Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose art has been shown in over 70 solo museum exhibitions. Works by Kahn are in major museum collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, TX; The Phillips Collection, DC; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Yale University Art Gallery, CT; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and The Jewish Museum, NYC. 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.
Kahn’s commissioned installations include “Shalev,” an outdoor sculpture, New Harmony, IN; “Emet,” a meditative space for the HealthCare Chaplaincy, NYC; two Holocaust memorial gardens, La Jolla, CA, and Tenafly, NJ; the sanctuary ark doors, murals, and ceremonial objects for Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun, Milwaukee, WI; “M’AHL,” a floor installation in the exhibition Rendering the Unthinkable, 9/11 Memorial Museum, NYC; a meditative space for Auburn Theological Seminary, NYC; and an installation of paintings and outdoor sculpture for the campuses of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA. Kahn 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. Kahn lectures extensively at universities and public forums internationally on the importance of visual language and on art as healing