Joan Kahn

Professor: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA;

Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA; Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA

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

Exhibitions

2009

Wood Show, Big Town Gallery, Rochester, Vermont

News of the World, Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, CA

4th of July, One Week Only, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

On the Down Low Exhibition, The Attic, Los Angeles, CA

West Coast Painters, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008

Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

Edges and Boundaries, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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

Pillow Talk, Small Comforts in Hard Times, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Works on Paper, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA

Plasma CD, 2003,’04,’05,’06, Film Art LA, Los Angeles, CA

Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

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

One person, Measure, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA

No Chaser; Straight Ahead Abstract Painting, Post, Los Angeles, CA

2002

Two person, Recent Paintings, Dawn Arrowsmith and Joan Kahn, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Kaleidoscope: Color Systems in Painting, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Digital Print Portfolio, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

2001

Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

Hand Painted, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Mixed Bag, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Inauguration of Architecture M, Long Beach, California, CA

Rising Tide, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2000

Ten Degrees of Abstraction, Biola University Gallery, La Mirada, CA

Sextet, in the key of space, Burning Lotus Studios, Los Angeles, CA

LA. Abstraction, Santa Monica College Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Part to the Whole, Laband Gallery, Loyola University, Los Angeles, CA

1999

Faculty Exhibition, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

The Arroyo Arts Collective Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

Good Paintings Make You Want to Paint, POST downtown, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

1998

Two person, Joan Kahn and Linda Kallan: Paintings, The Arroyo Arts Collective Sixth

Discovery Tour of Art and Architecture, Mt. Washington, CA

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

1986

Two person, Joan Kahn and James Larsen, St. Stephen's Chapel Gallery, Rome, Italy

1984

In-a-Sense: 27 New Jersey Artists, Winner First Cash Award, Bergen Museum of Art and Science,Paramus, NJ

 

1982

One person, Set for Princeton Ballet Society, Princeton, NJ

Connections, Western Electric Gallery, Hopewell, NJ

Pieced Work, 26 Federal Plaza, NYC. Competition NYC Women in the Arts

1981

One person, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Union Invitational, Madison, WI

One person, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI.

1980

One person, Tenny Park, Madison, WI. Funded by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board

One person, Southeastern Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

1979

Faculty Show, Southeastern Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

Two person, Page Coleman and Joan Kahn, Wisconsin Union, Madison, WI

51st Annual Union Show, Memorial Union, Madison, WI

National Small Painting Purchase Exhibition, Museum Gallery, Western Illinois U, Macomb, IL

1978

One person, Painted Work, Center Gallery, Madison, WI

National Invitational Exhibition, State University College, New Paltz, NY