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2006 Milwaukee Waterfront, Milwaukee, WI

2006 Issaquah Highlands, Washington (with MBT Architecture - Seattle)

2006 21-C Museum, Louisville, KY

2006 Union Point Park, Oakland Estuary (with Mario Schjetnan Garduno and PGA design)

2005 Mesa Arts and Entertainment Center, Mesa, AZ (with BOORA & DWL Architects)

2005 Phaeno Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany (with architect, Zaha Hadid)

2004 Huntington Botanical Gardens, Pasadena, CA (with Todd Bennitt Landscape Architect)

2004 Pittsburgh Children’s Museum (with Koening Eizenberg Architects)

2004 ATT Building, Santa Rosa, CA

2004 Emerald Glen Park, Dublin, CA (with Carducci Landscape Architects)

2003 BART Station, San Francisco International Airport, (with MBT Architecture)

2003 University of Oregon, Eugene (with CMGS landscape architects)

2003 DiRosa Art and Nature Preserve, Napa, CA

2003 Chevron/Texaco Headquarters, San Ramon, CA (with Tsao Design Group)

2002 Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland (with Durig & Rami Architekt)

2002 1801 North Lynn Street, Arlington, VA (with RTKL architects)

2001 Yahoo Headquarters, Sunnyvale, CA

2001 School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2000 Gateway Village, Charlotte, North Carolina

2000 Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany (with Atelier Bruckner Architects)

1999 Rose Center for Earth & Space, American Museum of Natural History, New York

1999 Baypointe Light Rail Station, San Jose, CA (with SBA Architects)

1998 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), Boulder, CO

1996 School of Engineering (ITL), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1995 Founders Court, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA, (with Atelier Landscape)

1994 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO

 

Works-in-Progress:

 

2006 ATF Headquarters, Washington DC (with Moshe Safdie)

2006 Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ (with Barton Myers and Architekton)

2007 Rijkswaterstaat, Dutch Water Department Headquarters, Utrecht, Netherlands

2007 Dubai Festival City, United Arab Emirates

 

Selected Exhibitions:

 

2004 Off the Preserve Gallery Napa, CA

2004 Museum of Natural History New York, NY

2002 Museum of Natural History London, England

2002 Sonoma Museum of Visual Art Santa Rosa, CA

2001 Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito, CA

2001 New Langton Arts San Francisco, CA

1999 Hudson River Museum Gallery Yonkers, New York

1999 Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North

1998 L.A. Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA

1996 Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA

1995 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco, CA

1994 California College of Arts & Crafts Oakland, CA

1992 North Carolina Museum of Science Durham, North Carolina

1992 La Cite'Des Arts Montreal, Canada

1992 Mole Antonelliana Torino, Italy

1991 MultiMediale 2, Center for Art Karlsruhe, Germany

 

Awards / Grants:

 

2006 AIA Honor Award with Koning/Eizenberg for the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum

2006 Design Distinction - Environments, I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review

2005 National Design Award, Landscape Design, from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

2005 Year in Review Award, Public Art Network, Americans for the Arts

2003 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

1999 Creative Work Fund (with TODCO, San Francisco)

1999 National Science Foundation, Planetary Landscapes Exhibition, Chabot Observatory

1996 National Science Foundation, Turbulent Landscapes Exhibition, Exploratorium

1994 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sculpture Fellowship

1994 California Arts Council Fellowship

1992 Bernard Osher Cultural Award

1991 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Sculpture Fellowship

 

Education:

 

1982 B.A., Environmental Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

 

Performances:

 

2003 Rain Table, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, New York, NY

1994 Collaboration with Laurie Anderson “Stories from the Nerve Bible” Tour

 

Public Lectures:

 

2003 Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

2002 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

2001 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2000 San Francisco Art Institute

2000 Tryon Center for Visual Arts, Charlotte, NC

1998 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1997 Santa Fe Institute, NM

1996 Art Institute of Chicago

1993 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 

Reviews / Articles:

 

2004 Sunset Magazine, “The Nature of Art”, by Peter Fish

2004 Los Angeles Times, “Please Trample the Grass”, by Mary McNamara

2004 Artweek, “Ned Kahn at Off the Preserve”, by Colin Berry

2003 San Francisco Magazine, “Mother Nature’s Sons”, by Jonathon Keats

2003 San Francisco Chronicle, “Urban Landscapes” by John King

2001 Marin Independent Journal, “Putting Art in Motion”, by Rick Polito

1999 New Scientist, Interview with Ned Kahn and Jeff Greenwald

1996 New York Times, “Persuading Nature...”, by Tessa DeCarlo

1996 Los Angeles Times Magazine, “Mad About Sci-Art”, by K.C. Cole

1996 Complexity, Turbulent Landscapes, by Ned Kahn and Dr. James Crutchfield

1993 Wall Street Journal, “Where Art Meets Science”, by Tessa DeCarlo

1990 New York Times, “Natures Forces Unleashed”, by Andrew Yarrow

1989 New York Times Magazine, “Works in Progress”, by Bruce Weber

1988 New Yorker Magazine, “Talk of the Town”, by Adam Gopnick

 

Museum Commissions:

 

Chabot Observatory, Oakland, CA

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC

Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland

 

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