Paddy, “Are Digital Artists Really the 21st Century’s New Romantics?” Artnet, April 23
“3D Printed Sculptures From Imperfect Scans,” 3DPrintWise, August 11
Botz, Justin, “Artist in Residence Sophie Kahn,” Marginalia, September 22
Rosenberg, Gigi, “Into the Future with 3D Printing.” Professional Artist Magazine, October-November, pgs. 18-24
2013
Teicher, Jordan, “3D Sculptor Creates High Art Death Masks,” Vice, October 21
Harty, Kim, “Sophie Kahn and Norwood Viviano: Mining Data, Crafting Meaning,” GASnews 24 (4)
Hart, Claudia, O'Brien, Nicholas, and Clarke, Rachel, “Revealing the Gaps of Reality: An Interview with Sophie Kahn,” Metaverse Creativity (new title: Virtual Creativity), Volume 3, Numbers 1-2, December 1, 2013, pgs. 15-21, “The New Romantics: Flaneurs and Dandies of the Twenty-First Century,” Intellect Books, UK (PDF)
2012
Skaler, Yana, “Portrait Sculpture, an Artistic Tradition Carried on With 3D Printing,” Ponoko, April 19
Artist A Day, “Sophie Kahn.” August 11
Meier, Allison, “Diving into the Static of Some Recent Digital and Electronic Arts,” Hyperallergic, October 7
Aw, Justine, and Shawn Sims, “London 3D Print Show,” NOTCOT.com, October 20
2011
“Sophie Kahn’s 3D Printed Sculpture,” Shapeways Blog, November 22
2009
Crawford, Ashley, “Found in Translation,” Photofile, no. 85 (December-March), 40-49
Grayson, Chris, “Sophie Barrett-Kahn Peers Through Her DIY Scanner, Darkly,” h+ Magazine, no. 4 (Fall), 70-73
2008
Bate, Dana, “Philly Exhibit Explores Idea of Technology as 21st-Century Phantom Limb,” WHHY, April 12
Merry, Stephanie, “Artistic Movement,” The Washington Post, June 27
Rawlings, Ashley, “Indecisive Moments: Australian and Japanese artists explore the ambiguity of time, memory and reality,” The Japan Times, August 28 (PDF).
Priest, Gail, “Time Slips in an Other Place,” RealTime, no. 88 (December-January)
Dean, Bec, “Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia, an interview with Sophie Kahn,” published in exhibition catalog: 'Trace Elements,' featuring 10 Australian and Japanese artists, a collaborative project between Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and Performance Space, Sydney, promoting cultural and artistic exchange. Edited by Iida Shihoko, pgs 98-103 (PDF)
2006
McFarland, Robert, “Between Magic and Reality,” The Sydney Morning Herald, February 21
Hewson, Tess, “Life Focus,” Jmag, February
Glass, Alexie, “Kahn, Sophie,” Bitmap: International Digital Photo Project, Exhibition Catalog: edited by Heejung Yoon and Junsuk Suh, Seoul, South Korea — Yellow Sea Publication, 2006 (PDF)
2005
Preview, The Age, August 1
Tofts, Darren, “Sophie Kahn Strange to Inhabit the Earth No Longer / Joel Zika At Night,” Photofile Magazine, Issue #75, 2005 (PDF)