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Kimberly Hahn

Kimberly Hahn was raised in California and Texas, and now resides in Santa Barbara, California. She studied at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, England and the University of Texas, Austin, Texas where she received a BFA. Hahn has been in numerous solo and group exhibitions including The Object is Null, Design Matters, Santa Monica, CA; Eating Apples in Paradise, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; The Can(n)on, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; California Visual Artists, Second City Art Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA; Revisiting Beauty, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; Nomad, Presented by the Torrance Art Museum, Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA; RSA Projects Inaugural Exhibition, Riso Studio Arts PDX, Portland, OR; and Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Print Fair, Vienna, Austria. Her work White Balance Backdrop (Tungsten) was included in the Janet Jackson video for No Sleeep featuring J. Cole.

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Statement

The series explores the distortion of photographic images through reproduction and offers an ironic title to clue viewers into the fact that they might have been intially digital photographs posted online as well as be more than meets the eye.
The #AbeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr photographs began as abstract, digital photographs of fragments of the real world which were reprocessed with the layers separated and then printed off-register, which means the separations do not line up and overlap closely the way they would for typically printed photographic for-print files. They were then printed using a Risograph machine, which allows one to print separate ink layers as if cmyk printing, but using Riso ink colors instead to further distort the images through the limitations of the medium.
The resulting images differ from their originals, much in the way any photograph can be altered through the viewing and printing processes, whether analogue, digital, or viewed online. They become evocative of things we might seek to categorize in the real world, but remain indescribable as such as they have become completely unique images in and of themselves. At their heart, they remain intimate, abstract vestiges of fragments of light and color from our everyday world that have now become something new, perhaps something precious, and additions to our real world through their very existence.

#ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr

Critics' Choice 2026

5+ Einzelbilder-Einreichung

Eingereicht April 17, 2026

#ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOR 01

An abstract photograph showing a yellow, mint, pink, and black ink layers intermingling. #ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr 01 began as an abstract digital photograph of a fragment of the real world which was reprocessed with its layers separated and then printed off-register, which means the separations do not line up and overlap closely the way they would for typically printed photographic for-print files. It is then printed using a Risograph machine, which allows one to print separate ink layers as if cmyk printing, but using Riso ink colors instead to further distort the image through the limitations of the medium. The resulting image differs from the original, much in the way any photograph can be altered through the viewing and printing process, whether analogue, digital, or viewed online. It becomes evocative of things we might seek to categorize in the real world, but still indescribable as such as it has become a completely unique image in and of itself. At its heart, it remains an intimate, abstract vestige of fragments of light and color from our everyday world that has now become something new, perhaps something precious, and a new addition to our real world through its very existence.

#ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOR 02

An abstract photograph showing a yellow, mint, pink, and black ink layers intermingling. #ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr 02 began as an abstract digital photograph of a fragment of the real world which was reprocessed with its layers separated and then printed off-register, which means the separations do not line up and overlap closely the way they would for typically printed photographic for-print files. It is then printed using a Risograph machine, which allows one to print separate ink layers as if cmyk printing, but using Riso ink colors instead to further distort the image through the limitations of the medium. The resulting image differs from the original, much in the way any photograph can be altered through the viewing and printing process, whether analogue, digital, or viewed online. It becomes evocative of things we might seek to categorize in the real world, but still indescribable as such as it has become a completely unique image in and of itself. At its heart, it remains an intimate, abstract vestige of fragments of light and color from our everyday world that has now become something new, perhaps something precious, and a new addition to our real world through its very existence.

#ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOR 03

An abstract photograph showing a yellow, mint, pink, and black ink layers intermingling. #ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr 03 began as an abstract digital photograph of a fragment of the real world which was reprocessed with its layers separated and then printed off-register, which means the separations do not line up and overlap closely the way they would for typically printed photographic for-print files. It is then printed using a Risograph machine, which allows one to print separate ink layers as if cmyk printing, but using Riso ink colors instead to further distort the image through the limitations of the medium. The resulting image differs from the original, much in the way any photograph can be altered through the viewing and printing process, whether analogue, digital, or viewed online. It becomes evocative of things we might seek to categorize in the real world, but still indescribable as such as it has become a completely unique image in and of itself. At its heart, it remains an intimate, abstract vestige of fragments of light and color from our everyday world that has now become something new, perhaps something precious, and a new addition to our real world through its very existence.

#ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOR 04

An abstract photograph showing a yellow, mint, pink, and black ink layers intermingling. #ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr 04 began as an abstract digital photograph of a fragment of the real world which was reprocessed with its layers separated and then printed off-register, which means the separations do not line up and overlap closely the way they would for typically printed photographic for-print files. It is then printed using a Risograph machine, which allows one to print separate ink layers as if cmyk printing, but using Riso ink colors instead to further distort the image through the limitations of the medium. The resulting image differs from the original, much in the way any photograph can be altered through the viewing and printing process, whether analogue, digital, or viewed online. It becomes evocative of things we might seek to categorize in the real world, but still indescribable as such as it has become a completely unique image in and of itself. At its heart, it remains an intimate, abstract vestige of fragments of light and color from our everyday world that has now become something new, perhaps something precious, and a new addition to our real world through its very existence.

#ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOR 05

An abstract photograph showing a yellow, mint, pink, and black ink layers intermingling. #ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr 05 began as an abstract digital photograph of a fragment of the real world which was reprocessed with its layers separated and then printed off-register, which means the separations do not line up and overlap closely the way they would for typically printed photographic for-print files. It is then printed using a Risograph machine, which allows one to print separate ink layers as if cmyk printing, but using Riso ink colors instead to further distort the image through the limitations of the medium. The resulting image differs from the original, much in the way any photograph can be altered through the viewing and printing process, whether analogue, digital, or viewed online. It becomes evocative of things we might seek to categorize in the real world, but still indescribable as such as it has become a completely unique image in and of itself. At its heart, it remains an intimate, abstract vestige of fragments of light and color from our everyday world that has now become something new, perhaps something precious, and a new addition to our real world through its very existence.