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Item Ships From: Bay Area
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD7809) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD7809 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by a signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size, signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity label
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Mona Kuhn: Works, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Mona Kuhn: Works, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Works, Galerie XII, Los Angeles + Paris + Shanghai
Mona Kuhn: 835 Kings Road, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara
2020
Still Light, Jardin du Bra'haus, Montée du Château, Clervaux, Luxembourg
Mona Kuhn: Early Depictions, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Intimate, UP Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Bushes and Succulents, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco
Mona Kuhn: She Disappeared, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
V on Swing (Nude Woman on a Swing)
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph by the artist.
Edition 1/30
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Shadows & Lines, Nude Big Sur, California
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist. Dry mounted on acid free board.
Natural beauty!
Can be printed larger to order.
Edition 1/15
Category
2010s Realist Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sandy Bum, Nude At Beach Carmel, California
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand Printed by artist
signed in pencil
edition 2/15
Matted to 18x24" with 8ply opening.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6075) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD6075 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
45" x 60" / 114cm x 152cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20233 - lith silver gelatin print - female figurative nude
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20233, female statuesque figurative nude in black and white.
2001- Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hips Horizontal
By Ruth Bernhard
Located in Carmel, CA
A rare large hand printed photograph by Michael Kenna.
Original certificate of authenticity purchased from a Carmel gallery.
Mint condition.
Framed in gun metal grey.
Signed in pen...
Category
1970s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD7258) - abstract figurative photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
Mona Kuhn (AD7258) (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
45" x 60" / 114cm x 152cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph printed under artist supervision + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Kuhn's monograph titled Bushes and Succulents has been published by Stanley/Barker Editions, with a debut at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in 2019. A stunning career retrospective of Mona Kuhn's works has been published by Thames & Hudson, Spring 2021. Kuhn's forthcoming publication Kings Road, will be published and released by Steid this Fall 2021.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Mona Kuhn: Selected Works, Galerie XII, Paris
Mona Kuhn: Works, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Mona Kuhn: Works, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Works, Galerie XII, Los Angeles + Paris + Shanghai
Mona Kuhn: 835 Kings Road, Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara
2020
Still Light, Jardin du Bra'haus, Montée du Château, Clervaux, Luxembourg
Mona Kuhn: Early Depictions, Flowers Gallery, London
Mona Kuhn: Intimate, UP Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019
Bushes and Succulents, Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco
Mona Kuhn: She Disappeared, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Power Pilgrimage - Birth Scene from the Farm and Ina May Gaskin (Orange+Red)
By Natalie Lennard
Located in Gilroy, CA
In 1971, three hundred hippies set off from California in a convoy of 90 trucks and schoolbuses to find a new life. The pregnant women amongst them, out a desire to treat birth as a normal part of proceedings, passed around birth manuals and learnt to deliver each others' babies on the road.
It was the memory of the very first woman, calmly and tenderly birthing in the arms of her husband in the back of a bus on a pitstop, that was to change the lives of two watching women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6387) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD6387 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.
Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
In The Box
By Ruth Bernhard
Located in Carmel, CA
Printed 1993
Platinum-palladium print
1962, printed 1993
DIMENSIONS
image: 12 x 21.5 cm. (4 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.) sheet: 27.4 x 35 cm. (10 13/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Category
1960s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20266 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20266 figurative black and white, male body nude, figurative photograph.
2002 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 20 x 24 or 50.8 x 61 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20262 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20248, figurative black and white nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic unique print.
image = 22 3/4 x 18 7/8 or 57.8 x 48 centimeters / pap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, Two Nudes
By Michael Andreas Russ
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph "Untitled, Two Nudes" 1973 is an original gelatin silver print by famous German photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. It is signed and dated in the back by the artist. The photograph size is 8.15 x 10.5 inches, framed is 15.15 x 16.75 inches. It is framed in a wooden maple color frame. It is in very excellent condition.
About Michael Andreas Russ.
Michael Andreas Russ (born January 1945 in Berlin) is an German/American photographer, photo designer and film director. Russ' career as a photographer began in New York in the late 1960s where he photographed his fellow acting students. Self-taught, he eventually moved to his own studio off Union Square, Manhattan and connected with the local underground art scene. Photograph by Russ was published on the cover of “Art Direction Magazine of Visual Communication” with a Gertrude Stein quotation: “The composition in which we live makes the art which we see and hear” In his early years Russ focused on men's fashion magazines and erotic sequential photographic scenes for Playboy Press books. He eventually experimented with distinctive photographic techniques, turning 35mm black and white film into chemically toned, masked, solarized and hand colored, one of a kind silver gelatin prints. These 'TinTones' as Russ would call them eventually became the trademark of his work. They were published in popular fashion and lifestyle magazines and brought him international recognition in the art world. His work was published in major fashion, lifestyle and avant-garde magazines, GUNNARS, Mode International, Mode Avant Guarde, PHOTO Magazine, Zoom (photography magazine), as well as German Playboy (magazine), Photo Reporter and cover art to IL Magazine. He also contributed sequential 'sujets de chambre' to Vogue magazine His erotic postcard edition "The Compagnie" became part of the permanent collection of the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, an annex to the Louvre museum.
Selected Exhibitions.
1980: Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Louvre Annex, Paris). "Postcard edition The Compagnie"
1983: China Club...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD7394) - large scale abstract photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Charis Nude, 1934
By Edward Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Edward Weston's son Cole Weston. Stamped and signed on verso.
Framed with a grey mat and black wood frame. I have inspected the photograph and it is in pristine cond...
Category
1930s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Shadow Entwine, Nude Woman on Hammock With Shadows
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand Printed Photograph by artist on silver gelatin paper. Dry mounted on board.
Limited Edition 2/30
Printed 2012
Newly available.
Available in other sizes printed to order.
Matte...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Figure Untitled 1015 - lith silver gelatin print 16x20 in
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled Figure 1015, black and white female nude draped in a silk mask.
2004 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 14 1/2 x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slyvie's Lounge, Nude with Sofa
By Kim Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Retired negative!!
Framed beautifully in wood & museum glass frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Topless blonde with pearls
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph on mat paper.
Loose print.
Category
2010s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
She Disappeared into Complete Silence (AD6329) - figurative landscape photograph
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the series 'She Disappeared into Complete Silence' (2014) Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction.
She turns to a highly austere and restrained reductionist geometry and distilled formal purity, connecting the interior to the exterior, the visible to the hidden. These reflections cause one to linger, as they merge to create a dynamic equilibrium of tension, spaces and rythms.
AD6329 (She Disappeared into Complete Silence)
60" x 45" / 152cm x 114cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
40" x 30" / 102cm x 76cm
edition of 8 + 2AP
limited edition photograph is printed under artist supervision and accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature labels are 8x10 in size
signed, editioned, dated and titled by the artist, and stamped for authenticity
label
__________________
About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes and Succulents (2018) with a debut at Musee Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2019. Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum exhibition in Germany and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris, The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London, Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland, Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Australian Centre for Photography and Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.
Mona Kuhn currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
__________________
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Mona Kuhn: Between Modernism and Surrealism, Houk Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Galerie XII, Paris, France
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Kunsthaus-Göttingen, Germany
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Jackson Fine Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sisters Embrace
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph on matt paper.
Loose print.
Category
2010s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 803 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 803, 1997 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print - 10 x 8 inches.
image = 8 7/8 x 7 inches or 22.5 x 17.8 centimeters/ ppr 8 x 10 inches vertical. ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20258 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20258 figurative black and white, male body nude, figurative photograph.
2002 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 17.25 x 22.75 or 43.8 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Silk, Big Sur California - Nude in Lingerie
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph, dry mounted on board
Edition 1/10
Mat size 20x24"
Category
2010s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Big Sur Bather, Nude In Outdoor Shower
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed photograph by artist.
Edition 1/30
Available in other sizes
From negative 2.5 x 2.5" Rolleiflex
Category
2010s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20245 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20245, figurative black and white reclining female nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 18 7/8 x 22 1/4 or 48 x 56.5 centimeter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Reflection, Nude Woman with Hat by Pool
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist
Taken with a twin lens Rollieflex on film.
Edition 1/25
Printed 2009
Newly available
Other sizes available printed to order
Category
2010s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude on the beach - "Nu de la Plage"
By Lucien Clergue
Located in Carmel, CA
From the famous photographer Clergue, this is part of his beach series that made him famous. From the portfolio.
Signed and numbered.
Loose print with a small crease in upper left.
C...
Category
1980s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woman with lace knickers and black boots
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph.
Loose print on archival mat paper.
Category
2010s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Balancing the Orb, Rhodes, Greece
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist. Loose print.
Cannot be rolled.
Framing and matting available for an additional fee.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Perspective II
By Ruth Bernhard
Located in Carmel, CA
Mint condition. Purchased directly from gallery and immediately framed.
Printed later around 2003.
Signed in pencil on recto.
Signed and stamped and titled on verso.
Category
Late 20th Century Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled / 1007
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
An indication that we have entered a new era of creativity, are the photographs of John Casado. “His nudes reveal new attitudes and visions that stamp him firmly as an artist who differs from his predecessors of the past 170 years. In the past two centuries, the nude has evolved slowly, but there is now a decided change.” David Leddick...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hips Horizontal - Rare Signed in White on Recto
By Ruth Bernhard
Located in Carmel, CA
Vintage photograph printed by Ruth Bernhard.
Rare signature signed on recto in white pen.
Excellent Condition.
Category
Late 20th Century Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Man Ray Inspired Nude Woman Posing with Flowers
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist.
Dry mounted on board.
Taken with Rolleiflex on film.
Other sizes available.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20249 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20249, figurative black and white female nude.
2002 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 22 3/4 x 18 3/4 or 57.8 x 47.6 centimeters / pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20247 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20247, figurative black and white masked female nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 22 1/2 x 18 3/8 or 57 x 46.7 centimeters ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20244 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20244, figurative black and white masked female nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 18 7/8 x 22 1/4 or 48 x 56.5 centimeters /...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
'Carmel Nude Ranch' Californian Cowgirl Standing from Behind
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed photograph by artist.
Dry mounted on acid free board.
Taken in Carmel California.
Edition Print
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20246 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20246, figurative black and white female nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 21 3/4 x 17 1/4 or 55.2 x 43.8 centimeters / pp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20251 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20251, figurative black and white male nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 22 3/4 x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Symbiosis, Book & Print Set
By Ruth Bernhard
Located in Carmel, CA
Comes with a slip cased The Eternal Body book, signed and numbered. Has some discoloration on the spine of the book.
Photograph framed and ready to hang.
Category
1970s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20252 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20256, figurative black and white, dramatic nude male photograph from
2000 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled / 1004
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
An indication that we have entered a new era of creativity, are the photographs of John Casado. “His nudes reveal new attitudes and visions that stamp him firmly as an artist who differs from his predecessors of the past 170 years. In the past two centuries, the nude has evolved slowly, but there is now a decided change.” David Leddick...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20254 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20254 black and white, male body nude, figurative photograph.
2002 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
image = 20 x 24 or 50.8 x 61 centimeters ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20256 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20256, figurative black and white female nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic unique print.
image = 22 x 17 1/4 or 55.9 x 43.8 centimeters /...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 20250 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20249, figurative black and white masked female nude. Reminiscent of old Hollywood siren and glamor.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic print.
ima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Power Pilgrimage - Birth Scene from the Farm and Ina May Gaskin (Red+Orange)
By Natalie Lennard
Located in Gilroy, CA
In 1971, three hundred hippies set off from California in a convoy of 90 trucks and schoolbuses to find a new life. The pregnant women amongst them, out a desire to treat birth as a normal part of proceedings, passed around birth manuals and learnt to deliver each others' babies on the road.
It was the memory of the very first woman, calmly and tenderly birthing in the arms of her husband in the back of a bus on a pitstop, that was to change the lives of two watching women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Untitled 20248 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20248, figurative black and white nude.
2001 - Unique lith silver gelatin photographic unique print.
image = 22 1/2 x 18 1/2 or 57 x 47 centimeters / paper 20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled 70215 - archival pigment print on cotton paper, ed 1/10
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 70215, Edition 1/10, 2018
Archival pigment print on cotton paper - 40 x 60 inches
image = 38 1/2 x 49 or 87.8 x 124.5 centimeters / ppr 40 X 60 vert
works...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Untitled 20243 - lith silver gelatin print
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
John Casado - Untitled 20243 figurative black and white, male bodybuilder nude, figurative photograph.
1995 - Unique lith silver gelatin photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
From a Single Grain, Nude on Rocks
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist.
Edition 29/50
Framed in silver frame.
Category
Late 20th Century Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, Gothic Style Woman
By Michael Andreas Russ
Located in San Francisco, CA
This photograph "Untitled, Gothic Style Woman " c.1980 is an original gelatin silver print by famous German photographer and artist Michael Andreas Russ, born 1945. The photograph si...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woman with Black Scarf, Hand Colored Gelatin Silver Photograph
Located in Carmel, CA
A stunning hand printed photograph.
Sepia toned.
Negatives 1995 & 2006
Signed and dated on verso and recto.
Mint Condition
Category
Early 2000s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dancers Legs 62N
By Edward Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
Printed by Edward Weston's son Cole Weston. Signed and Stamped on Verso. Very good condition.
Category
1930s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Power Pilgrimage - Birth Scene from the Farm and Ina May Gaskin (Red+Yellow)
By Natalie Lennard
Located in Gilroy, CA
In 1971, three hundred hippies set off from California in a convoy of 90 trucks and schoolbuses to find a new life. The pregnant women amongst them, out a desire to treat birth as a normal part of proceedings, passed around birth manuals and learnt to deliver each others' babies on the road.
It was the memory of the very first woman, calmly and tenderly birthing in the arms of her husband in the back of a bus on a pitstop, that was to change the lives of two watching women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Classic Nude, Studio Nude
By Brett Weston
Located in Carmel, CA
A exquisite classic nude figure study by one of the masters of photography. Mint Condition. Hand printed by Brett Weston.
Signed in pencil on lowe...
Category
1970s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bird Woman
By Joyce Tenneson
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist. Signed in Pen on verso. Over matted to 16x20".
Category
1990s Bay Area - Nude Photography
Materials
C Print
