AndrewShire Gallery

BIOGRAPHY
Joan Kahn

EDUCATION
1977–1979	M.A., M.F.A., Painting and Sculpture University of Wisconsin, Madison
1971–1976	B.S. Honors, Painting and Printmaking (Minor concentration, Art History) University of Wisconsin, Madison
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
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
	Professor: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA; Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2009	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, JancCurrent 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 Pardners, 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, C Good Paintings Make You Want to Paint, POST downtown, Los Angeles, CA
1998	Two person: Joan Kahn and Linda Kallan: Painting, 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
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
BENEFIT AUCTIONS
2008	Aids Service Center, Los Angeles, CA The HeArt Project, Los Angeles, CA Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2007	Aids Service Center, Pasadena, CA, For Darfur Victims, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2006	The HeArt Project, Los Angeles, CA Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2005	For Hurricane Katrina Victims, LA Design Center, Los Angeles, CA The HeArt Project, Hotel Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA
2004	Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2003	For Union Station Homeless Shelter, Haus, Pasadena, CA
2001	Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
2000	Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Pasadena Art Alliance Biennial Auction, Art Center College, Pasadena, CA
1998	POST, Los Angeles, CA Miller Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997	POST, Los Angeles, CA
1979	Channel 21 Telebid Invitational, 2nd Place Cash Award, Madison, WI
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT JOAN KAHN
2002	Presneill, Max, Kaleidoscope: Color Systems in Painting, Catalog Essay, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002	Frank, Peter, Galleries: Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, March 3–9 Frank, Peter, Galleries: Pick of the Week, LA Weekly, February 11–7 Miles, Chris, 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, CataCommune 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 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 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 Paint, imagination turn scrap to art, Post-Crescent, New London, WI, October 22 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 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
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
	Brian McPherson, Los Angeles, CA Craig Deines, Pomona, CA Gene Ogami, Claremont, CA Kathryn L. Beranich and Stephanie Friedenreich, 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 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 Meg and Brian Aldrich, South Pasadena, CA Toni McDonald Pang, Irvine, CA Ruth Shor, Newport, Rhode Island Larry Agran, Irvine, CA Jeff Tuck and David Richards, Los Angeles, CA John Marc Edwards, Los Angeles, CA Libby Breen, Pasadena, CA Julie McManus, Los Angeles, CA Nancy Monk, Pasadena, 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 Kahn Family: Hannah Kahn, Princeton, NJ Martin Kahn, Princeton, NJ Peter Kahn, Amherst, Mass