Mona Kuhn is an American artist, born in São Paulo, Brazil, of German descent, in 1969. The family culture revolved around science and time spent in nature. Lively conversations and debates around a variety of subjects reflected their unconventional, multi-cultural perspectives that encouraged the young Mona to embrace the world and seek the commonalities that unite us. In 1989, Mona Kuhn moved to the US and is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, she teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. For over twenty years, Mona Kuhn has explored the universality of the human condition in relationship to nature through photography. Due to sustained looking and an unhurried sense of time that is absent from today, her work can be understood within early twentieth century photography as well as contemporary figure painting. Hers are not quick snapshots, but images made through deep relationships and time spent with her subjects within constructed spaces and the outdoors.
