Kahn & Selesnick

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative artist team who have been working together since they met while attending art school at Washington University in St. Louis in the early 1980s. Both were born in 1964, in New York City and London respectively. They work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future. Kahn & Selesnick have participated in over 150 solo and group exhibitions worldwide and have work in over 20 collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, they have published 3 books with Aperture Press, Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt, and Apollo Prophecies. Their work has been reproduced in periodicals and journals internationally including The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Aperture, and they have been the subject of documentaries produced by PBS and Voom. Kahn and Selesnick have received grants and commissions from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and NASA, and have been artists-in-residence at Toni Morrison’s Princeton Atelier at Princeton University.