ABOUT
Sonia Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily at the intersection of moving image and print, exploring analog processes within the technical (re)production of visual materials. Her work contends with the urban environment, considering the city through scraps of collective dreams, desires and consumption in its printed detritus. Reimagining and repurposing materials in conversation with forgone technologies, she interrogates the interrelationship between movement, time and materiality. As such, the prints become films and the films become prints once again, a feedback loop of disintegrating, recycled signals. Ultimately, her practice investigates the morphology and lifespan of an image through such methodologies of degradation, circulation and reproduction.
Her films are distributed via The Film-Maker’s Cooperative and may be rented or bought using this link.
MISCELLANEOUS
2025 Studio Archivist & Assistant, Y.Z. Kami (since 2024)
2024 Publications assistant, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Studio & Administrative Assistant, LeRoy Neiman Center for
Print Studies, NY (since 2023, previously intern since 2018)
Studio Assistant, Nicola López
2023 Creative cinematography for documentary
Index:Trace, Cynthia Madansky
2022 Hand Painted Animation for Sankyo Stream Episode 9
2021 Management & Curation of The Bedroom Show,
Postcrypt Gallery, NY
2020 Production and Cinematography Assistant for Ben Hagari’s film
Not Leaving
Curation for Dark Ecologies, Postcrypt Art Gallery, NY
2019 Curation for The Painting Show, Small Things,
Postcrypt Art Gallery, NY
2018 Set Design and Production Assistant for Puma Blue video,
(She’s) Just a Phase
2017 Production Assistant and Animator for Material World Project at
Dazed Magazine
Set Design for Biig Piig music video 24k
Hand Painted Animation for Babeheaven’s video Your Love
Sonia Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily at the intersection of moving image and print, exploring analog processes within the technical (re)production of visual materials. Her work contends with the urban environment, considering the city through scraps of collective dreams, desires and consumption in its printed detritus. Reimagining and repurposing materials in conversation with forgone technologies, she interrogates the interrelationship between movement, time and materiality. As such, the prints become films and the films become prints once again, a feedback loop of disintegrating, recycled signals. Ultimately, her practice investigates the morphology and lifespan of an image through such methodologies of degradation, circulation and reproduction.
Her films are distributed via The Film-Maker’s Cooperative and may be rented or bought using this link.
BIO
b. London, UK
Lives & Works in NYC
EDUCATION
B.A. Art History & Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Columbia University
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2025 (upcoming) The Boiler, solo exhibition, NY
Brīvība, Baltic Analog Lab, screening, Riga
Pirmā Asambjeja, Paraugtipografija, architectural
projection intervention, Riga
Splinters of Angst Derelict, group exhibition,
Hua International, Berlin
Intimate Aftergesture, group exhibition, Parsons
School of Design, NY
2024 Interplanetary Punk, performance projection for LavaLaRue
Music Hall of Williamsburg, NY
Full of Dents, screening, Parent Company Gallery, NY
Sonia Kahn: A Celluloid Exploration of Aldeburgh, solo
exhibition, Suffolk, UK
Staff Exhibition, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Movie-Night, screening, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Prototype 1.0, group exhibition, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Colormanic, screening, WHAMMY!, LA
2023 What the Fuck is Wrong with You?, group exhibition,
Useless Art Society at Caffeine Underground, NY
Colormanic premier for Surface Memory, group screening at
SoMad, NY
Photosensitive, group exhibition, Milton Gallery, London
Untitled, performance projection for Sarah Kinsley,
at The Governor’s Ball and Lollapalooza
Ascension, lyric video for Sarah Kinsley
The Final Showing, group exhibition, West 121st Street, NY
Arsenic & Lace, architectural projection intervention,
Dodge Hall at Columbia University
2022 Words for the City, Anthology Film Archives, NY
Kaleidoscopic Bodies, featured film, South London
Filmdance, UK
2021 Lead Animator for Brainchild Music Festival, UK
︎︎︎
2018
2019 9th Floor Cabinet, solo show, department of Archaeology,
Columbia University
2018 Featured Artist Show, Ratrock Magazine, NY
Textiles, group exhibition at Postcrypt Gallery, NY
2017 Forbidden Fruit, solo screening exhibition, TRC, London
Jinx Magazine Launch Party, group exhibition, London
2016 Nine8, group exhibition, Cafe 1001, London
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
2024 The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship to Latvia
2023 Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Residency, Suffolk, UK
WRITINGS
2023 Jasper Johns; Tom Wesselmann; Basquiat, marketing essays,
Phillips Auctioneers
Айболит… Ну Погоди!, in If and When You Find Me, for
Esther Petukhova & Here Gallery
2021 The Ghosts of Zhang Xiaogang, article, Journal of Art Criticism
Satyrs, Sex and Satan, research paper, New Paltz Undergraduate
Art History Symposium
2018 Ratrock Magazine, featured artist interview, fall edition (press)
2017 Studio Magazine, featured artist interview (press)
TEACHING
2023 Stop-Motion for kids at ELM Foundation, NY
Visiting Artist at Fordham University’s film program, NY
Film-making instructor (Intro to 16mm, Color Photograms) at Mono No Aware, NY
Moving Through the Image: Memetics & Memory, artist panel,
Bottom Feeder Books & Here Gallery, PA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University, NY
2018 Colina Mitchell Prize for Printmaking, St Paul’s, London
2018 Senior Art Scholar, St Paul’s, London
︎︎︎
2016
2016 Elizabeth Diggory Arts Scholarship to Japan, St Paul’s, London
b. London, UK
Lives & Works in NYC
EDUCATION
B.A. Art History & Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Columbia University
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2025 (upcoming) The Boiler, solo exhibition, NY
Brīvība, Baltic Analog Lab, screening, Riga
Pirmā Asambjeja, Paraugtipografija, architectural
projection intervention, Riga
Splinters of Angst Derelict, group exhibition,
Hua International, Berlin
Intimate Aftergesture, group exhibition, Parsons
School of Design, NY
2024 Interplanetary Punk, performance projection for LavaLaRue
Music Hall of Williamsburg, NY
Full of Dents, screening, Parent Company Gallery, NY
Sonia Kahn: A Celluloid Exploration of Aldeburgh, solo
exhibition, Suffolk, UK
Staff Exhibition, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Movie-Night, screening, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Prototype 1.0, group exhibition, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Colormanic, screening, WHAMMY!, LA
2023 What the Fuck is Wrong with You?, group exhibition,
Useless Art Society at Caffeine Underground, NY
Colormanic premier for Surface Memory, group screening at
SoMad, NY
Photosensitive, group exhibition, Milton Gallery, London
Untitled, performance projection for Sarah Kinsley,
at The Governor’s Ball and Lollapalooza
Ascension, lyric video for Sarah Kinsley
The Final Showing, group exhibition, West 121st Street, NY
Arsenic & Lace, architectural projection intervention,
Dodge Hall at Columbia University
2022 Words for the City, Anthology Film Archives, NY
Kaleidoscopic Bodies, featured film, South London
Filmdance, UK
2021 Lead Animator for Brainchild Music Festival, UK
︎︎︎
2018
2019 9th Floor Cabinet, solo show, department of Archaeology,
Columbia University
2018 Featured Artist Show, Ratrock Magazine, NY
Textiles, group exhibition at Postcrypt Gallery, NY
2017 Forbidden Fruit, solo screening exhibition, TRC, London
Jinx Magazine Launch Party, group exhibition, London
2016 Nine8, group exhibition, Cafe 1001, London
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
2024 The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship to Latvia
2023 Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Residency, Suffolk, UK
WRITINGS
2023 Jasper Johns; Tom Wesselmann; Basquiat, marketing essays,
Phillips Auctioneers
Айболит… Ну Погоди!, in If and When You Find Me, for
Esther Petukhova & Here Gallery
2021 The Ghosts of Zhang Xiaogang, article, Journal of Art Criticism
Satyrs, Sex and Satan, research paper, New Paltz Undergraduate
Art History Symposium
2018 Ratrock Magazine, featured artist interview, fall edition (press)
2017 Studio Magazine, featured artist interview (press)
TEACHING
2023 Stop-Motion for kids at ELM Foundation, NY
Visiting Artist at Fordham University’s film program, NY
Film-making instructor (Intro to 16mm, Color Photograms) at Mono No Aware, NY
Moving Through the Image: Memetics & Memory, artist panel,
Bottom Feeder Books & Here Gallery, PA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University, NY
2018 Colina Mitchell Prize for Printmaking, St Paul’s, London
2018 Senior Art Scholar, St Paul’s, London
︎︎︎
2016
2016 Elizabeth Diggory Arts Scholarship to Japan, St Paul’s, London
MISCELLANEOUS
2025 Studio Archivist & Assistant, Y.Z. Kami (since 2024)
2024 Publications assistant, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Studio & Administrative Assistant, LeRoy Neiman Center for
Print Studies, NY (since 2023, previously intern since 2018)
Studio Assistant, Nicola López
2023 Creative cinematography for documentary
Index:Trace, Cynthia Madansky
2022 Hand Painted Animation for Sankyo Stream Episode 9
2021 Management & Curation of The Bedroom Show,
Postcrypt Gallery, NY
2020 Production and Cinematography Assistant for Ben Hagari’s film
Not Leaving
Curation for Dark Ecologies, Postcrypt Art Gallery, NY
2019 Curation for The Painting Show, Small Things,
Postcrypt Art Gallery, NY
2018 Set Design and Production Assistant for Puma Blue video,
(She’s) Just a Phase
2017 Production Assistant and Animator for Material World Project at
Dazed Magazine
Set Design for Biig Piig music video 24k
Hand Painted Animation for Babeheaven’s video Your Love