Sophie Kahn is a digital artist and sculptor, whose work addresses technology’s failure to capture the unstable human body.
She grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a BA (Hons) in Fine Art/History of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London; a Graduate Certificate in Spatial Information Architecture from RMIT University, Melbourne; and an MFA in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was awarded a full tuition Trustee Scholarship.

Past residencies include the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn. Sophie was recently an artist in residence with the Studio Program at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (paused due to COVID).

Sophie has exhibited her artwork in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul. Her video work has been screened in festivals including Transmediale, Zero1 San Jose Biennial, Dance Camera West, Trampoline, Frequency, Currents New Media Festival and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Sophie has taught in the Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute as a Visiting Associate Professor, and at Columbia College, Chicago, as a visiting instructor. Recent exhibitions include Machines For Suffering at the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography at bitforms gallery, New York, and Phantom Limb at Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia. Her work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic, and other private funding bodies. Her work is held in public and private collections in the United States and internationally. She is a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Digital and Electronic Arts Fellow.