Tobi Kahn

[2] Kahn's early works draw on the tradition of American visionary landscape painting, and his more recent pieces reflect his fascination with contemporary science, inspired by the micro-images of cell formations and satellite photography.

[18] In 2017, Anointed Time: Sculpture and Ceremonial Objects by Tobi Kahn was on view at The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.

[20] In 2015, Reverie: Tobi Kahn, a solo show of current work opened at the Cornell Museum of Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.

[24] An associated catalogue was published with essays by Maya Benton, Norman L. Kleeblatt, James E. Young and meditations by Nessa Rapoport.

[27] The other artists involved were Blue Man Group, Gustavo Bonevardi, Monika Bravo, Eric Fischl, Donna Levinstone, Michael Mulhern, Colleen Mulrenan Macfarlane, Christopher Saucedo, Manju Shandler, Doug and Mike Starn, Todd Stone, and Ejay Weiss.

A catalogue of the same title, edited by Ena Giurescu Heller and published by the Museum of Biblical Art in New York in association with D Giles Limited, London, accompanied the exhibition.

The publication includes essays by Jeff Edwards, Heller, Kahn, David Morgan, Klaus Ottmann, and Daniel Sperber, with meditations by Nessa Rapoport.

[29] In 2008 Kahn was commissioned to create eight wall-scale paintings and ritual objects, including the eternal light, mezuzah, and panels for the ark doors, for the sanctuary of Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun, Milwaukee, WI.

The 2003 exhibition Tobi Kahn: Sky and Water at The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, was a monumental installation of 106 paintings.

The resulting space, EMET, was built to the artist's specifications to house nine sky-and-water murals and a set of sculptural furniture also created by Kahn.

[11] In 1999, the solo exhibition, AVODAH: Objects of the Spirit opened in New York at Hebrew Union College and traveled to over 20 venues over a 9-year period throughout the United States.

[11] An accompanying book, "Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn" was published by Hudson Hills Press and the Avodah Institute, and edited by Emily Bilski.

[35] That same year, he also conceived and created the set for Muna Tseng's "Ways, Shrines, Mysteries" at Florence Gould Hall in New York.

Tobi Kahn portrait
Tobi Kahn, SHALEV, New Harmony, Indiana 1993
Tobi Kahn, Silver Omer Counter
Installation view of Tobi Kahn Unit 7 Works in the Permanent Collection at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Tobi Kahn Unit 7 Works in the Permanent Collection
Installation of 5 bronze integrated outdoor sculptures by Tobi Kahn at Jefferson University
Installation of 5 bronze integrated sculptures by Tobi Kahn at Jefferson University
bronze memorial light sculpture by Tobi Kahn
Toni Kahn, Individual Memorial Light, 2020
bronze memorial light sculpture by Tobi Kahn
Tobi Kahn, Communal Memorial Light, 2020
Tobi Kahn, ALIGNED, Paintings by Tobi Kahn, 2011
Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century (installation view) The Museum of Biblical Art, November 2009
Tobi Kahn: Sky and Water at The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College , 2003 (installation view)
Tobi Kahn, ALIGNED, installation view, University of Maryland 2011
Tobi Kahn, EMET Healthcare Chaplaincy, 2002
Tobi Kahn, Evansville Museum installation, 2010