Brazil-born, Los Angeles-based artist Mona Kuhn has received international acclaim for her contemporary re-interpretations of the nude. Through building close relationships with her subjects, employing playful visual strategies and drawing from traditional iconography, Kuhn’s images portray profoundly intimate depictions of the complexities surrounding human nature and our connectedness with the environment.
Coinciding with the publication of the artist’s first retrospective Mona Kuhn: Works, published by Thames and Hudson (11 March 2021), this exhibition features works from across her career, including previously unseen images. Accompanied by a short reading by Mona Kuhn as well as excerpts from texts by Rebecca Morse, Chris Littlewood, Darius Himes and Simon Baker, and an interview with Elizabeth Avedon, this presentation offers a detailed insight into the creative processes Kuhn has developed over the past twenty years.