Scott Kahn | The Walled City

For the safety of our visitors and staff, masks are optional and hand sanitizer will be provided at the door and throughout the gallery. Opening on May 3, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Inquire about the exhibition: inquiries@alminerech.com The gallery is open from 10 am until 6 pm.

Almine Rech New York is pleased to present an exhibition by Scott Kahn, featuring 15 paintings dated from 1982 to 2022. This is Kahn's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from May 3 to June 14, 2022.

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Scott Kahn

The Walled City

May 3 — Jun 14, 2022 | New York, Upper East Side

Scott Kahn (born 1946 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American painter with a long exhibition history, primarily in New York, and abroad. Kahn draws inspiration from life and considers his oeuvre to be a visual diary of the world around him. His subject matter reflects the people and places which he experiences. Drawing from memory and imagination, his work has a dream-like, surreal quality.

For the last several years Kahn has been working at home in Westchester, New York, but maintains a studio in Brooklyn. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Rutgers University. He spent a year in Theodoros Stamos' class at the Art Students League in New York.

Kahn has been a recipient of awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and a residency at the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk. His work is included in major corporations and two museums in China, including the Long Museum, and the ICA Miami in Florida. His work is in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater.

Selected artworks

Scott Kahn The Walled City, 1988

Oil on linen
81.3 x 91.4 cm; 32 x 36 x 1 1/2 in (unframed)
92.7 x 105.4 x 4.1 cm; 34 1/8 x 38 1/8 x 2 1/8 in (framed)
Scott Kahn Summer in New York, 1986

Oil on linen
121.9 x 152.4 cm
48 x 60 in
Scott Kahn On the Path, 1984

Oil on linen
91.4 x 91.4 cm
36 x 36 in

Scott Kahn The Walled City

Press release

Selected artworks

Scott Kahn The Walled City, 1988

Scott Kahn Summer in New York, 1986

Scott Kahn On the Path, 1984

Selected press

'Almine Rech | New York The Walled City,' Artforum, May 4, 2022

Katya Kazakina, How Septuagenarian Artist Scott Kahn Went From Living in His Cousin’s Attic to Selling Out Solo Shows in Just Three Years,' Artnet News, May 3, 2022

Dana Gordon, 'Scott Kahn’s Intensely ‘Unique Voice’ Haunts Manhattan', The New York Sun, May 2, 2022

Jonathan Goodman, 'Scott Kahn at Almine Rech', Whitehot Magazine, June 2022