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)

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)

“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)

“Stand in the Stream,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2016

“Heatstroke,” The Pit, Los Angeles, CA (Link)

"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 (forthcoming) (Link)

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)

“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)

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)

"Stand in the Stream," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Link)

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)

2023

Wojtowicz, Kathrin. "Candid Real Life Spaces; An interview with Stanya Kahn," Publics And Publishings, September 1 (Link)

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)

Westall, Mark. "Stanya Kahn Selected for 2023 R.U.IN.Art Commision at Frieze Los Angeles 2023," FAD Magazine, January 27 (Link)

Lloyd-Smith, Harriet. "Stanya Kahn’s Frieze Los Angeles commission to unearth the ‘understory’ of human intervention in nature," Wallpaper*, January 27 (Link)

Frieze Los Angeles. "Harambe, Fallen Trees and a Mutant Duck: Stanya Kahn’s R.U.in.ART Commission," Frieze, January 17 (Link)

2022

Dawson, Aimee. "Let it snow, let it snow: wintry works bring the temperature down at Art Basel in Miami Beach," The Art Newspaper, December 1 (Link)

2021

Staff, Frieze. "The Top 7 Shows to See in the UK and Ireland," Frieze EU, November 17 (Link)

Fheorais, Iarlaith Ni. "Love, Longing and George Michael at TULCA Festival of Visual Arts," Frieze, November 17 (Link)

2020

Tumlir, Jan. "Stanya Kahn’s Communication Breakdown," Frieze, November 17

Reizman, Renée. "A Surreal and Eerie Look at Los Angeles Over the Past Decade," Hyperallergic, November 3

Simmons, William. "Portfolio: Stanya Kahn," Bomb, October 26

Beckhurst, Gabriella. "Against Inheritance: Stanya Kahn’s ‘No Go Backs’", Another Gaze Journal, August 20

Diehl, Travis. "Teens Wander a Postapocalyptic World in Stanya Kahn's New Film," Art in America, May 14

Regensburger, Jeff. "Art Review: Stanya Kahn – No Go Backs," Columbus Underground, March 23 (Link)

Oliphint, Joel. "Teens lead the way forward in ‘No Go Backs’," Columbus Alive, January 24 (Link)

Aguirre, Abby. "Inside the Los Feliz Home of Frieze’s Bettina Korek," W, January 29 (Link)

2019

Kahn, Stanya. "Sally Spitz of French Vanilla Likes her language deviant," Interview, July 2 (Link)

2018

Brown, Laura, "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at New Museum (LA in NY)," CARLA, February 28 (Link)

2017

Gritz, Anna, “And I Stop and I Turn and I Go for a Ride,” Mousse Magazine 60, November (Link)

Lehrer, Adam, “‘Trigger’ Exhibition at thew New Museum Tackles Gender but Ponders So Much More,” Forbes (web), October 5 (Link)

Cotter, Holland, "When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign," The New York Times (web), September 28 (Link)

Taubin, Amy, “A River Runs Through It,” Artforum (web), August 31 (Link)

Diehl, Travis, “Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” frieze (web), May 11 (Link)

Mizota, Sharon, "Chat rooms, home movies, life, death: A tangled, touching video at Susanne Vielmetter," Los Angeles Times, May 4 (Link)

Shaw, Michael, “Stanya Kahn,” ArtScene, May (Link)

“Views: Stanya Kahn at Weiss Berlin,” Spike Quarterly, Winter (Link)

2016

Whiteford, Meg, “Critics’ Pick: Stanya Kahn at The Pit,” Artforum (web), September 29

Peterson, Jennifer, “Stanya Kahn at the Pit,” Contemporary Art Review LA (web), October 12

Schneider, Hans, “Stanya Kahn’s ‘Don’t Go Back to Sleep’ at Weiss Berlin,” Blouin ArtInfo (web), November 9

2015

McGarry, Kevin, In San Diego, Art is a Laughing Matter, New York Times T Magazine Blog, January 23

Chute, James, Art imitates comedy, UT San Diego, February 18

Connor, Michael, Eight Big Ideas from Seven on Seven, Rhizome, May 4

Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne, Stanya Kahn: In the Studio, Art in America, June / July

Wyma, Chloe, Marina Abramovic, Meet Chelsea Handler? 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)

Halter, Ed, "Body Bags," essay on Stanya Kahn's 'Don't Go Back To Sleep,' commissioned by Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, Summer (Link)

Cook, Liz, "Stanya Kahn visits the suburbs for Grand Arts' 'Don't Go Back To Sleep,'" The Pitch, May 20 (Link)

Guthery, Summer, "Critic's Pick: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Artforum.com, May 19 (Link)

Beck, Chelsea, "Review: Selfing Togetherment Naturally," ArtSlant, May 11 (Link)

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)

Pagel, David, Around the galleries: A film fest that is all her own, Los Angeles Times, April 9 (Link)

Hebron, Micol, Critics Pick: Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artforum.com, March 25 (Link)

Berardini, Andrew, Scene & Heard: Tour of Duty, ArtForum.com, March 19 (Link)

Smee, Sebastian, MIT Exhibit bends More Thank Gender, Boston Globe, February 14 (Link)

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 & Stanya Kahn", New Yorker, March 18

Cornell, Loren, "Art Picks: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn," Time Out NY

Mellis, Miranda, California Video, Exhibition Catalogue, January

2007

Blumenstein, Ellen, Between Two Deaths, Exhibition Catalogue, July

Garrels, Gary, Edens Edge, Exhibition Catalogue, July

Art and Politics in LA, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Modern Painters, January

2006

Catalogue, Fair Exchange Show, Sept-Oct

Smith, Roberta, Art in Review: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, New York Times, May 12

Arts About Town: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, New Yorker, May 15

Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Time Out New York, May 11

Kushner, Rachel, Openings: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Artforum, February

2005

Van, Tran Duc, Scene and Heard: The Artforum Diary: Houses Proud, December

Bailey, Cindy, Radar Reading Series, LitRave, September 9

Johnson, Ken, Stanya Kahn and Harriet (Harry) Dodge, New York Times, August 5

Cornell, Lauren, Notes from Underground, NYFA Interactive News, April

Gilani, Nadia, 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