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Stanya Kahn (born 1968) is an American artist. She graduated magna cum laude from
San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is ...
and received an MFA in 2003 from the
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at
Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...
. Kahn lives and works in Los Angeles, California.


Artwork

Kahn was a 2012
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in Film/Video. She was a contributing writer and actor in the feature film
By Hook or By Crook "By hook or by crook" is an English language, English phrase meaning "by any means necessary", suggesting that any means possible should be taken to accomplish a goal. The phrase was first recorded in the Middle English ''Controversial Tracts'' of ...
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Films and videos

Kahn has made two feature films and multiple shorts and animations, including: * 2020 No Go Backs (33 min short, 16mm transferred to 2K) * 2011–2017 Stand in the Stream (60 min feature, HD video) * 2014 Don't Go Back to Sleep (74 min feature, HD video) * 2012 Happy Song for You (5 min short, HD video) * 2010 It's Cool, I'm Good (35 min short, SD video)


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.


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. 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. Among several other museums and events, Kahn and Dodge's work has been shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including: * The 2008
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* The 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art *
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, Los Angeles *
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, Los Angeles * The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles *
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, New York *
Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...
, Utah


Achievements

* 2012 –
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Fellowship * 2012 –
Jury Prize The Jury Prize () is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies t ...
: Best Short, Narrative Fiction, Migrating Forms Film Festival * 2013 – Artadia Award, Los Angeles * 2014 CCI Investing in Artists Grant * 2015 –
San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...
Artist-in-Residence * 2017 Acts of Life Residency, Singapore and Manila, NTU CCA & Goethe Institute * 2017 Herb Alpert Award nomination (two categories: visual art and film/video) * 2018 Herb Alpert Award nomination (film/video) * 2018 MacDowell Residency * 2020
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nomination * 2020 Herb Alpert nomination (film/video) * 2023 Anonymous Was a Woman Award


References


External links


Stanya Kahn's website



Vielmetter Los Angeles' page

All Together Now Vimeo


Further reading

* Beckhurst, Gabriella
''Against Inheritance'': Stanya Kahn's ''No Go Backs''
Another Gaze Journal * Simmons, William J.
Portfolio: Stanya Kahn
Bomb Magazine * Bell, Natalie & Burton, Johanna (2017). ''Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon''. New York, NY: New Museum. .
Kahn and Dodge's interview with Michael Smith in Bomb Magazine
* Phillips, Glenn (2008). ''California Video: Artists and Histories''. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute. . * Kushner, Rachel''.  ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL; ARTFORUM Vol. 46, Iss. 5, (Jan 2008): 240–243.'' * ''Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne''. Stanya Kahn. ''Art in America (1939), 2015, Vol.103'' (6), p. 130 * Greg, A. E. (2010). Artistic intervention in the Los Angeles urban geography: The art practices of Charles Long, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn. ''ProQuest Dissertation Publishing.'' * * Jennings, G. (Ed.). (2015). ''Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art'' (1st ed.). University of California Press. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahn, Stanya Living people American video artists 1968 births