Marisa Jahn biography

An artist, filmmaker, and educator of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Morán Jahn’s works redistribute power, “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice” (ArtForum). Codesigned with youth, new immigrants, and working families, Jahn’s artwork, civic media tools, and curricula have engaged millions through strategic partners including The American Museum of Natural History, Boys and Girls Club of America, Seattle Public Library, NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, National Domestic Workers Alliance. Her work has been shown at Tribeca Film Festival, Obama’s White House, the United Nations, PBS, The New York Times, CNN, BBC, Brooklyn Museum, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. She has taught at Teachers College at Columbia University, MIT (her alma mater), and Parsons/The New School where she is the Director of Integrated Design. She is a 2022 Sundance Fellow and 2022 Artist/Writer in Residence at the Brooklyn Public Library.

Links:

• Artist website: https://www.marisajahn.com/

• Instagram: @marisa_jahn

REVIEWS:

• Marisa Morán Jahn | Bibliobandido, Galleries West, 2022.

• Kitchen Debate: Where Labour and Leisure Collide The Architectural Review, 2022.

• Imagining a Better Way to Grow Old in America The Nation, 2021.

• A Filmmaker Takes a Road Trip to Tell Stories of Caregiving HYPERALLERGIC, 2018.

• PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT ArtForum, 2017.

INTERVIEWS:

• Marisa Jahn talks about El Bibliobandido. ArtForum, 2012.

• Embedded Art Practices ARTPULSE