Aunia Kahn

Aunia Kahn
Born	Aunia Kahn
Nationality	American
Education	Self Educated
Known for	Mixed Media / Digital Art / Acrylic on Canvas
Movement	Lowbrow / Contemporary

Aunia Kahn (born in, Detroit, MI, Michigan) is an Lowbrow/Contemporary artist and graphic and web designer based in Illinois who works use her own likeness, and combine many disciplines while wrapping them into a hybrid art form melding photography, painting and collage. Her works deals with varied taboo and often controversial subject matter to challenge the viewer.

History

Aunia Kahn was born in Detroit, Michigan and was raised in an explosive and unpredictable home environment and sought refuge through creativity and the arts. In 2003 she found herself immersed in a very intimate series to help advance herself through the healing process of child abuse, but never expected to share her work publicly until she was encouraged to do so. In December 2005 her career officially launched with her first exhibition which garnered immediate interest in fine art gallery showings across the United States and internationally. Her work has been shared publicly in hundreds of showings to date.

Aunia’s work is constantly growing and changing shape, earlier works dealt more with her past, while her more recent series delve into present emotional conflicts and inspirations.

She is also the creator of the Silver Era Tarot deck and the Lowbrow Tarot Project, is a graphic and web designer and owner of Aunia Kahn Designs, as well as musician, vocalist and lyricist in her solo project AfterChain. She currently resides in Illinois with her four German Shepherds and two black cats in her secret closet.

Honors

Awards

• Award of Excellence, 2009, Photographers Forum Magazine
• Peoples Choice Award, 2008, Ventipertrenta Juried Exhibition, Italy
• 3rd Place Juried, 2008 · Ventipertrenta Juried Exhibition, Italy
• Juried Calendar Winner, 2008, Altered Aesthetics
• First Place, 2008 · Missouri Alliance for Animals Legislation
• Honor Awards (X2), 2008, Reflect-Arts
• Canson Inc. Award, 2007, St. Louis Artists’ Guild
• Honor Award, 2007, Chico Art Center
• People Choice Award, 2007, CPop Gallery
• Art on Ltd Ed. Wine Bottles, 2007, Le Bourgeois Vineyard
• 3rd Place, 2007, Art Dimensions Gallery Woman's Gallery
• Honor Award, 2007, Art Saint Louis
• Kiwanis Art Award Merit, 2007, Southwestern Illinois College
• First Place Graphics, 2005, Mitchell Museum
• Top Award · St. Louis, 2005, Artists’ Guild

Work

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibits:

• Our Forbidden Solution, 2009, Schmidt Art Center, IL

• Ventipertrenta, 2009 International Dynamic Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy

• Our Quiet Earthquake, 2008, Eclectix Gallery, CA

• Our Perfect Poison, 2007, The Ground Floor, IL

• Our Common Silence, 2006, Cummel’s Cafe, MO

• Our Human Error, 2005, The Ground Floor, IL

Selected Juried Exhibits:

• The Dirty Show [Special Guest Artist], 2009, Detroit, MI

• The Essence of Classic Modernism, 2009, Ciao Gallery

• Ventipertrenta, 2009 International Dynamic Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy

• A Politic, 2008, Reflect Arts

• Midnight Oils, 2008, Mills Pond Gallery, New York NY

• Bitter Fruits, 2008, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis MN

• Metzger Memorial National Exhibit, 2007, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis MO

• Masks, 2008, Tangent Gallery, Sacramento CA

• Me, Myself & Eye, 2008, Chico Art Center, Chico CA

• It's Humble to be Good [©Poppertunity Award Winners Group Show] · ©POP Gallery, Detroit MI

• SDAI 49th International Awarded Exhibit, 2007, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego CA

• In Our Lifetime, 2006, Washington School of Photography, Bethesda MD

• LACDA Top 40, 2006, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles CA

• Voices Within Surviving Through the Arts, 2005, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis MO

External links

• Aunia Kahn's Official Website

• Silver Era Tarot Deck