Heidi Hahn
Heidi Hahn is an American contemporary painter whose practice focuses on the representation and redefinition of the female body in painting. She describes her approach as “narrative formalism”: allowing traces of narrative to remain within structure, composition, and color, so that painting becomes both a formal experiment and a critical inquiry into identity, gender, and cultural context. Hahn’s figures are not traditional portraits; they are often reduced into composites of color, posture, and brushwork—resisting objectification while embracing ambiguity and indeterminacy.
Selected Solo Exhibitons
• End. Résumé, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf (2025)
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• Invisible Anatomies, Blueknowledge Foundation, Amsterdam (2025)
• Kink Odelisk, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf (2023)
• Soft Joy, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (2022)
• The Future is Elsewhere (If it Breaks Your Heart), Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2017)
• Bent Idle, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2016)
Selected Group Exhibitons
• Come a Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York (2023)
• Mending the Sky, New Orleans Museum of Art (2020)
• Engender, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (2017)
• Human Condition, Los Angeles (2016)
Public Collections
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta
• Dallas Museum of Art
• New Orleans Museum of Art
• Kadist Foundation, Paris
• New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai
• Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
• Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki