Stanya Kahn is a Los Angeles–based interdisciplinary artist working in film/video, drawing, painting, sculpture/installation, sound, and writing. Dialectics, the uncanny, pathos, and humor are central to a practice dedicated to crossroads and undersides—of power and the unseen, absurdity and distress, fiction and document, language and the body, relations between the state and the commons, and narrative time and the synchronic time of impulse.

Recent solo exhibitions include Gattopardo (Los Angeles), the Wexner Center for the Arts, MoMA PS1, the New Museum (New York), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the British Film Institute / London Film Festival, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Marlborough Chelsea (New York), and Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK). Select group exhibitions include the 2025 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, the Yokohama Triennial, the Julia Stoschek Foundation, the Wesleyan University Art Gallery, the 2018 Gwangju Biennale, the Hammer Museum, the Astrup Fearnley Museet (Norway), among others.