page_title: Tobi Kahn
section_title: Exhibitions and public commissions
hierarchical_section_title: Tobi Kahn / Exhibitions and public commissions
caption_attribution_description: English: Tobi Kahn's MOBIA Exhibition in November 2009
context_page_description: Tobi Kahn is an American painter and sculptor. Kahn lives and works in New York City and is on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts.
context_section_description: The solo exhibition, Tobi Kahn: Aura- New Paintings From Nature will be on view at Museum of Art - DeLand June 3 - August 5, 2018.
  In 2017, Anointed Time:  Sculpture and Ceremonial Objects by Tobi Kahn was on view at The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. This exhibition involved Kahn's work from the early 1980s to 2017 and was first time his shrines, sculpture, and ceremonial art were all on view together.
  Kahn had paintings included in the group show, Golem, at the Jewish Museum Berlin September 23, 2016 to January 29, 2017.
  In 2015, Reverie: Tobi Kahn, a solo show of current work opened at the Cornell Museum of Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. In that same year Meridian: Paintings and Ceremonial Art of Tobi Kahn was on view at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana.
  In 2012, IMMANCE: The Art of Tobi Kahn, a solo exhibition of paintings from 1987-2012 opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA. Another exhibition, RIFA-Sky and Water Installation, ran concurrently in Philadelphia at the National Museum of American Jewish History and had an accompanying catalogue.
  In November 2011, ALIGNED, Paintings by Tobi Kahn, a solo exhibition of paintings curated by John Shipman, opened at the University of Maryland Art Gallery with an accompanying catalogue.
  In September 2011, Embodied Light: 9-11 in 2011, an installation was commissioned by the Educational Alliance of New York in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and exhibited in the Ernest Rubenstein Gallery at the Education Alliance. An associated catalogue was published with essays by Maya Benton, Norman L. Kleeblatt, James E. Young and meditations by Nessa Rapoport. This exhibition traveled to the Islip Art Museum in 2012.
  Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11 a group exhibition described as "a selection of works from 13 New York artists deeply affected by 9/11" and was on view at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum September 2016- January 2018 an included an installation by Kahn titled M'AHL. The other artists involved were Blue Man Group, Gustavo Bonevardi, Monika Bravo, Eric Fischl, Donna Levinstone, Michael Mulhern, Colleen Mulrenan Macfarlane, Christopher Saucedo, Manju Shandler, Doug and Mike Starn, Todd Stone, and Ejay Weiss. 
  In October 2009 Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century, a solo traveling exhibition of ceremonial and liturgical art, opened at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) in NYC. A catalogue of the same title, edited by Ena Giurescu Heller and published by the Museum of Biblical Art in New York in association with D Giles Limited, London, accompanied the exhibition. The publication includes essays by Jeff Edwards, Heller, Kahn, David Morgan, Klaus Ottmann, and Daniel Sperber, with meditations by Nessa Rapoport.
  In 2008 Kahn was commissioned to create eight wall-scale paintings and ritual objects, including the eternal light, mezuzah, and panels for the ark doors, for the sanctuary of Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun, Milwaukee, WI.
  The 2003 exhibition Tobi Kahn: Sky and Water at The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College,was a monumental installation of 106 paintings. The accompanying catalogue includes essays by Dede Young, who curated the exhibition, and by Donald Kuspit.
  In 2002, The HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York commissioned Kahn to create a nondenominational meditative space. The resulted in "EMET," built to the artist's specifications to house nine sky-and-water murals and a set of sculptural furniture also created by Kahn.
  Landscape at the Millennium: Installations by Tobi Kahn and Pat Steir; Nineteenth-Century Paintings from the Parrish Art Museum and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery was on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery November 20, 1999- Sunday, January 2, 2000.
  The ten year survey exhibition, "Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses", curated by Peter Selz with an accompanying catalogue including essays by Peter Selz, Dore Ashton and Michael Brenson traveled to 8 museum across the country from 1997-1999. Art in America included "Metamorphoses" in its national museum 
caption: Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century (installation view) The Museum of Biblical Art, November 2009
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