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.
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)
Graduate Certificate in Material Histories of the Human Record, Yale University (candidate)
B.A. Art History & Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026 Hereditaments, solo exhibition, The Boiler, NYC
DRAW: The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common,
Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, group exhibition, France
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, The Filmmakers
Cooperative, screening, NY
See What I’m Saying?, screening, Wavefield, NY
Brīvība, Baltic Analog Lab, screening, Riga
Pirmā Asambjeja, Paraugtipografija, screening, Riga
Splinters of Angst Derelict, group exhibition, Hua International,
Berlin
Intimate Aftergesture, group exhibition, Parsons School of Design
2024 Interplanetary Punk: LavaLaRue, Music Hall of Williamsburg, NY
Full of Dents, screening, Parent Company Gallery, NY
Movie-Night, screening, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Prototype 1.0, group exhibition, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Colormanic, screening, WHAMMY!, LA
2023 Surface Memory, group screening at SoMad, NY
Photosensitive, group exhibition, Milton Gallery, London
2022 Kaleidoscopic Bodies, featured film, South London
Filmdance, UK
2021 Animation series, Brainchild Music Festival, screening UK
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2018
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2026 Henry Moore Foundation Artist in Residence, UK
Alice Kimball Travel Fellowship, Yale University
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
b. London, UK
Lives & Works in NYC
EDUCATION
M.F.A Painting/Printmaking, Yale School of Art, Yale University (candidate)
Graduate Certificate in Material Histories of the Human Record, Yale University (candidate)
B.A. Art History & Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia University
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2026 Hereditaments, solo exhibition, The Boiler, NYC
DRAW: The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common,
Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, group exhibition, France
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, The Filmmakers
Cooperative, screening, NY
See What I’m Saying?, screening, Wavefield, NY
Brīvība, Baltic Analog Lab, screening, Riga
Pirmā Asambjeja, Paraugtipografija, screening, Riga
Splinters of Angst Derelict, group exhibition, Hua International,
Berlin
Intimate Aftergesture, group exhibition, Parsons School of Design
2024 Interplanetary Punk: LavaLaRue, Music Hall of Williamsburg, NY
Full of Dents, screening, Parent Company Gallery, NY
Movie-Night, screening, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Prototype 1.0, group exhibition, SPRINGS PROJECTS, NY
Colormanic, screening, WHAMMY!, LA
2023 Surface Memory, group screening at SoMad, NY
Photosensitive, group exhibition, Milton Gallery, London
2022 Kaleidoscopic Bodies, featured film, South London
Filmdance, UK
2021 Animation series, Brainchild Music Festival, screening UK
︎︎︎
2018
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2026 Henry Moore Foundation Artist in Residence, UK
Alice Kimball Travel Fellowship, Yale University
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