[5] Upon enrolling in night classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal (1940), she furthered her studies in traditional sculpture, commercial art, industrial design, and architecture.
[5] Kahane lived with her mother, using the home of her friends as studio space, and obtained planks of wood for her art from the local lumberyard.
[7] In 1953, Kahane's maquette for The Unknown Political Prisoner Monument was the only Canadian entry to take a prize in the international sculpture competition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts of London, England.
[6] At the 1956 Concours Artistique de la province au Quebec, Kahane won the grand prize for her work Ball Game.
[2] Kahane's work was internationally celebrated, representing Canada with James Wilson Morrice, Jacques de Tonnancour, and Jack Nichols at the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1958),[11] at Expo 67 in Montreal and at the Brussels World's Fair (1968).