# Stanya Kahn URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/stanya-kahn/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles Stanya Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in film/video with a practice that includes ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture/installation, sound, and writing. She foregrounds humor, pathos and the uncanny to re-work relationships between fiction and document, the real and the hyper-real, narrative time and the synchronic time of impulse. Her sculptural works and paintings often utilize anthropomorphic characters, talking animals and usually inanimate objects, using absurdist imagery to speak to real-life global anxieties and traumas. Kahn’s feature-length work, *Stand in the Stream* (2011-2017), is an ambient digital film shot on multiple camera formats over the course of six years. The film’s footage (all shot by Kahn or screen-recorded by Kahn in real-time) moves globally and locally through the wild, the streets, the home, and online. The resulting work is a visceral, phenomenological reflection of life, power, and uprising in late capitalism. Tracing the decline of her mother into dementia and the birth and growing up of her now young adult son against a backdrop of evolving technology and increasing violence in the face of uprisings against police violence and inequality, *Stand in the Stream* affirms the political in the personal and the personal in collective resistance. *No Go Backs* (2020), shot on 16mm film, then transferred and edited digitally, follows two teenage boys as they escape the city for the wild. The boys, while unprepared and vulnerable, are strong in their commitment to working together. *No Go Backs*posits a possible future made manifest by the resistance documented in *Stand in the Stream*, the immediate need and possibility to not only imagine but create a new world. Created before the global pandemic, *No Go Backs*presaged the psychological impact of the pandemic and alluded to the climate catastrophes that have accelerated in the last few years. Stanya Kahn was born in 1968 in San Francisco and lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated from Bard College’s Milton Avery School of the Arts with an MFA in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Wexner Center for the Arts, MoMA, PS1, New Museum, NY, British Film Institute, London Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Marlborough Chelsea, NY, Weiss Berlin, The Pit, LA, Cornerhouse/Manchester, UK. Select group exhibitions include Weslyan Art Gallery, the Walker Art Center, CAM, St. Louis, the Gwanju Biennial (’18), Hammer Museum, New Museum, MOCA, SD, Fernley Astrup, Norway, Transmediale, The California Biennial (’10). Her collaborative work with Harry Dodge has shown at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY, the Whitney Biennial (08), Sundance Film Festival, MOCA, LA, MoMA, NY, ZKM, Karlsrüh, among others. Kahn was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. She was a contributing writer and actor in feature film *By Hook or By Crook*. Her writings and drawings appear in multiple publications including Die Laughing (2nd Cannons), Moving Image (MIT Press), It’s Cool, I’m Good (Cornerhouse), and Abstract Video (UC Press.) Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, MoMA, NY, LACMA, the Walker Art Museum and among others. ## Exhibitions - [Stanya Kahn in8th Yokohama Triennale: Wild Grass | Our Lives](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/stanya-kahn-8th-yokohama-triennale-wild-grass-our-lives.md): March 15 — June 9, 2024 · Yokohama Museum of Art · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn in Periphery: Film series Detouring with Traction](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/periphery-film-series-detouring-with-traction.md): February 2 — 4, 2023 · Kunstverein Bremerhaven · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: Forest for the Trees](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/stanya-kahn-forest-for-the-trees.md): June 3 — July 23, 2022 · Gallery III · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/stanya-kahn-no-go-backs-ica.md): September 26, 2020 — January 10, 2021 · Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 1](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-year-anniversary-exhibition.md): July 18 — August 29, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Genevieve Gaignard, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Raffi Kalenderian, Ruben Ochoa, Stanya Kahn, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Esther Pearl Watson, The Estate of Pope.L, Deborah Roberts, The Estate of Steve Roden, Stefanie Schneider, Amy Sillman, Arlene Shechet, John Sonsini, Monique van Genderen, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson - [Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/stanya-kahn-no-go-backs.md): January 22 — April 26, 2020 · Wexner Center for the Arts · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Inaugural Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/inaugural-exhibition.md): February 16 — March 23, 2019 · Artists: Nicola Tyson, Nicole Eisenman, Rodney McMillian, Sean Duffy, The Estate of Pope.L, Karl Haendel, Andrea Bowers, Edgar Arceneaux, Stanya Kahn, Sadie Benning, Mary Kelly, Wangechi Mutu, Charles Gaines - [Stanya Kahn: Friends in Low Places](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/stanya-kahn-friends-in-low-places.md): January 19 — April 22, 2018 · Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: Stand in the Stream](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/stanya-kahn-stand-in-the-stream.md): July 8, 2017 — September 17, 2016 · MoMA PS1 · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: Stand in the Stream](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2017-04-stanya-kahn-stand-in-the-stream.md): April 14 — May 20, 2017 · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: Don’t Go Back to Sleep](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2014-04-stanya-kahn-don-t-go-back-to-sleep.md): April 19 — May 24, 2014 · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: Its Cool, Im Good](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-06-stanya-kahn-stanya-kahn-its-cool-im-good.md): June 23 — September 16, 2012 · Cornerhouse, Manchester · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: A Cave Walks Into A Bar](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-02-stanya-kahn-a-cave-walks-into-a-bar.md): February 18 — March 30, 2012 · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: 2010 California Biennial](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-10-stanya-kahn-2010-california-biennial.md): October 14, 2010 — March 13, 2011 · Orange County Museum of Art · Artists: Stanya Kahn - [Stanya Kahn: Its Cool, Im Good](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-03-stanya-kahn-its-cool-im-good.md): March 13 — April 24, 2010 · Artists: Stanya Kahn ## Biography 1968 Born in California Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA 2003 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Red Hook, NY 1992 BA, Magna Cum Laude, Interdisciplinary Social Science/ Minor in History, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA **Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions** 2023 "PERIPHERIE #1: Detouring with Traction: Stanya Kahn," Screenings of "Stand in the Stream" and "No Go Backs," Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany Stanya Kahn, “For the Birds,” “Friends in Low Places,” “Happy Song for You,” “No Go Backs,” “So Low You Can’t Get Over It,” “Winner,” &"Stand in the Stream," International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands 2022 "Forest for the Trees," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2020-2021 "Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs," ICALA, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](https://www.theicala.org/en/exhibitions/78-stanya-kahn-br-no-go-backs)) 2020 "No Go Backs," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 2018 "Stand in the Stream," The Box at Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH ([Link](https://wexarts.org/film-video/stanya-kahn-stand-stream)) “Stanya Kahn: Friends in Low Places,” Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 2017 “Stand in the Stream,” MoMA PS1, New York, NY ([Link](https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3866?locale=en)) “Stand in the Stream,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2016 “Heatstroke,” The Pit, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](http://www.the-pit.la/stanya-kahn/)) "Stanya Kahn," Weiss Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2015 "Stanya Kahn: Die Laughing," Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY 2014 "Don't Go Back To Sleep", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA "Stanya Kahn," Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO "Blood, Paper, and Mud (leave your slippers at the door)", curated by Kendra Paltz, University Galleries, University of Illinois, Normal, IL 2013 "Downer (but your ass looks huge from down here)," Curated by Emi Fontana, Pigna Project Space, Rome, Italy 2012 "I can clearly see yer nuts," The New Museum, New York, NY "It's Cool, I'm Good," Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK "A cave walks into a bar," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2011 Galleria Perdida/Recess Activities, New York, New York 2010 "It's Cool, I'm Good," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, with Harry Dodge 2007 "No Ins and Outs," Carlier | Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany, with Harry Dodge 2006 Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, with Harry Dodge **Selected Group Exhibitions** 2024 "Wild Grass: Our Lives," 8th Yokohama Triennale’s Second Chapter, Yokohama, Japan ([Link](https://www.yokohamatriennale.jp/2024/en)) 2023 “Some Trees,” The Floating Gallery, Auto Brake Center, Los Angeles, CA "Unbound: Performance as Rupture," Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany "Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Full Burn: Videos from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2020 "A Sculpture, A Film, AND Six Videos," Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "All of Them Witches," Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA 2019-2020 "Get well soon," Kunsthaus, Nuremberg, Germany 2019 "Fruitful Labors," Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 2018 "TEN," Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA Gwangju Biennale 2018, Gwangju, South Korea 2017 “Crossroads,” Anren Biennale, Anren, Sichuan Province, China “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,” New Museum, New York, NY ([Link](http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/trigger-gender-as-a-tool-and-as-a-weapon)) “Sea Sick in Paradise,” curated by Amy Yao, Depart Foundation, Malibu, CA “Teeter: Stanya Kahn, Anna-Sophie Berger, Aleksander Hardashnakov, Dena Yago,” Carl Louie, London, Ontario, Canada “Greater works than these shall he do…,” Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2016 “Los Angeles – A Fiction,” Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, travelling to Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France ([Link](http://afmuseet.no/en/utstillinger/2016/los-angeles--a-fiction)) 2015 Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY Stand Up!, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2014 "Real Emotions: Thinking in Film," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (with Harry Dodge) "Cherub," curated by Andrew Berardini and Brian Kennon, 2nd Cannons, Los Angeles, CA "Artadia's 15th Anniversary exhibition," curated by Gianni Jetzer, Longhouse Projects, New York, NY "Special Madness: Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Stanya Kahn, Chloe Seibert, Jesse Stecklow, and Ian Swanson," curated by Keith J. Varadi, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX 2012 "Between a Run and a Cascade: Constraint, Desperation, and Optimism in Water, CA," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA "Sunday @ 4," Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, CA 2011 "Two Schools of Cool," curated by Sarah Bancroft, FOCA, Los Angeles, CA "Suelto," curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Adrian Rivas, La Central, Bogota, Colombia "Keren Cytter, Stanya Kahn, Dafna Maimon, and Shana Moulton," Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany "Electromediascope: Inside/Out," curated by Gwen Widmer, Nelson-Atkins Museum, MO 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA "Ludicrous!" Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA "Virtuoso Illusions," curated by Michael Rush, MIT, Cambridge, MA "45 Years of Performance Video from EAI," PS1 NY, NY "45 Years of Performance Video from EAI," Wiels, Brussels, Belgium "Slightly Unbalanced," curated by ICI, Harnett Museum, Richmond, VA "Queer Voices," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2009 "Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video," curated by Lauren Ross, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY "Code Share: 5 continents, 10 biennales, 20 artists," CAC Vilnius, Lithuania, curated by Simon Reese "Videonale 12," Kunstalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany "Unusual Behavior," Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA 2008 "Desert Shore," Luckman Fine Arts, curated by Jan Tumlirm, Cal State, LA Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "California Video," Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Laughing in a Foreign Language," Hayward, London, UK 2007 "Between Two Deaths," ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsrhe, Germany, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin "Edens Edge," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Gary Garrels "Shared Women," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eve Fowler, Emily Roysdon and A. L., Steiner 2006 "Defamation of Character," PS 1, New York, NY Locale Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "VIDEO MARATHON 2006," Art in General, New York, NY "Fair Exchange," Millard Sheets Gallery, LA County Fair, Los Angeles, CA 2005 "Marking Time," Getty, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA "Sugartown," Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX "The Early Show," White Columns Gallery, New York, NY "Films/Stills," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA 2004 Backyard Invitational Video Competition, group show and competition (winner), sponsored by the Believer Magazine, Hollywood Hills House and Lazy-J "Pilot: 1," Old Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK "LTTR Show: Fail More," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA "Inside of Inside," The Lab, San Francisco, CA 2003 "Fail Better," Ocularis, New York, NY "Soft Machines," Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles, CA **Performances** (Evening-length works, unless indicated by ) 2016 Die Laughing, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2006 Jimbo Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Lois Live Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Let the Good Times Roll Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Diverseworks, Houston, TX 2002 Delirium, production of 1996 one-person play Yale School of Drama, CT Nobble Reading series curated by Lydia Lunch, Los Angeles, CA 2001 The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Jack Tilton Gallery, NY, NY The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Stromereien Festival of Performance, Zurich, Switzerland The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole University Settlement, NY, NY 2000 The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Performance Space 122 (P.S. 122), NY, NY The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole Galapagos Performance Space, NY, NY 1999 Rank Stranger Dixon Place, NY, NY Rank Stranger Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA Rank Stranger Mad Alex Presents, NY Rank Stranger Links Hall, Chicago, IL 1998 Specimens, collaborative work w/ P.S. 122, NY and Christ Church Philadelphia, PA Ishmael Houston-Jones Delirium SUSHI Performance Space, San Diego, CA Delirium Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, OH Delirium Default Propaganda, HERE Space, NY This is Not Enough P.S. 122, NY, NY Movement Research/Judson Church, NY Entertainment for the Apocalypse, Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany collaborative work w/ performance Fabrik, Potsdam. Germany company CORE (as co-founder Lot Theater, Braunshweig, Germany and performer) Various Excerpts Sister Spit Spoken Word Tour, 30 Venues, US 1997 Delirium Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Delirium The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX Delirium WOW Caf, NY Delirium P.S. 122, NY Delirium San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA New Work, reading Brooklyn Museum, NY Entertainment for the Apocalypse P.S. 122, NY Entertainment for the Apocalypse Highways, Los Angeles, CA Entertainment for the Apocalypse SUSHI Performance Space, San Diego, CA Entertainment for the Apocalypse Brady St. Dance Center, San Francisco, CA 1996 Delirium New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA Delirium Dixon Place, NY, NY Delirium Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA Entertainment for the Apocalypse Bay Area Dance Series, Lainey College, Oakland, CA Utility Beast P.S. 122, NY, NY Utility Beast WOW Caf, NY, NY 1987-1995 Selected performances and readings at Theater Artaud, Intersection for the Arts, New College of California, New Performance Gallery, Southern Exposure Gallery, SOMARTS, all in San Francisco. Selected live action street performance events with Theater Action Group. **Video Screenings** 2023 "It’s Cool, I’m Good," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming) "PERIPHERIE #1: Detouring with Traction: Stanya Kahn," Screenings of "Stand in the Stream" and "No Go Backs," Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany Short Profile: Stanya Kahn, “For the Birds,” “Friends in Low Places,” “Happy Song for You,” “No Go Backs,” “So Low You Can’t Get Over It,” “Winner,” &"Stand in the Stream," International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands 2020 "No Go Backs," BFI London Film Fesitval 2018 "Don't Go Back to Sleep," Canada, New York, NY "Stand in the Stream," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "Happy Song for You," ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](http://ltdlosangeles.com/)) "Stand in the Stream," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. ([Link](https://www.nga.gov/calendar/film-programs/winter18/cannot-tell-you.html)) 2017 "Stand in the Stream," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Stand in the Stream," School, Vienna, Austria 2016 Lookin’ Good, Feelin’ Good, Dortmund I Cologne International Women’s Film Festival, Cologne, Germany 2015 Its Cool, Im Good, TOTAL WORK, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Always Worried, video screening, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, GB Always Worried, video screening, Temple Gallery, Dublin, Ireland "Happy Song For You", New Museum, New York, NY (with Llyn Foulkes) 2002 Winner, Slamdance, New York; Best of Slamdance, Los Angeles; Mix Festival, New York; Los Angeles Film Festival; New Festival, New York; Slamdance Film Festival, Utah; London Lesbian/Gay Intl Film Festival; OUTFEST Film Festival, LA; Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles; Hallwalls Art Space, Buffalo, NY, Flaming Festival, Minneapolis, MN 2001 By Hook or By Crook (Contributing writer, actor, performance consultant: Independent feature film, written and directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. DVD distributed by Wolfe Video. On cable TV, Sundance Channel. Selected Film Festival Screenings: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah; South by Southwest, Austin, TX; OUTFEST, Los Angeles, CA; New Festival, New York, NY; San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay, CA; Cleveland International, OH; Paris International Lesbian and Gay, Paris, France **Bibliography** 2024 Valie, Elaine. "Bid on an Artist’s Kite to Aid Gaza," Hyperallergic, January 30 ([Link](https://hyperallergic.com/868931/bid-on-an-artist-kite-gaza-mutual-aid-solidarity/)) 2023 Wojtowicz, Kathrin. "Candid Real Life Spaces; An interview with Stanya Kahn," Publics And Publishings, September 1 ([Link](https://www.publicsandpublishings.org/en/candid-real-life-spaces)) Westall, Mark. "Unbound: Performance As Rupture Curated By: Lisa Long At The Julia Stoschek Foundation.," FADMagazine, August 14 "Stanya Kahn," The Hoosac Institute, February 7 ([Link](https://hoosacinstitute.com/Stanya-Kahn)) Westall, Mark. 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How Standup Comedy Became the New Performance Art, Artspace (web), August 28 Emory, Sami, Mansions, Gore, and Party Food: The Apocalyptic Delights of Die Laughing, The Creators Project (web), September 12 Indrisek, Scott, The Apocolypse is Hilarious: Stanya Kahns Bleak Laughter at Marlborough Chelsea, ArtInfo (web), September 23 Stanya Kahn, Malibu Magazine, November / December Indrisek, Scott, The Apocalypse Will Be Hilarious, Modern Painters, December Something to Laugh About: La Jolla exhibit to explore stand-up comedy in contemporary art, La Jolla Light, January 21 2014 Kahn, Stanya, Stanya Kahns Favorite Moving Pictures Experiences of 2014, ArtInfo, December 31 Yue, Genevieve, "The 6th Annual Migrating Forms at BAMcinmatek," New York, art agenda, December 12 Indrisek, Scott, "Waking Up to Stanya Kahns Oddly Moving Drama," ArtInfo, December 10 Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, Best of 2014: Sarah Legrer-Graiwer, ArtForum, December Jovanovic, Rozalia, "Artadias 15th Birthday Adventure in NYC," ArtNews, October 16 Thorson, Alice, " 'Don't Go Back To Sleep': The time for change is now," Kansas City Star, May 24 ([Link](http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/24/5040025/dont-go-back-to-sleep-the-time.html)) Halter, Ed, "Body Bags," essay on Stanya Kahn's 'Don't Go Back To Sleep,' commissioned by Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, Summer ([Link](http://www.grandarts.com/current.html)) Cook, Liz, "Stanya Kahn visits the suburbs for Grand Arts' 'Don't Go Back To Sleep,'" The Pitch, May 20 ([Link](http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/stanya-kahn-grand-arts-dont-go-back-to-sleep/Content?oid=4209551)) Guthery, Summer, "Critic's Pick: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Artforum.com, May 19 ([Link](http://artforum.com/picks/section=la#picks46811)) Beck, Chelsea, "Review: Selfing Togetherment Naturally," ArtSlant, May 11 ([Link](http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/39555)) 2013 Michno, Christopher, Review: Facing the Sublime in Water, CA, Artillery, January/February 2012 Myers, Holly, Llyn Foulkes' art of raw emotion, The Los Angeles Times, October 28 Allsop, Laura, "Stanya Kahn: It's Cool, I'm Good", Art Monthly, No. 359, September Rahman, Sophia, "Interview: 'It's cool, I'm good' artist discusses first UK solo exhibition at Manchester's Cornerhouse", Mancunian Matters, June 21 Yablonsky, Linda, Womens Work, New York Times, May 10 Mohebbi, Sohrab, Stanya Kahns A cave walks into a bar, Art Agenda, April 3 Wiley, Chris, Stanya Kahn, Artforum Critics Picks, March Myers, Holly, Art review: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, March 8 Wagley, Catherine, Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Penis Costume Film, LA Weekly, Februrary 29 Stanya Kahn Exhibition Navigates the Art of the Joke, Huffington Post, February 14 2011 Bancroft, Sarah, Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art / Fellows Of Contemporary Art, DelMonico Books Clothier, Peter, PST/OC, The Huffington Post, October Kramer, David Jacob, Stanya Kahn, A Video Artist Who Defies Characterization, Paper Magazine, April 2010 Kilston, Lyra, First View: Stanya Kahn Its Cool, Im Good, Artreview.com, March 26 ([Link](http://www.artreview.com/forum/topic/show?id=1474022%3ATopic%3A1047613)) Pagel, David, Around the galleries: A film fest that is all her own, Los Angeles Times, April 9 ([Link](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/04/art-review-stanya-kahn-at-susanne-vielmetter-los-angeles-projects.html)) Hebron, Micol, Critics Pick: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artforum.com, March 25 ([Link](http://artforum.com/archive/id=25180)) Berardini, Andrew, Scene & Heard: Tour of Duty, ArtForum.com, March 19 ([Link](http://artforum.com/diary/id=25143)) Smee, Sebastian, MIT Exhibit bends More Thank Gender, Boston Globe, February 14 ([Link](http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2010/02/14/mit_exhibit_bends_more_than_gender/)) Proctor, Roy, Harnett Museum is Time-Based Art, February 14 2009 Woodard, Josef,Off the Off Radar Art, Santa Barbara News Press, November 20 Smith, Michael, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Bomb Magazine, No. 108, Summer 2008 Bedford, Christopher, Focus: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Frieze Magazine, Nov-Dec Finkel, Jori, Unsettling in a Funny Sort of Way, New York Times, March 2 Kushner, Rachel 1,000 Words, Artforum, January "Art reviews, defamation of character", New Yorker, November Halle, Howard, "Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Time Out NY, July Schambelan, Elizabeth, "Whitney Biennial," Art Forum, Summer Armetta, Amoreen, "Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Artforum.com, June Volk, Gregory, "Spring in Dystopia," Art in America, May Saltz, Jerry, Whitney Biennial, Village Voice, April Alemani, Cecilia, "Whitney Girls", Mousse Magazine, March Cotter, Holland, Whitney Biennial, New York Times, March Schjeldahl, Peter, Lessness: The Art World, New Yorker, March Halle, Howard, Whitney Biennial, Time Out NY, March Shaffer, Grant, "Art Review", Harry Dodge & 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Selected Shorts, Gingerbeer, April Weissman, Benjamin, Slaves to the Visual, The Believer, Dec 2004/January 2004 Halter, Ed, A Few Odd Girls Out, Village Voice, November 19-25 Hall, Phil, Winner, Film Threat, February 16 2003 Specht, Mary, Crappy Theater, Houston Press, Volume 15, Number 19, May 8-14 2002 Kehr, Dave, By Hook or By Crook, New York Times, Friday October 25 Anderson, Melissa, Tracking Shots, Village Voice, October 23-29 2001 Success: By Hook or By Crook, Seattle Gay Standard, November 2-8 2000 Covan, Ellie, Politics, Nakedness, and Other Hot Topics, New York Times, September 20 Pilger, Faith, The Absurdist Brilliance of Shempco AKA Stanya Kahn, Dance Insider, January 19 1999 Soloski, Alexis, Rank Stranger, Village Voice, May 25 Rasmusson, Erika, Rank Stranger, Shout Magazine, May A Bit of Strangeness in Rank Stranger, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30 Molzahn, Laura, Magnificent Irreverence: Ladylike Performance Festival, Chicago Reader, February 5 1998 Jast, Frank, Exciting Political Stage Art (translation), Potsdamer Neuste Nachrichten Wochenendausgabe, September 19 Wild, Political and Exciting (translation), Neus Deutschland- Berlin, October 8 Seidel, Miriam, Opening up to Interrogation and Self-Interrogation in Specimens, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 13 Dunning, Jennifer, Fallen Angels in Energetic Theatricality, New York Times, December 12 Campello, Lennox, Stanya Kahns Delirium, Echo Magazine Online, April Jackson, Merilyn, Thoughtful Gestures, Philadelphia Weekly, June 12-18 Rudstrom, Sten, Delirium: Stanya Kahn, P-Form, Number 44 Fall1997/ Winter 1997 Knaff, Deborah, COREs Activist Artists try to bring sense to the Millenium, San Diego Union Tribune, April 10 Critics Pick, Dallas Observer, December 8 Lloyd, Carol, Intelligent Carnality, San Francisco Weekly, Arpil 30 - May 8 Entertainment for the Apocalypse, San Francisco Weekly, April 16 - 22 Guerilla Dance: Among the Ruins, San Francisco Focus Magazine, July 1996 Murrin, Tom, Probing Mars, Paper Magazine Online, December Chonin, Neva, Art Revolution, San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 25 - October 2 Chonin, Neva, Utility Beast, San Francisco Bay Guardian, by October 4 - 10 1995 Noyes, Katia, Whos That Tomgirl, Dykespeak, April 1994 Bussa, JJ, Face Lift, P-Form, January15 **Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books** 2017 Burton, J., and Bell, N. (2017). Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. Pg 100-103. New Museum. 2015 Dawsey, Jill, Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, exhibition essay, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, January 23 2010 Bryant, Tisa, Miranda Mellis, Kate Schatz, eds., Hell, Encyclopedia Project, Vol. 2, SPD Press 2007 Cooper, Dennis, Ed. Hell, Userlands: New Fiction from the Blogging Underground, Akashic Press, January Hull, Steven, Ed., Let the Good Times Roll, performance text in Nothing Moments, collection of art and fiction, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles Let the Good Times Roll, performance text, Soft Targets Journal of Theory, Art and Literature, Vol. 1 Lois and Conan, short story, LTTR Journal of Art and Writing, #4 2002 Athey, Ron, Interview, POZ Magazine, June 7:15 AM: On Timothy McVeigh, Movement Research Journal, 23, August 2000 The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole According to Shempco, chapbook of performance text, December 1999 Rank Stranger, chapbook of performance text, April 1998 Delirium, chapbook of performance text, March Terminatrix Progeny, Poetry and Performance Texts, Abundant F*CK Press, with M. Mellis and Anah-K 1995 Utility Beast, chapbook of performance text, September **Awards, Grants and Fellowships** 2021 MacDowell Fellowship 2015 San Francisco Art Institute Artist in Residence 2014 Investing in Artists grant, Center for Cultural Innovation 2013 Artadia Award, Los Angeles Awardee 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, Film/Video 2011 ARC Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation 2010 Jury Prize: Best Short, Narrative Fiction, Migrating Forms Film Festival 2009 Durfee Foundation, Artists Resource Grant Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, nomination 2008 United States Artists Fellowship, nomination Durfee Foundation, Artist's Resource Grant 2007 Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship Nomination California Community Fund Fellowship for Mid-Career Artists 2006 Durfee Foundation, Artist's Resource Grant 2004 Winner, Backyard Invitational Video Competition, sponsored by Lazy-J, Hollywood Hills House, and the Believer Magazine