Kirsten Kay Thoen

Biography & Artist Statement

Kirsten Kay Thoen was born in 1977 in Holladay, Utah, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA in Arts in Context from the New School’s Eugene Lang College, continued her studies internationally at The Royal Academy of Art in Den Hague, NL, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Thoen’s artwork has exhibited in New York by Humble Arts Foundation at the Chelsea Art Museum and Affirmation Arts, by Capricious Presents at Smack Mellon Gallery, and at Field Projects Gallery. She was among artists shown in the exhibition 31 Women in Art Photography 2010, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jonathan Feinstein. Among art fairs, her work was curated into NEXT Chicago’s Special Projects and presented at SCOPE Basel, SCOPE New York, and NADA Miami. Humble Arts Foundation awarded Kirsten Kay Thoen with the New Photography Grant in 2010 and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography, Vol. 2, published in 2011. Thoen’s works are in private collections in New York and France.