Sophie Kahn

Artwork details: - same for all three prints:
Untitled, 60cm x 60cm*, archival Lambda print, 2007, 1 in an edition of 3

Sophie Kahn's images are created from publicly available satellite data of Australian topography. Rendered in her New York studio - half a world away - they depict regions of the country the artist herself has never seen. But through the 'lens' of her 3d visualization software, these landscapes of information are transformed into empty, otherworldly landscapes. Without texture or signs of habitation, they resemble the surface of the moon or a cell under an electron microscope more closely than they resemble our own planet. Part of Kahn's continued exploration of remote viewing and data reconstruction, they remind us, again, that the map is not the territory.

Sophie Kahn was born in London in 1980, and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. She studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London, graduating in 2001 with a BA in Fine Art and Art History, and completed a Graduate Certificate in Spatial Information Architecture at RMIT in 2003. Her work explores the role of the image and representation in the expanded field of post-photographic imaging.
She has presented individual exhibitions at Spacement Gallery - The Waxen and the Fleshy, 2006 & Strange To Inhabit The Earth No Longer, 2005; Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Collingwood Town Hall, 2003; 24Seven, 2003; West Space, Melbourne 2002; Linden, Melbourne 2002 and the Ivy Hopes Mezzanine and Cathedral Arcade, Nicholas Building, Melbourne 2002.

Education
2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art/Art History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
-Specialised in digital imaging, photography and architectural history

2003 Graduate Certificate, (Transdicisplinary Program), Spatial Information Architecture, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
-Specialised in 3d animation, 3d capture and digital sculpture

Residencies
Studio Artist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2003-5

Exhibitions

2002 Luminosity, Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Transparency, West Space (solo)
The Arcade Project, Ivy Hopes and Cathedral Arcade, Nicholas Building, Melbourne (solo)

2003 Panorama, 24seven (solo)
Reconstruction, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Collingwood Town Hall, Melbourne (solo)
Gertrude Studios 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2004 Graphite digital art exhibition, Graphite conference 2004, Singapore
-assisted with a grant from the Australian Network for Art and Technology
Contemporary Collection Benefactors Auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Shortlist, Sydney

2005 Strange to Inhabit The Earth No Longer, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
A Short Ride In A Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Through A Stranger’s Eyes – Australian photographers, Designfesta, Tokyo/Arts Aporia, Osaka (coordinated by Bus and Phatspace), Japan
2006 Sophie Kahn, Martine Corompt, Van Sowerwine, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Bitmap International Digital Photography Project, Loop Alternative Art Space, Seoul. South Korea
The Waxen and the Flesh, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Greetings, Ocular Lab, Melbourne

2007 Third Ward, Brooklyn, NY

2008 The Ghost In Photography, Performance Space, Sydney & touring to Tokyo

Collections
Sophie’s work is held in private collections in Britain, the US and Australia

Press
Sunday Age, Preview, August 1, 2005
Review by Darren Tofts, Photofile 75 (Australian Centre for Photography), November 2005
‘Between Magic and Reality’, Review by Robert McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald, February 21, 2006
Review by Tracey Clement, Metro Sydney, March 10-16 2006
Interview with Tess Hewson, JMag, February 2006
Interview with Lisa Dempster, www.artinterview.com.au

Sophie Kahn
sophiebarrettkahn@gmail.com
http://barrettkahn.com/sophie/
347 342-2970 (cell-USA)

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