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Misha Kahn (born 1989) is an American designer and sculptor, known for assemblage. He incorporates refuse and
Kahn graduated from
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found object
A found object (a calque from the French ''objet trouvé''), or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already hav ...
s in his furniture and lighting designs. Kahn's style has been described as "disheveled, spontaneous maximalism
In the arts, maximalism is an Aesthetics, aesthetic characterized by excess and abundance, serving as a reaction against minimalism. The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist principle of "less is more" ...
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Career
Kahn graduated from Rhode Island School of Design
The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase th ...
(RISD) with a degree in furniture design in 2011. In 2012, he was a Fulbright Fellow
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...
at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design () is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldest institution of higher education and is considered the ...
in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was a fellow in 2013 at the Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts
Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center (formerly Wheaton Village) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts education organization, with a focus on the medium of glass. Located in Millville, New Jersey, the center's mission is to engage artists and audiences in ...
in Millville, New Jersey.
Kahn was featured in the Museum of Arts and Design
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the ...
's 2014 NYC Makers biennial. His first solo exhibition, ''Midden Heap'', was held at the Friedman Benda Gallery in 2016. He has since exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...
, the Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in ...
, Dallas Museum of Art
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the A ...
, and High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28, ...
.
Kahn's work is in the collections of museums such as the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 5,000 years of history with nearly 80,000 works from six continents. Follo ...
, the Speed Museum of Art in Louisville, and the Corning Museum of Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning (city), New York, Corning, New York, United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in 1951 by Corning Incorporated, Corning Glass Works and currently has a ...
. Private collectors of his work include Kelly Wearstler
Kelly Wearstler (; born November 21, 1967) is an American designer. She founded her own design firm Kelly Wearstler Interior Design (or KWID) in the mid-1990s, serving mainly the hotel industry, and now designs across high-end residential, comme ...
and Peter Marino.
In 2023, Kahn was a contestant on '' The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist'', a reality TV series that aired on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel.
Personal life
He was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He currently lives in theBushwick
Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; the cemeteries of Highland Park to the southe ...
neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with his boyfriend Nick Haramis
Nick Haramis (born March 10, 1983) is a Canadian-born, American journalist and magazine editor. He previously was the editor-in-chief for ''Interview'' magazine and Senior Features Editor, '' T: The New York Times Style Magazine'' from 2013–2017 ...
.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahn, Misha 1989 births Living people People from Duluth, Minnesota Rhode Island School of Design alumni American designers American furniture designers