ABOUT
Sonia Rosa Kahn is a U.S. based artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines moving image, printmaking and installation. Her work examines the morphology of photographic images and their social and material lifespans. Through processes such as erosion, oxidation, and chemical development, her alchemical interventions in both film and printed matter test the stability and circulation of pictures and narratives through time. Repurposing materials in conversation with forgone technologies, she combines analogue techniques alongside contemporary material applications to reflect upon the historical constructions of picture making and to reckon with archival legacies.
Several of her films are distributed via The Film-Maker’s Cooperative and may be rented or bought using this link. Her work is also affiliated with the White Columns Artist Registry here.
MISCELLANEOUS
2025 Studio Archivist & Assistant, Y.Z. Kami (since 2023)
2025 Studio & Administrative Assistant, LeRoy Neiman Center for
Print Studies, NY (2018-2025)
2024 Publications assistant, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Studio Assistant, Nicola López (2023-24)
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 Rosa Kahn is a U.S. based artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines moving image, printmaking and installation. Her work examines the morphology of photographic images and their social and material lifespans. Through processes such as erosion, oxidation, and chemical development, her alchemical interventions in both film and printed matter test the stability and circulation of pictures and narratives through time. Repurposing materials in conversation with forgone technologies, she combines analogue techniques alongside contemporary material applications to reflect upon the historical constructions of picture making and to reckon with archival legacies.
Several of her films are distributed via The Film-Maker’s Cooperative and may be rented or bought using this link. Her work is also affiliated with the White Columns Artist Registry here.
BIO
b. London, UK
Lives & Works in NYC
EDUCATION
M.F.A Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art, Yale University (candidate)
B.A. Art History & Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Columbia University
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026 Optic Nerve, solo exhibition, The Boiler, NYC (upcoming)
DRAW: The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common,
Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, curation & screening,
group exhibition, France (upcoming)
Blackstar (Trilogy): Tomas Vu & Sonia Rosa Kahn, online,
The Brooklyn Rail, NY
Daisy Chain, group exhibition, 36 Edgewood Yale Gallery, CT
2025 DRAW: Heat, group exhibition, Hudson River Museum, NY
Material Matters, curation & screening, Millenium Film
Workshop, NY
American Foreskin, Fugue State Film Festival at The Filmmakers
Cooperative, screening, NY
See What I’m Saying?, installation & perfomance, Wavefield, 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
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
Arsenic & Lace, architectural projection intervention,
Dodge Hall at Columbia University
2022 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
2026 NYSCA Support For Artist Fellowship
2025 Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
2024 The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship to Latvia
2023 Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Residency, Suffolk, UK
TEACHING
2026
Cyanotypes, printmaking workshop series, instructor, Yale University
2025
3383 Cross-processing, instructor Mono No Aware, NY
Color Photograms (16mm & 35mm), instructor, Baltic Analog Lab, Riga
2024
Stop-Motion, instructor, ELM Foundation, NY
Intro to 16mm, instructor Mono No Aware, NY
Color Photograms, instructor, Mono No Aware, NY
2023
Intermediate Film, visiting artist, Fordham University, NY
Intro to 16mm, instructor Mono No Aware, NY
Color Photograms, instructor, Mono No Aware, NY
Moving Through Image: Memetics & Memory, panellist, 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
M.F.A Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art, Yale University (candidate)
B.A. Art History & Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Columbia University
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026 Optic Nerve, solo exhibition, The Boiler, NYC (upcoming)
DRAW: The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common,
Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, curation & screening,
group exhibition, France (upcoming)
Blackstar (Trilogy): Tomas Vu & Sonia Rosa Kahn, online,
The Brooklyn Rail, NY
Daisy Chain, group exhibition, 36 Edgewood Yale Gallery, CT
2025 DRAW: Heat, group exhibition, Hudson River Museum, NY
Material Matters, curation & screening, Millenium Film
Workshop, NY
American Foreskin, Fugue State Film Festival at The Filmmakers
Cooperative, screening, NY
See What I’m Saying?, installation & perfomance, Wavefield, 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
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
Arsenic & Lace, architectural projection intervention,
Dodge Hall at Columbia University
2022 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
2026 NYSCA Support For Artist Fellowship
2025 Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
2024 The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship to Latvia
2023 Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Residency, Suffolk, UK
TEACHING
2026
Cyanotypes, printmaking workshop series, instructor, Yale University
2025
3383 Cross-processing, instructor Mono No Aware, NY
Color Photograms (16mm & 35mm), instructor, Baltic Analog Lab, Riga
2024
Stop-Motion, instructor, ELM Foundation, NY
Intro to 16mm, instructor Mono No Aware, NY
Color Photograms, instructor, Mono No Aware, NY
2023
Intermediate Film, visiting artist, Fordham University, NY
Intro to 16mm, instructor Mono No Aware, NY
Color Photograms, instructor, Mono No Aware, NY
Moving Through Image: Memetics & Memory, panellist, 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 2023)
2025 Studio & Administrative Assistant, LeRoy Neiman Center for
Print Studies, NY (2018-2025)
2024 Publications assistant, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Studio Assistant, Nicola López (2023-24)
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
WRITINGS
2023. 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)
2023. 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)