Saskia Kahn is a multidisciplinary visual artist from the Manhattan Beach section of Brooklyn, NY. She creates street portraits and works with experimental photographic printmaking. NYC Parks exhibited her portraits as an outdoor installation of seawater-damaged portraits, anticipating future climate disasters. Skatepark Baltimore was awarded Best Photography Thesis in the 2022 Global Design Graduate Show. She has led free photography workshops in Baltimore, MD; Hudson, NY; and Yaoundé, Cameroon, using collaborative tools like photovoice to invite participation from the people she photographs. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and BmoreArt. She is a 2025 Rubys grantee.
Alumni Affiliation
Photographic & Electronic Media MFA, '22