Bio
Jae Hi Ahn is a Korean born, New York based artist. Her art practice explores multidisciplinary arts including installation, sculpture, ceramic, photography, and watercolor painting. Ahn examines the relationship between her Korean Cultural background and the community's Natural & Multicultural surroundings by reimagining & interconnecting Cultural objects, memories, daily life, & Nature in order to bring the awareness of social inequity, sustainability, and Hope.
Ahn’s work has been presented widely in New York at venues that include Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill, Bronx; White Columns Online, NYC; Chashama, NYC; Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery at Brooklyn Botanic Garden; Broadway Windows at New York University; The Field Sculpture Park at Art Omi, Ghent; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC; LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island; Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY, and Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC.
She has been awarded grants from Queens Arts Fund (NYFA/DCLA), The Puffin Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrant (NYCDCA), Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship, NYC, and has participated in various residencies at LMCC Swing Space, NYC; Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL; I-Park, East Haddam, CT; VCCA, Amherst, VA; Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA; and Sculpture Space Residency, Utica, NY.
Her work is currently included for the Curated Artist Registry at White Columns and she's a participant of NYFA's 2025 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, NYC. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The L Magazine, The Brooklyn Paper, The Brooklyn Rail, The Artist of the Month at Bric Rotunda Gallery and Untapped New York.