Tash Kahn’s practice is multi-faceted. She works with a variety of different mediums that all bleed into each other through a process of recycling and remaking. Each piece spawns countless others, negating the art object as a whole. Using sculpture, Polaroids, installation, film and collage, she documents the history of everyday life by recording the debris of the present. She is interested in how people engage with art, the conversations it generates and how it makes them feel.
Kahn has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with a recent project in Mumbai that saw her work with architects and writers to investigate the domestic space. In 2014, she co-founded the visual-arts project DOLPH, and has helped facilitate 22 exhibitions, making partnerships with two Lambeth primary schools, UAL Wimbledon, The Royal College of Art, as well as numerous artists in the UK, New York and Berlin. DOLPH provided an alternative way for the community to engage with contemporary art, as well as being an invaluable learning and networking resource for artists. 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– 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
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
2022 Two-week residency at Joya: AiR, Spain
2020 Two-week residency at 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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