Mona Kuhn Biography

1969 German, raised in Brazil, lives in the US

EDUCATION

1993                            Ohio State University, BA, Ohio

1996-1997     San Francisco Art Institute, California

1999-2005     The Getty Research Institute, Independent Studies,

Arts and Humanities, Los Angeles, California

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005    Mona Kuhn-Close, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia

2005 Unbounded Youth, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2004 Mona Kuhn-Color, Camerawork, Berlin, Germany

2004 New Work, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2004 Corporeal Space, Galerie F5.6, Munique, Germany

2004 Mona Kuhn - Color Photographs, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, California

2004 Still Memory, PhotoEye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico     

2004 Body Language, Camerawork AG, Hamburg, Germany

2003 Somata, Schumann Galerie, Munique, Germany

2002 Mona Kuhn-recent work, Momus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2001 Mona Kuhn-recent work, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, California

2001 Bare, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York

2001 Mona Kuhn, Bassetti Fine Art Photo Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

2000 Bei Nahe, Bodo Niemann Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2000 Mona Kuhn, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1999 Mona Kuhn-recent work, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, California

1998 Mona Kuhn Nus, Elkis Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil

1997 Mona Kuhn, Tappert Galerie, Berlin, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 Traditions on Figure, G. Gibson Gallery, Seatlle, Washington

2002 March Group Exhibition, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2002 Collective, Vickie Bassetti Fine Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

2001 Love and Trust, Momus Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

2001 Best of 2001, curated by Jack Spencer, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee

2001 PhotoMetro, SFAC Gallery, San Francisco, California

2001 Group Exhibition, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2000 German Artists, Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, California

2000 Among Us, Paba Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2000 Collective, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2000 The Body in Art, Francoise Gallery, Maryland, Virginia

2000 Nudes from Past to Present, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona

2000 Love, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California

1999 Collective Figurative Artists, Mauritz Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

1999 Female Figures,  WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1998 Bare Skin, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

1998 Minimal Skin, Museum of Arts Downtown, Los Angeles, California

1998 Shapes and Nudes, Mauritz Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

1998 Collective Figurative, Museum Of Arts Downtown Los Angeles, California       

1997 Contemporary Women Photographers, Scott Nichols Gallery, SF, California

1997 Brazilian Contemporary Art, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California

COLLECTIONS

Schwarz Fine and Contemporary Art Collection, Berlin, Germany

Nicolaus von Oesterreich Collection, Frankfurt, Germany

di Rosa Foundation, San Francisco, California

Paul Allen Collection, Seattle, Washington

Sir Elton John Collection, England

Buhl Foundation, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

Mona Kuhn Photographs. Steidl, Göttingen, 2004. 108 pp., 33 tritones and 20 color plates.

Mona Kuhn artist catalog. Text by Heather Snider. Watermark Press, San Francisco, 2002

Oceans. Edited by Sue Hostetler. Text by Robert Redford, Vicki Goldberg, and Jean-M. Rizzoli, New York, 2003.

GUEST SPEAKER

2005    Art Center Pasadena, Los Angeles, California

2005 Santa Fe Center for Photography, Los Angeles

2005    PhotoLA, Los Angeles, California

2004 Society for Photographic  Education, University of Georgia

2004 Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2004 FotoForum, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California

2004 Camerawork AG, Hamburg, Germany

2002 Academy of Art, San Francisco, California

2001 FotoForum, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California

2001 Berlin Freies Sender,TV/radio interview,Berlin, Germany

2001 AT&T cable channel, TV interview, San Francisco, California

2000 De Young Museum, San Francisco, California

2000 Pasadena Art Center, Los Angeles, California

1999 Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California

1999 Bay TV, interview, San Francisco, California

ARTICLES & REVIEWS (details upon request)

2005 Zoom Magazine, Italy

2005    Hasselblad Forum Magazine, Sweden

2005 British Journal of Photography, London

2006    Eyemazing, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004 B+W magazine, Australia

2004 Camerawork Journal of Photographic Art, October issue

2004 Art on Paper, November issue

2004 PhotoNews, Hamburg, Germany, March

2003 Hasselblad Forum magazine, Sweden, November

2003 Monaco Fashion and Style Magazine, Monaco, August

2003 Photovision, portfolio article, June

2003 Freeye Magazine, Munique review, Netherlands, summer

2003 Zyzzyva, fall issue

2002 7x7 Magazine, January issue

2001 Business Week, december

2001 Zyzzyva, winter issue

2001 Best of New Orleans, Gambit weekly, December

2001 New Orleans Times Picayune, December

2001 Neue Presse, German newspaper, November

2001 SF Downtown Magazine, October

2001 French PHOTO Magazine, September

2001 die WELT, German newspaper, July

2001 Bang! Magazine, June

2001 The SF Chronicle Newspaper, April

2001 PhotoMetro Magazine, March

2001 BistArt, show review, March

2001 B&W Magazine, February

2000 Photovision Magazine, December

2000 B&W Magazine, June

2000 CBSNews.com, June

2000 Baltimore City Paper, May

2000 Tucson Artreview, May

2000 Arizona Daily, April

2000 Camera Arts Magazine, April

2000 Black + White Mag. (Australia), April

1999 Philosophy of Photography, Lusenet, May

1999 Artweek, April

1999 B&W Magazine, April

1999 San Francisco Examiner Mag, March

1999 SF Chronicle Newspaper, March

1998 Veja Magazine,  São Paulo, December

1998 Estado de São Paulo Newspaper, November

1998 Zyzzyva, winter issue, October

1998 Columbus Alive Newspaper, February

1997 San Francisco Examiner Magazine, August

1996    Nufoto Magazine, August