TwinArt | Ellen Kahn + Lynda Kahn
EDUCATION
ELLEN KAHN
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California 1976 post graduate
Tyler School of Art + Architecture, Philadelphia, PA, Rome, IT - BFA 1975 - Magna Cum Laude
LYNDA KAHN
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 1975 MFA - Honors Fellowship
Philadelphia College of Art 1973 BFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Kippi Leonard Gallery, Cathedral City, CA In Dialogue (Continuum)
2025 Gary Wexler Studio + Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 1+[twinart]
2023 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA AfterGlow X TwinArt
2022 Bulthaup, West Hollywood, TwinArt Instant Experience
2007 Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamont Station, Los Angeles Instant Replay
1998 The Screening Room, NY - Composition in Op
1996 University of Mass, Amhearst, MA - Twindow, multi-media installation
El International, NY - Double Date Valentine Twindow video installation
1983 Palazzo Coridini, Ravenna, Italy - Commercial Success
Facsimile, Milan, Italy - Commercial Success
Institute of Contemporary Art, London - Commercial Success
1982 Global Village, NY - Commercial Success
1981 White Columns, NY - Poodle Paper Twindow Installation
LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Commercial Success
UC Berkeley Art Museum San Francisco, CA Commercial Success
1980 Franklin Furnace, NY - Taste Test Kitchen, multi-media performance
1979 Fiorucci, NY - Rubber Goods, window installation
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Berry Cambell, NY Postcards from the Edge / Visual Aids
2025 CPW, Kingston, NY My Sister, My Self curator Adam Ryan, Tom Wolf
2025 Berry Cambell, NY Postcards from the Edge / Visual Aids
2024 Studio 6/7 Rancho Mirage, CA The Election Show curator Bernard Leibov
Flux_Factory, Governors Island, NY, Spiritual Machines
2023 Computer Arts Society Leichester, England Quantel Paintbox 50th Anniversary
London, England Quantel Paintbox 50th Anniversary Art Exhibit
2022 Fridman Gallery, NY - Hermette Experimental Media Media NYC
2021 White Columns, NY - Summer Archive Invitation Exhibition
2020 U+N Fest, Baltimore, MD Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions curator Herb Shellenberger
2017 Ateliier Auglein Berlin, Germany Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions
Phila Moca Philadelphia, PA. Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions
NYU The Colloquiem for Unpopular Culture NY, NY Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions
Taipai Contemporary Art Center, Taiwan Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions
Lexington Film League, Kentucky Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions
Yale University, Whitney Hall, New Haven Ct. Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions
DIY Space London, England Cave Girls & Trashy Fashions
2016 Nassau County Museum of Art Long Island Collects: New Photography 2014 Blum+Poe, Los Angeles
A Youtube Evening with Carole Anne Klonarides, 2007 Gallery at Brea Museum, California Media
2005 US Express Bureau of Educational Cultural Affairs US Department of State
1998 Siggraph, New Orleans - Composition in Op
Grand Central Station, NY Absolut Vodka Artist Series ABSOLUT TWINART
1995 Caldwell College, NJ - New Media Photography
1994 CFDA Lincoln Center, NY CFDA Cynthia's Big Dream video projection
1993 Exit Art, NY - The Design Show: Exhibition Invitation 1940-1992
Laguna Art Museum, CA - A Short Course in Art
1992 Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NY - Ecstasy
Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NY - Gallery
Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NY - The Gift
1991 CFDA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY - Pucci Love
1990 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY - Image World
1989 Canal Plus-Avante Sur Image, Paris, France - Shake 'n' Bake
Contemporary Arts Fair, Lisboa, Portugal - Shake 'n' Bake and Search Zero
NOVA-Chukyo, Nagoya, Japan - Instant This-Instant That
1988 The Catskill Center of Photography, Woodstock, NY - Shake 'n' Bake
1987 Akron Art Museum, Ohio - SeeTV
Independent Curators, NY-Traveling Exhibition - Video Transformations
1986 Parsons Gallery, NY - Computer Art - Two Views
Dancer Fitzgerald Gallery, NY - 16 Artists
Independent Curators Inc., NY - Traveling Exhibitions - Video Transformations
1985 Virginia Commonwealth University - Future Histories the Impact of Technology
Women in Film & Television, Berkeley, CA - Onscreen
Video Culture, Toronto, Canada - Sony Competition
RCA Screening Room, NY - Art and Technology Screening
Alternative Museum, NY - Double Date, Shake 'n' Bake
International Video Biennale, Toyko, Japan- Invited Guest Artists
1984 The World's Fair '84,New Orleans, LA - So Well Orwell
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY - Double Date
Siggraph Computer Art Show at the Limelight, NY - Double Date
1983 Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland - Instant This - Instant That
1982 Pompidou Center, Paris, France - Instant This - Instant That
University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD - The Sotet Collection
Art Expo, Chicago, ILL
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, ILL - The Salon Show
Media Study, Buffalo, NY - Traveling exhibition - Video/TV: Humor?Comedy
Cooperative Spaziozero, Milan, Italy - Instant This - Instant That
Rome International Video Festival, Italy
Bologna Film & Video Festival, Italy
Festival de Cine De San Sebastian, Spain
Styrian Autumn Festival, Graz, Austria
Festival D' Autumn, Paris
1981 Smithsonian Institute - Renwick Gallery, Washington DC - Good as Gold
Donnell Center for Film and Video, NY - TwinArt Screening
Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA - Video Works '82
Image Co-op, Montpelier, VT - TwinArt Screening
Anthology Film Archives, NY - TwinArt Screening
1980 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ILL - Video Art; the Electronic Medium
American Center, Paris, France - New York Video
A.I.V.F., NY - TwinArt & Twins
Stadtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus, Munich,Germany - New York - New Work
Aspen Center for the Visual Art, Beyond Object, Taste Test Kitchen
Palais de Independents, Paris, France - New Video
Ithaca Video Project,NY - Instant This - Instant That
San Francisco Video - Video 80
Women's One World Video Festival, San Francisco
1979 The Kitchen, NY- Instant This - Instant That
Young Innovators Show - New York Hilton
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Soho Artists History Book Tsipi Ben-Haim 2026
My Sister, My Self catalogue Tom Wolf and Laurie Dahlberg 1/26
Spiritual Machines catalogue Julia Stachura 8/24
Audio Femme Musique Boutique Gillian G Gear 9/22
Maximum Rock’nRoll Instant - This Instant That NYNY 1998-85 Ericka Elizabeth 10/25
LA Times They Get Double Takes Creating Looks For TV Richard Verrier 1/9/06
Television Week Design Business in a Renaissance Daisy Whitney 5/05
Height of Fashion – Lisa Eisner + Roman Alonso – Greybull Press 2000
Absolut Art – V+S Vin & Spirit AB / John Peter Nilsson - 2000
The Daily Telegraph (London) – Tate Modern – Alice Thompson 5/2000
Bomb Magazine – ABSOLUT TWINART 9/97
Diem 15 Most Influential Women in Broadcast Stuart Rotman 11/95
Radio Aahs Double Vision Katherine Silberger 4/95
Millimeter TwinArt Captives Polaroid Beth Jenks 11/93
Shoot Dynamic Duos, Beth Jenks 10/93
Shoot TwinArt Turns Hershey's into Pop Art Carolyn Hill 2/91
Shoot Directing Duos1991
Adweek Ad Showcase Mark Doliver 4/91
Shoot TwinArt Directing Talents Lisa M. Smith 3/89
Advertising Age Creativity - Graphic Le Clic 2/88
Wrap Double Vision Tom Soter 11/88
Transformations Lois Bianchi 1986
Millimeter Art & Advertising: When Worlds Collide Alison Johns 5/86
Videography Computer Graphics Gallery Just For Fun 1/86
Computer Pictures Shake 'n' Bake & MCTV Overnight 9/85
Millimeter MCTV Cable Soap 5/85
Cosmopolitan Japan Tells All - The Face 6/85
Popular Computing Winner in Computer Art Competition 11/84
Rock Video Video Active Merrill Aldigheri 9/84
Heresis-16 Video Art and the Marketplace Joan Jubella 5/83
Cinema off e Videoarte a New York, Ester de Miro 1981
Artforum TwinArt / White Columns, Richard Flood 1981
Good as Gold Alternative Materials in American Jewelry 1981
Soho Weekly News NY Video: State of the Art, Merle Ginsberg 3/81
Art Week Video 80, 1980
New York Magazine, Best Bets Poodle Paper Caterine Millinaire, 11/80
Video Guide Video Shorts P. Wong 10/80
Art Space Beyond Object, Phil Yenawine 9/80
Home Video Poodle Paper, Diana Lovey 9/80
Videography Video Art, Victor Ancona 10/80
Zipper Magazine Commercial Success, Fall 1980
Chicago Magazine Twin Art Products, 12/80
Chicago Tribune MCA Show Wins High Ratings, Alan G. Artner 9/80
East Village Eye Hurrah Video Summer 1980
Seventeen Magazine The Year 2000 1/80
Village Voice Heart-i-facts, Robin Holland 2/80
Soho Weekly News TwinArt Style, Debra Schultz 6/79
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Absolut Vodka
Communications Equity Associates
Polaroid Corporation
The Kitchen Center for Video & Music
Electronic Arts Intermix
Bell & Howell
ICAP
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Editing Center
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Best Products
Dan Video, Milan
The New York Public Library - Donnell Film Center
Crossroads Films
Post Perfect
FELLOWSHIPS | GRANTS | AWARDS
EMMY The Ellen Degeneres Show 2006
BDA GOLD Arrested Development 2004
BDA Gold Full Frontal Fashion 2004
Promax Silver - UPN Network ID's 1998
Art Director's Club Silver Award - Composition in Op 1998
Broadcast Design Award - Silver Award Cynthia's Big Dream 1995
EMMY - The Reporters 1989
Broadcast Design Award - Silver Award - The Reporters 1989
Advertising Age - Creativity Gold Award The Reporters 1989
Broadcast Design Award - Gold Award, Polaroid Shoot 1988
Monitor Award - Gold Award Best Director, Best Editing, Polaroid Shoot 1988
BPME Award - NCTV The NCTV Hour 1988
Houston Film Festival - Gold Award Marble Madness, Milton Bradley 1988
Broadcast Design Association - Gold Award, NBC-Today Show 1987
Int'l Film & Video - Gold Award Make Your Own Rock Video 1987
Int'l Film & Video - Silver Award Master Reels 1987
Broadcast Design Association - Gold Award, Master Reels 1986
Int'l Film & TV Festival of NY,Gold Award In & Out of Love Affairs 1986
Popular Computing (McGraw-Hill), Computer Art Calendar Award 1984
Broadcast Design Association - Art Direction 1984; Silver Award
The Academy of Arts + Television - EMMY - Individual Craft/Art Direction 1983
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Grant 1980
Illinois Arts Council 1979
SCREENINGS | PANELS | SEMINARS
PROMAX The Art of Title Design curators / moderators Virtual Experience 2020
XFR STN Project, New Museum 2017 NYU PROMAX/BDA The Art of Title Design curators / moderators 2008- 2019
The Evolution of TwinArt, New York Film Academy 2016
One-Day Media Immersion Panel, Paley Media Center NY 2013
Broadcast Design Association, Your Own Boss Washington D.C. 6/99
Broadcast Design Association, 20 Designers Orlando, FL 6/98
NY Women in Film and Television Computer Animation Washington, D.C., 3/98
Cooper Union, NY 11/92
Guest Director for S.A.I.C. Annual Fashion Show, Chicago 5/91
University of California at San Diego 3/91
San Diego State College, CA 3/91
California Institute of the Arts 3/91
University of California at Berkley CA 3/91
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL 11/80,3/91
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA10/90
EDUCATORS – ADJUNCT FACULTY
ELLEN KAHN
Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY 1992- 1994
School of Visual Arts, NY, NY 1984 - 1986
Center for Media Arts, NY, NY 1983 – 1984
LYNDA KAHN
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles 2009-11
The Art Institute of Chicago 1976-78