Mona Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. She received her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and then at The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles in 1999.  Mona Kuhn's work is figurative.  She is interested in redefining ways of looking at the body, as a residence to ourselves.  Her work has been exhibited, and is included in public and private collections, internationally and in the United States. Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debut by Steidl in 2004; immediately followed by, Evidence, published by Steidl and released in Spring 2007.  The images appearing in Evidence were photographed entirely in France, where she resides each summer. 

Mona Kuhn's third monograph titled Native (Steidl, 2010) is an unfolding visual story with images taken in her native country Brazil. Her latest monograph, titled Bordeaux Series (Steidl, 2011), was released at ParisPhoto during Fall of 2011.  Flowers Gallery debut the exhibition in London during October 2011.  The show then opens at Flowers Gallery in New York City on February 23rd, 2012.  

Mona Kuhn's work has been exhibited and/or included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, the Cincinnati Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Georgia Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography in NYC, the George Eastman House International Museum of Art in Rochester, the Griffin Museum in Boston, Miami Museum of Art.  In 2011, her work has been exhibited at the Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, the Royal Academy of Art in London England, Deichtorhallen in Hamburg Germany, and the Australian Center for Photography in Sydney. Currently, Mona lives and works in Los Angeles.

Click here for printable resumé.