Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, known in particular for museum exhibits, one of which is the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

[3] After graduating with a degree in botany and environmental science from the University of Connecticut, in 1982, Kahn moved to San Francisco, where he was fascinated by the Exploratorium.

Kahn won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" fellowship in 2003,[7][8] and the National Design Award for landscape architecture in 2005.

[9][10] Some examples of Kahn's work to capture the invisible include building facades that move in waves in response to wind;[11][12] indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire;[13] and a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the sand surface.

In 2003 Kahn collaborated with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc. on Articulated Cloud, a piece installed on the exterior walls of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh consisting of hundreds of movable flaps that respond to the wind creating visible patterns.