EDUCATION
1977–1979: University of Wisconsin, Madison: M.A., M.F.A., Painting and Sculpture
1971–1976: University of Wisconsin, Madison: B.S. Honors, Painting and Printmaking Minor concentration, Art History

Other Schools Attended
Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA; Rider College, NJ; Tyler School of Art, PA; Lake Placid School of Art, NY; Princeton University, NJ, University of Maine, ME

TEACHING POSITIONS
Currently
Professor: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Professor: Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017: Solo, See the Woods for the Trees, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT
2015: Solo, In the Grain, Launch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Solo, Fifteen-Year Survey, Paintings 2000–2014, The Kellogg Art Gallery, California State University, Pomona, CA. Catalog funded by a Faculty Enrichment Grant from Art Center College of Design, and by the Endowment for the Kellogg Art Gallery
2014: Two-Person, Undercurrent, Cole Case and Joan Kahn, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2010: Solo, Transparencies, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2003: Two-Person, Measure, Joan Kahn and Byoung Park, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2002: Two-Person, Recent Paintings, Dawn Arrowsmith and Joan Kahn, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998: Two-Person, Joan Kahn and Linda Kallan: Paintings, The Arroyo Arts Collective Sixth Discovery Tour of Art and Architecture, Mt. Washington, CA
1986: Two-Person, Joan Kahn and James Larsen, Paintings and Sculpture, St. Stephen's Chapel Gallery, Rome, Italy
1982: Solo, Set for Princeton Ballet Society, Princeton, NJ
1981: Solo, A Sculptural Environment, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1981: Solo, The Outer from the Inner, a sculpture for dancers and a musician, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Funded by the Sheboygan Artists-in-Residence Program, The Wisconsin Arts Board, and The National Endowment for the Arts
1980: Solo, Installation for Dancers, Tenny Park, Madison, WI. Funded by the Wisconsin Arts Board
1980: Solo, Earth, Air, Water, and Fire: A Sculptural Environment, Joan Kahn and the University Schools Students, Southeastern Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
1979: Two-Person, Page Coleman and Joan Kahn, Wisconsin Union, Madison, WI
1978: Solo, Painted Work, Center Gallery, Madison, WI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017: Lift Off, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2017: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
2016: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2014: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
2014: Local Color, Artistree Gallery, South Pomfret, Vermont
2014: Toward the Heart of the Matter: Abstracting From Nature, Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, LaCanada, CA
2013: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2012: New Work, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT
2012: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2012: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
2011: One Wall, Holiday Show, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT
2011: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
2011: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2010: Holiday Show, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT
2010: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2010: Woodie, The Attic, Los Angeles, CA
2009: Wood Show, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT
2009: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, CA
2009: 4th of July, One Week Only, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009: On the Down Low Exhibition, The Attic, Los Angeles, CA
2009: West Coast Painters, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
2008: Edges and Boundaries, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008: iCandy, Current Abstraction in Southern California, Inaugural Exhibition Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA 
2007: Keeping It Straight, Right Angles and Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2007: Pillow Talk, Small Comforts in Hard Times, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007: Works on Paper, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2006: Plasma CD, 2003,’04,’05,’06, Film Art LA, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
2006: Group, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2004: Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
2003: Painting Today, The Art Institute of California, Santa Ana, CA
2003: No Chaser; Straight Ahead Abstract Painting, POST, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Kaleidoscope: Color Systems in Painting, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Digital Print Portfolio, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2001: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
2001: Hand Painted, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2001: Mixed Bag, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2001: Inauguration of Architecture M, Long Beach, California, CA
2001: Rising Tide, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2000: Ten Degrees of Abstraction, Biola University Gallery, La Mirada, CA
2000: Sextet, in the Key of Space, Burning Lotus Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2000: Abstraction, Santa Monica College Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000: The Part to the Whole, Laband Gallery, Loyola University, Los Angeles, CA
1999: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1999: The Arroyo Arts Collective Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1999: Good Paintings Make You Want to Paint, POST, Los Angeles, CA
1998: Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1997: Shelter, The Brandeis-Bardin Institute, Brandeis, CA 
1993: Faculty Exhibition, Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA
1988: Figure dallo Sfondo, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy
1984: In-a-Sense: 27 New Jersey Artists, Winner First Cash Award, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ
1982: Connections, Western Electric Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
1982: Pieced Work, 26 Federal Plaza, N.Y.C. Competition, NY Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art
1981: Wisconsin Union Invitational, Madison, WI
1979: Faculty Show, Southeastern Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
1979: 51st Annual Union Show, Memorial Union, Madison, WI 
1979: National Small Painting Purchase Exhibition, Museum Gallery, W. Illinois University, Macomb, IL
1978: National Invitational Exhibition, State University College, New Paltz, NY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Randy Lakeman, Los Angeles, CA
Catherine Arias and Bert Vorhees, Los Angeles, CA
Barbara Maxwell, Altadena, CA
Patti Baker, Los Angeles, CA
Clare Tayback, Pasadena, CA
Monte Cedro Senior Housing Community, Altadena, CA
Tom Goffigon, Los Angeles, CA
Joan Fauvre, Pasadena, CA
Shelley Sackett and Mark R. Nay, Pasadena, CA
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Mark Baratta, Pasadena, CA
Brian McPherson, Los Angeles, CA
Craig Deines, Pomona, CA
Gene Ogami, Claremont, CA
Kathryn L. Beranich and Stephanie Freidenreich, Los Angeles, CA
Carolie Parker, Altadena, CA
Sandy O’Rourke, Pasadena, CA
Mimi Sander, Boulder, CO
Noel Korten, Los Angeles, CA
Julie and Scott Ward, Pasadena, CA
Renee Dominique, Eagle Rock, CA
Walter Yoka, Los Angeles, CA
Andy Schwartz, Los Angeles, CA
Cherie Benner Davis, Los Angeles, CA
Alissa and Barry Duel, Long Beach, CA
Susan and Jim Crawford, San Marino, CA
Mary Blodgett and Carlton Calvin, South Pasadena, CA
Toni McDonald Pang, Irvine, CA
Ruth Shor, Newport, RI
Larry Agran, Irvine, CA
Geoff Tuck and David Richards, Los Angeles, CA
Julia Watson and Tom Platner, Barnard, VT
John Marc Edwards, Los Angeles, CA
Libby Breen, Pasadena, CA
Nancy Monk, Pasadena, CA
Julie McManus, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Darretta, Princeton, NJ
Nancy Manter, New York, NY
Patty Hansen, Rome, Italy
Carmen Rinaldi, Rome, Italy
Susan Yablon, Chicago, IL
Kyle Berney, Madison, WI
Hannah Kahn, Princeton, NJ
Martin Kahn, Princeton, NJ
Naomi Kahn, Malden, MA
Peter Kahn, Barnard, VT

BENEFIT AUCTIONS
2017: PØST benefit auction, Los Angeles, CA
2017: artworxLA benefit auction, Los Angeles, CA
2017: Off the Wall, benefit auction for Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2017: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2016: 24th Annual Evening of Art, benefit auction, artworx LA, Los Angeles, CA
2016: Pasadena Art Alliance Biennial Auction, Pasadena Arts Alliance, Vibiana, Los Angeles, CA
2015: Pasadena Educational Foundation Annual Art Auction, Pasadena, CA
2015: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2015: 23rd Annual Evening of Art, benefit auction, artworx LA, Los Angeles, CA
2014: Pasadena Art Alliance Biennial Auction, Pasadena Arts Alliance, California Club, Los Angeles, CA
2013: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2012: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2011: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2010: A Taste of Art, benefit for The Foothills Wellness Community, Gale’s Restaurant, Pasadena, CA
2010: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2009: A Taste of Art, benefit for Pasadena’s AIDS Service Center, Gale’s Restaurant, Pasadena, CA
2009: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2008: A Taste of Art, benefit for Pasadena’s AIDS Service Center, Gale’s Restaurant, Pasadena, CA
2008: The HeArt Project, Los Angeles, CA
2008: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2007: A Taste of Art, benefit for Pasadena’s Aids Service Center, Pasadena, CA, 
2007: For Darfur Victims, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA
2007: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006: The HeArt Project, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2005: For Hurricane Katrina Victims, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2005: The HeArt Project, Hotel Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA
2004: Annual Art Auction, Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2003: For Union Station Homeless Shelter, Haus, Pasadena, CA
2001: For Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2000: Under $300 Show, Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000: Pasadena Art Alliance Biennial Auction, Art Center College, Pasadena, CA
1998: $99 Show, POST, Los Angeles, CA
1998: $99 Show, Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997: $99 Show, POST, Los Angeles, CA
1979: Channel 21 Telebid Invitational, 2nd Place Cash Award, Madison, WI


PUBLICATIONS
2015: Betty Ann Brown, Joan Kahn: Fifteen-Year Survey, Paintings 2000–2014, Catalog Essay: Color, Harmony, and the Vibrations of the Soul: Joan Kahn’s Painted Geometry, Kellogg Gallery, California State Polynechnic University, Pomona, CA
2014: David Pagel, Undercurrent, Cole Case and Joan Kahn, Catalog Essay, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2008: Peter Frank, To Be Known, Joan Kahn: Paintings 2002–2008, Catalog Essay, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Max Presneill, “Kaleidoscope: Color Systems in Painting,” Catalog Essay, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2000: Peter Frank, “Galleries: Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, March 3–9
2000: Peter Frank, “Galleries: Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, February 11–7
2000: Chris Miles, The Part to the Whole, Catalog Essay, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1997: Ulysses Martinez and Daniel Torres, “Budget cuts etch out the Art Gallery,” Pierce College Round-up, Woodland Hills, CA, October 1
1988: Dede Auregli and Cristina Marabini, Figure dallo Sfondo 3 Catalog, Commune di Ferrara, Galleria, Civica D’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, February 28–April 5
1984: Eileen Watkins, “Hands on approach livens Bergen exhibit,” The Star Ledger, Paramus, NJ, June 22
1984: Judith Harris, In-A-Sense Catalog, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ, June 5–Aug 5
1982: Ann Woolfolk, “Where science connects with art,” Town Topics, Princeton, NJ, April 21
1982: Sabra Moore and The New York Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, Views by Women Artists Catalog, New York City, NY, February
1981: Mary Eckardt, “North High Hosts Artist-in-Residence,” The Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan, WI, March 18
1981: “Paint, imagination turn scrap to art,” Post-Crescent, New London, WI, October 22
1981: Sherry Rindt, “From a Storeroom to a Work of Art,” Press-Star, New London, WI
1979: Carole Huber, “A look at earth, air, water, and fire”, The Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO, December 31
1979: “Joan Kahn brings her artistic skills to lab school,” Bulletin-Journal, Cape Girardeau, MO, November 11
1978: Joel Safranek, “Stark geometry, bold colors mix in Center Gallery exhibit,” Press Connection, Madison, Wisconsin, November 17