Ohan Breiding

Ohan Breiding is a Swiss-American artist working with photography, photographic and filmic archives, video, and collaboration to reinterpret historical events. Raised in a Swiss village and living in New York City (Lenape lands), they employ a trans-feminist lens to the discussion of ecological care in order to bring the past into a meaningful transformative relation with the present. Through their multimedia installations, Breiding amplifies the systemic failures and violence of the Anthropocene.

 

Ohan Breiding (b. 1981) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA and a BA from Scripps College in Claremont, CA. Their work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Eupen, Belgium; FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou and Nantes, France; Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland; Haus N in Athens, Greece; Dilalica Gallery in Barcelona, Spain; Galería Casa Lu in Mexico City, Mexico; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY; Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, CA as a part of Getty PST ART; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LAXART, Human Resources, Armory Center for the Arts, and OCHI in Los Angeles, CA; Elga Wimmer Gallery in New York, NY; Southern Exposure and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA; Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, CA; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA. Forthcoming solo exhibitions will take place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA; the American Academy of Arts & Letters in New York, NY; and A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in 2025. Breiding has received support from various arts organizations including a 2025 New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant; a 2024 Puffin Foundation Grant; a 2023 Flaherty Film Fellowship; a 2023 Hellman Grant; a 2021 TBA21 Ocean Space Fellowship; a 2020 Swiss International Film Festival Award; and a 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Their work has been featured in publications including Frieze, Art in America, Artforum, Artillery Magazine, BOMB Magazine, e-flux, Hyperallergic, and The Vassar Review. Breiding’s first artist book, Belly of a Glacier, was published in 2023 by Nico Fontana Press. Breiding is an Assistant Professor in the department of Art History and Studio Art at Williams College in Williamstown, MA and is represented by OCHI.