Stanya Kahn (b. 1968) lives and works in Los Angeles. In addition to numerous group exhibitions, recent solo shows include the New Museum in New York, Pigna Projectspace in Rome, and Cornerhouse in Manchester (a survey of her solo works from 2008 to 2012) with an accompanying book. Kahn is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video. In addition to her solo work, she has been in collaborative teams with artist Harry Dodge and with the performance company CORE. Her solo and collaborative works have shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Biennial (2008); the California Biennial (2010); MoMA, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Getty Center, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Sundance Film Festival; Migrating Forms Film Festival; the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; MoMA P.S.1, New York; Contemporary Center for Art, Vilnius, Lithuania; MIT, Cambridge, MA; Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Kunsthalle, Bonn; Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Hayward Gallery, London; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles; and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, among many others.