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Ned Kahn Studios, Sebastopol, CA
Completed Public Art Commissions:
2026 Gravity Ripples, Shanghai Museum of Science and Technology, China
2026 Silver Screen, Ranch Lot Studios, Warner Bros, Burbank, CA
2026 Seismic Sea, Shanghai Museum of Science and Technology, China
2025 Canopy of Sky, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA
2025 Oceanic Veil, Ranch Lot Studios, Warner Bros, Burbank, CA
2025 Breathing Tree, Henderson Central Park, Hong Kong (with Zaha Hadid)
2025. Pulse Fields, Marquette University Wellness Center, Milwaukee, WI
2025 Breathing Lake, Marquette University Wellness Center, Milwaukee, WI
2025 Invisible Confluence, Shanghai, China (with UAP)
2024 Wind Tree, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi (with UAP)
2024 River of Air, Paris, France (with Group 6 Architects)
2024. Rain Veil, Garak Water Tower, Seoul, Korea
2024 Running Line, Healdsburg, CA
2023 Turbulent Set, Hudson Yards, New York City
2023 Sea of Pendulums, Google Caribbean Campus, Sunnyvale, CA
2022 Tidal Beacon, Queen’s Marque, Halifax Waterfront, Canada
2022 Captured Cloud, Technorama Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland
2022 Fire Wall, Footprint Center, Phoenix, AZ
2022 Magnetic Anomaly, International Arrival Terminal, SeaTac Airport, Seattle, WA
2021 Moving Goalposts, SoFi Stadium, NFL Headquarters, Inglewood, CA
2021 Wind Bridge, Union Station, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Depth of Field, Zeiss Innovation Center, Dublin, CA
2020 Inverted Lake, Toronto, Canada
2020 Fountain of Instability, Austin, TX
2020 Harlan Vortex, San Francisco, CA
2020 Silver Lining, Columbus Convention Center, Ohio
2020 Mosaic of Sky, Atlanta Airport
2019 Pages of Salt, Salt Lake City, Utah
2019 Air Symphony, Symphony Towers, San Diego, CA
2019 Switchwall, Denny Substation, Seattle, WA
2019 Circadian Wind, Circa, Los Angeles
2019 Bus Fountain, Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco
2019 Air Cube, Stanford Hospital
2018 Shark Skin, New York Aquarium Facade, Cony Island, NY
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2018 Prairie Tree, Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN (with Field Operations)
2018 Sun Veil, Southpoint, Brisbane, Australia
2018 Zephyr, Lakeshore Parking Structure, Irvine, CA
2017 New York Crossing, Queens Mid-Town Tunnel Entrance, NYC
2017 Tower 10, Melbourne, Australia (with UAP)
2017 Bora Lightwaves, Montedoro Center, Muggia, Italy
2017 Wind Diamonds, MBC Waikiki, Hawaii
2017 Turning Leaves, Kaiser Hospital Parking Structure, Oakland, CA
2016 Wind Roundabout, Fort Worth, Texas
2015 Luwan, Shanghai, China (with Moshe Safdie Architect)
2015 Brookfield Place, Perth, Australia (with UAP)
2015 Robotic Parking Structure, West Hollywood, CA (with Rick D’Amato Architect)
2015 Denver International Airport (with Gensler Architects)
2015 Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA (with Fred Fisher Architect)
2015 21-C Museum Hotel, Durham, North Carolina
2015 Playa Vista, CA (with Johnson/Fain Architects)
2015 University of Chicago Medical Center
2014 Debenhams Building, London, U.K. (with Archial Architects)
2014 Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2014 The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2013 Federal Courthouse, Long Beach, CA
2013 Martin Building, Seattle, Washington
2013 NOAA Headquarters, Silver Springs, Maryland
2013 Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
2013 University Health Center, San Antonio, Texas
2012 Brisbane Airport, Australia (with UAP)
2012 NOAA Headquarters, Silver Springs, MD
2012 Centene Headquarters, Clayton, MO
2012 Public Utility Commission Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
2012 Neiman Marcus Store, Walnut Creek, CA
2012 Buhl Community Park, Pittsburgh, PA (with Andrea Cochran)
2012 Nashville Airport, Nashville, TN
2011 Questacon, Canberra, Australia
2011 Davis Court, San Francisco (with RHAA landscape architects)
2011 University of Calgary, Canada
2011 Ningbo, China (with UAP)
2010 Minnesota Twins Ballpark, Minneapolis, MN (with Tom Oslund)
2010 Sacramento Docks, Sacramento, CA (with Walker/Macy)
2010 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore (with Moshe Safdie)
2010 City Hall, Chandler, AZ (with Smith Group Architects)
2010 H2 Hotel, Healdsburg, CA (with Andrea Cochran, landscape architect)
2010 Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
2009 ResMed, San Diego, CA (with Davis & Davis Architects)
2009 Santa Rosa Junior College Student Center, Santa Rosa, CA
2009 Niswonger Children’s Hospital, Johnson City, TN
2008 Rijkswaterstaat, Dutch Water Department Headquarters, Utrecht, Netherlands
2008 Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ (with Barton Myers and Architekton)
2008 Bayfront Plaza, San Diego Hilton, CA (with John Portman Architect)
2008 ATF Headquarters, Washington DC (with Moshe Safdie)
2008 Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA (with Moshe Safdie)
2006 Dubai Festival City, United Arab Emirates
2006 Milwaukee Waterfront, Milwaukee, WI
2006 Issaquah Highlands, Washington (with MBT Architecture – Seattle)
2006 21-C Hotel and Museum, Louisville, KY
2006 Union Point Park, Oakland Estuary (with Mario Schjetnan Garduno and PGA design)
2006 ICON, San Diego, CA
2006 Marvell Headquarters, Sunnyvale, CA
2005 International Trade Center, Charlotte, NC
2005 Mesa Arts and Entertainment Center, Mesa, AZ (with BOORA & DWL Architects)
2005 Phaeno Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany (with architect, Zaha Hadid)
2004 Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, CA (with Todd Bennitt Landscape Architect)
2004 Pittsburgh Children’s Museum (with Koening Eizenberg Architects)
2004 ATT Building, Santa Rosa, CA
2004 Emerald Glen Park, Dublin, CA (with Carducci Landscape Architects)
2003 BART Station, San Francisco International Airport, (with MBT Architecture)
2003 University of Oregon, Eugene (with CMGS landscape architects)
2003 DiRosa Art and Nature Preserve, Napa, CA
2003 Chevron/Texaco Headquarters, San Ramon, CA (with Tsao Design Group)
2002 Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland (with Durig & Rami Architekt)
2002 1801 North Lynn Street, Arlington, VA (with RTKL architects)
2001 Yahoo Headquarters, Sunnyvale, CA
2001 School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2000 Gateway Village, Charlotte, North Carolina
2000 Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany (with Atelier Bruckner Architects)
1999 Rose Center for Earth & Space, American Museum of Natural History, New York
1999 Baypointe Light Rail Station, San Jose, CA (with SBA Architects)
1998 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), Boulder, CO
1996 School of Engineering (ITL), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1995 Founders Court, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, (with Atelier Landscape)
1994 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO
Selected Exhibitions:
2023 Paradise Ridge Sculpture Garden, Santa Rosa, CA
2018 Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2018 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2018 Petaluma Arts Center
2015 IceHouse Gallery, Petaluma
2013 Bolinas Museum
2012 Paradise Ridge Sculpture Garden, Santa Rosa, CA
2009 Pasadena Museum of California Art
2009 Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY
2009 National Building Museum, Washington, DC
Awards / Grants:
2025 Landscape Middle East, Wind Tree won best public artwork in Middle East
2019. NYCx Design Award, Architectural Installation, NY Aquarium
2019 Lumen Award, NYC Engineering Society, NY Aquarium lighting
2009 Public Art Award, Americans for the Arts, 40 Best Public Artworks
2006 AIA Honor Award with Koning/Eizenberg for the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum
2006 Design Distinction – Environments, I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review
2006 Year in Review Award, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts
2005 National Design Award, Landscape Design, from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
2005 Year in Review Award, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts
2003 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
1999 Creative Work Fund (with TODCO, San Francisco)
1999 National Science Foundation, Planetary Landscapes Exhibition, Chabot Observatory
1996 National Science Foundation, Turbulent Landscapes Exhibition, Exploratorium
1994 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sculpture Fellowship
1994 California Arts Council Fellowship
1992 Bernard Osher Cultural Award
1991 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sculpture Fellowship
Reviews / Articles:
2023 Pendulum Chain, “Turbulent Fluctuations”, by J. Zhang and S. Perrard
2018 SF Chronicle, “Water Show Graces New Transit Center” by Sam Whiting
2009 New York Times, “Into Another Dimension” , by Julia Klein
2009 San Francisco Chronicle, “Memory of Water”, by John King
2008 Sculpture Magazine, “Sculpting Consciousness”, by Lisa Streitfeld
2008 Professional Lighting Design, “Nature Meets Art – Art Meets Nature”
2006 Landscape Architecture, “Design with Science”, by Susan Hines
2004 Sunset Magazine, “The Nature of Art”, by Peter Fish
2004 Los Angeles Times, “Please Trample the Grass”, by Mary McNamara
Education:
1982 B.A., Environmental Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT