Daniel Kohn

Born in 1964 in Ahmedabad, India to French and American parents, Daniel Kohn was raised in France. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1996. His artistic work can be seen as an ongoing attempt to integrate this diverse background into an evolving point of view. In his early career this led him to focus on the cultural and the personal, notably with a series of works on his family home in France and, after his move to the United States in 1996, a body of work documenting the “view from above” — New York as seen from the World Trade Center. Since 2003 this search has led him into the space of ideas, in particular the intersection of art and science, first through a 10 year involvement with the Broad Institute for Genomic Research, where he became their Founding Artist in Residence and co-founder of the Viz Group, and later at the Center for Epigenomics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. Last year Daniel launched a new interdisciplinary research group working on the idea of oceanic memory, which is also the focus of his most recent artistic research.