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TWINART: Ellen Kahn + Lynda Kahn

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA After Glow X TwinArt

2022

Bulthaup, West Hollywood, CA TwinArt Instant Experience

2007       

Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamont Station, Los Angeles Instant Replay

1998

The Screening Room, NY - Composition in Op

1996

University of Mass, Amhearst, MA - Twindow, multi-media Installation

El International, NY - Double Date Valentine Twindow Video Installation

1983

Palazzo Coridini, Ravenna, Italy - Commercial Success     

Facsimile, Milan, Italy - Commercial Success    

Institute of Contemporary Art, London - Commercial Success

1982

Global Village, NY - Commercial Success   

1981 

White Columns, NY - Poodle Paper Twindow Installation

LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Commercial Success

Berkeley Art Museum San Francisco, CA  Commercial Success

1980

Franklin Furnace, NY - Taste Test Kitchen, multi-media performance

1979

Fiorucci, NY - Rubber Goods, window installation

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

CPW Kingston, NY, My Sister My Self, Curated by Tom Wolf & Adam Ryan

Berry Campbell Gallery, NY Postcards From the Edge, Visual Aids

2024

Studio 6/7 Perez Road, Cathedral City, Palm Springs, CA. Election Show, curators Bill Schinsky & Robert Aitkins

Flux Factory, Governors Island, NY Spiritual Machines, NY curated by Amelia Marzec & Jodie Lyn Lee Chow

The Rodd Presteigne, United Kingdom Painting with Light at the Sidney Nolan Trust, curated by Adrian Wilson

2023

White Columns Curated Artist Registry

Computer Arts Society Leicester, England Quantel Paintbox 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition

London Quantel Paintbox 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition

2022

Fridman Gallery, NYC - Hermette part of Experimental Intermedia NYC Instant This / Instant That + Double Date

2021

White Columns, NY - Summer Archive Invitation Exhibition

Kansas City, MO, US @ Oddities Prints Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions curator Herb Shellenberger

2020

U+N Fest, Baltimore, MD Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions curator Herb Shellenberger

Spectacle in Exile (Twitch) Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions curator Herb Shellenberger

2019

Oakland, CA, US @ The Dream Oven

Melbourne, Australia @ LongPlay

Brooklyn, NY, US @ Spectacle Theater

2018

London, UK @ DIY Space for London

2017

Ateliier Auglein Berlin, Germany Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions

Phila Moca Philadelphia, PA. Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions

NYU The Colloquiem for Unpopular Culture NY, NY  Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions

Taipai Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions

Lexington Film League, Kentucky Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions

Yale University, Whitney Hall, New Haven Ct. Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions

2016 

Nassau County Museum of Art Long Island Collects: New Photography 2014

Blum+Poe, Los Angeles: A Youtube Evening with Carole Anne Klonarides,

2007

Gallery at Brea Museum, California Media

2005

US Express Bureau of Educational Cultural Affairs US Department of State

1998

Siggraph, New Orleans - Composition in Op

Grand Central Station, NY Absolut Vodka Artist Series ABSOLUT TWINART

1995

Caldwell College, NJ - New Media Photography

1994

CFDA Lincoln Center, NY CFDA Cynthia's Big Dream video projection

1993

Exit Art, NY - The Design Show: Exhibition Invitation 1940-1992

Laguna Art Museum, CA - A Short Course in Art

1992

Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NY - Ecstasy

Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NY - Gallery

Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NY - The Gift

1991

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY - CFDA Pucci Love

1990

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY - Image World - curated by John Hanhardt

1989

Canal Plus-Avante Sur Image, Paris, France - Shake 'n' Bake      

Contemporary Arts Fair, Lisboa, Portugal - Shake 'n' Bake and Search Zero    

NOVA-Chukyo, Nagoya, Japan - Instant This-Instant That     

1988

The Catskill Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY - Shake 'n' Bake     

1987

Akron Art Museum, Ohio - SeeTV

Independent Curators, NY-Traveling Exhibition - Video Transformations    

1986

Bye Bye Kipling with Nam June Paik - NY, Tokyo, Seoul, Satellite TV PBS TwinArt performance

Parsons Gallery, NY - Computer Art - Two Views      

Dancer Fitzgerald Gallery, NY - 16 Artists      

Independent Curators Inc., NY - Traveling Exhibitions - Video Transformations

1985

Virginia Commonwealth University - Future Histories the Impact of Technology

Women in Film & Television, Berkeley, CA - Onscreen

Video Culture, Toronto, Canada - Sony Competition      

RCA Screening Room, NY - Art and Technology

Alternative Museum, NY - Double Date, Shake 'n' Bake    

International Video Biennale, Toyko, Japan- Invited Artists     

1984

The World's Fair '84,New Orleans, LA - So Well Orwell    

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY - Double Date     

Siggraph Computer Art Show at the Limelight, NY - Double Date

1983

Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland - Instant This - Instant That

1982

Pompidou Center, Paris, France - Instant This - Instant That     

University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD - The Sotet Collection     

Art Expo, Chicago, ILL      

Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, ILL - The Salon Show     

Media Study, Buffalo, NY - Traveling exhibition - Video/TV: Humor?Comedy

Cooperative Spaziozero, Milan, Italy - Instant This - Instant That

Rome International Video Festival, Italy

Bologna Film & Video Festival, Italy

Festival de Cine De San Sebastian, Spain

Styrian Autumn Festival, Graz, Austria

Festival D' Autumn, Paris

1981

Smithsonian Institute - Renwick Gallery, Washington DC - Good as Gold    

Donnell Center for Film and Video, NY - TwinArt Screening      

Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA - Video Works '82     

Image Co-op, Montpelier, VT - TwinArt Screening      

Anthology Film Archives, NY - TwinArt Screening

1980

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ILL - Video Art; the Electronic Medium     

American Center, Paris, France - New York Video     

A.I.V.F., NY - TwinArt & Twins - event with Charlie Ahearn screening his film Twins and Instant This Instant That

Stadtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus, Munich,Germany - New York - New Work    

Aspen Center for the Visual Art, Beyond Object, Taste Test Kitchen    

Palais de Independents, Paris, France - New Video      

Ithaca Video Project,NY - Instant This - Instant That

San Francisco Video - Video 80

Women's One World Video Festival, San Francisco

1979

The Kitchen, NY- Instant This - Instant That

Young Innovators Show - New York Hilton           

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Instant This Instant That Soundcheck | The Boomerang Wire UK February 2023

Instant This Instant That: NY NY 1978-1985 2xLP Erika Elizabeth October 2022 Maximum Rock N Roll

Musique Boutique Gillian G Gear September 2022 Audio Femme

El International (1984-1986) New York’s Archaelogical Sandwich Antoni Miralda 2018

LA Times They Get Double Takes Creating Looks For TV Richard Verrier 1/9/06

Television Week Design Business in a Renaissance Daisy Whitney 5/05

Height of Fashion – Lisa Eisner + Roman Alonso – Greybull Press 2000

Absolut Art – V+S Vin & Spirit AB / John Peter Nilsson - 2000

The Daily Telegraph (London) – Tate Modern – Alice Thompson 5/2000

Bomb Magazine – ABSOLUT TWINART 9/97

Diem 15 Most Influential Women in Broadcast Stuart Rotman 11/95

Radio Aahs Double Vision Katherine Silberger 4/95

Millimeter Twin Art Captives Polaroid Beth Jenks 11/93

Shoot Dynamic Duos,  Beth Jenks  10/93

Shoot TwinArt Turns Hershey's into Pop Art  Carolyn Hill 2/91

Shoot Directing Duos1991

Adweek Ad Showcase Mark Doliver 4/91

Shoot TwinArt Directing Talents Lisa M. Smith 3/89

Advertising Age Creativity - Graphic Le Clic 2/88

Wrap Double Vision Tom Soter 11/88

Transformations Lois Bianchi 1986

Millimeter Art & Advertising: When Worlds Collide Alison Johns 5/86

Videography Computer Graphics Gallery Just For Fun 1/86

Computer Pictures Shake 'n' Bake & MCTV Overnight 9/85

Millimeter MCTV Cable Soap 5/85

Cosmopolitan Japan Tells All - The Face 6/85

Popular Computing Winner in Computer Art Competition 11/84

Rock Video Video Active Merrill Aldigheri 9/84

Heresis-16 Video Art and the Marketplace Joan Jubella 5/83

Cinema off e Videoarte a New York, Ester de Miro  1981

Artforum TwinArt / White Columns, Richard Flood 1981

Good as Gold Alternative Materials in American Jewelry 1981

Soho Weekly News NY Video: State of the Art, Merle Ginsberg 3/81

Art Week Video 80, 1980

New York Magazine, Best Bets Poodle Paper Caterine Millinaire, 11/80

Video Guide Video Shorts P. Wong 10/80

Art Space  Beyond Object, Phil Yenawine 9/80

Home Video Poodle Paper, Diana Lovey 9/80

Videography Video Art, Victor Ancona 10/80

Zipper Magazine Commercial Success, Fall 1980

Chicago Magazine Twin Art Products, 12/80

Chicago Tribune MCA Show Wins High Ratings, Alan G. Artner 9/80

East Village Eye Hurrah Video Summer 1980

Seventeen Magazine The Year 2000 1/80

Village Voice Heart-i-facts, Robin Holland 2/80

Soho Weekly News TwinArt Style, Debra Schultz 6/79

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS / BROADCAST AWARDS

EMMY The Ellen Degeneres Show 2006

BDA GOLD Arrested Development 2004

BDA Gold Full Frontal Fashion 2004

Promax Silver - UPN Network ID's 1998

Art Director's Club Silver Award - Composition in Op 1998

Broadcast Design Award - Silver Award Cynthia's Big Dream 1995

EMMY - FOX The Reporters 1989

Broadcast Design Award - Silver Award - FOX The Reporters 1989

Advertising Age - Creativity Gold Award The Reporters 1989

Broadcast Design Award - Gold Award, Polaroid "Shoot" 1988

Monitor Award - Gold Award Best Director, Best Editing, Polaroid "Shoot" 1988

BPME Award - NCTV "The NCTV Hour" 1988

Houston Film Festival - Gold Award "Marble Madness", Milton Bradley 1988

Broadcast Design Association - Gold Award, "NBC-Today Show"1987

Int'l Film & Video - Gold Award "Make Your Own Rock Video" 1987

Int'l Film & Video - Silver Award "Master Reels"1987

Broadcast Design Association - Gold Award, "Master Reels" 1986

Int'l Film & TV Festival of NY,Gold Award "In & Out of Love Affairs"1986

Popular Computing (McGraw-Hill), "Computer Art Calendar Award" 1984

Broadcast Design Association - Art Direction 1984; Silver Award

The Academy of Arts + Television - EMMY - Individual Craft/Art Direction 1983

National Endowment for the Arts, Conceptual and Performance 1980

Illinois Arts Council 1979

SCREENINGS, PANELS & SEMINARS

PROMAX The Art of Title Design curators / moderators Virtual Experience 2020

Vimeo TwinArt NY / LA screening and conversation with C.J Hughes 2019

XFR STN Project, New Museum 2017 NYU

PROMAX/BDA The Art of Title Design curators / moderators 2008- 2019

The Evolution of TWINART, New York Film Academy 2016

One-Day Media Immersion Panel, Paley Media Center NY 2013

Broadcast Design Association, Your Own Boss Washington D.C. 6/99

Broadcast Design Association, 20 Designers Orlando, FL 6/98

NY Women in Film and Television Computer Animation Washington, D.C., 3/98

Cooper Union, NY 11/92

Guest Director for S.A.I.C. Annual Fashion Show, Chicago 5/91

University of California at San Diego 3/91

San Diego State College, CA 3/91

California Institute of the Arts 3/91

University of California Art Museum at Berkley CA 3/91

The Art Institute of Chicago, IL 11/80,3/91

Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA10/90

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Absolut Vodka, Sprit Museum, Stockholm

The Art Institute of Chicago

Communications Equity Associates

Polaroid Corporation

The Kitchen Center for Video & Music

Electronic Arts Intermix

Bell & Howell

ICAP

London Video Data Bank

Chicago Editing Center

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Best Products

Dan Video, Milan

The New York Public Library - Donnell Film Center

Crossroads Films

Post Perfect

EDUCATORS – ADJUNCT FACULTY

ELLEN KAHN

Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY  1992- 1994

School of Visual Arts, NY, NY  1984 - 1986

Center for Media Arts, NY, NY  1983 – 1984

LYNDA KAHN

Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles 2009-11

The Art Institute of Chicago 1976-78

EDUCATION

ELLEN KAHN

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1976 – MFA Merit Scholarship

Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania - BFA 1975 - Magna Cum Laude

Tyler School of Art in Rome

Fashion Institute of Technology, NY AAS in Textile Design 1972 President’s Scholar

LYNDA KAHN

The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 1976 MFA - Honors Fellowship

Philadelphia College of Art 1973 BFA