Statement
My practice is multi-faceted. I work with a variety of different mediums that all bleed into each other through a process of recycling and remaking. Using painting, sculpture, Polaroids, film and collage, I document the history of everyday life by recording the debris of the present. Images are arrived at spontaneously and chance encounters are embraced through colour, composition and form. I seek out beauty in the mundane and enjoy recording the little things that others don’t notice, collecting random objects and taking numerous Polaroids along the way, ready to be archived or recycled into something else. I am interested in how people engage with art, the conversations it generates and how it makes them feel.
Bio
Tash Kahn lives in London and has a studio in the Surrey woods. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with one project in NYC that involved dust, 3 people and a single Polaroid. Residencies are a critical part of her practice, as are collaborations with other artists. In 2014, Kahn co-founded the visual-arts project DOLPH, helping facilitate 22 exhibitions across London, NYC and Berlin, as well as partnering with two local primary schools, The Royal College of Art, and numerous artists across the world. She is also a freelance editor for Penguin Random House and Sluice Magazine.
Group Exhibitions
2022 Zero Gravity – A Landing, The Occasionnale, East Sussex
2020 Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London
2019 Talking Heads, Stone Space, London
2019 Sluice refresh, M100, Odense, Denmark
2019 Backyard Sculpture, Domobaal, London
2019 Modern Finance, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
2019 Member’s Show, SqW:Lab, Mumbai, India
2018 Eating Bread and Honey, SqW:Lab, Mumbai, India
2018 Citizen, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London
2018 The Mechanical Reproduction of Dust, Stand4 Gallery, NYC
2016 Lion Eating Poet In The Stone Den, 18 Malden Road, London
2016 Asymmetrical Intersections, SHIM, NYC
2015 Bread and Jam III: The Shapes We’re In, 54 Whitbread Road, London
2015 DOLPH: The Directors, DOLPH, London
2015 Skim, ASC Gallery, London
2014 Circus TM, Belmacz, London
2014 ART/converters!, Studio 1:1, London
2013 Discernable, Zeitgeist Art Projects, London
2012 Tweetart, Westgate Studios, Wakefield
2009 Process, Image, Portrait, Old Court House, London
2008 100 Pieces of Havana, The Truman Brewery, London
2008 Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London
Projects
2020–21 Curator of In Visible Ink, Museum of Freedom and Tolerance, Perth, Australia
2018–19 Core member of SqW:Lab, Mumbai, India
2014–18 Director of DOLPH, London
Visiting Artist Lectures
2019 London College of Communication, UAL, London
2018 James Madison University, Virginia, US
2018 Stand4 Gallery, artist panel discussion, NYC
2015 DOLPH artist talk, London
Critical Writing
2018 Love Camden, Sentido Legacy: Tash Kahn reflects on her trip to Rio
2018 Love Camden, Kala Legacy: Tash Kahn reflects on her trip to Mumbai
2018 Exchanges of Place and Space
2015 Trademark as Branding, Garageland #19 Self
Bibliography
2024 The Cabin, Tash Kahn and Cathy Rose, *82 Review
2024 studioELL studio visit: Tash Kahn in conversation with John Ros
2020 studioELL studio visit: Tash Kahn interviews Elly Clarke
2019 a-n Magazine, Artists + Instagram: Tash Kahn, documenting the art of trash
2018 Love Camden, Camden Close-Up: Tash Kahn Interview
2016 Love Camden: Tash Kahn explores Camden with her camera
2016 Notes on Assemblage, Tash Kahn and John Ros, Sluice Magazine
2016 Masters of Many: Tash Kahn Interview
2016 Sluice_encounters / DOLPH
2015 Bread and Jam III: The Shapes We’re In, Interview with Natasha Kahn
2015 DOLPH at Artlicks Weekend, Pippa Koszerek reviews The Directors
2015 DOLPH: Natasha Kahn and Paul Cole, CCQ Magazine review
2015 Desert Island Discs, RadioAnti Interview with Natasha Kahn and Paul Cole
Residencies
2024 10-day residency, Judd Brook Artist Residency, Connecticut
2023 Two-week residency, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Italy
2022 Two-week residency, Joya: AiR, Spain
2020 Two-week residency, Hogchester Arts, Dorset
1995 One-month residency at Kew Gardens/Gunnersbury Park, London
1994 One-month residency at the Horniman Museum, London
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