Tobi Kahn

Artist-in-Residence

Tobi Kahn has been teaching his unique “Visual Learning: The Art of Seeing” course on KIVUNIM since our first year in 2006-07. He is the senior curator and the inspiration for our annual international photo exhibition. Tobi is a painter and sculptor whose art has been shown in over 70 solo museum exhibitions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; The Jewish Museum, NYC and many more. His traveling museum exhibitions include Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses; Avoda: Objects of the Spirit; Microcosmos; Tobi Kahn: Sky & Water; and Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century.  He has been commissioned to create numerous installations including a floor installation in the exhibition Rendering the Unthinkable, 9/11 Memorial Museum, NYC as well as two bronze memorial sculptures for the Grey Art Gallery of NYU and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, NYC and many others. Tobi also communicates his vision through his passion for teaching. For over 30 years, he has taught fine arts at the School of Visual Arts, NYC and lectures extensively at universities and public forums internationally on the importance of visual language and on art as healing.